Hello there,
Do you know if you are able to load dynamically samples into the drum rack ? Like you have added drums samples in memory via move.local, then are you able to start from an empty drum rack and choose samples in the move browser to put them in the drum rack ? Or do you need to compose your drum rack in Ableton beforehand and then have it as a drum rack preset ?
Yep!
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You can’t edit as much on Move but I never liked editing the m8’s synth parameters and the synth engines don’t lend themselves to my music style. There’s almost always a Move preset in the ballpark I’m looking for. So for me it’s not contest, Move wins.
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Maybe more modes are coming?
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How does everyone feel about the autosave aspect of this?
I’ve clocked a few hours on the Move, still in the exploratory phase while I test the limits and learn the functions, and I kind of wish there was a way to manually save and revert sets.
I heavily utilize func+no on my Elektron boxes: get a good base that I’m happy with, save the pattern, then go wild and just completely mess it up knowing I can always go back to where I was. The only way I can seem to do this on the Move is to just press Undo repeatedly. I’m worried I’m gonna wear out the button with the way I’ve been abusing it lol.
Is there a way to reload a set to its last saved state? Or am I just stuck with having to undo everything or deal with duplicating sets to keep working like this?
Mine arrived today and I’ve only had about 15 minutes to make a little noodle on it but I love it so far. I got an octatrack earlier this year and I love not having to save and name things. It suits my workflow much better and it’s more like working with tape. But you have undo! So it’s better than tape and way better than the OT workflow in two ways. But I can see how if you’re used to a “go wild and just completely mess it up knowing I can always go back to where I was” elektron workflow for live performance jamming, the Move really isn’t that.
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Maybe not ideal, but you can always go to the set overview screen and just quickly duplicate the set and work from the copy.
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I have to say the TE CM-15 mic is a damn match made in heaven with the move. All battery powered, single 3.5mm cable direct mic to move in, sample on any pad with a tap of a button. The fastest mobile sampling workflow with this mic I’ve had so far.
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Using the built-in microphone is even faster. 
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Thanks for asking.
I hate it because I prefer to keep control over what I save and when.
This was my main reason to return the Seqtrak. Autosave is the best way to accidentally overwrite ideas and projects. Even Apple realized this a few years ago and removed this “convenience feature” from its own apps.
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But you can undo. It’s just like working with a mixer or analog synth or any other hardware with no patch memory. You change something and it stays that way.
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I personally like it. I’m not doing anything I don’t intend to and knowing that I can quickly turn the machine off if I need and what I’ve done is there is good for me.
It would be nice if there was a “hard save” feature though. With Logic I have my main project but I also keep it auto saving proxy projects into a sub folder every five mins just in case. Would be nice if something similar was achievable through the Move Manager
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Note offers unlimited (?) or at least multiple undo. So I hope the Move offers this too.
The undo function isn’t retained once you leave the set.
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I can definitely appreciate that tape style approach. It makes sense with the design philosophy of the Move as a sketchpad for getting ideas down quickly and not getting bogged down in indecision: just keep recording, lock things in and move on.
I imagine as I get more acquainted with the device and become more intentional with what I’m doing, this will be less of an issue, but I’m of the same mind as @krunchr. I like to be in control of when and what I’m saving, and I worry about accidentally overwriting something or saving unintentionally.
I double checked the manual to make sure I wasn’t missing something, and it says that it autosaves on shutoff, and whenever you enter the set overview.
I did a quick test, and it appears that even after you enter set mode, the undo function still works, as long as you don’t switch sets. If you change the set, the undo button gets greyed out and all changes you made get saved.
I did another test and created a new clip with sixteen bars and added a note on every step. It let me undo all 256 steps, so even if it’s not unlimited, that’s plenty of capability to fix any mistakes.
All things considered, it’s not the end of the world, but it would still be nice to have the ability to disable autosaving, and have a manual save and reload option.
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Well the battery dream died young. I’ve only used it an hour tops today and just got an alert that it was at 6%. I don’t know if it was fully charged though when I got it.
I wonder how wifi affects battery use. The second time I turned it on it asked if I wanted to update to 1.2 so it’s definitely calling back and doing stuff over wifi in the background which must be draining battery unnecessarily.
Also does capture only work up to 8 bars? I thought the max pattern length was 16 bars but I haven’t had any luck getting capture to work past 8 bars.
WiFi uses pretty minimal power when it’s not actively moving data. A while back I was curious about the battery drain while leaving WiFi constantly running unconnected on a phone and found out that it actually uses less power than both Bluetooth and cellular receivers.
I don’t know exactly how much power WiFi uses, but I imagine it’s negligible.
I’m also curious about the technicalities of how capture works though. I feel like sometimes it grabs more than I intended, and sometimes less.
Would also love to know if there’s a way to nudge an entire clip a bar at a time. Sometimes if I’m in the groove and not paying attention to my timing, when I use capture what I wanted to be the first bar ends up being the last bar. I can’t figure out a convenient way to just nudge the entire clip one bar forward so that the last bar loops around to be the first one.
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Just commit 
yeah same if you put down a beat first and then a repetitive bassline and then add a longer chord progression or melodic stuff it’s really easy to end up with the start of your loop not being on the one.
For example, if bars are captured in the order “3412”, doubling the length results in “34123412”, and the “1234” section can be set as the loop region.
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