Yesss! This totally works. I was missing the step with the length, a bit silly of me really. Thank you!
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The interesting thing about Move is that you start to be satisfied with restrictions.
For example, I would never have thought that I could live without multisamples. With the Move, this works really well within certain limits. I’m surprised at how good most single synth samples are sounding over two, sometimes three octaves.
Well, sounds like you are looking for totally different machine…
i preordered one i‘m a bit excited. i know very well what it has to offer now and not what it might be eventually in the future or not. I think it‘s already decent what it has to offer (i.e the circuits are not much cheaper but can do WAY less).
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Yeah, that’s my biggest “issue” with it.
Luckily it can be worked around to certain extent, e.g. you can save a Set before resampling a track to a pad, then create a copy of that Set, resample & delete the track. In Live you can access all incremental versions of the Set and simply drag the “live” version of the pad from previous Set to current Set.
Ideally, Move should allow us to either:
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save a track with its preset & clips to separate file, or
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allow to mute, disable & hide a track so that it doesn’t use Move’s CPU and RAM, but is still saved there in Set project file and accessible when opened in Live or Push (or Note, that has 8 tracks limit)
I’m on the precipice buying a Move, but torn between it and a M8. Now I had a great time with the M8 when I had one, but then when it comes to finishing stuff off, then it’s nowhere as the Move I believe. Plus the synths seem “poorer” in comparison too. The Move is more an unknown for me, I watched plenty of videos but still paralyzed with buying one.
Ableton has a 30-days return policy.
Yeah, but by that time you jumped through so many hoops that it’s far from the advertised convenience and immediacy that lie at the core of it’s design. And if you need multiple sets per song to sync you don’t have the full 8 cloud saves anymore.
I don’t want to diss the device to much.
Just for the use case I would like it it’s to limited and still just another of the endless idea devices out there, but with an Ableton flavor. And I guess that was the goal. I just have the hope (and trust) that the dev team can push it past that limitation.
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I’m awaiting Ableton’s Black Friday/End Of Year sale. I doubt this will be reduced at all, but Live might have a better deal.
Saying that, there’s already £50 off the upgrade price from Suite 11 - 12, so maybe that’s as good as it will get for many many months.
I’m working on an FMBassMachine preset today. Will upload it soon for you guys.
Does anyone have any requests for specific presets you’d like? I really like the challenge!!
One thing I’m going to do is make some drum racks made purely from resampled hits from my KickMachine and FMDrumMachine presets, just to show off what drum synthesis the Move is capable of as a self contained box.
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One thing that took me a while to work out, even with your instructions. Is that you have to press and hold the bars on the step sequencer to achieve this.
I’ve been playing around with this using a drum rack and I also noticed that it’s possible to fast swap the pad effect using this trick too. The only thing that I have been head scratching about though, is that the parameters for the relevant effect seem to get “stuck” on the original effect.
Mine arrived today!! The biggest revelation for me, which I did see in some conversation thread earlier, is that the chromatic mode for the “keyboard” is same layout as a bass guitar’s fretboard. Sure it’s only 8 frets worth, but I have far too many years of navigating my bass’ fretboard, so I know where the relative notes of things are. The same is probably true for other grid based keyboards, but I only realised when seeing the 4 rows.
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The easiest swaying factor of Move vs M8, or most other devices in this ballpark, is if you are an Ableton Live user.
If you are, IMO, Move is a no-brainer.
If Move/Note/Live integration wasn’t as tight and convenient as it is, I’m not sure I’d find Move as appealing as I do, but I still think I’d value it as a sketchpad.
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I’m an Ableton guy 100% and I’m leaning towards it more, I know I can return it within 30 days but I rather make sure and do enough research before buying. The only thing I’m not certain of, and I can’t find a video unless someone knows of one is how it acts as a midi controller. Don’t think there’s someone out there showing how it implements?
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No experience from the m8 which seems like a fantastic device, but while enjoying the Polyend Tracker, I’m really looking forward’s to playing the move. The tracker is great for expressive programming but the playing was quite lacking.
I agree, it’s not an expressive tool where you can just jam. It requires some degree of preparation, but I did enjoy the tracker workflow and its kinda zen when you’re in the mood. However, I know the MOve I probably enjoy more, just certain features which are missing in sampling which I’m not sure if it come or not.
Just received my Ableton move. Anyone else noticed that the upper 8 encoders reacting super sensible? When changing parameters on one encoder sometimes I barely touch another one slightly with my hand and it instantly jumps to different parameter. (I am not pushing them, I really just touch them slightly)
The MIDI implementation is quite limited. In fact I’d go so far as to say it’s a poor MIDI controller at this time. That’s why better MIDI support is one of the top requests on the Ableton Discord feature requests page.
For specific details about what’s currently available via MIDI see (especially the chart at the end):
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/14661164865308-Using-MIDI-with-Move
“limited” is an excessive exaggeration 
Thats pretty normal. Sometimes they react even though I don’t touch them 
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You’re right. “Move’s MIDI is shite…” might have been a more accurate summary of the current state of things 
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