Ableton Note

Now that Move is out and Note is the preferred way to sync/backup Move projects (and especially because Ableton apparently has no plans to expand their cloud offering) Note should really have the ability to import projects from the iOS files app.

That way, we could keep all of our Note/Move sets in a central place like Dropbox or iCloud Drive.

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I exported a Note-compatible set from Live the other day and sent it to my iPad via Airdrop. When I tapped it in the Files app, it opened in Note.

I’m running the Note beta FWIW.

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Because of the step sequencing feature I installed the beta yesterday the first time. Wow. Night and day.

This is exactly the workflow that the app should have had from the beginning. At least for non-realtime players like me :laughing:

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It’ll be fun when it isn’t crippled with bugs. Stuff I make doesn’t save properly and the sequencer scaling breaks constantly.

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It would be great if they would add probability to the edit options. At this point it just feels like it’s missing.

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The Note beta just added a 16-pitches option to drums. Another step closer to replacing Koala.

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Been waiting for this app to mature before I gave it a go, and I gotta say they cooked with this one.

Ooh baby, it’s slick. Perfect speedy beater making. Ableton Live design and feel. But my favorite is the seamless transition from phone to laptop via cloud and brings a tear to my eye :smiling_face_with_tear:

Does it have side-chain this, sample chop that, midi smidi out, import blah blah?

No, but in my case it’s scratches that itch Koala couldn’t quite reach. YMMV

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I upgraded my macbook OS to 15 (Sequoia) recently and it introduces an app that lets you bring your iPhone screen directly to your desktop… it dawned on me that this is a great way to bring Note (and other iOS apps) directly into your desktop.

Every time I open Note it impresses me.

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I missed introduction of the notes editor, been waiting to be able to step-sequence in note.

EDIT: Oh, looks like I missed the introduction by one hour :slight_smile:

EDIT2: struggled to get this working for some time, then discovered that despite the release notes telling me I was on 1.3, the help screen told me I was on 1.2.2

It’s deffo intuitive. The only feature request I would have is a none Note one: No delay on airpods! Eventually we’ll get there tech wise.

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That was the longest beta test I’ve ever seen. If I remember correctly, it lasted over half a year.

Time to revisit. Like above I loved the easy icloud integration into the desktop / Live 12

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Now that the midi editing is on point, I hope they focus the sample editing next.

Basic sampling and resampling is there. But start and end point adjustment is bizarrely tedious. No cropping. Koala is way more robust in sound design department. Very sample centric.

Hopefully note can beef up their game in that department soon.

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I haven’t been a big mobile music guy, but the cloud integration with Live is mint. Having everything in one eco system cooks though and I’m starting to make music on my phone because I wont get bogged down moving from one app to another.

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Yeah, I really think that Apple would get quite a few sales if they came out with some Airpods with no discernible latency - they could charge a couple of hundred quid extra for them and I’m sure we’d lap them up!

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They’d have to break the laws of physics. Encoding audio into Bluetooth and decoding it back again takes time. That’s where the delay comes from, and it will probably never go away for Bluetooth at least.

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Ah, did not know it was that difficult.
I saw these pop up a lot and assumed we were getting there, but these do use a dongle.

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Same principle, it still takes a finite amount of time to encode. But the non-bluetooth protocols they’re choosing for those products do make it a bit faster.

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Hmm … app store website says 1.3 is the current version, but the latest I can get on my phone says 1.2.2.

Should I expect a delay of hours … or days ?

EDIT: Sorry … eventually I found a button that said ‘update’ rather than ‘open’

Oh man, the new sequencer is slick. Note is suddenly practical and useful now for sketching out your ideas without freaking out my dog.

The fact that it only costs about 1.5 months of Logic Pro iOS is ridiculous.

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