Ableton Note 4+
A place to start musical ideas
Ableton AG
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- £8.99
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Description
Start new musical ideas with a curated selection of sounds and effects. Play beats and melodic parts, sample your world, and continue your tracks in Ableton Live.
Note is a place to form ideas, experiment with sounds and find direction. Get your ideas out or play until inspiration hits using a selection of Ableton Live’s drum kits, synths and melodic instruments. Or create your own sound palette by recording the sounds around you into Note’s sampler instruments using your phone’s microphone.
Take your ideas further by sending your projects to Live without leaving the app using Ableton Cloud. Open projects from Live’s browser and keep working – you can edit all your MIDI notes, and all your samples and sounds from Note are exactly the same. Ableton Note users will receive a free license for Ableton Live Lite – simple, intuitive software used by musicians, producers and DJs around the world to write, record, and perform.
Begin with a beat:
• Choose from 56 Drum Sampler kits
• Tap out a beat using the 16-pad grid
• Quantize your beat to fix loose timing
• Nudge notes to correct mistakes
• Add more layers of rhythm
• Create beat repetitions with Note Repeat
• Change parameters to shape your sound
• Experiment with effects or apply swing for variations
Start with a melody:
• Choose from 261 synth sounds and 36 Melodic Sampler instruments
• Play your melody or chord progression with either the 25-pad grid or piano roll
• Set a key and scale to get instantly harmonic results
• Overdub more layers of harmony
• Change parameters to shape your sound
• Add effects to experiment with sound design
Sample your environment:
• Create your own kits by recording percussive sounds into Note’s Drum Sampler
• Record tonal sounds to create your own Melodic Sampler instruments
• Manipulate your samples by cutting, filtering or repitching them
• Shape or transform your sounds with effects
• Import your own samples or audio directly from videos
Capture improvisations:
• Play something, then tap the Capture button to keep it
• Play at a tempo that feels comfortable and Note will detect it
• Note will recognize the length of the phrase and create a loop
• Quantize it, add to it, or change the sound
• Connect MIDI hardware to play keys and change the sound of your instruments
Create variations:
• Note features a grid-based Session View layout
• Double your loops to create variation within clips
• Duplicate your clips and create different versions of your ideas
• Create eight tracks with up to eight clips on eight scenes
• Try different clip combinations and song structures
• Export your work as an audio file to listen and share
What’s New
Version 1.1
Welcome to the latest update of Ableton Note! This release includes a free Live 12 Lite license for all Note users. Simply head to Note’s Settings page and tap “Get Live Lite” to obtain your license.
Ratings and Reviews
Awesome, looking forward to see how it develops
As someone who is just getting back into production in live, for the small price this app was a no brainier to try out. Having used a few other groove box type apps I can safely say that this app is leagues above in terms of features, especially for such a minimal price. The ability to continue my projects on the desktop or push is brilliant and I’m looking forward to see how this app develops. I can see why this app has made it to number two in the music app charts.
As somebody who is about to delve into the world of push standalone, I have been daydreaming of other ways to integrate a touchscreen with the device and thought how awesome it would be to have an app which can act as an extra controller and interface for clearer visual feedback and also making arranging and automation drawing easier. This combination would blow all other standalone DAW/groovebox options out of the water! And from what I imagine this would be really easy to implement and and could be used on any touch device meaning probably just about every push standalone user would buy it and would even encourage the adoption of push standalone by those who may have been on the fence about it.
Great stuff ableton ! Big up ya chests !
Good for drums and sampling but synths could be better
I really love putting an idea down for a rhythm using the drum kits or sampling and works great when switching to live using Ableton cloud. Although synths can be hit or miss depending if your lucky and a sound fits well. If there was a basic version of wavetable added in the future this app would be perfect and maybe being able to import a selection of samples from live would allow a user to use a lot of the same sounds they’re used to using.
Overall though I think this is a step in the right direction and could really influence how people use live in a significant way aslong as the app is consistently improved with new features along with Ableton cloud.
Great - A really solid start.
Update:
Still really good. However, I know it’s a sketch pad, but they REALLY need to sort out the sequencer (visual grid and better quantise snapping). Then it’ll be perfect. 👍
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It’s great, but it needs a lot of work on the editor. Such as: - A visual grid to place notes (depending on quantise). - The ability to add notes (like a step sequencer). - the ability to draw the length of notes. - The ability to change the velocity of notes. Other people have mentioned slicing (warping would be better) of audio loops. I’d second that too. All in all, a really solid start. Definitely a must have if you own Live. How much I’ll use it (and how much it inspires me to use Ableton) depends on how much they develop the editor. I really hope this is only the beginning.
Developer Response ,
We’re so happy to hear from you! Thank you for your valuable feedback. We have forwarded it to our teams. You can also submit a feature request at any time in Note by opening the Help menu in the Setting Page and then tapping the "Feedback" button. Thanks!
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Information
- Provider
- Ableton AG
- Size
- 596.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © (c) Ableton AG 2023
- Price
- £8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.