Ableton Note 4+

A place to start musical ideas

Ableton AG

    • $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.

If you want to take your ideas further, use Ableton Cloud to send your projects to Live (version 11.2.5 or later) without leaving the app. Open your project from Live’s browser, then keep working – you can edit all your MIDI notes, and all your samples and sounds from Note are exactly the same.


Begin with a beat:
• Choose from 56 Drum Sampler kits
• Tap out a beat using the 16-pad grid
• Quantize your beat to fix any 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

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 the piano roll
• Set a key and scale to get instantly harmonic results, or leave your options open
• 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

Capture improvisations:
• Play something, then tap the Capture button to keep it
• Play at the tempo that feels comfortable and Note will detect it
• Note will recognize the length of the phrase
• A loop is created automatically
• Quantize it, add to it, or change the sound

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 layer combinations and song structures
• Export your work in Session View as an audio file to listen and share

What’s New

Version 1.0.17

Welcome to the latest update of Ableton Note! We've packed this release with some exciting new features:
Uneven Clip Lengths and Extended Clip Duration: Unleash your creativity with the flexibility of uneven clip lengths. Now, each clip can extend up to 16 bars, giving you more room for your musical ideas.
Main FX on the Main Channel: Transform your sound seamlessly with two effect slots now available directly on the Main Channel.
Swing: Inject rhythmic variation into your compositions with the new Swing feature. Add a dynamic groove to your music and bring it to life with enhanced expressiveness.
MIDI Mapping for Dials and Keys: Take control of your music like never before. Fine-tune your creations with precision using MIDI mapping for both dials and keys.
Import Audio from Videos within the App: Effortlessly expand your sonic palette by importing audio directly from videos within the app.
...and that's not all! This update includes many more enhancements to make your experience even more exciting and efficient.
To explore the full list of additions and improvements, be sure to check the detailed release notes available inside the app.

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5
417 Ratings

417 Ratings

sgranlund ,

Getting better. Don’t stop the updates

So Mote started vey weak for an Ableton product. I played with it for a week to learn all the quirks then set it down. Now everytime I see an update I pull it out and play again. The app is 100% better than when it was first released but it’s got a long way to go. I’m trying to keep it simple they’ve made it awkward.
There are plenty of iOS daws for them to get ideas for useabilty but it is still not precise nor easy to sketch an idea which is what I think they were going for. It lacks a synth engine!!! There is nothing worse than having a musical idea and get stonewalled because lack of things we need to bring idea to life. They have weird stabs and chords and the Notes section in the instrument is lacking more than any musical app I’ve seen. We need a synth engine that we can play.
No one cares about the cool stylistic look of the app. We App want functionality!! Make this more feature packed and then give full integration to Ableton Desktop and you’ve got the perfect app. Gave it 4 stars to motivate the developers but it’s really a 3 star at best app. It is getting better though.
Please keep the updates coming! Thank you

Developer Response ,

Hi there. Thanks for the review. As for features you're looking for that aren't currently available, please go to the Settings Page in Note, then click Help, and then click Feedback - you can submit your feature requests directly to the developers. Thanks - Ableton

That one idiot in the back ,

Sequencer Setting Update

Hi! Love this little DAW its such a masterpiece from you all and it is so versatile and well put together. The buttons are where my thumbs like and the fluidity of it all makes it very admirable to use on the phone. My one problem is that I use bluetooth headphones on the go, and of course there will be delay because of the bluetooth. Was hoping maybe there could be a step sequencer setting to turn on depending on how the notes are quantitized? The pads given only show a set of notes and im sure it would be easy to have a scroll like function on the left side to scroll through all of the notes through the octaves. And a set of drums would be very easy with the little amount of sounds each kit gives you. And on the right side could select the measures throughout the time selected on the sequencer. Plopping and killing notes with a press of a button would be a million times better than having to only play it live dozens of times to try and get it right. I do love to play how its supposed to when I’m at home and can hear it in real time, but that delay when I’m at work or something really kills the motivation. Having some sort of step sequencing option would be absolutely amazing and I really hope you consider this elaborately-mad idea and or respond to this. Thank you!!

Developer Response ,

Hi there, thank you for the amazing feedback and for taking the time to address the missing features. We work hard to give all of our customers a great experience, and we want to keep improving. We have forwarded your feature wishes to the team and really appreciate both the kindness and the honesty. Hi, thanks for the feedback. Feel free to add other feature requests to our improvement plan, by opening the Help menu in Note's Setting Page and then tapping the "Feedback" button. Thanks again, Ableton.

figet speener ,

Changing the game.

This app has changed the game. I haven’t touched anything else on my I pad, my vast arsenal of hardware synths, samplers are getting neglected due to the ease and speed of using this app. Once you get past the tiny learning curve you will start to discover features you thought were absent but are in fact hidden in the UI. Each instruments clip can be automated independently! This blew my mind. Saves so much time/work when you import your project into Ableton live. Importing your whole project into Ableton could not be any easier. Just save your project from Note to Ableton cloud and everything is there. Grab the complete project file from your Ableton browser from Ableton Cloud onto your current project and it’s all there fully automated ready for production. If you get creative you can work outside of Ableton Live as well as an instrument, or for loops. Connect to an interface and record your projects/clips into logic syncing time with Ableton link. This is the fastest workflow I’ve ever experienced and my vote for best music making app for 2022 and all time. A must have! My number one recommendation is please please pretty please with cash on top, add midi controller support.
Oh please now MIDI out to complete its perfection.
Would love to live sequence external gear/vst’s with this super fast workflow.

Developer Response ,

Thanks so much for the great feedback. We have forwarded this to the team and want to thank you for your support in making this app great for making music on the go! All the best, Ableton.

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