Ableton is selling its Move controller as of Monday. Musicians can use it to capture musical ideas on the go without being connected to a smartphone or notebook. Due to the internal battery, the device can last up to four hours. Musicians can record up to four tracks with instruments, drums and samplers. The latter plays via the record jack input (line signal) or the built-in microphone. Playback is via the headphone jack or built-in speakers.
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The instruments are played via 32 touch-sensitive pads. They don’t register finger positions as MPE parameters like the larger Push 3 controller, but they do at least register polyphonic aftertouch. With this, individual notes of the raga organized later can be changed. If you prefer to play on a real keyboard, you can connect a MIDI keyboard via USB – or control a synthesizer. Sequences can also be quickly programmed on the 16 buttons on the bottom row. A small display at the top left provides feedback about the effects and instruments that have been set.
Ableton states in its press release that Move will load a “core library” with 1500 sounds and presets that can be customized. According to Ableton, the Move’s internal memory capacity is 64 GB. The included Ableton Live 12.1 Intro’s complete sound library contains 50GB of instruments, samples, and presets.
Move controllers are much smaller and cheaper than push controllers.
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Struggling game developer: Ubisoft ready for acquisitionTheir parameters can be changed using the Move’s eight touch-sensitive Endless controls, as can any of the eight included effects. Instruments include drum and instrument racks, drum samplers and drift synthesizers. Effects include channel EQ, chorus ensemble and phaser flanger, redux and saturator as well as delay and reverb for distortion. Further interchangeable effects will be added later.
A song mode with which ready-made songs with different sections can be played automatically is probably not on board – at least Ableton doesn’t mention it in the message, and the button layout doesn’t even give any indication of it.
Connection sockets are limited to just the essentials: headphones, line-in, USB-MIDI and USB-C for charging and connecting to a computer.
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Move’s functionality is similar to the mobile iOS app CommentSongs sketched in Move should be easily uploaded to Ableton Live via WiFi. You can also use the Move as a controller for Ableton Live or play live sets without a laptop. The device is about half the size of the Push controller, which costs 1,900 euros in stand-alone version, four times more than the Move. sells Ableton Move From now for 450 euros.
Ableton Live 12.1
Additionally, Ableton has released version 12.1 of its music software Live. In addition to Move support, it includes, among other things, an auto-shift effect with which singers and vocals can be straightened or re-tuned in real time. In this way, a single singer can create an entire harmonious choir.
The internal limiter and sampler have been expanded and new MPE parameters have been added for MIDI tracks. Additionally, Live now also analyzes and tags user samples to find suitable sounds more quickly. This should also work in the standalone version of Push 3. Description can be found in release notes Read.
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