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
Updated and now no sets open
Just installed the update today that mentions the Lite offer in the onboarding. Now I am unable to open _any_ sets. I can make new ones and dupe exist ng ones, but no e of them will open or play, no matter what I tap. What’s the QA situation there? The app is literally unusable now. Otherwise, I think it’s pretty nice tool. I’ve used Live for 20+ years, and there’s a lot of cool stuff you can do in Note. I wish I could use it right now.
United StatesVery Excited!
I am a long time iOS musician and recently purchased Ableton live after using NI software for the past couple of years. I finally made the jump. Note looks to be very exciting! I’m always having musical ideas at work and it’s really a lot to bring my laptop and MIDI gear. It sounds like Note on my iPhone will be the perfect tool to capture my ideas away from my computer. And the iPhone is an incredible sampler. So the ability to record and import samples(and from video!!) is massive to me. And to share in Ableton Cloud? Wow!! Wow!!! Happy to see the dev just updated this app. Shows there is care about this community and the product.
United StatesAllow us to import tracks and record vocals
It would seriously help if we could import our own audio and allow us to track vocal recordings with our phone mics. Please make this happen soon!!!
United StatesWorth it
Just buy it. I don’t even really use it to start ideas, I use it HEAVILY for capturing samples in the world and using Ableton cloud I can then use those sounds later at home in new sets or projects. That alone is worth it. On top of that it’s really good for starting ideas, could be more fleshed out but I mean it’s not meant to be Ableton suite on ur phone. That’d be a stupid idea for Ableton as a company, and honestly who wants a fully featured daw on their phone? That seems so clunky and hard to manage a good work flow in. Yeah 10/10 would recommend for sample capturing/recording feature alone. After that, still well worth for starting ideas on the go. But it
United StatesPlz add multitrack audition/arm/record/
If I could put more than one instrument or group tracks then we r on fire, also a feature to better slice samples/ more original load/sample file locations… show I use this, is via audio jack connector into an interface (volt 4, or scarlett), so having highest quality 48khz 24bit sound output into that is huge. TYSM!!!
United States+
great fun could use a tuner in settings area
United StatesMidi Controls
The app is great. Don’t expect a DAW because there’s no arrangement mode. It’s more of a mini-Ableton-super-looper. My biggest issues with the app are the lack of midi controls. 1. Writing notes - Why cant we just click in the midi? Playing everything is fun, dont get me wrong but the midi control system is not intuitive enough yet to have playing be the only option. Would speed up work flow for most I'm sure. 2. Changing Note length - Nudging is a great tool but if we could just drag to change the note length that would be a lot better. A legato feature would be incredibly useful as well especially when trying to extend a handful of notes, nudging is very slow in that regard 3. Moving notes - Drag and drop should be an option to move notes
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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.
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