Description of App
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
Comments
using just for jaming, is it easy?
Hello:
Thanks so much for this great App .
I was searching to find an easy app on ios just to put rhythm loops on it and change there tempo, just for piano jaming.
am practising piano, and i need something to play on.
so, even if I can load some audio loops in my phone, i can not use them, because they have fixed tempo.
am A Logic pro user on mac, and Frankly do not want to learn something difficult new.
so, just asking if this app can do what i need in an easy way?
Thanks in advance
Just got this app and
I just got this app and I’m really really impressed. I have listened to the manual on YouTube, though there are no voiceover specific help guides that I know of at least, so I’m trying to figure everything out. I think this will be a really cool thing for me to get into! As far as creating stuff. If anyone who has been using it for a while, has any tips or tricks please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Don't know man...
With the desktop version of ableton going to be accessible soon for what I know, May switch from logic to this to make beets! Been wanting to use ableton for a long ass time and maybe, when accessibility comes to desktop, I'll be giving this a go for sure. Gunna see what I can do with ableton note too! Just another tool to add to my toolbox of daws I use. Reaper and logic being my main go to for different stuff.
Consider purchasing
ok, great
i'l give it a try and see
Thanks so much
Live 12 Now Has Screen Reader Support On Both Mac Os And Windows
Quick update, Live now has screen reader support, and Live 12 will be released within the next few months. Here's the release notes if you want to learn more: https://www.ableton.com/en/release-notes/live-12-beta/
wow great
Great thanks so much
but do not think that i'll have time to learn a new DAW, am just a logic beginner from 1 year after Cakewalk and Pro tools.
BUt it depends on what tools will Live will add.
Impressive VoiceOver support
My musiccal background is very diverse. But a relatively large part of it is EDM and electronic music in general.
I have to admit I never really got the hang of GarageBand. Managed to clobber together a very simple track once. However, I never really understood the workflow and didn't invest enough time to learn it.
Ableton Note is different. With the 18 minute YouTube introduction, I managed to get something done more or less immediately. The capture and undo/redo features are very valuable for getting started and overlaying more things on top. A second listen to the youtube video finally made me understand how to deal with loop lengths. And now, I can make a basic track in 30 minutes. Its soooo much fun. First of all, really everything on-screen speaks. Labels are quite decent. Things are a little cramped on an iPhone, but you get used to it. In fact, Ableton Note feels like a high-class VoiceOver exam. Everything works, nothing is truely unfair, but it takes some VoiceOver knowhow to actually use correctly. However, the learning curve is soooo much worth it. I don't think I have *ever* bought an app which gave me so much value for my money. Total recommend for everyone willing to invest an hour or two to learn an app. It is totally worth it.
does the video rely on VOice over support
Thanks so much for these great news.
however, the video that you watched explain the app with VOice over or not?
am so interested in using such a great app
Thanks again
Intro video is not VoiceOver specific
The intro video you get when launching the app is not specific to VoiceOver. It explains how to build a basic track. But it does not specifically explain how to use Note with VoiceOver.
However, I found it sufficient, as it explains terminology (Sets, Tracks and Scenes) which was sufficient for me as someone with background in how a sequencer does/should work.
I would say, just give it a try. It was helpful for me.
learning ableton
Honestly, the interface is the same as it being for sighted people so honestly, sighted instructions or not you can follow pretty much everything because unlike logic or anything else, we gotta find different things. Not ableton. If you can make the interface the same as experienced sighted people but have accessibility inclusive with it and have it all mostly be the same structure, it's a fine plus in my book. The only reason why I can get around sighted people tutorials is I've had a lot of people explain things to me when I was a kid so not really hard for me to grasp learning a daw but ableton pretty much just blows all that out the water. This goes for both ableton note and ableton live. I still gotta learn both as I haven't had much time in studio but I'm slowly getting back into it and plan to buy live at some point. I will tell ya this much though, from the little bit I've played with live, live just makes logic look so bad and clunky at this point it's not even funny. Let's not forget how so much quicker you can do things in Ableton right out the gate, logic you gotta go through all these hoops just to do things. My motto is, time is money and what would take me 3 to 5 minutes to do certain stuff in logic, takes me 30 in ableton. I'd rather be able to fly around a daw just like sighted producers can. The only reason I'm able to now, fly around logic is because, one, I've got scripts that do certain things that I use on the daily, two, I'm so use to all the hoops you gotta jump through. Ableton I don't even have to think about that! I don't claim to know a lot about ableton but what I do know about it, I'm real impressed both in note and in live. I plan to ditch logic mostly when I can learn all I can with ableton and do all the things confidently and efficiently but I'll still keep logic around for when I need it in a pinch. Was doing some work in studio yesterday with logic and that, in it of itself just reminded me how laggy, clunky, unreliable, gone down hill, unstable, nonefficient logic really became over all. I've never seen a more intuitive daw than ableton. Now I know why most sighted people love it so much for producing. The workflow is just, way better and blows every other daw out the window. I've always wanted to use ableton and learn it for a very long time and now that dream has finally come true.
Examples.
I'm not arguing here, but you just used a whole big bunch of words that just assert things. Pick a task or two, and explain what you need to do in Logic, and what you need to do in Ableton. Here, I'll even start. Laying down abasic midi track in Logic:
1. Load Logic, create a new project with a software instrument. This is easy, it's the default unless you've changed it.
2.Interact with the library, get to the browser, interact, pick instrument. Here we're sticking with the defaults rather than loading external plugins, because we can make the same comparison in Ableton.
3. Maybe un-interact with the library and get to a track, hit r, start recording.
ableton:
1. Load Ableton. By default you have some number of midi and some number of audio tracks, 4 a piece? I don't remember offhand.
2. Hit keystroke to get to browser. I haven't run Ableton on the Mac yet, just Windows, so this comparison will be a little off.
3. Navigate the treeview to pick your instrument.
4. Fairly sure you also have to hit a keystroke to record at this point. Also you have to get back to one of the views, scene(?) or arrangement.
On Windows to navigate the browser view you'll be using the up and down arrows and left andright to expand and collapse the categories. This doesn't seem too different from interacting and using VO and the arrows, or arrows by themselves, if you've got quick nav on.
So at least for the most basic task in a DAW, recording, and the simplest way we can do it, since both have software tracks loaded by default, the way you work honestly seems fairly comparable. Again, I'm not saying this means you're wrong. I'm saying examples would help demonstrate what you're saying. Right now all we have is you claiming it's so totally and amazingly different, with nothing to back it up, and a counterexample that seems to suggest it's not the case.
It also probably really depends on what you're doing. Take Ableton Note. You're composing with live loops, essentially. So it's not meant for traditional audio editing,I don't even think it can do that. Ableton Live is certainly good for this kind of composition as well. That doesn't mean it's bad for more traditional editing, but it's possible that another DAW, say Reaper, would have an edge over Ableton for that kind of work.