#Ableton live lite limitations software

I expect a lot of people will just ignore this limitation for now and use the sampling as the workaround, which is a lot of fun, anyway. But you can record audio into a sampler and trigger that sample from a clip, either as a pitched sample (“Melodic Sampler”) or 1-shot (“Drum Sampler”).

You also can’t record separate audio tracks, like a vocal line, at least not yet. (LK remains my go-to for the moment on iOS because I like its design.) You can’t use Note as a controller app for Live on the desktop, even though some elements of the interface here will seem reminiscent of touchable and imaginando LK. (And if you’re like me, Voice Memos gets a lot more use on your iPhone than a lot of those fancy iOS music apps.) There is a lot of similarity to Auxy, too, which is especially worth a look as a more mature entry – especially if you don’t need native Live project creation.Ībleton have done their typically strong job of telling the story of their product – but let’s go through this point by point. It’s designed to quickly capture ideas or start a sketch in a way that feels native to iOS and touch. It’s easier to think of Note more like Apple’s own Voice Memos app – something a lot of us use as a field recording and sketchpad app. It isn’t anything like “Ableton Live for iOS,” but it isn’t intended to be. Note is an elegant way of sketching ideas. (That works across all editions of Live, from Lite to Suite.) There are actually two releases out today – Ableton Note for iOS, a US$5.99 app, and Ableton Live 11.2.5, a point-release that adds support for syncing projects you’ve created with Note with your desktop sessions.

#Ableton live lite limitations software

I’ve been working with a prerelease version of Ableton Note and got to tour the software with its development team.