Ableton Note App Reviews

Has potential, missing some features. First of all I will say I am a hardcore Ableton user who has been using the desktop app for a few years. This is a great slimmed down version of session view with choice Ableton instruments and effects included. With what you get for the price I think it’s a good deal. However there are some features that are missing that make creation a lot more difficult than it should be. First of all, I’d like to be able to adjust the length of notes in clips. Also it’s weird that you can’t create a note manually, you have to play everything in which gets really annoying. Finally I think this should have audio track support. It’s weird they left this out, as Ableton originally started as a way to manipulate audio. I’m hoping this will come in another update, as I’d love to be able to play or sing something and have it in my song. I know I can use sampler, but I’d also like just straight up audio tracks to make things more convenient.

Fantastic start. There is so much that is great about this app. Workflow is simple and makes sense. It’s fun, has most of the features and things you need to start a track on the go. Couple of points for improvement… there doesn’t seem to be a way to change the length of a note, maybe I’m missing it, but that is super frustrating. If I want to make it longer I have to re-record it which seems like a bit much. Also would be great if the notes on the piano roll were labeled, it’s hard to know what you played since lines that don’t have notes are skipped. And lastly, the sounds, many of them are feeling a bit dated, that might just be how it goes with a default pack, but would be cool to have some more genre specific sounds, even if there is a small IAP for the expansions. Or better yet, maybe unlock stuff you own from your ableton account… just an idea. Over all it’s a great app, probably one of the best for writing stuff on the go.

Short learning curve, great results. As a Logic user, I have to say that the quality of this app tempts me over to Ableton. It’s a fantastic sketchpad which lets you jot down ideas so intuitively with your fingers on the screen, it’s hard for even a very fine keyboard or pad-based MIDI controller to match. Ideas can thus pour-out quick and dirty, aided by a well-curated batch of proprietary samples, then groomed with surprisingly precise tools from there. In about 40 minutes you can have something resembling a song ready to hit the desktop. I love it. Though simplicity is a strength in its design, there is some room for added depth via updates, and I welcome those which might learn from other excellent software out there, like Koala. But as it exists now, it’s an elegant and powerful app which is recommended to anyone looking for an excellent electronic music sketchpad. Many thanks to the devs for this

Lost 2 hours + other bugs. First off, I worked on a piece for two hours, and I had it in a really good spot that I was really proud of. I tried, pressing the back button, which is apparently the only way you can save a document, and nothing happened. He tried over and over again, nothing. Tried exporting it. No dice. Button was greyed out. So, I closed down the app, hoping that it would auto save my progress. Opened it back up, and all of my work was gone. It’s really frustrating, because I was really looking forward to it. The other things that bother me are when you’re editing notes there are absolutely no markers anywhere to see where you’re lining up your notes on the beat. There’s no way to drag and swap parts. Like, if I like the part on the third beat, and I want to swap it out with the part on the first bed there’s just no way for me to do that. There are a few other minor annoyances like that as well. Editing anything is its weakest trait. Actually, scratch that, the lack of a continuous auto save is quite ridiculous.

Workflow is intuitive and fast, but missing some very necessary features. Update: I was so excited to open the app recently and literally see everything I asked for added to the new update. Thank you Ableton team! Great job continuing to find fun and fresh ways to innovate in this space. Original Review: I think the workflow of this app is awesome. It reminds me so much of why I fell in love with Ableton the DAW in the first place. Some suggestions that I hope to see sooner than later. 1) Adjusting note lengths. 2) more audio effect options. 3) and most importantly for me is it allowing you to play via midi keyboard (works for GarageBand). I hope Ableton continues to develop this further, best of luck!

Great but unusable in day to day life. I think this app was meant to be a companion for musical ideas in the wild. Unfortunately really bad Bluetooth lag is kind of a dealbreaker, especially without a step sequencer. If you use AirPods, you won’t be able to actually tap out a beat, the lag is worse than any other music app I’ve used. I want to use this all the time, right now even as I am out at a coffee shop , but I am not going to bring a pair of wired headphones with me just for that. I hope they adjust, otherwise I feel a little miffed about the execution here.

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

Midi = game changer. Finally!!!!! This is the update I’ve been waiting for. Tbh the novelty of using the iPad screen got old pretty fast because I couldn’t play real chords the way I heard them without losing my inspiration, now I can plug my Korg Microkey Air 37 into my IPad and play real chord progressions and melodies in ways I just couldn’t using the IPad screen. It would be nice if I didn’t have to set up midi input every time I open the app but I can live with it. I like the new editing features too. It would be very cool in a future update to be able to export stems but it’s not a big deal for me because I export projects to Ableton Suite 11 and develop it further there, but I’m sure users who don’t have Ableton Live would appreciate it. Anyway midi controller support is a major game changer for me. I wouldn’t mind more presets even if it’s via iap’s or even more instruments as well, but for now much thanks for this update!! Edit: No pitch bend or modulation? Oh well, I guess we take what we can get 🤷🏽‍♂️

Best way to sketch out music ideas hands down.. ⭐️Message to the user- Best app, from “this is your mild hobby” to “you plan on evolving your creations later” this has it, I made a synth wave bop, lofi beat, and a Drum and Bass style song in no time just messing around. 10/10. Would love more added but as is I’m stoked and LOVING it. ⭐️ Message to the developers - You guys created something amazing here. I can be in the relaxed mind set messing around in song writing and then come back to it with a technical ear later. That alone to me is priceless. ✨ •Some notes if I may, the ability to play chords within the selected key with one note push would be nice, along with the ability to change inversions (maybe even record in the inversion changes as you are playing and/or after the chords are put down too) ✨ •I wish the link play was a little different. It’s so cool how it works but I wish when my friends connected they could add patterns that I could see and edit. Almost like a shared project file that we are both listening/adding too. This would be next level. Thank you so much, this is amazing.

Exactly what i wanted!. I use ableton live for my music production and i always wish I could have a way to put down ideas on the go or just get something to spark my inspiration when I'm not in the studio. This app does exactly that! I really like the ableton cloud syncing so that if i do create a little idea i can work on it later. Super cool concept and i think it works really well. Obviously it is very limited to just creating ideas and not exactly a full fleshed out track, but that is perfectly fine! Good stuff ableton!

I love this app. This is the only app I’ve reviewed. This is such a great tool for when you’re in a slump, I don’t feel bad about making something really stupid on this. It’s so simple to use, and once you find the sounds you like and the way you like using it, you’re able to crank out ideas. And then after you’ve made like 60-70 stupid things/songs, all you gotta do is filter out which you like and then flesh them out on your computer, so fun!

No better music app that goes this deep.. I’ve played with many different iPhone music making apps over the past 10+ years I’ve been producing music. Of course nothing can replace a full fledged DAW on your desktop, but this comes about as close as you can get without it getting too cluttered. Maybe an iPad allows even more complex apps like Logic to function well on mobile, but on an iPhone, Ableton wins with this one. And they keep improving it. Starting a project on here is super fun, and then syncing it to Ableton’s free cloud to immediately take it further on the desktop version of Live when I’m back in the studio is game changing. Love this app!

Unfortunate deficiency. The sounds are actually good. The interface is not bad at all. One critical thing missing makes this app less than helpful in creating new music and that is the inability of the user to manually enter notes into the sequencer. Because all melodies have to be “played” in real time in order to be entered, I can’t really make use of this app. I cannot understand why the creators of this app would hobble it to such a degree. Yes, they have added the ability to change the length of the notes but that is not enough for me to stick with this. I’m really dissapointed with the absence of this (what I regard as) essential ability. If they add this then I will gladly download it again and use it. Thanks

Not Compatible with My Process of Producing Ambient Music. Gee, guys, I want my money back. Ableton Note is not what I expected at all. I’m an amateur ambient music creator. I go by the moniker “The Somber Kiosk” on SoundCloud and some other sites. The content I create is solely for my own self-indulgence.I have a handful of followers but I’m not looking for an audience. I just record and post. I like Ableton Live because it, closely enough, simulates recording on tape. I can process live sounds with found sounds and rhythms and go back and later add guitar and keyboard tracks. I pay no respect to time measures and beats. I’m building atmospheres, nothing more than passing clouds. This program “Ableton Note” is stiff and clunky. It reminds of those “Tracker Sequencer” programs of the 90’s. Very rigid. It won’t work with my process. There’s better ways for me to get where I want to go. Like I said, I use a fluid ambient process not controlled by standard music signature. This is not a good tool for that. But maybe it’s good for producing tightly crafted pop and rock songs. I dunno. I just want my money back. The Somber Kiosk.

Perfect. This is perfect for what I want. A super easy way to start making ideas , melodies and drum patterns quickly. Then they can be imported into ableton later. I’ve been producing since 2006 and using ableton since 2011. The bad reviews want this to be an intricate sound design tool with lots of plugins and devices. They are missing the point and need to stick with Korg Gadget etc which focus more on that. Note can very quickly create chord progressions and record musical ideas (which can still be very complex and involved). There are tons of instruments and sounds, which can be manipulated with macros which can even be automated. All I would request is an option to turn on the ability to see note names in the sequencer, as well as improved sampler abilities. They seem to be putting a lot of work into this so I am confident it will continue to grow, but it already is my favorite app and nothing is faster in terms of putting down an idea instantly.

Well worth the price of admission!. This is a great little sketch app by Ableton that allows you to easily bang out ideas and decide whether you want to keep them or not. There are plenty of sound and clip editing capabilities for you to work with. You’re not going to make a full-blown track with this app - that’s not the point, and there isn’t an Arrangement View to lay things out anyway, but it’s a fun, fully capable app for getting things going, and getting ideas out of your head. Uploading from the app to the cloud works really well. Once you’ve signed up for Ableton’s Cloud service (a free, painless signup), just select the set to be uploaded to the cloud, and then open the set in Ableton’s Browser (under Places in the new 11.2.5 update). I guess the biggest downside is that you can’t use your own plugins in the app, but that’s not that big a deal really. The sounds that are included are fine for getting ideas out, and you can record your own samples directly into the app. Overall, Ableton Note is well worth the $5.99 price tag. Thanks Ableton! It’s about time you brought the Live experience to the phones of the world. Better late than never!

Love this app, but it could be better!. Love playing with this app and trying out new rhythms that I normally would not try on desktop or with Push. The fact that I'm using an iPhone to create means there's a decent built in microphone that I'm already used to using. It works great with the sampler device, but one thing I love to use on desktop is the "audio to midi" function in Ableton. Note feels like such an obvious place to infuse that function on a mobile device. It would be great to be able to hum in new instruments and use the note editor (even in the limited fashion that already exists in the app) to edit the notes if needed. Ableton is all about knocking down barriers for creating. This would be great.

Very 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.

Nano sized Ableton Push for your pocket!!. Firstly, I love Ableton. Im a huge fan, and I’ve been using Ableton Live for many years. In fact, it’s all I’ve ever used to create my music. With Note im able to quickly formulate a beat and come up with new arrangements on the go. So far I have no experienced a single problem and everything is as fluid and precise as you’d expect from Ableton. The price tag is absolutely perfect, and I’d even have paid more especially being developed by the gods themselves. One feature I’d like to see is somehow the ability to synchronize with LIVE 11. Taking things one step further it would be beyond insane to be able to utilize the plugins we have connected with the desktop DAW… but that’s wishful thinking I’m sure. Beyond the daydreams, this is an amazing app and I highly encourage any and all Ableton Live creators to give it a shot!

A great start with potential. You can’t resize existing notes. My touches are often ignored. The tap and hod in session view is flakey. Cant change metronome volume. Cant change interval or octave of most synths. No master effects. No follow actions. Very limited effects. No dynamics or pitch effects. No arp. No MIDI input (yes, really). No copy/paste clips (only duplicate and move). The Ableton cloud only lets you store 5 sets. I know, it’s a great start with loads of potential. I trust Ableton to address all this stuff. Limited to 8 device tracks and 8 scenes. There are other iOS apps that can export as liveset that are a lot more complete, responsive, and capable. I will say the design is fantastic, just needs a lot more work and features and responsiveness to my touches.

Love it and…. I’m really starting to get a workflow down and I appreciate the simplicity and getting to a point where it’s intuitive to make music with… which is the goal yea?? More than 8 scenes would make this a real work horse. Endless scenes would be epic, since the export feature plays your set in order and then it’s over. Could formulate whole song structures and arrangements with out being limited to 8 sections that only play once through on export. Please add as many scenes as you possible can!!! Edit: two nights in a row app glitches out and my work is inaccessible. Tried to save to the cloud the second time to avoid it but still happened.

I Love It, But…. Something is happening. First I have to say, as a person who doesn’t have the money to afford a computer, Ableton Note has been the one musical app to scratch my creative itch. It’s amazing. HOWEVER, lately my ideas haven’t been getting saved automatically. I worked on a project for more than an hour and as I tried to rename it to send to my band, the app wouldn’t allow me to make the name change. Did I mention that it did not save all of my hard work? I was so distraught! I don’t know if it’s my iPad or a software issue, but I loved the convenience of Ableton Note automatically saving my projects. It isn’t doing that for me anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Goes a lot deeper than you think. I have a ton of audio apps and I also beta test a ton of apps-so I know a good app from a bad or just OK app. I will tell you when I first opened it up I was not impressed. I thought it looked a little similar to that horrible Reason Compact app until I used it and realized that this app is fabulous. I didn’t know it even had all the features it has until I watched some demo videos and was pretty impressed. This app goes deeper than you think-it will pleasantly surprise you. I have a feeling the devs will keep up with updates and making this app even better. To the devs-Thank you for making a great iOS app at a wonderful price!’

Lacks very basic midi and clip editing. Good concept, but I was very disappointed to find I can’t add or duplicate notes in a clip. Can’t change note lengths or choose start/end note quantization. Workarounds like spamming several notes just to have something to nudge around and delete is not fun. Clips need more granular options like time sig and lengths need to be able to be independent of each other outside of multiples of 1 bar. The resolution you can delete in a recorded clip needs to be much smaller, I can’t figure out how to trim just like the first 1/4 bar of a clip, it’s gotta be a full bar to trim? Hopefully updates can make this more usable, as is, I don’t see myself using this for more than a way to create desktop drum racks from live sampling with the iPhone’s mic (which can sound surprisingly good)

THANK YOU.. Feels like I’ve been waiting for this app for a decade. Every single mobile music app I’ve ever used has some sticking points that keep me from truly integrating it into my workflow. Not this. First day with it and I started a track, moved it to Ableton Live and finished it without any fuss. That’s never happened to me. Everything about this is so clear and intuitive. It feels like second nature. I hope it stays that way with future updates. It could use a few things, but please not at the expense of the perfect immediacy this app currently offers! A few first impressions- It would be nice if you could double-tap to reset knob parameters. They can be a bit fiddly. The ability to duplicate entire tracks and not just clips would also be useful. Not sure if there’s a way to change the volume of individual samples on the drum rack (maybe I missed it?) but if not, that would be great as well. Overall so excited about this app!! Thanks for all your hard work on this.

Disappointed. Honestly, if they would just add Piano roll from the start instead of strictly live playing I would probably like this. The whole focus is around playing live which is something I don’t like on iPad (plus I’m just not good at it). With BT headphones there is a delay in the app and if I wanted to set up all this gear like the latest update implies, I would just go use my computer with ableton. Apps like BeatMaker(though complicated) and Koala have a much better experience and fleshed out process. Even bouncing ideas from koala to Ableton is super easy. I can tell work is being put into this and the UI looks great, but I think smaller companies are doing way better than ableton is here and that really disappoints me to say. I would easily pay much much more to have a slimmed down version of ableton on my iPad, that I can continue with or sync with my PC later.

Good app idea and great UI, still needs features.. As someone who uses Live for music production, I find that Ableton has intuitively implemented the workflow from Session View into a compact daw that could easily be used on an iPhone. HOWEVER, I find that it’s missing quite a few features if it were to compete with GarageBand and FL Studio Mobile. I find that every DAW on the market has some sort of piano roll to draw in notes on a clip. Although Ableton’s idea for the app might’ve been to perform everything into the tracks, if someone were to be using AirPods for example, the latency would just make the process a lot more challenging than it needs to be. GarageBand also has their version of the arrangement view, making it a lot easier to put ideas together into a full track. If Ableton were to implement that alongside a proper piano roll, that would make this already fun DAW even more capable. And one final gripe is the inability to pick and use additional effects like in Live. I hope Ableton continues to build upon this app as this could potentially be the best daw on iOS. <3

Beware this app will erase your work. I read a review when I first downloaded the app, and I didn’t understand what he was saying until it happened to me. Beware! This app has a major flaw in saving data if you have connected your device to ableton cloud. If you have connected your device and already saved a copy it will automatically erase all work you have created, when you connect to the Internet and open the app. Abelton, this is rookie behavior and should be corrected immediately. People are losing hours if not days of work because your developers are moving like amateurs when it comes to making sure that the save does not erase any current work we have created. We expect more from you. I am completely disappointed. I have been using abelton for at least seven or more years and this is the most disappointing feature I’ve ever experienced. I lost so much work and time all I could do was quit using your app out of anger and frustration. Abelton, I have never given you a bad review because I always enjoyed your products. And the truth is I was enjoying this app until it erased days of my work. this is just poor programming. Step your game up.

Needs note editing. I really like what the app is trying to do, and I appreciate that it is more focus on quick ideas. Though, I really would like to be able to edit the individual Mitty notes. Sometimes the timing does not work well when I try to use quantization, so it would be useful to be able to move the specific note into the correct location. This would be an update. I would really appreciate to use, and would make me use the app almost almost all the time.

Best music app I have used. I cannot say enough how good this app is. It’s simplicity is its greatest strength. With that said, there are some things that could take it to the next level. I would love to be able to record into a block with vocals instead of needing to make a sample then trigger it. The other thing is some folders would be good as I make a ton of sketches and want to find the keepers more easily. Lastly some more instrument options over time could be nice. Overall though fantastic app!

amazing app, some suggestions!. First off, fantastic job to the team. So far I have had no crashes, and playback is crisp and seamless. I LOVEEE the way the sampler works, absolute perfect for creative flow. I honestly wish i had the simple "zoom to crop" thing in desktop ableton. Instruments sound great, and the effects and basically the same as desktop. I realize this is a sketchbook app so i am keeping this in mind, but here are some thing thats would make it a game changer for me. Suggestions: - multiple effects for instruments, (at least 3, especially on the drums too!) one spot is usually immediately taken up by an EQ for most - left / right panning in the mixer - midi note editor needs to be expanded a bit, really the largest area lacking. just an option to click in notes after you make a clip would be hugeeee - master effects would be a nice addition but i could understand not doing it to save on cpu and it is a sketch app. - please add one synth, anything. just one operator option would change my life. THANK U TO THE TEAM YOU ARE AMAZING

Check out Koala sampler. This app is really good with what it provides but at the same time I don’t take it seriously enough for professional use. Koala Sampler has everything this lacks. I love the idea of note but there just aren’t enough options to use for a satisfactory sampling workflow or idea generator. It seems very behind the times as far as mobile music production goes aside from the in-app sounds and instrument controls. I do like the midi recording approach but find myself dead in my tracks when I go to double the sequence and turn my 1 bar loop into a 4 bar then and 8 bar loop with continuous audio. I like the nudge feature but would prefer to also be able to manually move notes in a labeled piano roll. A couple of tweaks to this app and it could be a quick intuitive workflow but as of right now it’s just limiting enough to push me into other apps, however, as an ableton live user I watch App Store for updates.. hope this becomes something great.

Most intuitive music creation app by far (but missing some features). Ableton has knocked it out of the park with this app. The UI is easy to understand and everything makes sense but I believe the app is still in its infancy. The sounds included are great but the sampler leaves something to be desired. There is no easy way to change the stop and start points of a sample. I was hoping for an easy drag from the far right side of the sample in the sample window to change the end point and drag from the far left side to change the start point. However I cannot figure out for the life of me to change this. Keep in mind I didn't take the tour I like to discover things for myself. It's still one of the great joys of learning new software. In my opinion tho what makes a great app is if the end user thinks something should happen when you do something than that thing (swipe to change sample start and endpoints) should most definitely happen.

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.

Great Idea I hope they expand it. Very cool app from Ableton. The more I dig into it the more I like it, it’s not a replacement for a DAW, but kind of like a little sketchbook that you can carry around and make ideas with. The main feature that it’s lacking badly for me is the ability to record an audio track that isn’t inside Sampler. As a songwriter it’s really helpful for me to be able to record melody or lyrical ideas with the music. Even a very basic audio track function would make this app my absolute go to for idea creation. As it stands it’s fun, but I will keep using my voice memo app for 90% of my songwriting.

I LOVE this app!. Updated review 4/21: I’ll start off by saying that it’s so quick and easy to get my ideas out with Ableton Note that no other iOS can beat imo. I love the way I can collaborate with friends easily and move to my Ableton Live in a breeze. The included sounds sound great and high quality. The UI is what you would expect from Ableton and it makes navigating a snap. What I would like to see: -More than 8 scenes or recording session view jams to a simplified arrangement view. -Time stretching samples, even just a simplified version of what we get in Live. -Master track effects -Mobile ports of Operator,Analog, and Wavetable.

Decent first attempt, missing a step sequencer and linear track editing. I use Ableton 11 everyday to produce and I love it so I had high hopes for this app. The concept is good, make a mobile daw for sketching ideas, similar to Andrew Huang’s flip, that can be ported onto ableton, but, the execution leaves something to desire. For starters when sketching out Ideas I want to at the very least be able to record an audio track, something notably lacking. To add Insult their is no easy way to sequence midi, instead you must play in every note and then go back to edit it. The app however is not all bad, the sounds are high quality and there is a decent selection for effects. This app could be great but it’s not so when sketching out ideas on my phone I will continue to use fl mobile.

Pitch Bend and Suggestions for future upgrades…. Dear Ableton, I am one of many who have asked for Ableton to be ported to iOS, and Ableton Note is definitely off to a good start. I noticed that the instruments don’t seem to respond to pitch bend from what I can tell when using a Akai MPK Mini controller. I did check pitch bend on the Arturia iOS Mini (Moog), and the pitch (x-axis joystick) works fine there, as does mapping the mod wheel (y-axis joystick). Is there a way to implement pitch bend in Ableton Note? Suggestions: * An option to edit notes by grid. * Add a soft keyboard as an option to the Push-style interface. * Add a small border edge to beginning and end of clip. Midi notes can move right up to the edge, and past the edge, but it is hard to tell where 1.1.1 is. Overall, very good app, love the default sounds, instruments, and sampler. Please, please, please keep updating this app! Thank you!

Neat tool, weird exporting. This is a nice little production tool. Maybe more feature-limited than I expected, like no drag-and-drop on midi notes, just basically a d-pad to move them by ticks. The exporting is my real beef though. You’d think that, if you make a 20-second loop, your wav or m4a is gonna be 20 seconds long. Nah. Try 90 seconds. It doesn’t just play the take you’ve selected, it plays all the takes, in sequence. I tried just moving all the extra takes to a new track and muting it: this idiot just left like a minute of silence as the muted track went through all its takes. Feels like they put an actual space alien, who doesn’t understand human interest in music, in charge of export design. Or it’s just an appalling bug that they don’t care to fix. Oh, and it doesn’t have an option to upload right to soundcloud, I have to export to google drive and then upload from there. What a mess.

Finally a good DAW on mobile. 10-year ableton Live veteran here. The geniuses at Ableton finally gave us an intuitive app that works well. I messed with it for the past hour, can’t wait to come up with ideas on my flights now. Super easy to use, great sounds as well. The pads and scale functions are super cool. One thing I wish it had was a way to record your voice without using a sampler. I’m so tired of beatboxing ideas into my Voice Memos, so I was hoping this app would let me directly record my voice on a audio track. But it’s a loop-based app so I understand if impossible. Devs, I think a lot of people are looking to be able to record their voice ideas like an elevated memo app. Otherwise this is well worth the money!

This app is super dope!. I don’t usually write reviews, but this app warrants a stellar one. I’m new to audio production, but have been a singer-songwriter, musician and entertainer for most of my life. By The Grace of God I took a production course for singer-songwriters (AME 10 Day Demo Production for Singer Songwriters…Somethin’ like that) that gave me two options for DAW’s, Logic or Ableton. Since I had a PC I reluctantly went with Ableton and since finishing the course, I’m blown away with this company-especially the benefit of using this app in tandem with Ableton Live 12 (Standard). They marry perfectly with each other-allowing me to get work down (someone who is new to the world of production) and finish the rest of my work on my computer and it’s WAY-FUN! Ableton even offers a free version of live to you as well as a license when buy specific audio-interfaces and in this case, when you purchase this app. For my kind of workflow, this app along with the DAW is a Godsend (FOR REAL). If your an artist, songer-songwriter, producer or someone who’s just needs a really good tool to get work done, I’m confident you will dig the investment. SOLI DEO GLORIA (To The Glory Of God Alone) Father, Son & Holy Spirit -Ronnie

I love this portable daw!. This is easily the most accessible way to really practice making music, as well as being a literal musical sketch pad for all your ideas. PLEASE I beg of you make an optional switch to turn on or off automation quickly. This would improve workflow so much because it’s always a feature in the way when I tweaking but it’s amazing when I want to experiment with different elements of the track. I just think it would be better out of the way sometimes. Thanks for the amazing product! I can’t recommend this enough.

A breakthrough for Ableton.. This app has helped me get used to doing more with less and is a nearly perfect creation. It has reinvigorated my love for producing music after taking a year off and having enormous trouble getting my muscle memory back. Ableton Live is incredible and I have only scratched the surface of what it can do after 10 years of producing as a hobby. The philosophy of doing more with less is nurtured so sublimely in this app, it is single-handedly helping me become a better producer AND it translates to Ableton Live with the content parity. Not to mention the cloud integration. This app is a game changer for music creation, and even more so if you’re familiar with ableton already. I can’t believe how nice this app feels to use.

features need improvements. the drum sampler needs the ability to use choke groups, the sample editor needs the ability to completely trim a sample and only work with the part you need the zoom in and zoom out functionality is cool but not useful because you’ll end up accidentally using the end of the sample that you don’t want. I use drum breaks this is not drum break friendly at all. I understand you guys are pushing this make a beat really fast thing but please allow us to see grid lines. there is one absolute genius feature to this app and it is the ability to to play sets(I consider beats) all from the front page. This is great but there needs to be an option to start the set immediately after the set is finished. while still maintaining their original bpms, similar to an sp404 that can trigger patterns after a pattern is complete, please work on all of this😀

Fun app. Over all I think the note app is great, however I think it is important to remember that it’s purpose is not to make full songs but to make musical sketches. Its definitely not the ableton your used too. It’s hard to tell what things will sound like on your real monitors vs your phone speakers. I’m not sure if an I phone can use midi information but it would be super cool to be able to plug in a small midi controller. More than two fx spaces per instrument would be cool too. Over all I think it could be a super useful app when more features are added but for now it’s kind of just a dumbed down session view. It’s still a lot of fun I can’t really imagine taking something I made on it and competing it though.

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!!

I Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎧😩💕. Easy to use, intuitive and quite nice visual aspect, it would seem that it could be better than FLMobile but I consider that there are 3 things that hold back its true potential to be better than FLMobile (which I have and use) and I wish that these recommendations could be heard!. 1. Manual draw notes and visual midi editor: It's really frustrating to have to record and record to get a sound right, it would be easier to just take that sound and drag it to a specific note on the midi piano (all already quantized to our shape). In other words, like in “Live” if we could have a visual midi piano in which we can capture notes just by pressing said note, add loops and that their duration depends on the duration of the note placed on the midi piano, that would be great. 2. Moving the pad rack or midi piano: If we could have the option to move on the midi piano or the pad rack itself to select the 8th we want, that would save us a lot of time! It would also help a lot if we could activate the option to see the labels or name of the notes on the piano or rack (C,D,E, Kick, Snare, Clap, etc...) 3. Add more than one effect or plugin: maybe for performance reasons this is not possible but if it is not, it would be great to have the opportunity to add more than one effect to individual pads and sound kits, like “ I want to add max 5 or 8 effects or effects plugin (reverb, sat, EQ) at the same time in a single sound and also to the sound kit.

Great app but… Ableton owns your music on the cloud!. I’m a long time Ableton user and I just read through the fine print. And it says… As between You and Ableton, You retain all ownership of any intellectual property rights that You hold in Your Sets. You are solely responsible for any Sets You upload, share, or otherwise utilize on Ableton Cloud. Solely for the purpose of enabling Ableton to provide the Ableton Cloud services as contemplated herein, You grant Ableton (and its Authorized Third-Parties) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable, license to use, store, distribute, copy, modify, adapt, transform, reproduce, host, perform, display and communicate Your Sets including all contents and materials contained in Your Sets, without any compensation or obligation to You. You can still share the sets over WiFi so I changed my rating from 1 to 3 because it’s a great app

I Legit love this app. As soon as I heard about an Ableton app (being an Ableton boi myself) I couldn’t wait to get it! If you are considering buying this app as a musical sketch pad, this is the way to go! This is not a mobile DAW, however you can make some 1:30ish songs on here that sound pretty dang good. Some suggestions for the devs, MPE support would be so sick. Keep it up, this app works so well honestly I could go on and on. This is also a great option for special needs, as well as young beatmakers, while also being super in-depth and professional. Seriously this app should have at least 4.7!

Where’s the audio tracks??? So disappointed. . How does Ableton not have the ability to record audio tracks in Note??? This seems totally absurd that a digital audio workstation doesn’t have audio tracks, even if it is just on your iPhone. You cannot record any vocals or record any instruments IRL via the microphone with this app, like what??? I bought the app with the intention of being able to layer ideas quickly while they’re fresh and record rough guitar tracks so I can have those ideas in Studio on my computer to re-record, but this is not possible with this app!!! I wanted a step up from recording ideas with Voice Memos but this app can’t even do that! If Voice Memos was able to play multiple tracks simultaneously it would be better than Note. The FREE Garageband app has audio tracks but I wanted to have the consistency of Ableton’s cloud for Studio that I just bought. It cannot be that difficult to add this function and I’d be shocked if I was the only one thinking this. The lack of audio tracks completely ruins the app.

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Amazingly simple.. Within the first few minutes I could tell the developers put a lot of effort into this app. They’ve really hit the nail in the head with the design, ease of use, and sounds that are available. Worth every cent.

A lot better. Since its release it's so much better I have really enjoyed it!

No Step Sequencer. Good start but without a step sequencer not a very practical mobile app due to latency with Bluetooth headphones. Look forward to future updates.

Very unintuitive and too limiting to be useful. Unless you are a fan of tapping your phone to make beats this app is pretty much pointless. It at least should have an alternative way to create midi like a sequencer and some basic midi editing tools. Could of been a good idea but poorly executed

Still some bugs. This app is so much fun and you can do a lot with it but I’ve lost work several times due to bugs with the cloud sync.

Yo Ableton, nice!. Great tones and usability. 😎

No step sequencer. Audio lag on Bluetooth makes finger drumming hard. Not good for mobile use. Really needs a step sequencer. Lots of free apps with more functionality.

Bring a simple sequencer. Hi Ableton team, As someone who's not great at finger drumming please integrate a simple sequencer. It'll be a life changing experience on this application. That'll make it a 5 star app

Goodbye Creative Blocks. Slept on this a lil at first but has honestly become my go to for sketching ideas. Have used Ableton for years and didn’t have to watch any tutorials to use the app, the workflow is quick and easy to understand but really quite powerful. I quite like how limited it is in that you are forced to play the ideas in rather than have extensive editing capability, it’s a nice level of committing to an idea without feeling too restrictive. Keen for more samples to be added in future but the ones on there are all you need if you tweak a few things. One quick note, the note lengthening/reducing tool works incredibly slowly. If this was at the same speed at the nudge tool that’d be fantastic Cheers!

Ableton Note VS GarageBand. Ableton Note is more complicated, GarageBand is simpler. With complexity comes advantages.

Needs more features to catch up to GarageBand. Ableton Note is missing a lot of features that are available on GarageBand on the iPad. It does not support midi controllers. Notes can only be captured by pressing pads on the screen and can’t be entered into an existing capture. This app will need to add a lot of features to catch up to GarageBand.

Easy and Powerful. Ableton Live has been a powerhouse tool in the music industry for years, and now many of its best qualities have been squeezed down into an accessible and easy-to-use mobile app. It comes with a surprising amount of content to create with and in-depth tools to let you go about as far as you’d likely want to before porting your set over to a computer. Especially for someone who is new to or curious about music production, Note a great tool for learning, creation and experimentation.

More pads layouts pls. Love the app, i just wish I could set the pads to thirds as well.

Great place to start with electronic music. Would be great if you can add support for microtone intervals for some of the synths

Ableton slaps. Quite impressive for what it can do for a mobile app. No lag whatsoever and each update it’s getting better.

Too short. Not enough bars to make a full length song. Otherwise, it’s good but it’s not enough to make an ACTUAL song. This isn’t very good, please fix.

Make music on the move!. Great little app for slapping down some grooves and ideas whilst you get those unsuspecting inspirational waves. Easy enough to export your audio to your full setup and portable enough to not draw any attention whilst you program drums on your laptop and headphones in that cafe or on that train… Mobile and earbuds is the new movement!

Great addition to Live. Fun for kids and grown ups alike because easy to use but powerful. It meets the intended objective which is to help sketch out basic ideas while on the go. Impressive quality for a first release. You can tell that a lot of work from skilled pros has gone into it.

Makes so much fun. Thank you very much for this program. I love it and the quantisation is working now finally in a way you can use it.

What a fun little notebook. Great for jotting down some ideas quickly, like a handy little notebook. Please add the ability to record Audio in app instead of exporting the whole set as one audio track.

Poor Communication. Ableton could let its users know what each update is comprised of.

Less is more. Perfect for quick sketches, need to export als over to live, please.

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This app is amazing!. I’ve been wanting an app like this for years, you don’t have to press record, you don’t have to set your tempo, you just play until you find something you like and then take the snippet you want. Everything else is automatic. Truly innovative. And a must for Live users. Many have tried to create DAWs for iPhone, but this one by far trumps them all. Good job!!!

Freezing clips, XY controller, editing/drawing/copying automation. and other things that would rule if available

Awesome**. **with a couple of asterisks, being that some things have yet to be added here to make this as optimized as can be for a portable option for making music in Ableton. It’s an annoying thing to have to run sequences in order to record notes and more frustrating to try and quantize them to the sequence without a grid. But this can also lead to a lot of interesting results you might not expect and I think that adds to the fun. Just wish I had an optional grid and the ability to actually tap in notes instead of trying desperately to tap it in on the pads while the sequence is playing. I do love that downloaded samples can now be loaded in but I would really be over the moon if .adg files became accessible to quickly load in kits I’ve created on my computer or ones from some of the sample packs I’ve used. With how frequent updates for Note have become, I’m looking forward to seeing it be expanded upon and developed into a worthy companion to Live.

Almost perfect…. Add velocity modulation and this app will become much more for me than a sketch pad when on the go. Among other things, I love the workflow of the sequencer (especially since the last update with quantization amount) and the random instruments when opening new tracks (although I wished one could keep randomizing the choice of instrument or drum racks until one finds a fitting sound and instrument to start with). Keep up the great work and I look forward to the next updates and improvements!

As of last update, it just stopped working. Since you guys last updated this app nothing works. I can’t preview any projects nor will any of them play when I open them. Please fix🙏🏾

Latency. This app would be ideal for sketching tracks out on the go if I could use my AirPods with less noticeable latency. If there’s anyway to optimize for very low/negligible latency I hope it gets implemented soon!

Seems neat, but.... I find that the primary method of producing in this app, that being playing in your track live is impractical. Considering most phones now lack a headphone jack, I find myself mainly using GarageBand as a notepad and just re inputting everything into live manually. I can't see this app being used in any scenario where either just bringing a laptop or using other mobile DAWs is more convenient. All the app would need is a standard track view like Live or Garage Band and a midi grid editor. That alone would cut my workflow in half.

The new update is great. This new version makes the app fully useful now what a great upgrade from the previous version you listened to the users awesome just awesome great work team! :))

Insane. Wow! With the automations and each instrument to have its own sound design capabilities, I live it! I can lose myself in a live set for a while. Thank you! I would add the possibility to add feedback to each instrument like in the ableton live, but it’s all right.

Please allow a way to import midi notes. I love this app. And with the new updates it just keeps getting better. One thing it lacks is the ability to import midi files. Though you can now attach a midi keyboard. Midi files are a wonderful tool to add chord progressions to your ideas. Hopefully you can add this feature in the next update! Thanks

Workflow Game Change. Very thankful for this app. Appreciative of the dev and product teams for this app. Once AUv3 is added, I'll update to 5 stars and cry like a lil joyful babay.

Nice. Great app!!!) but could you ad a landscape mode?

So cool!. I love this app. But I do have a few suggestions. … You should be able to copy and paste: 1) The entire Row, in the Set. So it can be pasted into a different set. 2) Each Note. 3) Each Clip. Also, the Metronome, and the Graph, should be Numbered. And you should be able to Snap the Notes, and the Tracks, into the Number placements. Thank You for the App, it’s really cool!

Please add a notepad feature! Different time signature metronome. Pretty please? It’s literally called note. Shouldn’t it have a note pad feature? Ableton has always had logical UI so I’m sure you could find a way to add it. Also the metronome only supports 4/4. It would be wonderful to integrate more time signatures. I live for this application. I initially wanted to give 4 stars but It hurts me to do it. This app is excellent for putting an idea down.

Amazing. Keep it up.. This is great, a lot of what I hoped for in a companion app. Please add the ability to change what midi note triggers which pads (midi learn). I have a great device with outputs that I can’t use with this app because the midi notes don’t match up.

Bluetooth audio too laggy. The concept is great, but it’s crippled by the latency of Bluetooth audio. Very disappointing musical experience, purely because of the lag. Only buy this for devices that have a wired headphone jack.

Why oh why can’t I save as an Ableton SESSION?. I get that I can sync with the cloud. I DON’T get why I can’t just save/export ideas as a regular Ableton session - I can do it in Korg Gadget… why not here? I want to make an idea, export as Ableton Live session, and send that session to my collaborators. It can just be wav files! Not all everyone uses Live 12, so this is limiting. Please add this feature to get a 5 star review!

This is a lot less seamless than I was expecting it to be. Promoters all over the Internet are going on and on about how seamless this works with note. I’ve even heard the move referred to as the push to Ableton, as the move is to note. That Hass to be the over exaggeration of the century these two platforms indeed have their strong points but they do not work in conjunction with one another you literally have to do you work upload it download it do you work on a different platform of low to download it and then do you work on your original platform. Talk about interrupting the creative flow like what is this? Honestly why cant the Move act as the push does to live with note? In real time and acting as a pad stores, and allowing you to change settings of note on your move? I feel ripped off. I’ve had this thing for over three months. I was thinking I’m gonna learn this. It’s gonna get good it’s gonna get good. It’s so simple. There is nothingThat anyone needs from the move if you have Ableton Note. When I go to Ableton Note and I go to Mary settings on my Arturia Midi gear shows up in the list.Having a push like version for cheaper for the note dj W is a great idea and you guys try to make it sound like that’s what the move is but the movies not that so I don’t know. As I read this I keep removing stars from my review I’m just like baffled.Can somebody from Ableton send me an email and show me how to make the move into notes, sidecar basically? And allow real time changes just as a midi controller word.Because after hearing all this hype, and how satisfied everybody is that there’s a little tiny pad box that does literally lets you do nothing but let you manipulate a few presets… that’s why I was saying, a much cheaper and a real time, solutionIs to go out and buy the Arturia mini lab three,Use it as your midi controller, and program the cc of your knobs & faders & pads on minilab,That way you have a real time midi controller that can actually control ableton note which I have to admit is getting much better than when I first downloaded it like four years ago or whatever it was. Can someone tell me what I’m missing? Why is move good?What does it do that my mini lab three can’t? (I also have a move but it is far from seemless…)

Save your money. Meh. Not there yet. Needs to be… more fun to use.

Good start. This yearns for a full Ableton Live App as companion on iPad Pro

The ableton team is always soaring above!. What an awesome app. Easy to dive into and get creative! Thank you I am such a fan of your flawless into weaving the workflows to allow us to have fun intuitively!! 8$ is a gift

Ableton sketch pad on mobile. So easy to use and I can’t wait to see where this app goes. Love it!

Very intuitive UI and fun to use. So easy to quick record and edit, good sounds. Works with a MIDI controller but would be nice to be able to map CC.

Good only for iPhones. There should be two versions of this app: one for iOS and one for iPadOS. It works fine on an iPhone but not on an iPad Pro. Apple is focusing a lot on Logic Pro for iPad, and I'm worried Ableton might miss this chance.

Great for ideas. Love the workflow of this. Note is very much it’s own thing. Don’t expect “Live” or “Push” on your mobile device. Or a mobile DAW for that matter. This is a sketch pad, more along the lines of Reason Compact - an extension of your primary DAW meant to lower barriers to creativity and productivity.

Awesome. This is a surprisingly capable mobile version of Ableton Live. The workflow is really intuitive and well designed for a phone size touch screen. Great way to tap out some ideas and pick them up in Live to turn them into full tracks.

So…. First of thank you ! Been waiting for an official app from Ableton. It’s definitely a great app for what it offers BUT…it can be a lot better I feel like for the almost 10$ that it cost it is definitely lacking in features. I feel like adding support for AU3 on the app will open up a lot more doors I enjoy stock sounds but I’d love to be able to integrate my other apps for sounds, Second maybe a bit more midi control ?

Looks good for a start but. . . .. But AUV3 hosting is a must. And Audiobus as well so it can talk with the rest of the amazing iOS music app community. No midi in/out, no audio clips? Plus I t would be nice if I could use my push controller.

Superbly designed, fast and fun. This app is outstanding. The most standout aspect is the UI, which is super slick. Extremely fast and responsive and beautifully designed, with a lot of thoughtful support for useful gestures that just feel right. Ableton sweated over the details on this. Then there is sync, which is I think what is most exciting about the app from a process perspective. I am a bit of a minimalist with my setup, I want stuff that fits into how I do things seamlessly without having to learn a lot of new/different things, so something that "just works" with Live is great. Syncing to Ableton Cloud, then opening a Live set that sounds literally exactly like Note - with the same instruments and samples - feels near miraculous. And then there are just the overall features of music-making in the app itself, which are excellent. I love the looper-based way you create new material. The synths sound amazing and appear to be running onboard synthesis, you can even open up FM synthesis templates and experiment. Everything just sounds and feels amazing. Very excited about this new chapter for Ableton. It’s nice to see this kind of innovation.

so easy. The simplest way to produce music that I have ever found. Unique, original, ingenious

You did it better. The clean interface I expect from ableton. Works phenomenally.

Only able to have 2 effects and no compression. Seems like there’s no compression and instruments are limited to two effects each.

Simple, yet malleable!. I have lots of respect for this company and am happy they came out with a portable format for quick musical note-taking! They’ve done a fantastic job at making this enjoyable and easy to use yet giving us a lot of control! Look forwards to using this more!

Very cool. One thing that would make this better is the ability to download individual drum kits from packs that I’ve purchased from ableton. Also double tap to reset dial to default

Not a Replacement. This is an app for ideas, not full tracks. iOS isn’t a great studio tool, at least not now. This app realizes and uses your phone for what it excels at: taking notes to build out later when you’re at your real setup.

Refreshing way to start beats 🎧. After a long time using Ableton Live on the computer, it’s awesome having another interface to try ideas with. It helps me to break some of the monotony of my usual DAW habits. Love that it gives me a different drum kit and other instruments by default because sometimes I’ll challenge myself to only use those without swapping them out, and get creative with it. Can always change stuff too / further ideas in Ableton Live on the computer later. I’m sure there could be room for improvements over time, like any app, but honestly once you get used to the basics of this interface, this app is great and fun to use.

One feature I would love. This app is excellent, however I feel like the sampler is a bit limited. I would love the ability to either play a sample like a keyboard or as a drum kit where it chops up the sample at the transients. This would make this app five stars easily I get so much use out of it

Great app but something went wrong. This is a great app but recently the app on my phone stopped outputting sounds of any project at all. I cannot hear what is being played. Not sure what is wrong. I hope I get help very soon. Thank you

Severely lacking and cumbersome.. Layout of the app is strange, it's difficult to get confortable with and cumbersome to use. It's missing must-have things like a piano roll to build chords with and clips that contain those chords which can be laid out in a traditional fashion like in ableton's arrangement view. Not having these things (things that app store competitors have) are deal breakers for an app like this. There is no compressor and no way to sidechain too. This is also a major letdown and turn-off. Overall I don't recommend this app. In its current form there are far superior apps in the app store to use for mobile sketching/notes/ideas. Will definitely update my rating if this app is improved and the glaring omissions are added later on but for right now with these things missing the competition is just so far ahead to the point that this app is redundant.

Everything you need for music notes. I’m loving every feature of this. Having tried most of the available music apps for mobile this takes the cake by a long shot for me. So much thought went into the UI to make recording, automation, and element building easier than any other app available. Very very impressed!

Great potential. Rad little app but it’s missing a couple things to make it a 10/10. Would really benefit from a piano roll, arp and chord mode. Velocity control would be a big plus as well. That being said it’s great and how seamless you can bring the project into ableton is perfect. I use session view to preform so it’s a perfect companion to live for me. Just needs a couple things to make it solid.

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The best Music Production App for Iphone !. I work as music producer about 10 years , I was try all of the music production apps, this is the best in my opinion! This app gives new ideas bcs unique work flow, and every time has a different preloading instruments . Thank you for this app! And I use ableton live as my main Daw, so Cloud Sync make it all easier! I can say many more , but better you try it ! ❤️🔥

Best iOS music app. I’ve used pretty much every iOS app and this is ‘the one’ for me. It doesn’t host AUV3, and doesn’t integrate into the iOS ecosystem that well - but it’s truly a perfect sketchpad for someone who would rather make a new drum kit to transfer to Live later or possibly throw together a beat to jam over when you get home to your guitar.

Superb application!. Absolutely beautiful app. As a long time Ableton user, it’s incredibly intuitive to those familiar with their interface. My only caveat would be that I really wish there was a one-touch chord function (similar to what Native Instruments has in their Komplete Kontrol plug-in) to sketch out ideas quicker. Everything else has been wonderful and a joy to play with. Thank you for taking your time with this!

Phenomenal First Entry. I'm incredibly excited to see an Ableton app on my iPhone. This first version is a great entry into mobile music making and inspires creativity from the start. A couple of things I've noticed early on that is love to see are support for chord pads and more editing options in the piano roll. Love the MIDI capture - I haven't seen it executed so well on a mobile app. Great work, Ableton!

Midi 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

Great tool for creating ideas quickly. This is my goto app for creating small fun ideas immediately without having to setup any equipment. Interface is pretty intuitive with a surprising amount of features (ie. scale mode and note repeat). Only thing missing is Warp Modes for the sampler. Having a mode to lock in the sample length for every note would let it truly emulate instruments and provide flexibility when chopping.

Fun and intuitive. Great pocket daw that’s very streamlined for getting ideas quickly, just wish there were more sounds to choose from. Not expecting the full live suite but I think doubling its current number of sounds would put it in an a very decent place to sustain its lifecycle as I can definitely see myself getting bored of what’s available to me soon just off first impression.

More than worth it! 100%. I play this app every day, and I don’t miss a day no matter what, it’s like my day isn’t complete until I get on Ableton Note and kick some noise.. it works wonders on getting the mind off of stressful things. If you have any doubts, lay them to rest, cuz this is the best one out there!

Good But Latency. App seems to be very well thought out but for some reason if you use BT headphones there is not just AUDIO latency - which is to be expected - but the screen is also unusable. Why would headphones create massive touch screen lag? So, seems like they didn’t realize the biggest phone maker on earth makes phones with ONLY Bluetooth headphones. Factor in an adapter and carrying around a second set of wired headphones if you want to use this.

Time Signatures. I love the app and can’t wait for upgrades and improvements which hopefully are coming soon. I would love to be able to make time signature changes and to have more editing features. It’s an ‘idea’ app that’s meant to push us into the Ableton DAW that I already own and use. Instead let’s make it fully featured and ABLE TO output completed songs.

Midi implementation isn’t good. There appears to be no virtual midi connectivity meaning I can’t send midi from one of the many midi sending apps on the same device to Ableton Note. VIRTUAL MIDI, CORE MIDI whatever you call it isn’t there. I don’t have a hardware midi controller but have tons of software midi controllers on the same iPad as Ableton Note but I guess I can’t use them. Very disappointed. I suppose there could be an issue having the capture timer run out when switching apps so make it adjustable to a degree.

Great Start. Note gets better with each update. For Live users, it’s such a handy way to get something together than can then be worked on and expanded in Live. My main complaint is the lack of looping and crossfading for melodic samples. These are such basic features that are available in Simpler. I understand not putting Operator, Drift, or even the full Simpler in Note, but looping and crossfading would expand the use of custom samples and sound design greatly in an easy and basic way. I hope Ableton will consider adding these features.

Desperately needs MIDI support!. This is such a great app with a great workflow, but man is it a huge pain to have no way to use a MIDI controller or import MIDI files. Without that, and without a step sequencing option, Note becomes a challenge to use for more than a few minutes. I would spend a lot more time in this app if it just had a few more basic note input features.

Love it so far!. The simplicity of the interface makes it really fun and quick to get used to. I love that it mirrors session mode. I’ve been having a lot of fun jamming on my ipad with it. I like how it starts you off with a randomized set of drums, bass, synth etc- nicely curated presets. It can be overwhelming to start a song in desktop Ableton, given the endless possibility- so it’s nice to have the limitations of this app. I think I’ll be using it a lot to start new songs. The system for inputting initial recordings is really brilliant. I love that it automatically sets a tempo- or you can select a clip length. It’s also great that you can set the key and scale. It would be nice if I could edit the note length in the clip editor. It also would be great to have the Ableton Link feature. Overall- very excited about this app!

Nice App. Very cool to get ideas down from scratch and easily transfer to studio. One annoying thing is that it won’t output into my car speakers, but outputs audio to my navigation speakers. Thought it had to do with the microphone being on but after turning it off, same thing happening. Not sure if it’s a vehicle issue or software.

No detune on other tracks except drums. Hi, I bought this app thinking I had the ability to detune samples but it seems you can only do that on the drums so I’ll be asking for a refund. However if you don’t care about that, it’s a pretty compact app and the ability to upload to Ableton is convenient. With that said, iOS apps have been around for almost a decade so it’s not that special but it’s solid nonetheless

Plz 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!!!

A very good portable MIDI DAW. I’m someone who makes a lot of music using Ableton Live, and the way that this app handles MIDI notes specifically blows my mind. The cursor for increasing the size of a note could do with a little more speed, but the ability to edit clip length, quantize and adjust velocity in a seamless manner makes this app so great to use. Just opening the app today and tinkering, I already have a sizable set that I can pull into my suite, add a couple more things, and boom. Complete set ready to record/perform. This app is great for on the go, as you can pull it out anywhere and sketch out a MIDI loop or two in seconds, all with presets that sound amazing for an $8 app. From an intermediate user, great job Ableton!

Best app for generating ideas. Don’t expect this to be a full featured daw. It’s not. But that’s precisely why it’s so great. Even though it is limited, it has a surprising amount of functionality. Kind of like a teenage engineering pocket operator, but on steroids. It forces you to generate more ideas rather than tweaking the eq or messing with a synth patch (although you can do that to a certain extent). Even the piano roll is limited. By doing this, note forces you to have fun instead of getting technical. If you want polished songs, use a desktop daw. But if you want to generate ideas on the go, use note. I do wish it had a sequencer and an arpeggiator. As long as you don’t expect this app to replace your daw, you will not regret the purchase. 10/10 would recommend.

Greatest Music App Ever Made. There is nothing clunky or cumbersome about the Ableton Note app like all other music app I’ve used. The MIDI Capture functionality easily makes the best music app by far. Everything is simple and quick and intuitive. I can’t wait to see how it is enhanced in the future because it’s already amazing. Domo arigato Mr. Behles.

Unique and organic workflow. I like to just launch a new session and see where it goes with the random presets Note picks. I wind up creating ideas that are completely different than what I produce in any other environment. Then the idea can move seamlessly to Live for further refinement. I’m a Logic user, but TBH I’ve been having so much fun with Live Lite that I just upgraded to Live Standard to take it even further!

Cumbersome. Not worth the money. You can export your project. You have to use the Ableton Cloud to work cross platforms and if you don't shell out over 100$-300$ for the latest version of Ableton Live this App is pretty useless. Plus very limited in what you can do and theres other apps that are better for sketching and you can export Ableton Live set with midi and audio. Something that this app doesn’t do and seems just like a money grab by the Ableton Live folks. So to conclude you need the latest version of Ableton Live which will cost between 100$-300$. Its not intuitive, bad design and work flow. Bad choices of crappy sounds you can use.

This is great. Anyone complaining about this doesn’t understand the beauty of false self limitation. For $8 the sounds library and synths are a deal …but this offers nearly the same amount of core functionality of an mpc for $8….and its 1 for 1 right into Ableton live. The note editing needs touch editing support but otherwise I’m happy with its current state

Finally. Probably like a lot of people, I've been waiting for something like this. And so far I love it. Even just as a drum machine, it's better than any app I've tried, with the exception of Patterning 2, which has its own strengths and weaknesses. One limitation, which I hope gets addressed in a future release: time signature is limited to 4/4. Time signature per track would be ideal, but even a global time signature would be huge. Looking forward to seeing what happens with this.

Please never remove this app!. This is the most valuable app for any ableton user or writer on the go. It’s versatility knows no bounds. Not only is it great for writing, but even using it as a field sampler, and having your samples already edited and organized in drum racks to export is so useful! I do wish there was a step sequencer to use when your working with a Bluetooth delay.

No Audio. I’m sure it’s a great app but I wouldn’t really know as I have not been able to get it to play audio a single time since downloading it. I tried headphones, portable speakers, volume setting in and out of the app, phone updates, resets, downloading and reinstalling the app. Nothing works and but I will still give 4 stars since this should, in theory, be fixed with the next update.

Great start for 1.0. The UI and UX are stellar as expected from Ableton. The sound design is great so even if not a Live owner it’s totally worth the cheap price for the sounds. Some features I’d like to see: Preset import from Live to note. In the piano roll, the ability to add a note and also hear note where it’s placed. MIDI in from other apps / MIDI file import Another companion controller app that’s more like Touchable or the one Bitwig just put out. Some way to see clips names on an iPad screen. The files app access to samples / import screen is done very well in comparison to other apps. Well done devs. Hard to imagine back when tinkering with the first versions of Ableton in the early 00’s this would come about.

So close bruh. Was looking for a app that I could jot down quick ideas and it’s the best option for that for sure. I do really love the link between ableton & being able to start things on my phone and flesh them out in the daw !! However I would truly love to see a proper piano roll option for the love of god. It would make things feel so seamless. But other than that it cool. Please do that tho thanks and stuff

Missing a few key features. App is a joy to use and easy to get ideas down on. missing a few important features. You can’t edit note length after recording meaning if you mess up the length of a note you have to delete and re-record. There’s a few other unintuitive things as well but overall a great tool

Bridged the gap. As a mobile producer, this really helped me bridge the gap between playing on my phone or iPad and then sitting down and polishing everything off. Love it BUT... As a finger drumer... A drummer... you have to let us set up our drum set. At least arrange them. It's a huge henderance. Even in Ableton the first thing I do is rearrange my pads. If this score was 1-100, you'd have 99 stars. So far it's my singular gripe. Everything else is amazing. LOVE how the tempo is set with my first groove. Genius! If you let me arrange my pads, this would be more powerful than koala! A HIGH bar.

A great start but needs maturity. I’ve been wanting Ableton to make a mobile app for years. Ableton Cloud could be a game changer for moving mobile ideas to the desktop, but the two deal breakers for me are 1) no time signature and 2) no note editor. The absence of a time signature means that I won’t use the app if I have a musical idea outside the time signature of 4/4. Until a note editor is fully in place, the simplest modifications I’d love to see in the UI would be: 1) tap a note to hear it. 2) tap and hold a note to bring up a menu so I can duplicate it. 3) tap and drag a note to change the length.

No grid when composing midi.. Consider this a feature request because I have no real complaints but the midi composition is a real bottleneck without being able to see where the notes are actually sitting and having to make a change, play it back, not correct yet, make a change, play it back, etc. Other than that it’s pretty cool and useful for sketching things out when I don’t want to lug my laptop around.

Audio File Importing / IOS. Been having a good time with the app, although I do have a question; is there anyway to properly import audio files from within my iOS files to > Ableton note? (If it’s even possible because I’ve been struggling to find out) I have an M4A audio file (my song created in Medly Labs) and when imported to Ableton Note I am prompted with an alert saying "Would you like to import X audio file?" but when I press yes nothing happens :\ I hope I’m just missing something

Almost Perfect. This does everything I would want it to do without bogging it down. EXCEPT even just one audio track would really go a long way, and it looks like I’m not the only one who thinks that. I don’t want it to turn into a mobile DAW or anything. Just one single audio track. Really a perfect sketchbook for Ableton users and it will easily be five stars from me as soon as it gets audio capabilities.

I love it, really… but (edited). I take back what I said. I have gotten a lot better at not hitting the delete button accidentally… some practice with it pays off. I love this app. Yes it is limited, and yes that is the beauty of it. The way it forces you to write things relatively “on-time” is such a chop builder imo. Thank you so much P.s. chance mod would be 🔥📈

Grew on me quickly. At first I wasn’t really enamored with Note. Then i watched Ricky Tinez’s video and I stopped thinking of “let start with a beat” and instead started with a sample. The way it allows you to set your own tempo and pattern length is great but it takes. But to get used to Abletons way of doing it. I like it a lot and look forward to future updates (like Panning in the mixer!).

This app is phenomenal, however, I’d like one more feature…. So. There is so much to say about this app, and let me start it off with the fact that it is WELL worth its price. The simpler (sampler) in it, is well a great tool. It comes in incredibly handy. The one feature I want is to be able to use the app as a midi controller for ableton live.

Love It. Love this app. Great simple app that doesn’t use too much computing power/battery. One thing I’d love … it would be AWESOME if we could have operator and wavetable from scratch. Currently the only way to use these is by using presets within Note and the knobs are pre-routed. If we could open a fresh instance of wavetable like we could on Live. That would be INSANE - not sure if that’s too ambitious to have on a phone or not … but that would make it the most powerful and best mobile daw in the world , no competition.

Exciting but not ready yet. I am excited to have an app where I can sketch on my phone and get that easily into Live for development. However, immediately I felt the clip editing interface needs some improvement to be useful for me. There appears to be no way to adjust note lengths so correcting note lengths only requires re-recording and then repeating nudge correction on any mistakes made in the new take. For this to be missing when all the other controls are there is a big oversight.

A great start!. This was long overdue. Great interface, feels very familiar. Not too cluttered with extra options or trying to constantly sell sound packs and addons. My one feature request would be to allow the user to disable loop capture during playback. Sometimes I like to rehearse for a bit before hitting record, and I spent a lot of time selecting and deleting notes. Loop capture is great, just let me toggle it off if I want. Cheers to the Ableton team on the release!

Audio Tracks?. Enjoying my time with the app so far but I feel it could be improved further by adding audio tracks to record longer passages. The sampler is fine for short samples but anything longer like full guitar or keyboard chord progressions or complete vocal verses or choruses, it can’t really handle all that well. These could also import directly into Ableton on an audio track. I feel this would really take the app to the next level. Any plans for adding this?

Amazing. As a 10 year user of live this is a Godsend. Only thing that would make it better would be if I could play it over FaceTime to make collaborating with artist easier. Unfortunately, when you’re using your mic, you can’t play from the app outside of that it’s pretty great. They just need SharePlay.

It’s decent, but missing very basic features.. No way to pan an instrument in the mixer, no visible grid when editing notes makes being precise a nightmare. If you want to do anything other than a basic 4x4 beat, good luck. No swing capability so you’ve gotta spend hours nudging notes around hoping you get it right. Lacking synth controls is also super annoying. Not every preset comes with the settings that are part of the synth. Just lacking so many fundamental parts. Otherwise, it’s fun to mess around with.

Very fun and inspiring!. This app is great to have on the fly when inspiration hits. I haven’t played much with it, but for the most part it’s very intuitive. If your an Ableton person who likes creating on the fly it’s a must have. The one critique I have so far, which may be there I just can’t find it, is there is no way to edit a midi notes durations. You can nudge it, quantize, velocity, and tune, but I don’t see a duration function. Creates dead spots in your playing if you aren’t perfect that you have to replay to fix.

Promising. Gotta love integration back to Live!. Just got it. I am a sucker for good software integration. Experience for ideas seems good. My brain works only in session mode so I feel at home already. Great starting point. Looks clean with good features presented in a subtle ways. Too many options and this APP will become tedious. I am glad they delivered enough to play with and bring it back to Live. Great job Team Ableton!

Rating this specific feature not the whole app. That thing when you highlight a specific count and can duplicate or crop or delete, When duplicating, its glitched and shows it replacing the next count rather than just adding aka duplicating. Once you highlight its difficult to unhighlight or at least I haven’t figured it out and it was much simpler to swipe left or right to duplicate and delete. And whats with the way the knobs reset or the notes change on their own? Other than that love it.

Best for mobile. I’ve messed around with many saws made for mobile, garage band, FL Studios, and they all have too much going on for a small screen. That is where Ableton note excels at here. This app is optimized for mobile and the best thing to mess around with on the go. The only thing I wish was possible is using my external instrumental like I can with Garage Band.

Great for sketching ideas. It took a little time to become familiar with the workflow but soon I found myself capturing ideas and even developing them in meaningful ways. There is also something very liberating in having less choices. And you have already addressed one of my wishes, the ability to adjust note lengths, so for now, all good. Thanks!

This is cute *goes back to Ableton Live*. This is an adorable UX demonstration and a great way for someone with no experience to get started making audio loops strictly with midi-based instruments. It does not appear to have any linear timeline, audio manipulation, or audio stretching workflows. It’s kind of like a really good soundboard with loops and quantization. Props to the team for throwing knob automation recording in there. The interface on iPad is about the same as the phone which results in my expensive and powerful iPad Pro looking like a children’s music toy. I would love to encourage the team at Ableton to see this dip of their toes in the iOS water as a well-executed success and go ahead and port Ableton Live to the iPad next. Great start!

Worth 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