Ableton Move

Parfait si on veut quelque chose de portable et à utiliser en standalone.
Pour connecter à une carte son il faut oublier direct. L'ampli interne de la sortie casque est bien trop limité pour envoyer un volume suffisant. De plus, lorsqu'utilisé connecté à une carte son on se rend compte qu'aucun des samples internes au device n'a été normalisé, ce qui nous donne des drumkit avec des différences de niveau entre certains samples telles qu'ils en deviennent inutilisables.

If you look at the specs, it's the best groovebox on the market at this price range.

But I found the mixed sound and shortcuts taken not inspiring enough. I want a dawless setup, not spend time in Ableton Live afterwards and you get the feeling the device was made to force you to go there ;)

However, if you work with Live, it's a no brainer.

Pros:
- capture (allows you to commit something you tried previously)
- easy to start anything
- great ableton move integration
- USB-A port to plug a keyboard / USB-c to sample
- Sample chopping is OK (the start end and number of slice split is genius).
- cool to have audio tracks
- integrated synths are really cool and configurable
- sequencer is awesome

The cons:
- Super hard to mix the sounds, I come from EP133 / SP404 and whatever you do there, the output is great. Here you have to spend an FX or Two to have something consistant
- No panning on the tracks (!) (you can pan but it requires a tremendous amount of extra work, to sample each track on a drum kit and then define the panning).
- No time warping for the samples
- Build quality is 8/10, it gets a bit hot on your lap, feels less solid than a SP404, I would say just below the EP133
- FX part is not my thing. You get only two slots on the main and you HAVE to use them as dynamic / saturator if you want your sound to mean something (to feel consistent). So in the end, you get 2 FX per track, which is ok, no push FX which is very sad.
- Resample is cool but I only managed to resample an existing track (so not resample WHILE playing)
- No looper or overdub on audio tracks (which is ridiculous when you think about it).

There are definetely a lot of things to like here.

// PROS:

+ It's an all in one very portable groovebox.
+ It sounds very nice if you like Ableton modern sounds and effects, thus could also be used just as a very good sound module too.
+ The UI/UX and overal workflow is very well thought out, especially considering the size.
+ Up to now at least, Ableton is killing it with the updates. Audio Tracks in beta v2 firmware was an awesome move (pun indented). Hopefuly by the end of the beta it can be used as an audio live looper.
+ It's built on a Raspberry PI, which means that it could (and already is) hacked in various ways, which kinda makes it future-proof, I think.
+ Send project to Ableton Live is really great.
+ Midi Capture works great (most of the times).
+ Sampling works great.

// MAJOR CONS:

- It does not record and not even recognize pitch bend and mod wheel from external controller (not even for its internal sounds), nor any CC for midi out automation if you plan to control external hardware with it (I did). It honestly should since this is a very modern device. Similarily there is lack of any MIDI implementation for controlling Move externally, which can be important specifially for starting/stopping recording with a footswitch for example.

- Now the big one which is missing and was prety much the reason I bought Move in the first place thinking that it would work the same as Ableton signature "Session View" mode. It is impossible to record anything while in the "Session View" mode (even with an external keyboard attached). As soon as you enter "Session View" mode, recording is simply disabled.. Honestly why not have all tracks "armed" all the time and as soon as we push a new empty clip in Session View mode start recording that clip, then push it again to stop recording and play it. This is IMO a signature Ableton Live thing for live looping/performance and the fact that it is not on this official Ableton groovebox is IMO a very major con.

I really hope Ableton address these 2 cons above because other than those 2 but rather very important things (at least for me), everything else is awesome.

- EDIT-
My 2nd con exists in the beta 2 firmware more or less! We have to manually arm the tracks though, but it's close enough to what I've been missing. Uped my score as well.