I tried, thinking bout trying again 
this!
Sanity check question: yesterday I tried to play a Move sketch through Ableton Live using a usb-c cable to my laptop, but when selecting Ableton Move as the input source, I didn’t hear the usb audio out. Instead, I heard what the Move’s internal microphone picked up while still playing the sketch through its lousy built-in speakers.
I could swear this worked via usb audio last time I was recording a sketch into Ableton.
Love the form factor, slightly gravitated away from Live in recent years and hated Push 3. But this one has much nicer concept to it.
However, the lack of real midi, even mini midi ports is juat baffling for me. USB midi implementation looks half baked atm, but maybe that will change.
I use an S2400 sampler sequencers, bunch of analogues, as well as Bitwig/Logic (.mostly logic). Move looks interesting because of the quick sampling, and portable workflow (have a 2hr train journey to work once a week, so this thing looks perfect).
However, how on earth can this be used in my setup? I fairly cetsin the Move will not allow my S2400 to act as an external clock or drive multiple track sequences. Midi in or out is one directional and for a single track at a time, is that right?
No issue witj USB midi, but this form of it is crazy limited.
They changed it in the last firmware update and it took me a while to sort it out! There’s a new setup menu (Shift + Step 2) called “USB-C Audio” and you need to change it to “Main Output.”
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Move can’t receive MIDI Sync, but it can sync via Ableton Link.
can it send midi sync? at least if i had move as the master sequencer, i could use the S2400 to handle my analog synths (which it already does).
also when you go to ableton, can you have a template somehow? i.e. i have a record setup for all my outboard gear as a template in Ableton. i dont want to have to add this separately every time i switch from Move to Ableton. but maybe there is another way to save grouped audio tracks as re-callable templates. i know Reaper does this.
You can drag individual tracks out of Move projects, which might be your best bet. It loads the instrument, effects, and clips with automation so you shouldn’t have to recreate anything per-track; the only potential downside is that it doesn’t load the effects from the Main Output. But that’s probably easier to rebuild than the rest of your template.
Edit: it’s super easy if the project is in Ableton Cloud but also works through Move Manager. Just download the Move Project and put it into a folder that Ableton’s browser can see.
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Yes, Move can send MIDI Sync.
Thank you!
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One pain in the ass is move.local. Wish there was an option so I can multi select and delete
Yeah they really need to work on move.local some more. I mean it’s like the center of move, it should be priority to work right with a good workflow. Deleting things shouldn’t be something we have to ask for, it should have been there along with rearranging things etc.
Hope to see an improvement to move.local soon.
I think the main sticking point with rearranging folder files etc is how projects can reference the content if it’s moved from its original location, it’s a simple process in live but I can imagine that would be no mean feat on moves limited hardware and ui
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Just give me the option to restore sets to the device itself
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Is it possible you program a midi sequence for an external synth to play, then sample/resample it to audio directly from the sequence itself? (so the audio would still play when the synth wasn’t attached)
It should be yes. When you press a Move Pad to resample sample, it starts the transport too, so it should totally work
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It’s not possible. The input is disabled when in resampling mode.
Totally doable I do it with the iPad all the time, program your sequence, hit that pad you want sample to, pretty much able to catch a perfect loop like that, all you’ll need to do is adjust the end point…
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But it needs to fit into the 4m length and you should at max need 1m of that, so if you want to do it for stems of an improvisation on the synth over the sequence it’s less optimal. If you Want to catch a 1-16 bar loop it should be more then fine.
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Does anyone here use the Move as a multitimbral synth, sequenced by an Elektron? I’m thinking to use it to replace my wavetable synth. Can you configure tracks to have specific midi channels, like with Push?