Audience
Musicians, producers, and songwriters seeking to capture, experiment with, and develop beats, melodies, samples, and song ideas on a mobile device
About Ableton Note
Ableton Note is a playable mobile app for sketching musical ideas anywhere, experimenting with sounds, capturing improvisations, and sampling the environment. Users can start with drum kits, melodic instruments, synth sounds, or their own recordings, then develop ideas by creating beats, melodies, chord progressions, and variations. Note includes a 16-pad percussion grid, a 25-pad melodic grid, piano roll, MIDI editing, quantization, note nudging, velocity changes, transposition, and external MIDI support over USB or Bluetooth. Capture MIDI lets musicians keep something they just played without pressing record first: Note detects the tempo and length and automatically turns the performance into a loop. Users can record sounds through their device microphone into Drum Sampler or Melodic Sampler, then cut, filter, repitch, and process samples with effects.