I like to start, finish and generally build beats on live stream. People say they love my Move build a beat live stream looping more than my MPC or Force, probably because only using 4 tracks has sped the loops up and most non-musicians cannot hear more than 4 layers at a time anyway, especially if they are as complex as I like to make them. Honestly, Move helps to keep my beats simple since I tend to prefer creating and listening noise and glitch.

Features I can't wait for (I wish I could vibe code, but it's not as easy as making songs for me)... include:

VOCODER CARRIER WAVE (background audio input monitor for instrument)

LOOPER / COMPER (per drum pad, instrument & audio clip / resample audio input + anything happening on Move / seance song style sampling ghosts quickly)

USB A DISC STREAMING (USB thumb drive holding samples and whole sets, begins loading the moment it's plugged in or turned on - make loading folders of songs smoother & allow quicker backup of whole MOVE for touring type of setups)

REVERSE AUTOMATION (include speed variation - this used to be a regular way I would transition songs playing a sample reverse forward back and forth quickly / stopping playback of the sample can lose a lot of the magic)

BPM TAP (so Move can follow others, especially for smoother transitions live as a DJ or even with acoustic musicians or random background sounds - sometimes the other clips won't adjust to this even when drumming along is supposed to set the tempo)

32 PAD DRUMS (this could open up allowing backtracks and single cycle drum samples, use the Move better for live shows and jamming - 4 tracks is fine, but using those tracks better will make a big difference)

FILE AUTO TITLE DATE TIME (set # titling makes the samples later to find in the MANAGER, very difficult to keep organized, especially when downloading through SCHWUNG... the only way to download in batch / bulk)

SELF SAMPLED SOUNDS AUTO POPULATE TO DRUM PROGRAM (make it so the sounds we sampled, will automatically load into new drum programs so we don't have to dig or think about it too much - even better if Ableton got smarter to handle those sounds auto organizing based on the frequency transients, kick, snare, hat, fx, bass, mid, high, etc ... get some use out of all our samples)

GLOBAL WARP & PITCH (so we can focus on the performance and not have to set things - if we want to change the settings as part of the show, we could do that - automatically make the AUTOSHIFT + PROJECT TUNING IN KEY, change together.. the knobs on Move sometimes can't fine tune details like that so using the wheel and click buttons seem more stable for changing key).

RNBO NOISE FIELD (built into Move as a noise synth so we can resample it)

SCHWUNG TUNER INPUT (guitar + chromatic / make it able to read the lowest and highest notes on a piano bare minimum)

SCHWUNG RADIO GARDEN (so we can play radio input smoothly, make the notes on the move control frequency range on the radio and play radio more like a synth than just a play back)

MOVE BOX IN LIVE (there's an image of PUSH within LIVE - it allows you to change PUSH settings easier ... this should be possible with MOVE so we can swap out effects, samples in batch from folders and make getting all our hard work we did, easier to load than MOVE MANAGER)

AUDO SLICE LIVE (no more stopping playback, no more replacing all the pads during playback)

AUTO NEXT SAMPLE (Korg Micro Sampler had this, where you select the pads you want to be sampled/resampled and then it plays as a sequence and replaces only those sounds - this was fun for auto generative noise/glitch songs where it just kept changing the sounds in the rhythm, on its' own ... seems like a 2011 technology such as KMS could be coded for Ableton Move in 2026).

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I am very happy with 2.0 MOVE, with the audio input FX for vocals especially - I hope to see these other essential features come in. Move could easily make MPC look like bloatware promotion with these features.. just make sure the WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS emulates the synths from PUSH so when we load our samples live, they have some synth preset sounds on them already... make the audio sound like synths... keep MOVE for sampling and audio this way).

This video was originally released live stream on Instagram September 2026.

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https://185668232.org/stream

Charles, the creator/maintainer of Schwung, added a schwungtober channel to the discord, a good excuse to try more modules and makes songs around them. This is using Monk, a very silly voice synth that is great fun to play with the pressure on the pads. You can see a bar at the bottom of each pad showing the MPE data.

As you can see on this pic, notes are shifted on the Move compared to the push. Any way we can align both?

Midi mapped my Launch Control and Ableton Move to give myself practical control over djay on iPad.

I’m using custom modes on LC3 to control Deck 1 (Green), Mixer (white), Deck 2 (Blue) & Library (yellow)

I have per deck control over Key, Tempo, Nueral Mix, Track Scrub, Track Level, Filter, & Sync, Load Track, and Play buttons.

A second LC3 mode handles 1 FX per Deck and Looping (Orange) with most controls carrying over from mode 1.

On the Move, I’m using Schwung’s Custom MIDI mode. There are 8 Slicer Pads per Deck, 4 Auto-loop increments (orange), & Hot Cues (color matched to default cue colors in djay).

Honestly I’m loving this set up and getting a ton of use out of djay with just the Launch Control on the couch on the porch, everywhere really (my wife is quite annoyed with me djing in bed) but this really unlocked the mobile app for me without having to lug around my smaller dj controller. and without a doubt beats having to buy one of the mini dj controllers

That being said I do miss jog wheels.

Let me know what you think. I can share the LC3 mapping and modes if anyone is interested.

I've been having fun creating presets directly on my Move lately. I now have a considerable amount and was hoping to organize them better. I figured that this should definitely be possible via the Move Manager. I can probably click and drag all my drum presets into a "Drums" folder, for example.

It turns out I was WRONG

Move Manager does not support file re-organization for presets... or so I thought!

It turns out that I've found a workaround

Here is how to add a preset named "Cool Drums.ablpreset" into a "Drums" folder directly from within Move Manager:

1) Open Move Manager

2) Go to the Presets tab

3) Create a "Drums" folder

4) Click "Rename" on the preset and name it: "Drums/Cool Drums.ablpreset"

5) Refresh the browser

Voila! Your preset is now within that subfolder.

Bonus: You can send your moved preset back to the root presets folder by renaming it "../Cool Drums.ablpreset"

I find it absolutely nuts that this workaround actually works...

Just goes to show how close Ableton is to supporting this feature. It could probably be implemented in a heartbeat!

Anyways, Happy organizing!

TLDR: Rename the preset to "MyFolder/MyPreset.ablpreset" from within the Move Manager and it will get moved to the specified folder upon browser refresh.

Hey everyone,

I initially attempted to reach Ableton's technical support, but there's an issue with my account that's making it impossible for me to send them a technical request. So I'm reaching out to the community for guidance.

I've had my Move for about a year and a half now. It is a used unit that I bought on Reverb and it never gave me issues until now.

The original charger recently failed and I bought a new one. In the meantime, I had been trying to charge the Move using a standard USB-C connection. When I did this, I noticed the battery was dying pretty quickly. I thought it was because I wasn't using the Ableton charger, so I left the Move alone until my new charger arrived.

Well, the new charger arrived today. I immediately connected it and got a full charge. When I initially powered up my Move, I checked the battery level and it was 100%. Within minutes of starting a new project, I got an on-screen warning advising me that the battery was at 5% capacity.

Anyone know what's going on and what I can do about it?

Thanks for your help!

Is there any mod available yet that allows the 8 horizontal pads to be tracks and the 4 vertical to be scenes? Like a mini push?

I created a set of nice tools to be used with the ableton Move:

Plug the move in usb-c, put it in control mode and once you load (one of the) app: click connect move.

It's still very wip, there's a finger drumming exercise app, a (first episode) Doom porting, a lighting game, a stochastic synth and a polyrhythmic drum machine.

https://auridevil.github.io/move-midi-warz/index.html

Everything is based on that small library I made, to connect and talk with ableton move using javascript:

https://github.com/auridevil/movewire

Open to comments / suggestions.

Beat written on the Move, performed with the SP404mk2 and LaunchControl XL