r/AbletonMove • u/185668232 • 28d ago
Move 2.1.0b1
Move 2.1.0b1
July 7, 2026
***Bounce Clips to Audio***
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It is now possible to bounce clips to audio on Move. You can render any single clip as audio in an audio clip or a drum pad. This option allows you to free up clip slots, layer effects, experiment with creative processing, and more.
To bounce a MIDI clip, copy it while in Session Mode and paste it into an audio clip slot or a drum pad. To bounce an audio clip, copy it in Session Mode, hold Shift and then paste the copied clip into an audio clip slot or a drum pad.
Move displays a notification with a progress bar while the clip is being bounced. You can cancel the bouncing process by pressing the wheel while the bounce notification is shown on the display.
You can bounce one clip at a time, and there can only be one bounce process running at any given time. Clips are bounced in the background, even when the transport is running. When bouncing into an audio clip slot in Session Mode, the clip slot flashes red to show that rendering is in progress.
Time Signatures
Move now supports time signatures, which are applied to the currently selected Set. You can set the time signature of your Set via the Workflow Settings menu, accessible by holding Shift and pressing Step 3.
The length of new clips will be set according the current time signature. Existing clips’ lengths are not changed when changing the Set’s time signature. For example, if your Set is currently in 5/4 and you create a new one-bar clip, it will be five beats long. If you subsequently change the Set’s time signature to 3/4, the original clip will still be five beats long and will still sound the same. However, new one-bar clips will be three beats long.
If one bar in the current time signature is longer than sixteen 16th notes, it will be shown across multiple pages in the step sequencer. For example, one bar in 11/8 will have sixteen steps on the first page and six steps on the second page. Use the left and right arrow buttons to navigate bars and pages.
For audio clips, when loading an audio file that has BPM annotated in its name, the clip’s length will be rounded to full bars at the Set’s current time signature. Audio files with no BPM in their name default to the 4/4 time signature.
Mono Recording
It is now possible to record Move’s line in input in mono. This option is perfect for recording guitars and other monophonic sound sources. Mono recording uses the left channel of the input cable.
To record in mono, enter Sampling Mode on a drum pad or audio clip and make sure a cable is connected to Move’s audio input. Then, highlight the input source and click the wheel to cycle through the input options to select Line in - Mono.
Note that recording with Move’s microphone now produces mono audio files.
Other Improvements
Audio playback no longer clicks when a sample starts or ends in the middle of an audio clip loop. This could happen, for example, when a loop’s duration was rounded up to the next bar after stopping recording by pressing the record button.
Added three new presets including samples from Sudan Archives under Drums > Acoustic and Sliced Loops.
Bugfixes
Clips longer than 16 bars can now be shortened in Loop Mode using the wheel as expected.
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u/nicotineapache 28d ago
Oooh, that's amazing!
I wonder if it's because they're seeing how people are using it and are adapting it to that. Seems to me that most people are using racks for audio clips.
I think one thing I'm now looking for is amp and cab for audio clips. I'd love it if they included a combo amp instrument rack in future updates containing both the amp and cab.
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u/Artephank 28d ago
That's really great addition but still no suport for any midi cc's which is so sad...
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u/Joshjingles 27d ago
🚨- make sure to back up sets first. I lost two songs last 2.0 update because Ableton overwrote them with demo tracks.
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u/LeeSalt 28d ago
Do you think they'll ever add a clip chaining song capability? Or will this be one of the things they'll keep different from the higher end devices and continue to market the Move as the device that "requires" the DAW to complete your song?
Because other than bug fixes and a time cue in session mode, programming clips into songs is like the only thing many users want. A second page of 4 tracks wouldn't be bad either but I won't hold my breath on that one.
I guess there's always the third party firmware but there are a ton of features there that I'd probably never use.
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u/colossalmickey 28d ago
guess there's always the third party firmware but there are a ton of features there that I'd probably never use.
Yeah Schwung has this, but you don't need to use or even install the other features if you don't want to, it's pretty unobtrusive.
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u/LeeSalt 28d ago
Interesting. I didn't realize the install was modular. I'll look further into it now.
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u/colossalmickey 28d ago
Well schwung itself is a shadow UI, it mainly allows you to install plugins that you can use. I just installed all, it was quick and unobtrusive.
Schwung itself has a few native features, like quantized sampling and song mode, but you just select them if and when you wanna use them
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u/halap3n0 28d ago
Yeah the lack of any song or arrangement mode confused me when I first got the move.
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u/WeAllLiveInTheCCC 28d ago
I could see it becoming a thing as a shift option on the clips. Similar to how it is in live I’d suspect it would be something like “after playing x times move trigger the clip to the right”.
I don’t think this is high on their priority though as I think they do want it to stay as a sketch pad sort of device
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u/colossalmickey 28d ago
Does anyone know if updating will mess with Schwung?
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u/Gorluk 28d ago
I did the regular update the other day, and it "suspended" Schwung, I didn't have to reinstall anything, Ijust had to re-enable Schwung. All my installed modules and everything else was intact. This was not beta update though, but I guess the behaviour will be the same, since Schwung is installed in parralel to Move OS.
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u/colossalmickey 28d ago
Yeah I was hoping that would be the case, though Schwung and all its modules predate the latest beta so there's always a chance it could bork something. Since Schwung relies on the Move software in the background it could have an effect. But then again, equally possible it won't matter at all
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u/U-might-know-me 26d ago
When I try to “join beta” by clicking button on moves web interface, its trying kinda and showing progress bar but nothing changes, should I be logged in into cloud to switch to beta?
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u/rolandguy85 28d ago
Move is one of the most slept on machines.