Finally a sensible groovebox that dials down the quirkiness and dials up the usefulness without any stupid limitations (like no battery, no mic, limited polyphony, no screen, weird controls, etc.).
@@psydelik1 any hardware is going to make compromises in order to stay affordable. At this price point it competes with the Circuit, which also has four tracks but much less flexibility for composition.
I’m way more excited for this than I thought I would be. It’s going to be really fun to take a piece of Ableton out into places that inspire and see what materializes ❤
@@danpreston564 True, but yet a bit strange to think that adding icons to buttons that have only one function is nice UI design. But finding it acceptable that you need touch every encoder for the first 2 months to find out what function is behind it… just my 2 cents :)
@@-ukiyo I like the way they light up to show what you can be using at that moment. Lit up buttons are much easier to see, especially at my age with my eyesight.
I actually really like it. It seems incredibly intuitive, and looks fun to use. Seems like the perfect mix of features to be creative without being too much, and a great place to just noodle with some sounds before moving them over to the DAW.
I have nothing to say but respect. When I heard 4 tracks I was put off but when I realised it could be 4 x 8 voices drumracks with 4 minutes per pad I was sold... TAKE MY MONEY!
@@squarelanguage you can warp samples in the sampler in Ableton so guess they should somehow be syncable too. And with the loop option could be a sick 4 x 16 live launch controller
Thanks for this Nick and team, look forward to hearing the thoughts on the live show tomorrow. It looks like a great device for producers on the move, who like to kick off ideas anywhere. Re-sampling the output into a pad, in order to 'bounce' track(s), looks helpful to free up the four track constraint.
@@mklschwrtz2 the biggest comparison to me with the ko2 is that this one has resampling, and exports full projects, not just audio into Ableton. I would love to see how well the two units sync and play together.
@@okaytony1540 Yeah that would be interesting aswell! We're starting to get some nice grooveboxes in this segment and it would be cool to see how well they get along!
I already have a powerful sketch pad with me at all times: My phone. I barely ever use it to make music on the bus though, so I highly doubt that Move would ever leave my room.
It is quite interesting, but at 450€ having only 4 tracks is a let-down IMO, also it could have some audio tracks for simple recording a vocal, an acoustic guitar or something like it. Personally, I would love to be able to record an electric guitar/bass on it. Bluetooth or SD cards could be useful too. I wonder if they plan to update it with more instruments and fx. It don't seems to share the upgradability/repairability they professed for Push 3?
"The size and the ability to use it as a controller or synth in standalone mode is just perfect for me. Since I travel a lot, it was always difficult with the Push 3 Standalone - it was simply too big and too heavy."
I was worried about the 4 tracks and hoping for 8 but after this demonstration it seems okay and gona take some getting used to making tracks like back in the 90"s. Just drums, bass , vocals, and maybe keys and some post production later on the computer. Am sold.
It's coming down the road, these are all the things they are adding to Note/Move (guessing in order of release) This is from one of the Note OS Devs: Sequencing Notes Audio Tracks AUv3 Chord Tools More FX Time Signatures Slicing Separately we're tracking pain points: Sample Editing Bluetooth Audio Note Grid/Sequencing Sample Import Capture
I use my Push 3 on the go all the time so it would be nice to have something in a smaller factor. The Push 3 fits in my backpack but it's pretty weighty in standalone guise!
The ergonomics of this look fabulous, I really like that there are pads and step sequence buttons, and not “you must flip between the one and the other” (Roland MC-101) “there are only 7 melodic buttons” (Seqtrak) “you must cursor/ increment buttons for both time and pitch” (Polyend Tracker MIni).
What's lite about it? This seems mostly more powerful than the circuit to me (circuit may have a little more synth engine customization going on, and has the midi out).
27:55 just to make sure I got this right: you can save only 8 sets and need to pay for a cloud service if you want more? What happened to "connect with with a damn cable"?
Decent sample memory/time, intuitive looking interface. Now curious about real-time MIDI recording from an external keyboard and polyphony per part (not sure if it was mentioned in the video - but not specified on the website currently). Possibly a replacement for the SH4D that I already moved on.
very cool workflow, only thing is, from what I got you can't import your own existing drumracks or even your own Drift sounds to Move, hope they address that
you can import drum racks they said in a video. i think they're working on importing drift presets. i hope they keep adding the ability to use more devices too
When comparing to Push, how would you describe it? Is it "Push Lite"? Is Live Standard edition enough to work on the set created on Move (including its instruments) or Suite edition is required?
Really want to know about actual synthesis on this thing. Can you load Drift and Wavetable patches made on your computer? Can you access all the synth parameters or not? Can you save your own patches? Will future additions to Move (like additional instruments) cost more money? And most importantly--will my favorite device--shifter--will that effect get added?
Wait, no proper Midi-Out... what kind of devices it suppose to work with? Do you guys know any gear that recieve midi clock by usb-midi? I have fair share of synths and none of them have this functionality...
I find it much more interesting than I thought I would. 4 tracks is 😞 but resampling and (hopefully, eventually) importing your own drum racks is 🙂. Would need a chopping and probability stuff demo - actually just send Ned Rush one and I'll decide after he breaks the universe with it! At €110 per track, please can we have M4L device support? Thanks Nick!
I would say it’s an amazing modern version of the novation circuit. I can’t think off the top of my head any other groovebox in this price range with so much polyphony. And 256 steps worth of sequencer!
Wait a few months and you can get one of these used too. How much is a new digitakt? Wait another year and you can get the v2 version for same price, and this version for half price 🙃
As a circuit user, from what I can see, this looks like a significant upgrade to me, if it works like it promises. The circuit tracks is limited to 32 steps per clip and doesn't have looping controls like this. You're also forced to use two synth tracks and two sample tracks. It's also only $50 more than a Tracks. I think it's pretty compelling.
Great video and overview. Really like what Ableton has come up with here, and makes a lot of sense to me. Kudos to Johannes and Brian for the walkthrough as well, these are an art form and often nerve-wracking! Cheers Nick & team!
These are the best kind of videos to showcase new gear. Ableton really needs to stop with all the cinematic hipster fashion shoots and just get real people talking about the product.
Would love to know more about the ability to use it as a regular drum pad on any daws , do we switch to live mode or do we have a midi mode with an editor or some ? Great review as usual ! Can we have 4 drums track ? or it's each track one type of sound generator ?
Sigh. Not surprised, so can't really call it disappointing... But just _sigh..._ I suppose it's their deranged way of admitting; they charge way too much for the Push 3. But rather than fix it, they just compound the issue.
I like it. The workflow seems much more up my alley. One of the things I really don't like about the Push3 is the menu heavy workflow, it just seems to kill all the momentum for me so I've been making sketches on my MC101 and the exporting it to Ableton later. The price is about the same as the MC101 but so far the workflow seems much nicer.
Ha! Well I’ll be… a year ago I commented on your Push standalone vid that I’d prefer a 4x8 pad version and this is…. Almost it - need to know if it’s possible to chop up a break. Happy to do it by ear with the knobs, less screen can make it more intuitive once you get to know it. Would also want probability/midi effects. Only two audio effects per track is a bit sad though.
all I want to know is can I use it as a controller for analog synths/drum machines? But if it is not possible to use it as a controller for ableton maybe is not worth it....
I’d actually like this as a smaller desktop controller for Live. I don’t think you can run this mode over WI-FI though? Still, pretty useful over USB and cool for getting ideas going. Great presentation, cheers
Been looking for a mini controller for live on my MacBook Air, was gonna go launch key mini 25 mk4 but this looks like a better option for me, albeit a little more expensive
Ableton has a real hit on their hands with this one. Great strategy to get people into the whole ecosystem. The comparison with the circuit is pretty laughable. The cloud feature, and the controller mode is setting this worlds apart, and the price is very competitive.
At this price point, I could see me getting a Roland SP404 Mk2 instead. If you want Ableton Live portability, get a small laptop and controller. My solution for “sketches” is Cubasis on an iPad Pro.
As an Ableton Live suite owner, I have 0 interest in this and I am glad that 12.1 is finally out. I hope this sells well and generates more money for Ableton to keep developing the software. As an MPC Live mk1 owner, I have no idea why someone would splash out used MPC Live 1 prices for something so incredibly limited...but like I said, I hope this is a marketing success for the company.
Shame it's only 4 tracks that's pretty useless. I wish they would have just done something like the novation launchpad mini but with features of this. Also the price is high for what your getting a little more and you can get a MPC one and run that of a power bank if needed.
I got no sense of the sequencer; can it do different lengths? speed? chance? random velocity? really not vibing with the whole preset machine thing; it's a bit weird to not have full access to at least one synth. hopefully you can create custom presets with your favorite sounds and synth presets. what about the arpegiator? I'm super interested in the controller mode but we got 30 seconds on it and that's all, why does nobody want to show it more in depth? Mostly I want to know if you can scroll through parameter banks easily (and even if you can see the bank names on top of the name of each parameter) and how the sequencer work. If anyone reads this at ableton I'd really like just a remote controller in this form factor; with maybe the screen of the push; but weirdly nobody seem to want to make such a device (novation?)
Can it do pulse width modulation? Asking for a host
Damn, I knew there was something we forgot to check😉
@@sonicstate ahaha, classic
Drift -> Square Wave -> Shape
@@sonicstate 🤣
That was funny the first 100 times someone posted it 😊
Finally a sensible groovebox that dials down the quirkiness and dials up the usefulness without any stupid limitations (like no battery, no mic, limited polyphony, no screen, weird controls, etc.).
A rational take on ableton hardware, like finding a unicorn
thanks for unlimited 4 tracks
@@psydelik1 any hardware is going to make compromises in order to stay affordable. At this price point it competes with the Circuit, which also has four tracks but much less flexibility for composition.
It seems the Novation Circuits were a great inspiration for this device.
I’m way more excited for this than I thought I would be. It’s going to be really fun to take a piece of Ableton out into places that inspire and see what materializes ❤
I really like the icons that light up below the step buttons. Really nice bit of UI design.
@@danpreston564 as long as you can remember the function of the 8 knobs … for every device …
@@-ukiyo if you use it enough it will become second nature, like all hardware does.
@@danpreston564 True, but yet a bit strange to think that adding icons to buttons that have only one function is nice UI design. But finding it acceptable that you need touch every encoder for the first 2 months to find out what function is behind it… just my 2 cents :)
@@-ukiyo I like the way they light up to show what you can be using at that moment. Lit up buttons are much easier to see, especially at my age with my eyesight.
@@-ukiyo they'll be displayed on the screen when you touch them (the knobs are touch sensitive apparently)
Hello and velcome to Bad Gear!
Florian’s jams on this thing are going to be fire, though!
I actually really like it. It seems incredibly intuitive, and looks fun to use. Seems like the perfect mix of features to be creative without being too much, and a great place to just noodle with some sounds before moving them over to the DAW.
the thing after which you will have even more unfinished demos
So I think Brian summarized the essence of the Move: it's enough to make a sketch
Yup.. another procrastination machine 😅
@@jm6734 Exactly
Yes but one of the best things about it is how easy it is to upload your sketch into live to work with, through the cloud & it appears as a live set.
@@nrosko Wow, the cloud.
@@keg3212 😂
I have nothing to say but respect. When I heard 4 tracks I was put off but when I realised it could be 4 x 8 voices drumracks with 4 minutes per pad I was sold... TAKE MY MONEY!
Yeah seems useful to put recorded stems in the drum tracks, though guessing they don’t time stretch
@@squarelanguage you can warp samples in the sampler in Ableton so guess they should somehow be syncable too. And with the loop option could be a sick 4 x 16 live launch controller
Nick:Could you do this?
Ableton Guy:Yes I could, but I'm just going to stick to the script of my presentation.
Please stop interrupting me.
Its a little crazy to me they didnt use the same pads as the push3.
Only having pressure vs full "3D" of push3 feels like a real missed opportunity.
@@jparty do you want to pay 1000 for it?
With all of that, you'd have no place else to move 2
Glad Nick got in on the act
No bullshit😂
MPC and FL Studio guy here….this looks awesome.
Fun video to watch. Thanks for doing this Nick!
intriguing product at a reasonable price, congrats to ableton on the launch and thanks to sonicstate for another great video.
wow 🤩 great device for ideas..Love it! Goosebumps at the end. Well played. 🔥🔥🔥
I don't get the tiny display. Would it hurt them to include a display showing all 8 knobs parameters? I hate this kinda stuff.
Added cost.
Thanks for this Nick and team, look forward to hearing the thoughts on the live show tomorrow. It looks like a great device for producers on the move, who like to kick off ideas anywhere. Re-sampling the output into a pad, in order to 'bounce' track(s), looks helpful to free up the four track constraint.
I really want a comparison between this, the Yamaha Seqtrak, TE PO-133 K.O II and maybe Roland MC-101. Would be a really interesting video!
@@mklschwrtz2 the biggest comparison to me with the ko2 is that this one has resampling, and exports full projects, not just audio into Ableton.
I would love to see how well the two units sync and play together.
@@okaytony1540 Yeah that would be interesting aswell! We're starting to get some nice grooveboxes in this segment and it would be cool to see how well they get along!
I already have a powerful sketch pad with me at all times: My phone. I barely ever use it to make music on the bus though, so I highly doubt that Move would ever leave my room.
Very insightful. We are all better for you sharing your opinion and experience.
It is quite interesting, but at 450€ having only 4 tracks is a let-down IMO, also it could have some audio tracks for simple recording a vocal, an acoustic guitar or something like it. Personally, I would love to be able to record an electric guitar/bass on it.
Bluetooth or SD cards could be useful too.
I wonder if they plan to update it with more instruments and fx.
It don't seems to share the upgradability/repairability they professed for Push 3?
4 tracks that can all be drum rack. 4 x 16 sequencers.
Education is fundamental.
@@milk_bath that wont give me 64 synths...
"The size and the ability to use it as a controller or synth in standalone mode is just perfect for me. Since I travel a lot, it was always difficult with the Push 3 Standalone - it was simply too big and too heavy."
"I struggle to hold an item that weighs more than a loaf of bread"
I was worried about the 4 tracks and hoping for 8 but after this demonstration it seems okay and gona take some getting used to making tracks like back in the 90"s. Just drums, bass , vocals, and maybe keys and some post production later on the computer. Am sold.
Sure they could up this to 8 tracks with a software update, 4 tracks really isn't enough.
My big question is can it chop samples with simpler in standalone and controller mode?!
not yet it seems like but they said they have a roadmap of updates commin!
Not having simpler and sampler from the start is wild to me
Same question here, and if it can how easy is it.
Why wouldn't they add sample chop, SSD card, and arrange. Could have been a MPC Live competitor.
It's coming down the road, these are all the things they are adding to Note/Move (guessing in order of release) This is from one of the Note OS Devs:
Sequencing Notes
Audio Tracks
AUv3
Chord Tools
More FX
Time Signatures
Slicing
Separately we're tracking pain points:
Sample Editing
Bluetooth Audio
Note Grid/Sequencing
Sample Import
Capture
Beat loopop to it! Shame about the vape screen lol
Edit: I actually love it!
😜
It is small yes, but actually the workflow and UI are really nicely thought out
Vape screen 😂
Good loopop is cringe
@@sonicstateI wholeheartedly agree, just thought I have seen this before 😂
I use my Push 3 on the go all the time so it would be nice to have something in a smaller factor. The Push 3 fits in my backpack but it's pretty weighty in standalone guise!
What I wanted was between the two!
The ergonomics of this look fabulous, I really like that there are pads and step sequence buttons, and not “you must flip between the one and the other” (Roland MC-101) “there are only 7 melodic buttons” (Seqtrak) “you must cursor/ increment buttons for both time and pitch” (Polyend Tracker MIni).
. Definitely a good move to simplify the push. (KO2 was an influential device🤩)
So it’s kind of like a novation circuit lite but more expensive? :D
@@fabiantombers4966 and it has a screen
What's lite about it? This seems mostly more powerful than the circuit to me (circuit may have a little more synth engine customization going on, and has the midi out).
27:55 just to make sure I got this right: you can save only 8 sets and need to pay for a cloud service if you want more? What happened to "connect with with a damn cable"?
I think you can store unlimited locally on your laptop, it’s just the cloud storage that has a limit for free.
Decent sample memory/time, intuitive looking interface. Now curious about real-time MIDI recording from an external keyboard and polyphony per part (not sure if it was mentioned in the video - but not specified on the website currently). Possibly a replacement for the SH4D that I already moved on.
How is there not at least a midi mini jack
very cool workflow, only thing is, from what I got you can't import your own existing drumracks or even your own Drift sounds to Move, hope they address that
lol for real? This would be so stupid, would make it absolutely useless :D
you can import drum racks they said in a video. i think they're working on importing drift presets. i hope they keep adding the ability to use more devices too
Has anyone seen if there are any probability or chance functions? I couldn’t find anything about it in the UA-cam videos or the user manual.
not yet, hopefully a future update
@@Maurizio_909 highly doubt it. It’s designed to be simple and then you take the sketch into Live or Push for these features
When comparing to Push, how would you describe it? Is it "Push Lite"?
Is Live Standard edition enough to work on the set created on Move (including its instruments) or Suite edition is required?
Keen! Its growing on me the more i learn
Really want to know about actual synthesis on this thing. Can you load Drift and Wavetable patches made on your computer? Can you access all the synth parameters or not? Can you save your own patches? Will future additions to Move (like additional instruments) cost more money? And most importantly--will my favorite device--shifter--will that effect get added?
25:13 Hmmm…no time stretching yet…I will wait till it’s supported
This will be interesting in a few years after it's through it's adolescence. Until then maybe something for the kids.
Wait, no proper Midi-Out... what kind of devices it suppose to work with? Do you guys know any gear that recieve midi clock by usb-midi? I have fair share of synths and none of them have this functionality...
Any device with an USB port does it..
Also there are midi usb adapter
This is not a midi-controller
just get a usb to midi cable and it works fine
@@latenightfortunecookie it kinda could be for Ableton Live
Finally something to go toe to toe with MC-101. Wait, can you sound design on it? Also can you have different sounds per clip on the same track?
Can you build new tones from scratch using the built-in synthesizers, i.e. do sound design?
I really want to see the synthesis features as well.
I find it much more interesting than I thought I would. 4 tracks is 😞 but resampling and (hopefully, eventually) importing your own drum racks is 🙂. Would need a chopping and probability stuff demo - actually just send Ned Rush one and I'll decide after he breaks the universe with it! At €110 per track, please can we have M4L device support? Thanks Nick!
4 x 16 with drum racks.
At first glance it's ticking all the boxes
That outro jam is nice.
Amazing and sonic state is the best!!! Glad I got my Ableton tattoo years ago
Also the performer from Ableton killed it
I would say it’s an amazing modern version of the novation circuit.
I can’t think off the top of my head any other groovebox in this price range with so much polyphony.
And 256 steps worth of sequencer!
I was being skeptical when I first saw it, but the workflow is genius. I may need to write to Santa :)
The novation circuit on steroids, you were really good nick thanks
battery and mic are cool but the fact that you can get a used digitakt for the same price makes it hard to recommend
Wait a few months and you can get one of these used too. How much is a new digitakt? Wait another year and you can get the v2 version for same price, and this version for half price 🙃
No simpler and sample chopping on the unit?
Soooo they've 'invented' a novation circuit 9 years later! so edgy
I was hoping for a push standalone with more horsepower, but oh well
As a circuit user, from what I can see, this looks like a significant upgrade to me, if it works like it promises.
The circuit tracks is limited to 32 steps per clip and doesn't have looping controls like this. You're also forced to use two synth tracks and two sample tracks.
It's also only $50 more than a Tracks. I think it's pretty compelling.
we're making it more available at $449. $399 was pushing it.
Great video and overview. Really like what Ableton has come up with here, and makes a lot of sense to me. Kudos to Johannes and Brian for the walkthrough as well, these are an art form and often nerve-wracking! Cheers Nick & team!
These are the best kind of videos to showcase new gear. Ableton really needs to stop with all the cinematic hipster fashion shoots and just get real people talking about the product.
@@justinsomuch6324 you realize this is Ableton you’re talking about…
Nice thing with the functions popping up while holding shift
Would love to know more about the ability to use it as a regular drum pad on any daws , do we switch to live mode or do we have a midi mode with an editor or some ?
Great review as usual !
Can we have 4 drums track ? or it's each track one type of sound generator ?
Buying this because of this video.
This looks great and is cheaper than I would have expected for the feature set.
Is this standard usb-c audio? Can i directly sample from, say an iphone, via usb-c digitally?
@@overnightmares yes
@@michaeloliveira2013 are you sure... the manual does not say that - only audio out over usbc
Sigh. Not surprised, so can't really call it disappointing... But just _sigh..._
I suppose it's their deranged way of admitting; they charge way too much for the Push 3. But rather than fix it, they just compound the issue.
Yep
with link does that mean i can link to dj software and plug into a mixer and use in a dj set?
I like it. The workflow seems much more up my alley. One of the things I really don't like about the Push3 is the menu heavy workflow, it just seems to kill all the momentum for me so I've been making sketches on my MC101 and the exporting it to Ableton later. The price is about the same as the MC101 but so far the workflow seems much nicer.
ok this is something totally new and innovative, the power of a heavyweight Audiosoftware company in a lil hardware device.
👍Thx Nick !
💙🤍❤️
Looks great. Strange the demo chap hadn't heard of ratchets. :P
"Exactly"
Looks interesting. However, integration with Ableton Note has one major issue - it's only available for iPhone.
also iPad - it‘s not Abletons fault when Android does sloppy audio processing
They added a lot of features from akai mpc, now I just hope akai will also soon add some features from ableton, it would be a great emulation :)
Features such as?
Ha! Well I’ll be… a year ago I commented on your Push standalone vid that I’d prefer a 4x8 pad version and this is…. Almost it - need to know if it’s possible to chop up a break. Happy to do it by ear with the knobs, less screen can make it more intuitive once you get to know it. Would also want probability/midi effects. Only two audio effects per track is a bit sad though.
Great tool to separate beat ideation/ creation from producing. so important!
What I want to know, can I remove all the factory samples and put in my own.
But you only load up presets from lets say wavetable, you cant actually control the synth right?
all I want to know is can I use it as a controller for analog synths/drum machines? But if it is not possible to use it as a controller for ableton maybe is not worth it....
Maybe I missed it, does it have song mode?
The Workflow is easy. Four tracks are enough. And it is much Better than Note app on touch screen.
Can one sync it to an MC101?
So hyped!!!❤❤❤🎉
Whats the sample length limitation?
EDIT: around 18:00 they say around 4 minutes per pad stereo
Can it be used as a wireless MIDI controller for other MIDI capable apps?
@Ableton I heard iOS, can I get a confirmation this will have deep or at least basic iOS compatibility?
Can you save your tracks directly on this unit ?
I’d actually like this as a smaller desktop controller for Live. I don’t think you can run this mode over WI-FI though? Still, pretty useful over USB and cool for getting ideas going. Great presentation, cheers
I hope they add a performance mode where you can mute each drum on the left side, and each track on the right side.
Been looking for a mini controller for live on my MacBook Air, was gonna go launch key mini 25 mk4 but this looks like a better option for me, albeit a little more expensive
Will they do also the medieval version?
Shout out for bro's Earth Wind and Fire shirt
I wish they had included trs midi ports
Does it support velocity per note and probably per drum?
Can it play a sequence while you record a sample? Thanks.
Looks great!
Can you “bounce” a 4 track loop/clip to a single sample to free up the other tracks?
Whoops 26:46 already answered😅
Ableton has a real hit on their hands with this one. Great strategy to get people into the whole ecosystem. The comparison with the circuit is pretty laughable. The cloud feature, and the controller mode is setting this worlds apart, and the price is very competitive.
At this price point, I could see me getting a Roland SP404 Mk2 instead.
If you want Ableton Live portability, get a small laptop and controller.
My solution for “sketches” is Cubasis on an iPad Pro.
@matthewgaines10 Yep... Cubasis and a IPad!
@@matthewgaines10 Tried neither. Why not Logic iOS? - the subscription model?
Exactly. Who would get this over a 404?
I love my SP404 Mk2. Only thing it misses for me is filters per pad.
Yeah just use a small laptop, plus your phone as a controller
Something inside tells me that pairing Ableton Move with the Roland SH-4D would be a proper setup. No idea why...
As an Ableton Live suite owner, I have 0 interest in this and I am glad that 12.1 is finally out.
I hope this sells well and generates more money for Ableton to keep developing the software.
As an MPC Live mk1 owner, I have no idea why someone would splash out used MPC Live 1 prices for something so incredibly limited...but like I said, I hope this is a marketing success for the company.
Shame it's only 4 tracks that's pretty useless.
I wish they would have just done something like the novation launchpad mini but with features of this.
Also the price is high for what your getting a little more and you can get a MPC one and run that of a power bank if needed.
Exactly.
This is value for money!! Getting this one for the kids. Should i wait for black friday deals..hm...
I got no sense of the sequencer; can it do different lengths? speed? chance? random velocity? really not vibing with the whole preset machine thing; it's a bit weird to not have full access to at least one synth. hopefully you can create custom presets with your favorite sounds and synth presets. what about the arpegiator?
I'm super interested in the controller mode but we got 30 seconds on it and that's all, why does nobody want to show it more in depth? Mostly I want to know if you can scroll through parameter banks easily (and even if you can see the bank names on top of the name of each parameter) and how the sequencer work. If anyone reads this at ableton I'd really like just a remote controller in this form factor; with maybe the screen of the push; but weirdly nobody seem to want to make such a device (novation?)
Can I play a guitar into the line in?