Start new musical ideas with a curated selection of sounds and effects

Create beats and melodic parts, sample your world, and continue your tracks in Ableton Live.

Note is a place to form ideas, explore new sounds and find direction

Get your ideas out or just experiment until inspiration hits, using a selection of Ableton Live’s drum kits, synths and melodic instruments

Create your own sound palette by sampling with your phone’s built-in microphone

And use Note’s built-in MIDI Editor to sequence notes, beats and chords or make tweaks as you listen back

Follow your ideas wherever they lead by sending your projects to Live without leaving the app with the help of Ableton Cloud

Open projects from Live’s browser and keep working – you can edit all your MIDI notes, and all your samples and sounds from Note are exactly the same

Ableton Note users get a free license for Ableton Live Lite – simple, intuitive software used by musicians, producers and DJs around the world to write, record, and perform

For Ableton Move users, Note also offers the chance to keep working on a Set from your phone.

Begin with a beat:

Choose from 76 Drum Sampler kits

Tap out a beat using the 16-pad grid, or sequence one with the MIDI Editor

Play each drum hit melodically using 16 Pitches mode

Quantize your beat or nudge notes to fix loose timing or mistakes

Add more layers of rhythm

Create beat repetitions with Note Repeat

Change parameters to shape your sound

Experiment with effects or apply swing for variations

Start with a melody:

Choose from 317 synth sounds and 60 Melodic Sampler instruments

Play or program your melody or chord progression with the 25-pad grid, piano roll or MIDI Editor

Set a key and scale to get instantly harmonic results

Add more layers of harmony

Change parameters to shape your sound

Add effects to experiment with sound design

Sample your environment:

Create your own kits by recording percussive sounds into Note’s Drum Sampler

Record tonal sounds to create your own Melodic Sampler instruments

Manipulate your samples by cutting, filtering or repitching them

Sequence samples into beats, melodies and chords using the MIDI Editor

Shape or transform your sounds with effects

Import your own samples or audio directly from videos

Capture improvisations:

Play something, then tap the Capture button to keep it

Play at a tempo that feels comfortable and Note will detect it

Note will recognize the length of the phrase and create a loop

Quantize it, add to it, or change the sound

Connect MIDI hardware to play keys and change the sound of your instruments

Create variations:

Note features a grid-based Session View layout

Double your loops to create variation within clips

Duplicate your clips and create different versions of your ideas

Add, delete or adjust multiple notes at once with the MIDI Editor

Create eight tracks with up to eight clips on eight scenes

Try different clip combinations and song structures

Export your work as an audio file to listen and share