Ableton Note vs HUMANS RADIO

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 Work with Audio • Add audio clips from the library • Warp tempo or adjust pitch of your clips • Record audio directly using your phone’s built-in microphone • Connect an audio interface to record external sources • Combine recorded and imported audio with your beats and melodies 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

Somewhere right now, a person is choosing the next record. Not a model of your listening habits. A person, with taste and a point of view, deciding what should follow what. That is the whole idea, and it is why this station exists. Nearly everything else you listen to has been arranged around you — sorted, predicted, personalised until it can only hand back a slightly different version of what you already liked. A radio station does the opposite. It plays what it plays. You are not the centre of it. You tune in, and something is already happening. Humans Radio is live twenty-four hours a day: progressive house, melodic house, techno, Afro house, put in order by residents who care where a set goes. Not a playlist on shuffle. A sequence, built by someone who knows why the third record has to be that one. And it is the same for everyone. Whoever else is listening right now is hearing exactly what you are hearing, at exactly this moment — which almost nothing is anymore. You cannot rewind it. You cannot skip it. It will not wait for you. That is not a missing feature. That is the point. Press play and you arrive mid-record, mid-set, mid-thought — the way you always have with radio, and the way you never do with anything else. THE APP • One button. The station is always live • Now playing and artwork, updated as the music changes • Keeps playing on your lock screen, through other apps, in your pocket • Reconnects on its own when the signal drops • Play joins the live broadcast — never a minute behind WHAT YOU WON'T FIND • No account. Nothing to sign up for • No advertising • No tracking, and no profile being built in the background • No algorithm quietly deciding what you are in the mood for Turn it on and leave it on. That is what a station is for. Humans Radio is operated by Humans Presents LLC.