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#movuary day 12:
This is not a keygen. It is, however, a sequence I made from memory after hearing one in the early 2000s, not having heard it for years before that. I have since heard the original. I got some notes wrong, but oh well. I'm keeping it like that.
This also happens to be a variation on the Alf theme, composed by Alf Clausen. An Alf for an Alf. How convenient!

HQ download, for what it's worth: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/12…


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#Movuary day 13:
Point and Click.

This requires a bit of an explanation.

In 1998 (May 19, 1998, specifically), I downloaded some weird, not at all accessible MIDI sequencer thing. I don't remember the name of it. Seems like maybe it had the word art in it somewhere.
Anyhow, I opened it, and clicked on a bunch of unlabeled graphics with my screen reader, which produced this odd thing in E flat pentatonic major.
So, because I'm feeling very uninspired at the moment, I hooked a MIDI interface up to move, and another one to my computer, recorded this MIDI file into Move, added a drum track, and now I'm posting it here. The Melody is unedited from it's original, except for one note that I didn't like.

HQ download:
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/13…


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#Movuary day 15:
Winter Hates Your Move.

Several years ago, @FreakyFwoof showed me an advert for gillette energizing moisturiser, featuring the phrase "Winter hates your face."
Makes me laugh every time I hear it, especially the way this guy said it.

So, back in December, during a particularly cold, snowy day, I demucsed stems from it, so much as I could, and imported elements into Move to have some fun with it. This is the result.

Drums, bass, the vocal, and the mod-like power chord electric guitar all come from the original advert.

HQ download:
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/15…


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#Movuary day 16: Axel F.

In December, I had a goal to cover Harold Faltermire's Axel F for the 40th anniversary of the movie Beverly Hills Cop, which was December 5, 2024, using Ableton Move, so I did that.
Being a product of 1984 myself, it just seemed like a good idea.
At the time I did it, this was the most complicated sequence I had ever done on this little four track groovebox. Don't think that's the case anymore.
It's also a demonstration that you can really do a lot with only four tracks and a little creativity. There are lots of "but it only has four tracks" Move haters out there.

There is absolutely no way I will ever get the sounds exactly right using a tool like this. In this case, I'm aiming for close enough to be recognizable, both in terms of the sound and the sequence.

All sounds were stock, except for the kick and snare drums, which really could have been stock, but I found slightly better versions of those sounds in a sample pack and used them instead of the stock versions.

HQ download:
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/16…


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#Movuary day19: My Paradox.

I woke up this morning with the chord progression from Black Street's 'My Paradise" stuck in my head, so I moved it... kind of. It's also a good excuse to have some solo fun with a synth lead sound.

For this one, I hooked up a MIDI keyboard, though I played most of the e-piano part on the pads. I made about 90% of this sequence without using the Move's screen reader.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/19…


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#Movuary day 20: It's Thursday!

Well, yeah, but that's also the name of the track.

I woke up this morning feeling crappy, stuffy and headache-y, so I sampled a bunch of angry metal noises from a library called Black Metal, as well as a couple of Korg iKaossilator loops I made in 2016, synced using Ableton Link and sampled from my iPhone using a direct USB C connection (no external DAC), told my non-existent Sharp EL-640 to keep reminding me that it's Thursday, and made a track out of all that.

Appropriately enough, I was dealing with quite an annoying little bug in the current Move beta firmware while making this, so I was rather angry and annoyed. Totally fits.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/20…


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#Movuary day 23: Time Is Up.

Seems appropriate to post this today, though it's a thing I made back in October, then finished in November after getting my replacement Move.

I've been away from home for a little over six months, and I'm going back in a few hours, with trepidation for various reasons. Yep, time is up, indeed.

This is based around the dingdong sound from my Radio Shack Vox Clock II talking clock, and the spoken words "time is up." Also features a cheap Russian-made watch going ticktock in the background throughout much of the piece.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/23…

Edited to fix a bad note in the bass line and change some levels in the mix. Thanks for pointing that out, @FreakyFwoof


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#movuary day 24: Jazz Is Broken.

So, Onj sent me an unfinished set to play with, thus, I played with it. This originally had drums, keys, and a pluck/almost e-piano sounding thing. I added a sign wave lead and an organ, hastily recorded with my Hamond-suzuki XK-2 a few minutes before leaving for the airport, so I didn't have time to do anything truly exciting with the organ. It was a one-shot recording. Did weird broken stuff with the track, because jazz is broken.

HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/24…

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This one passed me by.

As of Ableton Move V1.3, released a few days ago, you can now sample from audio sent to the USB C port.
This is useful enough as it is stated, I.E. you can make a sound with a synth on your Mac or PC, then instantly sample it into Move without rendering and uploading a wave file, or connecting a line input and sampling it through the Move DAC.
However, for those of us who rely on accessibility, there is another hidden benefit.

Let's say you're on an airplane or something. You have an iPhone or Android with USB C, and you want to access Move Manager at move.local, so you can use the built-in web-based screen reader. Traditionally, this needs a Wi-Fi connection, but since you're on a plane, that doesn't work.
The Move's USB C port also acts as an Ethernet connection, so you can theoretically just plug your phone into USB C, then open your browser and go to move.local.
Yep, that works fine, except... oops, you're also a Voiceover/talkback/some other screen reader user, and audio gets routed away from the phone to absolutely nowhere... at least, that used to be the case.
Now, you can select USB C in the sample mode, and it will pipe audio from whatever is sent to that port to Move's built-in speakers or the headphone jack.
Thus, it's now possible for blind and visually impaired operators to use Move's screen reader when completely offline, with no way to access Wi-Fi without having to deal with a bunch of splitters, cables and mixers.
I bet they didn't even think of that use-case, but I'm happy to see it.

Since sample mode doesn't talk yet, the best way I've found to make this work is to connect your device to Move's USB C port, wait until speech goes away, press sample, then click the wheel until your device starts making noise through Move's output.
There are now three options that are toggled when clicking the wheel on the first item in sample mode.
The default is to record from Move's mic/line-in, second is resampling, and third is USB C.
The USB C option, far as I can tell, only appears when a device is connected to the USB C port.

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#Movuary day 9:
When Flipper the Dolphin (now known as Deejay Flippa) isn't saving people in the waters of the Florida Keys in the 1960s or whatever, he's in the studio making mad beats about the injustices of the world, with his man Calquale.wav from the 1995 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.

Yes, I was, in fact, rather bored a while back. Interestingly, by original Ableton Move broke while I was making this, so I didn't get to finish it until I got the replacement unit.

I have posted this before, but this is a slightly different mix with a couple of bugs fixed and new ones added.

HQ download:
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/09…


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Just got my hands on Ableton Move, absolutely outstanding piece of hardware! I'm still learning since it's literally day one of owning this thing, but I must say, this is a dream come true for me. I don't have much to share at the moment, but for anyone curious, this is my first WAV export.
By the way, I'd like to thank @FreakyFwoof for the Let's Move video and all the work on Move accessibility, as well as @BorrisInABox for organizing the #Movuary hashtag.

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For #Movuary day 5, I decided to do something a little different. Thus, Cheap Plastic Oxygene was born.
This is a cover of Oxygene, Pt. 4 (1976), using slightly tweeked stock sounds from the Move, except for the drums, which I found from a sample pack of vintage drum machines.

I ran into a whole bunch of limitations making this one. There was more I wanted to do, but I ran out of space in the clips, and didn't have any spare pads left for resampling without further compromising stuff. There are a couple of glitches, which I left in there, because imperfections FTW, or something.

With apologies to Jean-Michel Jarre for butchering his fantastic work.

HQ download:
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/05…


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#movuary day 7 isn't a track. Not exactly. It's an attempt to simulate shortwave radio conditions using a groovebox, which is, let's just say, not ideal, and certainly outside of the intended scope for such a thing. This was done by automating the parameters of a compressor, a phaser with it's frequency turned down all the way, and a couple of different high pass filters over time. The radio noise was sampled by plugging my Tecsun PL-990X shortwave radio into Move's line input, and tuning to a frequency somewhere around the 40m band with nothing going on.

I did this soon after I got my Move, but touched it up a bit since then.

HQ download:
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/07…


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For #Movuary day 2, I present yet another thing in the key of D Miner with subtractive synthesis. I promise I'm capable of doing other things in other keys.

This one is a remix, if you can call it that, of the NE S Wizards and Warriors title screen music. My uncle had this game when I was a kid, and I loved it's sound track.
Basically, I step entered the original theme, which consists of three tracks -- two pulse waves and a triangle, then had some fun with it.

HQ download:
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/02…

Original for context:
youtube.com/watch?v=ztxwMI2gaI…



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A playthrough of Acclaim's 1987 action-adventure game for the NES, Wizards & Warriors.Wizards & Warriors was the second game that Rare developed for the NES ...
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Starting off #Movuary with a thing I posted several months ago now, because it's the first thing I did with all 8 scenes in a single project.
No external samples were used, and it was made entirely on Move, with no midi keyboard tracked in from elsewhere.

A Very Hot Day (Ableton Move BGM) youtu.be/Xf6MWeqIQxo


A Very Hot Day (Ableton Move BGM)

This was started on the day that my portion of London hit 31°C, which is nothing for my US followers with your fancy AC units, but for me without any of that...
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Well, here we are, the first day of February. For every day this month, I will post a track I've produced only using the Ableton Move, each of which will be added to this thread, using the #Movuary hashtag. For those who have a Move, or the Ableton Note software for iOS, feel free to share your own creations here using the hashtag, and I will boost.

I'll start off with a little piece in D miner featuring a lot of subtractive synthesis. You'll find that I like writing in miner keys.

Anyhow, this one is called "Only the Beginning." It has a time signature/style change, one level of resampling to fit things into more than just the available four tracks, a vocal sample that says "NOOF," and so much more. What could possibly go wrong?

HQ download:
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It's quite a ways off from February, but I've decided to try a silly thing.
In 2016, I started, and didn't finish, what I called Kaosuary, where the aim was for me to make, and post, a new beat/loop made with Korg's iKAOSSILATOR app for iOS every day in February. I gave up about half way through, despite how fun that thing still is after fundamentally not really changing in almost fifteen years, because I suck at following through on things.

This february, I propose #movuary. Same idea, but this time, using the Ableton Move.

For anyone else here who has a Move, or even Ableton Note for iOS, since the stock library is the same, just with more tracks, why not join me on this adventure?

Basically, the aim is to create and post something new every day in February made with the Ableton Move or Note to the platform of your choice, and share it with the world. It can be a four bar loop, a full-on song, weird noises with household items set to a grid, whatever.

I, personally, love to see what others are doing with this awesome little groovebox.

#LetsMove or something.

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