Andre LouisFeb 28, 2025
#Movuary day 28: I made this in a car on the way to Belgium, and I know it's short but I didn't get more of a chance to do something epic. There's stuff I want to sample where I'm staying, including an absolutely fantastic stair banister that chimes like a bell, but that will have to be for another set. The sample was recorded from my phone playing back a youtube video, so there is that.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 1
#Movuary Day 1: Yes it's that time again, so let's get this thing going.
We start with a little idea I had the other day after upgrading the storage in my Ableton Move from 32 GB to 128 GB. I added in a handful of new samples and built a kit from Neptune drums, around which I based this groove.
Title: 'Movuary Rides Again'
Welcome to February 2026!
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 3
#Movuary Day 3: Full stop Punctuation.
Named after a conversation yesterday, and also after a weird youtube trend that gave you some... Very questionable videos if you put a single full stop in the search bar at one point.
I have wireless midi connected to my Move over a weird little device called a WIDI (Wireless to MIDI Adapter) so I used my normal keyboard to play the bass, chords and synth line, but input the drums directly on Move.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 4

#Movuary Day 4: Morning Incoherence.
When I first wrote this track some years ago, I envisaged that the refrain would be your alarm that you continued to put on snooze because you didn't feel like starting the day.
The bits in-between are your on-again off-again dreams that last for perhaps 5 minutes each.
The final motif is when you give in and get up.
In the full-length track done with a live band, it turns into a roughly 10-minute affair with multiple sections and it's pretty wild. I wish I'd gotten to make a proper music video for this but sadly not.
This is my original version for Move, but below I've linked a live version we played in Pizza Express some years ago.

Morning Incoherence Live: https://youtu.be/MMRkbHjslww

Show threadAndre LouisFeb 5
#Movuary Day 5: 'Happy to see you.'
A very short, bouncy little thing just for the sake of it.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 6
#Movuary Day 6: 'Jump the Groove.' Making Move do things that aren't just 4/4 is fun. Have to work in odd metronomic timings but I enjoy such things.
This one's a loop, so if you were to download it, it should come around seamlessly.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 7
#Movuary Day 7: 'Back In The Day.' A 90's style Jungle throwback using one of the stock Ableton Move drum loops.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 8
#Movuary Day 8: 'Holiday Time.' This was written just before I went on a cruise with my family last year and is just a short loop.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 9
#Movuary Day 9: 'A Table For Later.' Written on Dec 10 2025 just before I was going out to eat with some of my family, so I had food on the brain, specifically Indian food. That's not necessarily represented here but still.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 10
#Movuary Day 10: 'Cycle Path' which is another MIDI conversion because it was four tracks to begin with and it's fun and simple.
For conversions like this, since Move itself doesn't accept midi directly, I have to solo each track in my old MIDI sequencer QWS, and then hit record on Move and Play in QWS and hope I get them to line up. I can of course quantize after,.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 11
#Movuary Day 11: 'Purple Sofa' named after the very nice sofa @MoonCat picked out last year. It arrived while I was in #Belgium and when I came home and sat on it for the first time, this groove came into my head. It makes for a killer jam-over by the way. Sit at your instrument of choice or even just hum along, it's fun.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 12
#Movuary Day 12: 'Redacted Hatstand.' 'Redacted' is a word I'm hearing a lot of lately and I thought why not use it in a musical context for a change? What has a hatstand to do with music? Nothing, that's why it's redacted. Don't ask, I don't know.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 13
#Movuary Day 13: 'The Broken Time Machine.'
The year is... Well it was something when you left, but where you left is not where you right. You righted all wrong and now the world is upside down and confusing.
When you glance outside your protective dome you're simply floating in a void. I guess you missed your destination by not only miles, but centuries, eons, an uncountable, unfathomable amount of time.
What to do now?
Show threadOnj 🎶Feb 14

#Movuary Day 14: 'Dinky Donk On The Move' which is a recreation of a track I wrote using Geforce M-Tron Pro IV. This reboot of it was based on a slightly different version of a mostly piano-only cover created by Suno.
Seems I have to send it from this account instead of my usual because the file refuses to attach today.

Original: https://youtu.be/jlKtdm_Txj8
Suno recreation: https://youtu.be/EahnvYg9Kz4

Show threadAndre LouisFeb 15
#Movuary Day 15: 'Sample Madness' apparently created on Sunday 28 Jan 2024 before move was released to the public.
It was a day when I was going through old cassettes and wanted to sample a few random things into my Move, so that's what I did.
I also put a low-fi thing on the sample track to make it sound like 11 KHZ just because I could.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 16
#Movuary Day 16: 'What Would You Say?'
An almost instrumental rap-track with elements of 90's/2000's era vibes, a hummable melody and some melancholy.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 17
#Movuary Day 17: 'Seven Over Four' which is a 7/4 piece since Move doesn't like non-standard time signatures, just because I can.
It's always interesting to decide just how to set the metronome up on move when doing things like this. In-between time? Half-time? Double-time? Something else?
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 18
#Movuary Day 18: 'Flakstad'
which gets it's name from the day I was working on my WikiFusion addon and I could get basically every other result to work, but this one thing kept hanging up the search, and being undecided whether to show me Wikipedia or Wiktioinary entries.
I think I just mashed the keyboard and somehow came up with a word to see if it existed and 'Flakstad' was what came out. It was the absolute bane of my existence for about three hours.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 19
#Movuary Day 19: 'Angry Reggae' which is mainly called that because of the bass sound. It's like an upset buzzing box coming to eat your face.
The beat is my favourite bit of this, and I *think* the melody's fairly catchy.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 20
#Movuary Day 20: 'Dystopian Delights' which is one of the strangest things I've ever made.
Warning: It's loud, so do turn down before you play. It is anti-musical in the extreme, having nothing but random noises, twisty bits and much crazy screaming, none of it from me. It's Marmite. It makes no sense.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 21
#Movuary Day 21: 'Move It!' Based on Bop It for Nintendo Switch.
I synced the Move tempo to the track that plays when you're sitting in the menu, added some bass and drums, a bit of reverb and delay to the audio and slowed it down a little. This is really just to test the new audio track support in Move Beta 2.0. there's no use of 'Move Everything' here.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 22
#Movuary Day 22: 'Duck It'
For reasons that will be come obvious, the title is not a swearword appropriation.
This was all done with Move Everything, and captured in realtime by switchin scenes when I thought I should do so.
For the sounds I'm using an Ableton Move stock CR78 kit, the bass is Surge-XT, chords are from Osirus and the arpeggiated track is OBXD.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 23

#Movuary Day 23: 'You're A Freak' named because of one of the vocal phrases in the track.
This was first written some time in 2004 and refactored using samples from the original, plus loading the soundfont used to make it courtesy of Move Everything's SF2 loader.
Since the project is 6 tracks and I could only load 4, I loaded the bass, intro chords and the vocal track onto tracks 2, 3 and 4, then recorded the two drum tracks and second chord track from Logic and triggered them on track 1.

To record it, I used the Move Everything recorder which allows me to switch scenes in realtime. You'll hear a bum note at one point because I mashed the pads in the wrong mode, but I left it in anyway.

Show threadAndre LouisFeb 24
#Movuary Day 24: 'Radio Garden' so named after the place I got the sample from. I used Move Everything to find a station in The Congo, worked out the tempo of the song they were playing, set Move Everything's quantize sampler to record for 8 bars, put it on an audio track, sped it up, transposed it, brought in a drum loop from the Korg M1 plugin and some stock Move loops and called it a day.
All that for that, i know.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 25
#Movuary Day 25: 'Wednesday Weirdness' which is a sort of but not quite, Reggae thing with a time-stretched drum loop made soon after Move 2.0 Beta firmware came out with the ability to tempo-sync audio.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 26
#Movuary Day 26: 'Kaoss On The Move' so named because it consists of a bunch of different tracks made with the Korg iKaossilator app for iOS that I had so much fun with back in around 2010. Still a fun app to this day.
Since it supports export of it's 5 tracks to wave file and they make perfect loops, it's a great candidate for being loaded up onto Move in the new audio track mode and messed with.
I've got various loops from different projects over the years and I can seamlessly switch between them, and then jump back to a synth sound and have a bit of fun.
Recorded with the Move Everything quantize sampler option which is probably one of my new favourite things.
Show threadAndre Louis
#Movuary Day 27: 'House Move' which came into existence because I was browsing a sound from Roland's JV House expansion and found this drums +Rhodes mix I quite liked.
Feb 27 at 6:11amWeb
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 28
#Movuary Day 28: 'Time To Say Goodbye' as it's the last day of Movuary for the year.
This started life with the interesting pad sound I'd never played before. It gave me the idea to write this track in a very slow and measured cadence. We also have a relaxed drum beat, a nice sub-bass and a bell-like melody over the top.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 28
#Movuary download links, offering both last year and this year's offerings in flac.
2025: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/3nuij36hg6nwvi8f6vcq2/AHpNyeLApU5nmbqLEWVm4qM?rlkey=lyzwbjr5n7crss4an7ibus1v7&dl=0
2026: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/rf17divmut7pgvb62aegr/ADd8bblfEh0yHytrWjsql_M?rlkey=q5xv5rbrs34y4xijwa9fiee3i&dl=0
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Show threadAndre LouisMar 1
I rolled both last year and this year's #Movuary into FreakyFwoof Tracks because why not?
Show threadBorrisFeb 28
@FreakyFwoof Movuary still lives on for three more days if you're me. *sigh* I just want it to be over.
Show threadAndre LouisFeb 28
@BorrisInABox Well you could quit now easily enough.
Show threadBorrisFeb 28
@FreakyFwoof Yeah, sure I could, but I have to follow through on crap. So follow through I will.