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-====== Ableton Live ======
+====== Ableton (Link and Live File Export) ======
-Ableton Live is a DAW for macOS and Windows, however there are several connections with IOS:
+Ableton is a music software company that developed Ableton Live (a DAW for macOS and Windows), software instruments, sample libraries and hardware controllers.
+However there are several connections with IOS music making:
+  * Many IOS apps offer synchronization using the Ableton Link standard.
   * Some IOS apps offer the possibility to export into the Ableton Live format
-  * Several apps offer synchronization using the ableton link standard.
-\\
+===== Ableton Link =====
-==== Ableton Live Set (ALS) File Format ====
+From the [[https://ableton.github.io/link/|Ableton Link Documentation]]:
-The ALS file format is an XML file format (sometimes packed with ZIP) that can contain midi notes and automation data from multiple tracks.
+<html>
+<div style="margin-left:30px; width:80%;">
+<p>Ableton Link is a technology that synchronizes musical beat, tempo, phase, and start/stop commands
+across multiple applications running on one or more devices.</p>
+<p>Applications on devices connected to a local network discover each other automatically and form a
+musical session in which each participant can perform independently: anyone can start or stop while
+still staying in time. Anyone can change the tempo, the others will follow. Anyone can join or leave
+without disrupting the session.</p>
+</div>
+</html>
+\\
+There more than 150 IOS apps supporting the link sync standard.
+You can find a [[https://www.ableton.com/en/link/products/#?item_type=ios|Link-enabled Products List at Abletons website]]. The app types range from audio mixers, recorders, sequencers, drum maschines, loopers to synthesizers.
+The [[http://synthyfrog.com/technology-is-abletonlink/|Ableton Link Apps List on the Synthyfrog website]] lists about 180 apps with link support.
+===== Ableton Live Set (ALS) File Format =====
+The ALS file format is an XML file format packed with zip compression that can contain
+  * midi notes
+  * automation data
+  * sample triggers
+  * sample data (wav or aiff)
+  * plugin chain information
+  * tempo information
+for multiple instrument tracks and the master track
+\\
+The following table contains a list of apps capable of exporting ALS, the types of data thee files contain and what file extension is used.
+^Apps with ALS Export ^Midi  ^Samples ^Filetype ^Info ^
+| BeatHawk | ✘ | ✔ | .zip with //project//.als and //project//-Lite.als | |
+| BlocksWave | ✘ | ✔ | .zip with //project//.als | |
+| Elastic Drums | ✘ | ✔ | .zip with //project//.als and //project//-Lite.als | |
+| Gadget | ✔ | ✘ | .als (gzip-packed !) with //project// als-file without extension |  |
+| Groovebox | ✔ | ✘ | ? | |
+| Patterning 1 | √ | ✔ | .zip with //project//.als and //project//-Lite.als | Midi only for track #1 |
+| Patterning 2 | ✘ | ✔ | .zip with //project//.als and //project//-Lite.als |  |
+The [[https://www.ableton.com/en/live/compare-editions/#export-enabled-ios-apps|Ableton Live website]] contains a list with some more IOS apps capable of exporting ALS.
-Apps with ALS export:
+\\
-  * Gadget
-  * Groovebox
-==== Ableton Link Enabled Apps ====
+=== ALS to MIDI converter ===
-  * Audiobus
-  * AUM
-  * Gadget
+Using the Pythonista IOS python interpreter and a [[pythonista_als_to_midifile_converter|python script]] it is possible to convert the midi of the the exported ALS file into a MIDI file containing the exported tracks directly on the IOS device.
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