Manual

This manual explains how to use Movy, chapter by chapter. If you are new, work through the Quick start first. After that, each chapter stands on its own.

Contents

1. Quick start
   • 1. Open Movy
   • 2. Load a synth
   • 3. Pick a key
   • 4. Record a part
   • 5. Add drums on Track 2
   • 6. Lock a value on one step
   • 7. Make a second scene
   • 8. There is no Save button
   • Where next
2. Tracks & sounds
   • Tracks and chains
   • The Chain view
   • Parameter pages
   • Drum modules
3. Playing the pads
   • The keyboard
   • Pad layouts
   • Full velocity
   • Drums
   • External MIDI keyboard
4. The sequencer
   • Transport
   • Entering steps
   • Recording live
   • Step recording
   • Capture: keep what you just played
   • Quantize
   • Copy and delete
   • The Clip page
   • The Set page
5. Loop view
   • The bar selector
   • The piano roll
6. Locks, automation & LFOs
   • The Step page
   • Parameter locks
   • Recording automation
   • LFOs
7. Session view & songs
   • Tracks and groups
   • Mute and solo
   • Scenes
   • Songs
8. Mixing & effects
   • Master volume
   • Track volume
   • The MIX page
   • The Session mixer
   • Send effects
   • The master chain
9. Generators
   • Choosing a take
   • The knobs
   • Smart Quantize
   • Variation
   • New Clip
   • Smart Double
   • Good to know
10. Sets, saving & undo
    • Sets
    • Work from older Movy versions and Schwung
    • Saving
    • Backups
    • Undo and redo
11. Settings & system
    • Opening and leaving Movy
    • Powering off
    • Settings
    • The CPU meter
    • The built-in speaker
    • Recording a video of your screen

What Movy is

Movy is a tool for Schwung. While it is open, it runs in place of Move's own software and takes over the whole device: pads, knobs, buttons, screen, sound, master volume and power button. Close Movy and Move comes back.

Inside Movy you work with:

• 16 tracks, arranged as four groups of four. Each track hosts its own chain of Schwung modules: a MIDI effect, a synth (or drum machine), two audio effects and a mixer strip.
• Clips of notes on each track, played by a sequencer that behaves like Move's, extended with per-step locks, probability, conditions and automation.
• A master chain with three send effects and four master effects.
• Sets: each Set is one whole project, saved automatically.

If you know Move

Movy's sequencer is deliberately close to Move's: clips, Session view, live recording with count-in, step entry, Capture, copy and delete all work the way Move's do. Ableton's Move manual is a good companion. This manual covers the same ground more briefly and spends its time on what Movy adds.

Throughout the manual, anything that works the same as on Move sits in a collapsed yellow Works like Move box. Move owners can skip those boxes; newcomers should open them, they hold the basics. Everything outside them is new in Movy or works differently.

The main differences:

• Instruments are Schwung modules, not Move's own instruments, drum racks or sampler.
• There are 16 tracks instead of 4.
• The screen keeps a module's parameters visible while you sequence. Sequencer state shows on the pads and step buttons, and in short on-screen messages.
• Extra pages Move does not have: Step, Clip and Set parameters, Settings, a CPU meter, and Movy's own Sets list.

How this manual writes controls

Written as	Means
Shift + Step 3	Hold Shift, then press Step 3.
Hold a step	Keep it pressed while you do the next thing.
Tap	A short press and release.
Touch a knob	Rest a finger on it without turning. The knobs are touch-sensitive.
Jog / jog click	Turn / press the large wheel left of the pads.
+ / −	The octave buttons (Up / Down) at the bottom right.

Button names follow the labels on Move. Note/Session is the button to the right of Back.

Not sure what the jog does?

Rest a finger on the jog wheel for about a second without turning it. A prompt at the bottom of the screen says what a click will do on this page.