Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Ableton Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering. It is also used by DJs, as it offers a suite of controls for beatmatching, crossfading, and other different effects used by turntablists, and was one of the first music applications to automatically beatmatch songs. Live is available directly from Ableton in three editions: Intro (with limited key features), Standard, and Suite.[3] Ableton also make a fourth version, Lite, with similar limitations to Intro. It is only available bundled with a range of music production hardware, including MIDI controllers and audio interfaces.[4]
Ableton Live was created by Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke and Bernd Roggendorf in the mid-1990s.[5] Henke left Ableton in 2016 to concentrate on Monolake.[5] Behles and Henke met while studying programming at the Technical University of Berlin, and wrote software in the music programming language Max to perform techno as their band Monolake. Henke and Behles identified a need in Berlin's electronic music scene for user-friendly software for live performances, and worked with local acts to develop it.[5] Though Live was not developed in Max, Max was used to prototype most of its features.[6]
Ableton Live 10 Suite
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Live expanded to become a digital audio workstation (DAW) with a MIDI sequencer and support for virtual studio technology (VST).[6] In 2010, Ableton introduced Max for Live, enabling connectivity between Max and Live.[6] Live made it easier for musicians to use computers as instruments in live performance without programming their own software, influencing the rise of global festival culture in the 2000s.[5]
Much of Live's interface comes from being designed for use in live performance, as well as for production.[28] There are few pop up messages or dialogs. Portions of the interface are hidden and shown based on arrows which may be clicked to show or hide a certain segment (e.g. to hide the instrument/effect list or to show or hide the help box). 2ff7e9595c
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