Ableton

Ableton is a German music software company based in Berlin, with a second office in Pasadena, California. It produces and distributes Ableton Live, a program for music production and live performance, together with related instruments, sample libraries and its own hardware controller line, Ableton Push. The company was founded in 1999 by Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke, who also performed together as Monolake, and the software engineer Bernd Roggendorf, and Behles has remained its chief executive officer. Live reached the market as commercial software in 2001. Ableton later partnered with Cycling 74, the maker of Max/MSP, on Max for Live, and bought that company in 2017. Other products named in its history include the Operator synthesizer, the Move groove-box and the Note mobile app. It also licenses certified trainers and has published a book on music-making strategies by its head of documentation.