
Though Live was not developed in Max, Max was used to prototype most of its features.
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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. 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 left Ableton in 2016 to concentrate on his artistic project Monolake. Live was created by Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke and Bernd Roggendorf in the mid-1990s. History Ableton Live co-creator Robert Henke Ībleton has also made a fourth version of Live, Lite, with similar limitations to Intro, which is only available bundled with a range of music production hardware, including MIDI controllers and audio interfaces.

Suite includes Max for Live functionality, made possible in partnership with Cycling '74. Live is available directly from Ableton in three editions: Intro (with limited key features), Standard, and Suite (with the most features).

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. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering. A screenshot of Ableton Live 9 running on a Windows operating system, with a project open in Arrangement ViewĪbleton Live, also known as Live or sometimes colloquially as "Ableton", is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton.
