Ableton

Ableton

http://www.ableton.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ableton/

Privately owned Ableton, headquartered in Germany, was founded in 1999 and has approximately 780 employees. The company reported $91.4M in revenue as of 2024. Ableton specializes in music production tools, with its flagship product being Ableton Live. The company also produces a collection of related instruments and sample libraries, alongside its hardware controller, Ableton Push.

Revenue

Founded

1999

Headcount

800

Headquarters

Germany

Primary Segment

Audio

Ownership

Privately Owned

News Summary:

Ableton soft-launched "Ableton Learn" on July 7, 2026, an educational platform offering lessons for music and production beginners, featuring interactive elements powered by the same engine used in Ableton Move and Note. Earlier in July, the company provided new resources, including a beginner's guide to generating techno drum patterns with MIDI tools on July 3, 2026, and featured producer Galcher Lustwerk in its "Input / Output" series, where artists demonstrate music creation with Ableton tools. Previously, on June 17, 2026, Ableton highlighted recent updates to several of its built-in effects, such as Auto Filter, Chorus-Ensemble, Erosion, Phaser-Flanger, and Saturator, discussing changes and underrated features with DJ and producer Eluize. This followed a feature on June 15, 2026, of "warpradius," a Max for Live device by Jon Doe One, which transforms the Ableton Push 3 grid into a single expressive percussion surface.

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Ableton's revenues were less than $250M in 2024. All the revenue comes from digital audio workstations (DAWS).

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Jul

21st

2026

06:30

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Jul

17th

2026

12:38

New Offerings, B2B Tag, New Offerings

This free Ableton Extension slices up chunks of audio for Move, Live

MID continues to make cool stuff for Ableton Live, with a special emphasis on Ableton Move. Ever wished you could quickly chop up a track or other longer material into bar-aligned loops — especially for easy triggering on Move? Move Loop Slicer does just that, and it’s free now.

Create Digital Music

Jul

15th

2026

13:26

B2B Tag, Product Updates

Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially

Finally, proof that there’s life for Live after Apple and Microsoft. It’s unofficial and totally unsupported, but a set of patches for the free Wine compatibility environment lets you run Ableton Live 12, Max for Live, and Push 2 and Push 3 on Linux.

Create Digital Music

Jul

15th

2026

06:30

Input / Output: Noémi Büchi

Input / Output is a semi-regular series where artists show how they make music using Ableton Live, Push, Move, or Note, and share easy-to-follow tips and a free download. Swiss-French artist Noémi Büchi operates at the crossroads of pop, orchestral romanticism and the world of soundtracks.

Jul

7th

2026

08:27

New Offerings, Emerging Tech, New Offerings

Ableton quietly launched Learn, powered by the engine from Note, Move

School’s out for summer. But Ableton’s getting ready for back-to-school, soft-launching Ableton Learn with lessons for starting from the beginning with music and production. And there’s a twist: its interactive features are powered by the same engine that Ableton Move and Note use.

Create Digital Music

Jul

3rd

2026

08:25

A Beginner’s Guide to Generating Techno Drum Patterns

Check out this beginner’s guide to techno drums: generate grooves, patterns, and fills with MIDI tools like Rhythm and Seed, cycle through drum kits with Similarity Search, and add stereo movement with Simpler’s built-in panning tools.

Jul

3rd

2026

01:00

Input / Output: Galcher Lustwerk

Input / Output is a semi-regular series where artists show how they make music using Ableton Live, Push, Move, or Note, and share easy-to-follow tips and a free download. Galcher Lustwerk is a Cleveland-born, New York–based producer, DJ, and vocalist whose fusion of deep house, hip-house, and atmospheric rap has made him a distinctive voice in contemporary underground electronic music.

Jun

17th

2026

09:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Ableton effects keep getting better – Eluize breaks it down

With a slew of Ableton’s built-in effects recently updated – Auto Filter, Chorus-Ensemble, Erosion, Phaser-Flanger and Saturator among them – we asked DJ, producer, musician and Ableton Certified Trainer Eluize what’s changed, what’s underrated, and what she reaches for.

Mixdown Magazine

Jun

15th

2026

11:11

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Turn Ableton Push 3 into a single expressive percussive surface, free

The most exciting add-on for Ableton Live this spring for me is actually not an Ableton Extension. It’s warpradius, a Max for Live device by Jon Doe One that transforms the entire grid into a single expressive percussion surface.

Create Digital Music

Jun

15th

2026

01:00

Mac App Fixes Two Ableton Live Gripes

US Trigger maps any key or MIDI note/CC to any Live command and more 15/06/26 The developer of Trigger describes it as a small Mac app that fixes two long-standing Ableton Live gripes: you can't reassign its keyboard shortcuts, and there's no clean way to fire Live commands from a MIDI note or pad.

Jun

12th

2026

13:59

New Offerings, Emerging Tech

There are already some great uses of Ableton Extensions, and more coming

The Ableton Extension SDK has only just been launched to the public, but there are already plenty of useful and fun Extensions to try right away. And that means even before you try hand-coding or vibe-coding your own, you might already find a reason to grab the beta and start extending.

Create Digital Music

Jun

12th

2026

03:02

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

7 best Ableton Live extensions available right now

Ableton Live 12.4.5 introduced a new extension system that lets developers build and install custom tools directly into the DAW — no Max for Live licence required, no workarounds. Since the beta opened, a wave of community-built extensions has arrived, covering everything from extreme audio manipulation to session cleanup and AI-powered MIDI transcription.

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