Ableton
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| Type | AG |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Key people | Gerhard Behles (CEO), Bernd Roggendorf (CTO), Jan Bohl (COO/CFO) |
| Products | Ableton Live, Ableton Operator |
| Employees | ~50 |
| Subsidiaries | Ableton, Inc. (US Subsidiary) |
| Website | www.ableton.com |
Ableton is an AG company who produces music software including Ableton Live and Ableton Operator. These are used for track editing in real-time, especially for live performances. They released the sixth edition of their software, Ableton Live 6 on September 28th, 2006. Coinciding with this release was Ableton Sampler, "an advanced sound-design and sound-sculpting instrument" [1].
[edit] History
Ableton was founded in 1999 by Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke of Monolake and Bernd Roggendorf. After Behles' work on granular synthesis features for Native Instruments' Reaktor as well as earlier software using a Silicon Graphics workstation at the Technical University Berlin, Live was first released as commercial software in 2001.
Live has also spawned two supplementary products, Operator and Sampler which are used as audio synthesis instruments inside of Live. Behles remains the chief executive of Ableton, while Henke remains in a role of technical leadership and focuses on Live's included effects and instruments. Ableton's office is located in central Berlin, Germany.
Many of the effects and auxiliary instruments in Ableton Live have been prototyped in Max/MSP [1]. In March of 2007, Ableton announced it was beginning a collaboration with Cycling '74, producers of Max/MSP. This collaboration will not be directly based on Live or Max/MSP, rather will combine the two companies strengths in a new product.
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