Ableton is a privately owned company headquartered in Germany. Founded in 1999, it employs approximately 780 people and reported $75.7M in revenue as of 2023. The company specializes in music production tools, with its flagship product being Ableton Live. It also produces a collection of related instruments and sample libraries, as well as its own hardware controller Ableton Push.
A new video on ZW Buckley’s YouTube channel demonstrates creating experimental sounds using thirty instances of OTT, a multiband dynamics audio effect available in Live Standard and Suite. Earlier on March 11, Ableton Live co-creator Robert Henke released a free Max for Live device called Filter Delays, featuring three filtered delays, each with independent rhythmic timing that can be multiplied up to 32 times per delay line. Also on March 11, Dillon Bastan introduced ChatDSP, a tool that allows users to create Max for Live devices by describing their desired functionality in text, integrating AI with Max for Live. Previously, on March 4, Charles Vestal updated the Move Everything open framework for Ableton Move, adding on-device stem separation, a song mode, and expanding its capabilities with more synths, effects, and workflow features.