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.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1999

Headcount

800

Headquarters

Germany

Primary Segment

Audio

Ownership

Privately Owned

News Summary:

On September 7, 2026, Astra became useful for music development, allowing users to express ideas as MIDI melodies, sequencer code, arrangements within Ableton Live, or as a production brief for an audio-generation service.

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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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Sep

16th

2026

06:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Machinedrum: Planting Seeds

Travis Stewart's musical education began not in a studio but in front of a CRT monitor, transcribing MIDI note-by-note to reverse-engineer tracks by the likes of Moby and Skinny Puppy. That obsessive, self-taught apprenticeship deepened when he discovered Impulse Tracker, the free DOS-based software that enabled him to peer inside other producers' songs and swap files through IRC's #trax channel community.

Sep

8th

2026

06:30

Cinna Peyghamy: Tombak To The Future

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Sep

7th

2026

18:36

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

6 Astra Music Guide: Ableton Live, MIDI & AI Tools

Astra becomes useful for music when you give it an idea worth developing and an editable way to express it. That might mean a melody as MIDI, a sequencer written in code, an arrangement inside Ableton Live, or a production brief for an audio-generation service.

Sep

3rd

2026

06:30

Management Changes, B2B Tag, Management Changes

New CEO at Making Music

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Sep

2nd

2026

06:30

Ital Tek: Chasing Accidents

Alan Myson has spent the better part of two decades building intricate structures out of dubstep's rubble, footwork's restlessness and the cinematic dread that's become Ital Tek’s signature sound. However, on his eighth album, Mind Abandon, he's stepped onto a new path by side-stepping the computer as his starting point and picking up a guitar, a microphone or whatever was close enough to hand.

Aug

25th

2026

06:30

Sudan Archives: Vintage Strings, Modern Gadgets

Ask Brittney Parks where dance music begins, and she won’t start with electronic music, she’ll start with fiddle culture. The Cincinnati-born violinist, singer and songwriter – better known as Sudan Archives – has built her career by challenging assumptions about the violin; combining traditional string techniques with dance, R&B and experimental pop.

Aug

19th

2026

04:29

How to Remove Vocals in Ableton Live: Best Ways for 2026

Removing vocals from a track inside Ableton Live used to mean bouncing audio out, running it through an external app, and dragging it back in, breaking your flow every time. That's no longer the only option.

Aug

6th

2026

02:30

Ableton Push Hack: Videos, MIDI Takeover, and a Custom UI on the Push 3, No Ableton Blessing Required

Federico Pepe Opens Up the Display, MIDI, File System, and LEDs for Custom Mods Federico Pepe just released Ableton Push Hack, a project that opens up access to the Push 3 Standalone that Ableton never officially intended.

Aug

3rd

2026

08:29

Push Hack, very unauthorized access to Push 3's display, files, MIDI, and more

If you don’t like unauthorized hacking, this isn’t for you. If you don’t like things built with AI-assisted coding agents, this isn’t for you. But if you’re up for a very unofficial hack that gives you full takeover access to Push 3’s display, drives, MIDI, and more, Federico Pepe has just unveiled Push Hack.

Create Digital Music

Jul

29th

2026

15:32

Product Updates

DeafMan transforms Ableton Live with custom color, editor

DeafMan’s creations for Ableton Live have evolved from a selection of cool retro themes to a vast library of complete color makeovers — a “visual system.” And there’s an insanely powerful new editor for managing themes, tweaking colors, creating customizations, and assigning color to tracks.

Create Digital Music

Jul

29th

2026

06:30

B2B Tag, New Offerings

Late Bush: Breaking and Remaking Baroque

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Jul

21st

2026

06:30

Horse Lords: Inside Their Microtonal Universe

Sixteen years on from their formation, and with three-quarters of the band now living across the ocean in Germany, Baltimore quartet Horse Lords remain tethered to something that resists the distance between them. Formed by Owen Gardner, Max Eilbacher and Sam Haberman prior to the addition of saxophonist Andrew Bernstein, the quartet grew from the ashes of experimental collective Teeth Mountain to quickly transcend the conventions of noise rock.

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