Ableton Live was built from the ground up for the art of live electronic music performance — the clue’s in the name! Its defining innovation, Clip View, was a groundbreaking method of triggering audio and MIDI clips in real time. Arrangement View, whilst more conventional, could capture those live performances, or be used for straightforward composition and mixing.

But even after two decades of development, there’s still room to improve Live’s performance abilities. Whilst plenty of innovation comes from Ableton themselves, the integration of the Max For Live (M4L) platform has enabled users themselves to extend Live’s functionality to meet their own needs, and often the wider community’s too.