


Though Live was not developed in Max, Max was used to prototype most of its features. Henke and Behles identified a need in Berlin's electronic music scene for user-friendly software for live performances, and worked with local acts to develop it.

Behles and Henke met while studying programming at the Technical University of Berlin, and wrote software in the music programming language Max to perform techno as their band Monolake. Henke left Ableton in 2016 to concentrate on Monolake. Ableton Live was created by Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke and Bernd Roggendorf in the mid-1990s.
