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24 alternatives to Ableton Live 10.1

hardware and software for music production

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ableton Live 10.1 launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Ableton▲89
Music production software and hardware.
2015 · ableton.com · its alternatives →
2
Ableton Live MCP▲123
Ever wanted to control Ableton with just your voice? Me too! I made this MCP server so I could just ask Codex to do anything in Ableton Live for me, while I was nap-trapped by my baby. The chat messages I sent to Codex to make this: in ableton, make a self reflective song, with audio vocals (via macos say) and chip tunes and 80's drum machines. should be a real edm banger i want midi for everything but vocals please, with ableton devices. not prerendered audio for instruments needs some fills and should hit way harder after "3-2-1 i become the sound" the vocals are squished too much (read…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
3
Ableton Live 12▲8
Creative tools for music makers
2024 · ableton.com · its alternatives →
4
Ableton: Making Music▲124
A book of creative strategies for electronic music producers
2015 · makingmusic.ableton.com · its alternatives →
5
Creative Extensions for Live 10 Suite▲4
a free addition to Live 10 Suite
2018 · ableton.com · its alternatives →
6
LiveKit▲236
The open source platform for real-time communication
2021 · livekit.com · its alternatives →
7
Logic Pro X▲179
Music production. Cranked up to X.
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
Musicfy▲298
Use AI to create music with your voice
2023 · musicfy.lol · its alternatives →
9LL
Low-latency jamming over the internet▲236
2021 · sub.live · its alternatives →
10
Live Enhancement Suite for Ableton Live▲8
Ableton Live, supercharged. Now for Mac
2019 · enhancementsuite.me · its alternatives →
11
Logic Pro X▲92
Music production. Cranked up to X.
2015 · apple.com · its alternatives →
12PM
Playing music with your voice and machine learning▲92
2017 · blog.buildo.io · its alternatives →
13
Chordify▲89
Chordify is your #1 platform for chords.
2014 · chordify.net · its alternatives →
14
ChordViz▲75
Build your own music visualizer for MIDI & audio
Aug 2026 · chordviz.ca · its alternatives →
15
ABLETON TEMPLATES▲9
Produce Like The Pros with Ableton Templates
2025 · abletontemplates.co · its alternatives →
16
Max Studio Tools – C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live▲32
Max/MSP externals covering essential studio gear. Contribute to apresta/max-studio-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Live Advanced Shortcuts▲9
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Ableton Live
2024 · 3792558906491.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
18
Timbre▲78
The simple way to find live music
2014 · its alternatives →
19
Soundtrap▲86
Jam with friends
2014 · soundtrap.com · its alternatives →
20
Ableton Push 2▲6
The next generation Ableton Live controller
2015 · ableton.com · its alternatives →
21
We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS▲71
Audio player for musicians and DJs
May 2026 · advanced-research.net · its alternatives →
22
Ableton Live Redesign▲5
This is my unsolicited redesign of the Ableton Live.
2017 · nenadmilosevic.co · its alternatives →
23
max4.live▲2
Fast, fuzzy search across 8,891 Max for Live devices
Jul 2026 · max4.live · its alternatives →
24
I made tool for slicing up samples to Ableton Move presets▲50
I recently got Ableton Move and was disappointed by how difficult it was to convert samples into Move-compatible drum racks, so I made a simple CLI tool for that. I hope others find it useful, and at some point, Ableton sees the need and provides us with a built-in solution.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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