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title: Ableton Live
description: Ableton Live on Sarth Calhoun’s table: an endorser in the 2008 REDCAT and 2014 Asia Society programs, the DAW behind Awakening (To Blacklist), and the looper for Lucibel Crater.
url: https://www.sarth.net/devices/ableton-live/
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credit: Sarth Calhoun and Ableton Live: an endorser in the 2008 REDCAT and 2014 Asia Society programs; “Awakening (To Blacklist)” (2012) built in Live; the live looping in Lucibel Crater, 2005 to 2008, in Live.
author: Sarth Calhoun
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[Devices](/devices/) / Ableton Live

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# Ableton Live

The performance DAW. I endorsed it, built “Awakening (To Blacklist)” in it, and looped Lucibel Crater with it.

Ableton Live is a DAW that treats clips, warping, and devices as a performance instrument. Maker: Ableton AG, Berlin. [ableton.com](https://www.ableton.com/en/live/)

I was an Ableton Live endorser; the 2008 REDCAT program and the 2014 Asia Society *Sunken Cathedral* notes say so. [“Awakening (To Blacklist)”](/conspiracies/awakening-to-blacklist/), from [The Book of Sarth](/conspiracies/book-of-sarth/), was built in Live: sixty-cycle hum run through plugins until a frequency shifter became the melody. [How I did it](/transmissions/about-awakening-to-blacklist/), with the audio.

The live looping in [Lucibel Crater](/conspiracies/lucibel-crater/) was in Ableton. I recorded the loops as we played and then made an arrangement from them: play the loops, play that back, and build an arranged song out of what we had made.

On the record: The REDCAT program for the Metal Machine Trio nights, October 2008, and the [Asia Society notes](https://asiasociety.org/files/pdf/140424_bora_yoon_notes_web.pdf) for *Sunken Cathedral*, April 2014, both list Sarth Calhoun as an Ableton Live endorser. Symbolic Sound’s [Walking the road that only you can see](https://news.symbolicsound.com/2012/10/walking-the-road-that-only-you-can-see/): Continuum, Kyma and Ableton amp modelers, one take.

> It’s pretty cool because I was able to record all these loops and then do an arrangement. I’m gonna try to play the loops and then play that back and do an arranged song from the loops we had built using Ableton. I really should do an explainer video, a template, an Ableton template thing, and a whole essay about this and show how it worked ’cause it was fucking awesome.
> 
> Sarth Calhoun, September 26, 2026

## Conspiracies

[Lucibel Crater](/conspiracies/lucibel-crater/), [The Book of Sarth](/conspiracies/book-of-sarth/) and [Awakening (To Blacklist)](/conspiracies/awakening-to-blacklist/), with [the essay on how that track was made](/transmissions/about-awakening-to-blacklist/). Kyma did the processing; Live held the loops.

The credit: Sarth Calhoun and Ableton Live: an endorser in the 2008 REDCAT and 2014 Asia Society programs; “Awakening (To Blacklist)” (2012) built in Live; the live looping in Lucibel Crater, 2005 to 2008, in Live.

The entry is the one that stood on the Devices page. The Lucibel Crater looping is as I said on September 26, 2026.