An Ableton Link session does not require Ableton Live to be part of it

The name ‘Ableton Link’ leads many people to assume a synced session must include Ableton Live. The article states plainly that you might not use Ableton Live at all — a session could be multiple visual machines, or Reason, or a mobile app. Any Link-enabled app can participate and share the same tempo and beat position, so a rig can be built entirely from VJ apps plus Reason with no Ableton Live present. Correcting this belief matters when planning a multi-device AV rig: no single vendor’s software is mandatory, and no machine is a required ‘master’.

Examples

Two VJs on CoGe and VDMX plus a musician on Reason, all in one Link session with no Ableton Live running. Or one CoGe instance driving two projectors across two licensed computers in the same session.

Assessment

True or false: an Ableton Link session must contain at least one copy of Ableton Live. Justify from what the article says, and describe a valid session that contains no Ableton products.