Experiments with Ableton-MCP (jhurliman.org)

There's also one for Bitwig: https://github.com/WeModulate/bitwig-mcp-server

This is super cool. Using LLMs to mix together two songs that don't belong mixed together is a great usecase.

related https://github.com/vroomai/live

Excellent! I tried to use Claude on the Ableton file format about a year ago and it left me quite frustrated -- but now I have a new reason to look at this again.

Generally, it would be nice of Ableton to release an official documentation of their API.

Excited to try batch renaming clips and batch warping in very large sets. Haven’t been able to figure out ways to automate these tedious tasks.

Awesome stuff. Seems to me like one great use case of an MCP for Ableton would be to develop muscle / workflow memory for music production workflows. Adjacently, I've started using Perplexity a bunch for this sort of thing because it indexes YouTube tutorial transcripts. Any thoughts on how to design MCPs for learning Ableton better?

Is there a FOSS version of Ableton?

This is awesome! I started experimenting with LLMs and Ableton over the break too. I used a few off the shelf VST templates to create a VST that leverages an LLM that can create LilyPond format music. This creates multi track VST output (MIDI) from the parsed LilyPond. I have a system prompt that explains LilyPond to the LLM (it already knows anyhow), and then I give it a prompt like "Megaman, 64 bars, ice man level", and it pumps out 4-5 tracks of MIDI that is just what I asked for. I get nice sheet music on top of that.

I like this because I'm really in the creative process still, it feels like a tool like "Scaler" (nice tool btw) where you're picking origin notes, but really putting the song together yourself. It can suggest "Synth Bass" but I'm the one assigning it from one of my other VSTs sounds, mixing, picking, etc.. And if all goes well playing some lead on the guitar or seaboard and then deleting it all and starting over.