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Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp
34•bschoepke•2h ago

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bschoepke•2h ago
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 too quickly), give them a little more length

add some dynamics, the song is basically one volume. and some pumping side chain

improve dynamics of the clap, seems a bit flat and indistinguished, want it harder after the 3-2-1 drop

introduce a new element on a new track after the 3-2-1 drop, that comes in but then recedes before the final exit

doesn't seem like the new thing has any notes

the element is a bit muddy/indistinct. perhaps it needs simplification and more space, different instrument choice, i dunno

wartywhoa23•1h ago
> Ever wanted to control Ableton with just your voice?

Never.

deng•1h ago
> should be a real edm banger

I'm afraid Codex ignored that one.

markalby•1h ago
is this using M4L or the LOM ?
fassssst•1h ago
Object model
windowliker•1h ago
For me, the point of making music is making it myself. If want to have something done for me I could just play someone else's record and pretend like I made it.
plastic-enjoyer•42m ago
Welcome to the era of instant gratification.
brookst•31m ago
The is the age-old music parochial thing. "Oh, he's just in a cover band, he doesn't write anything" / "Oh, she's just a composer, she can't even play the stuff she writes" / "Oh, he writes and plays his own stuff but knows fuck all about theory so it's not real music" / etc.

Me, I'm having a blast with claude code, MCP, and Ableton. I'm directing harmony and asking for arrangements and variations in rhythm, mixing, and production. Don't know if that counts as "making it myself", but then I was writing music before I could actually play any instrument at all, so :shrug:

brandonb•10m ago
Previous generations might have said the same thing about Ableton itself, vs playing a physical instrument. In that regard, AI might become just another power tool for creative expression.
robotswantdata•37m ago
If you’ve gone to the trouble of setting up Ableton MCP, you’ve already worked harder than Suno requires to make a banger
dyauspitr•18m ago
Honestly, music generation is solved. You don’t have fine control at this point but people are unable to tell the difference anymore. There are tons of YouTube videos with blind tests between real artists and AI and people have no idea.

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