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AbletonMCP

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Control Ableton Live with AI prompts for music production, track creation, and session manipulation.

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AbletonMCP - Ableton Live Model Context Protocol Integration

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AbletonMCP connects Ableton Live to Claude AI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing Claude to directly interact with and control Ableton Live. This integration enables prompt-assisted music production, end-to-end track creation, and Live session and arrangement manipulation.

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Features

  • Two-way communication: Connect Claude AI to Ableton Live through a socket-based server
  • Track manipulation: Create, modify, and manipulate MIDI and audio tracks
  • Instrument and effect selection: Claude can access and load the right instruments, effects and sounds from Ableton's library
  • Clip creation: Create and edit MIDI clips with notes
  • Arrangement view composition: Build full songs autonomously in Arrangement View, including sections like intro, buildup, drop, breakdown, and outro
  • Session control: Start and stop playback, fire clips, and control transport across Session View and Arrangement View
  • Anonymous telemetry: Usage tracking to help improve the tool (can be disabled)

Components

The system consists of two main components:

  1. Ableton Remote Script (Ableton_Remote_Script/__init__.py): A MIDI Remote Script for Ableton Live that creates a socket server to receive and execute commands
  2. MCP Server (server.py): A Python server that implements the Model Context Protocol and connects to the Ableton Remote Script

Capabilities

  • Get session and track information
  • Create and modify MIDI and audio tracks
  • Create full song arrangements from start to finish in Arrangement View
  • Create, edit, and trigger clips
  • Control playback
  • Load instruments and effects from Ableton's browser
  • Add notes to MIDI clips
  • Change tempo and other session parameters

Example Commands

Here are some examples of what you can ask Claude to do:

  • "Create an 80s synthwave track" Demo
  • "Create a Metro Boomin style hip-hop beat"
  • "Create a full arrangement with an intro, buildup, drop, breakdown, and outro"
  • "Create a new MIDI track with a synth bass instrument"
  • "Add reverb to my drums"
  • "Create a 4-bar MIDI clip with a simple melody"
  • "Get information about the current Ableton session"
  • "Load a 808 drum rack into the selected track"
  • "Add a jazz chord progression to the clip in track 1"
  • "Set the tempo to 120 BPM"
  • "Play the clip in track 2"

Technical Details

Communication Protocol

The system uses a simple JSON-based protocol over TCP sockets:

  • Commands are sent as JSON objects with a type and optional params
  • Responses are JSON objects with a status and result or message

Limitations & Security Considerations

  • Creating complex musical arrangements might need to be broken down into smaller steps
  • The tool is designed to work with Ableton's default devices and browser items
  • Always save your work before extensive experimentation

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Telemetry

AbletonMCP collects anonymous usage data to help improve the tool. This includes:

  • Tool usage statistics (which features are used)
  • Session information (for daily/monthly active user counts)
  • Error rates and performance metrics

No personal information, project names, or audio content is collected.

Opting Out

To disable telemetry, set one of these environment variables before starting the MCP server:

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export ABLETON_MCP_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true

Or use any of these alternatives:

  • DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true
  • MCP_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true

For Claude Desktop, add the environment variable to your config:

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{
    "mcpServers": {
        "AbletonMCP": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": ["ableton-mcp"],
            "env": {
                "ABLETON_MCP_DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "true"
            }
        }
    }
}

Disclaimer

This is a third-party integration and not made by Ableton.