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Experiments with Ableton-MCP

90 points • by jhurliman • last Tuesday at 2:43 AM • 17 comments • view on HN

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ano-ther • last Saturday at 11:19 PM

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.

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Fannon • last Saturday at 9:17 PM

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

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geooff_ • last Saturday at 9:28 PM

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

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jphorism • yesterday at 2:10 AM

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?

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henjodottech • last Saturday at 11:23 PM

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.

brcmthrowaway • yesterday at 5:32 AM

Is there a FOSS version of Ableton?

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