Ableton MCP Pro

Full control of Ableton Live through AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Create tracks, program MIDI, load instruments, mix, automate, and record arrangements — all from natural language.

Demo Tracks

• claude_hardgroove
• claude_song1
• claude_downtempo

Forked from uisato/ableton-mcp-extended, inspired by ahujasid/ableton-mcp.

What’s New

This fork adds significant capabilities beyond the original:

• Direct arrangement editing — Read, place, and delete clips in arrangement view without going through session-view recording. Drop audio samples by file path and MIDI clips with notes seeded inline.
• Arrangement recording — Record session clips into the arrangement with bar-accurate scene transitions, with start_time to append past existing material
• Arrangement view — Read arrangement info, clips per track (with file_path for audio clips), full arrangement state; control loop, overdub, song position, and back-to-arranger
• Arrangement playback — Dedicated play_arrangement command that switches to arrangement view
• Smooth automation envelopes — Interpolated ramps between points (not just flat steps)
• Full mixing — Volume, panning, sends, mute, solo, arm for all tracks including master and returns
• Master/return track support — Use track_index: -1 for master, -2/-3 for return tracks across all mixing commands
• Scene management — Create, delete, rename, and fire scenes for arrangement workflows
• Track management — Create/delete/duplicate MIDI and audio tracks
• Clip operations — Duplicate, delete, rename, loop control, get/set notes
• Device control — Get/set any device parameter, batch updates, delete devices
• Browser integration — Browse and load instruments, effects, and presets by URI
• Transport controls — Tempo, time signature, metronome, record mode
• Undo/redo support
• Batch — batch runs many commands in one round trip and one Live tick (10 commands: 0.4 s instead of 2–4 s), with {"$ref": [i, "key"]} to use an earlier result
• Events — get_events reports what happened in Live since you last asked (clip launches by you or the user, transport, tempo, selection, mute/solo/arm, tracks added), with long-polling
• Colors and names — Color tracks, clips (session or arrangement) and scenes by hex or palette index; rename arrangement clips
• Locators — List, add, rename, delete and jump to arrangement locators (markers), so sections like Intro/Break/Drop are labeled in the timeline
• Grooves and warping — Apply Groove Pool grooves to clips and edit their amounts; read, add, move and remove warp markers on audio clips