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Re: Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

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Post by tim-projects »

deng wrote: post #61
tim-projects wrote: post #60

I wish there was something like this for flstudio. I've got 25 years of loops that basically to finish them need better arrangements. Using AI to auto generate sections is what I'm missing.

> I've got 25 years of loops that basically to finish them need better arrangements Welcome to the club. You need to learn how to actually finish a track, which is the most difficult but also the most rewarding part. Why would you use AI for that? I mean, just listen to that demo track Codex made in the above repo, you surely don't want that. There's a good book about this, published by Ableton, you can read it for f…

> Welcome to the club. You need to learn how to actually finish a track

I don't think you understand. I've got thousands of songs. Why would I use Ai to generate arrangements... Maybe for ideas?

Maybe because certain things I'm lazy about?

Maybe because I've got thousands of songs?

It's not actually difficult to finish a song if your output is high enough. Sometimes the songs just come out without any struggle. But most of the time they don't.

I wrote and finished my first song around 1996. Using Cakewalk plugged into a midi keyboard.

HN is full of people who think using AI means you are lazy or can't do something. The fault is yours not mine. Adapt

Re: Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

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Post by tim-projects »

2bewithu wrote: post #75
deng wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've got 25 years of loops that basically to finish them need better arrangements Welcome to the club. You need to learn how to actually finish a track, which is the most difficult but also the most rewarding part. Why would you use AI for that? I mean, just listen to that demo track Codex made in the above repo, you surely don't want that. There's a good book about this, published by Ableton, you can read it for f…

on a side note, his early 2000s output is genius

They had the most emotion because I didn't know what I was doing. Then for any ten years I got lost trying to make it sound technically good. Now I must make stuff and there technical part happens automatically

Re: Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

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Post by cromka »

myhf wrote: post #57
cromka wrote: post #54

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When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

There's was no argument in that comment, just a display of pretentiousness. Also, this wasn't name calling, just plain sarcasm. "Badass" , if meant literally, is a positive adjective.

You're being ridiculous.

Re: Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

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Post by bschoepke »

deng wrote: post #77
bschoepke wrote: post #72

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Well, I do that too. I actually spend most of my music hobby time with my Ableton Move. I just happen to find it very fun to play with Codex as well.

I agree that having an MCP Ableton can make total sense. After many years of use, I would say I know Ableton quite well, but nowadays, I regularly ask ChatGPT if certain things could be done differently/more efficiently, and it often surprises me with new ways of doing things. For instance, sometimes Ableton has gotten new features over the years I'm not aware of. It surely would be nice to have this integrated via M…

Thank you for the feedback, I'll record some more co-creating examples! And yea, it's also fun to take stuff out of Ableton and run it through Suno, to get real vocals and such.

A cool thing about this MCP is you can ask Codex Ableton questions and it will go and read the state of your current Live Set and answer based on that. You don't have to have it change anything for you if you don't want.

Re: Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

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Post by marc_moy »

bschoepke wrote: post #73
bbrwx wrote: post #62

Interesting work and I’m really interested to see where this direction goes. One question I keep coming back to is where tools like this MCP go beyond templating, like what I already use heavily in Ableton Live. In music production, many tasks are repetitive but not identical and that’s exactly where something like this can shine. At the same time, music is widely seen as a "manual" craft. Every step in the chain fro…

Added an "Agent Audio Tap" Max for Live device that lets the agent analyze any part of the signal chain and optimize your mix based on that (or just make cool visualizations!) https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp/blob/main/READ...

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