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Experiments with Ableton-MCP

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Re: Experiments with Ableton-MCP

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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.

Re: Experiments with Ableton-MCP

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post #6

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.

The trick would have been to ask Claude to write a program that can parse/serialize from/to Ableton's XML format in the way you need it to. It's just XML, but a ton of it: https://github.com/stevengt/ableton-xml-analysis/blob/dev/ed...

Re: Experiments with Ableton-MCP

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

It’s a method like any other. The process took him two days, after the LLM suggested which track to mix (like he was working for the LLM instead of the other way around?). Two days is more than enough to learn how to make a mashup in Ableton without LLM’s.

Seems though that working with those AI tools appeals to the author, that they learned and had fun, so I guess that makes it a good usecase for them specifically?

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