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Posted by bschoepke 6 days ago

Show HN: Ableton Live MCP(github.com)
Ever wanted to control Ableton with just your voice? Me too! I made this MCP server so I could just ask Codex to do anything in Ableton Live for me, while I was nap-trapped by my baby.

The chat messages I sent to Codex to make this:

in ableton, make a self reflective song, with audio vocals (via macos say) and chip tunes and 80's drum machines. should be a real edm banger

i want midi for everything but vocals please, with ableton devices. not prerendered audio for instruments

needs some fills

and should hit way harder after "3-2-1 i become the sound"

the vocals are squished too much (read too quickly), give them a little more length

add some dynamics, the song is basically one volume. and some pumping side chain

improve dynamics of the clap, seems a bit flat and indistinguished, want it harder after the 3-2-1 drop

introduce a new element on a new track after the 3-2-1 drop, that comes in but then recedes before the final exit

doesn't seem like the new thing has any notes

the element is a bit muddy/indistinct. perhaps it needs simplification and more space, different instrument choice, i dunno

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m_ramdhan 6 days ago|
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aayushkumar121 5 days ago||
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eleion_ai 5 days ago||
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Daniel_Visovsky 5 days ago||
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robotswantdata 6 days ago|
If you’ve gone to the trouble of setting up Ableton MCP, you’ve already worked harder than Suno requires to make a banger
bschoepke 5 days ago||
Well, it's also interesting to take a rough sketch out of Ableton, render it to audio, and then use Suno to "upscale" it.
gavmor 6 days ago|||
Suno is fun, but has absolutely nowhere near the affordances most musicians want.

Being a banger is not enough.

justinclift 6 days ago|||
Suno's output is grating though?
cyclopeanutopia 6 days ago|||
XD
dyauspitr 6 days ago||
Honestly, music generation is solved. You don’t have fine control at this point but people are unable to tell the difference anymore. There are tons of YouTube videos with blind tests between real artists and AI and people have no idea.
wartywhoa23 6 days ago|||
The Matrix wants everything solved, doesn't it?
windowliker 6 days ago||
>No alarms and no surprises
siquick 6 days ago|||
Solved !== Good