Experiments with Ableton-Mcp
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The fascinating world of music production meets AI as one musician shares their experiments with Ableton-MCP, a tool that leverages large language models (LLMs) to automate tasks within Ableton Live. Commenters are abuzz, sharing related projects, such as a Bitwig equivalent and a GitHub repo for live coding, and discussing the potential of LLMs to streamline tedious tasks like batch renaming and warping. While some wonder if the author was "working for the LLM" rather than the other way around, the author themselves acknowledges that the process, though intriguing, didn't necessarily save time. As enthusiasts explore the possibilities, it's clear that AI-assisted music production is an exciting and rapidly evolving field.
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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?
I think this tooling could be useful in the hands of more capable musicians / audio engineers / etc. as there are often repetitive tasks in DAWs and it could potentially unlock new workflows that would have been too tedious without knowing how to program.
Generally, it would be nice of Ableton to release an official documentation of their API.
The organizational and assistive ability though was/is outstanding, and using it in my own projects honestly made me sad that we're seeing AI integration everywhere that automates the creative work and leaves you with the tedious work. I don't expect we'll see AI updates to DAWs from vendors anytime soon with features like "speak into your mic and tell your DAW to group all the snares, color code them different shades of red, and rename them", but that's the part of the process I wish we were trying to get AI to tackle.
I like this because I'm really in the creative process still, it feels like a tool like "Scaler" (nice tool btw) where you're picking origin notes, but really putting the song together yourself. It can suggest "Synth Bass" but I'm the one assigning it from one of my other VSTs sounds, mixing, picking, etc.. And if all goes well playing some lead on the guitar or seaboard and then deleting it all and starting over.