# ahujasid/ableton-mcp

🎵 Control Ableton Live with Claude AI — create tracks, arrange clips & compose music via MCP

Repository: https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ableton-mcp
Homepage: https://blendermcp.org
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ableton, ai, claude, daw, generative-ai, llm, mcp, model-context-protocol, music, python
Last push: 2026-08-25T11:56:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 38
- inputs: {"age_days": 532, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2935, forks 399 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:30.844463+00:00)

## What it is
Ableton MCP is an open-source Model Context Protocol server and Ableton Live Remote Script that lets AI assistants like Claude control Ableton Live. It enables prompt-assisted music production, including creating tracks, arranging clips, and manipulating Live sessions via natural language.

## Use cases
- control ableton live with claude ai
- create tracks and compose music via natural language prompts
- arrange clips in a live session using an mcp server
- automate music production tasks in a daw with an llm
- connect cursor or claude desktop to ableton live

## When to choose
- you use Ableton Live and want AI-assisted music production
- you want an MCP server to bridge Claude or Cursor with your DAW
- you want to automate track creation and session arrangement via prompts

## When to avoid
- you use a DAW other than Ableton Live
- you need fully deterministic, non-AI automation of Live
- you cannot install Remote Scripts or run the uv package manager

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: mcp, agent-framework
- domain: audio, large-language-models
- platform: windows, python
- tags: ableton-live, daw, music-production, claude, remote-script, socket-server, ai-agents, automation, macos

## Member repositories
- ahujasid/ableton-mcp (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.844463+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:33:10.443542+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.844463+00:00, sha 6e2b747c05fb)
  - homepage: https://blendermcp.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:48:28.789101+00:00, sha 4bde30db4672)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ableton-mcp/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:48:28.798274+00:00, sha 223440a1cf2e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.