Ableton MCP
Control Ableton Live from Claude and other MCP clients: create tracks, arrange clips and edit sessions.
Sources and review
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Producers experimenting with prompt-driven arrangement and sound design inside Ableton Live.
You can't install the Ableton Remote Script; the server controls Live through it.
About Ableton MCP
Ableton MCP connects Ableton Live to AI assistants for prompt-assisted music production. An MCP server run with uv talks to Live through an Ableton Remote Script, letting the model create tracks, arrange clips and manipulate the session and arrangement.
Ableton MCP is listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 3.3k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in September 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
Before connecting: access and data
This record's specific permissions have not been reviewed by ASE. Read the publisher's documentation before copying setup or connecting.
- List the accounts, files and services the enabled tools can read, change or execute. Check your actual credentials and discovered tools.
- Use narrowly scoped credentials and read-only mode where supported. Review proposed writes before approving them; a generated configuration does not apply these limits for you.
- Local launch is not local-only data processing. External services receive requests, and your client may pass tool results to its model provider. Check both destinations before sharing private data.
- Keep keys and browser session files out of shared config, repositories and screenshots. Know how to disconnect the server and separately revoke its credentials or account sessions.
Add Ableton MCP to your MCP client
Generated from the launch command in the project's README. Your client starts the server on demand.
Claude Code
claude mcp add ableton-mcp -- uvx ableton-mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"ableton-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["ableton-mcp"]
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"ableton-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["ableton-mcp"]
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"ableton-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["ableton-mcp"]
}
}
}Codex
[mcp_servers.ableton-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["ableton-mcp"]