January 3, 2026
When AI DJs, the comments go wild
Experiments with Ableton-MCP
AI-made mashup drops; fans cheer, purists grumble, and Bitwig stans crash the party
TLDR: A creator used an AI-powered tool to automate Ableton Live and made a mashup of “Octo” and “Yeah Glo!”, sharing the code and track. Commenters are hyped for time-saving automation, split by Ableton vs. Bitwig rivalry, and calling out Ableton for lacking official documentation—proof this could reshape music workflows.
An intrepid tinkerer just taught an AI to help make a club-ready mashup in Ableton Live, and the crowd is losing it. Using a community tool called ableton-mcp (a bridge that lets an AI assistant press buttons in Ableton), they stitched Deft & Lewis James’ “Octo” with GloRilla’s “Yeah Glo!” into a head-bobbing combo you can hear here. The poster even hacked in “ears” for the AI, recording short audio clips so it could hear progress, then shared their code and workflow in a pull request. Cue the comments section mosh pit.
The loudest cheers are for time-saving superpowers: users dream of “batch renaming” and “batch warping” huge projects with one click. But there’s drama too. One camp waves the Bitwig flag with a rival server link, turning it into an Ableton vs. Bitwig tug-of-war. Another camp shades Ableton, saying it’s 2026—where’s the official API documentation? The spiciest joke: mixing songs that “don’t belong together” is exactly the chaos AI was born for. Between hype about a future “AI co-producer,” eye-rolls over missing official docs, and cross-DAW rivalry, the thread reads like a backstage fight at a rave—messy, loud, and undeniably fun.
Key Points
- •The author used ableton-mcp to connect tool-calling LLMs with Ableton Live and created 70+ automation tool calls.
- •Limitations in Arrangement view and device workflows led to extending ableton-mcp and reverse engineering parts of the .als format to inject automation and warp markers.
- •A higher-level tool, vocal_to_midi(), maps vocal onsets to Drum Rack MIDI notes to aid timing and phase alignment.
- •A Max for Live WAV recorder plus two Replicate endpoints (allinone-targetbpm and music-flamingo) provided audio feedback and analysis.
- •Using these tools, the author produced a mashup of Deft & Lewis James’ “Octo” and GloRilla’s “Yeah Glo!”, and shared code/workflow in a pull request.