Brahma Bridge

Name: Brahma Bridge
Author: organvm

v0.1.0

Ableton Live Extension that absorbs a Live Set into the Brahma Meta-Rack as a donor identity and syncs transport over OSC.

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Brahma Bridge — Ableton Live Extension

Absorbs the active Live Set (transport, tracks, clips, devices) and re-expresses it inside the Brahma Meta-Rack. Live becomes a donor identity that the organism wears — the same parasitic-symbiotic move the rack makes with every other system it touches.

Built for the Ableton Extensions SDK (public beta, Live 12.4.5+), a Node.js/JavaScript toolkit that exposes the structure of a Live Set: tracks, clips, MIDI, devices, parameters, automation and tempo.

What it does

On each broadcast tick (default 10 Hz) the extension reads the Set and streams OSC to SuperCollider on 127.0.0.1:57120 — the same port the Pure Data surface and Visual Cortex use to reach SC:

OSC address	Args	Effect in Brahma
`/ableton/absorb`	`setName:str`	Begin wearing the Set
`/ableton/transport`	`playing:int tempo:float songTime:float loop:int`	Drives CHRONOS tempo (+ Ableton Link if running)
`/ableton/set/structure`	`tracks audio midi scenes devices clips` (int)	Registers the Ableton organism (entity `1003`) via AdamKadmon
`/ableton/track`	`index name muted soloed armed numClips color`	Per-track state (reserved for routing)
`/ableton/organism/update`	`1003 "Ableton" coherence:float entropy:float`	Visual Cortex radius/jitter
`/ableton/release`	—	Shed the Set

The matching SuperCollider responders live in ../sc/29_ableton_bridge.scd; the OSC contract is mirrored in src/mapper.js.

Structure

ableton/
  manifest.json        Extension metadata + user settings
  package.json         npm scripts; SDK packages are vendored (see below)
  src/
    index.js           Entry point — activate/deactivate, observers, tick loop
    live-adapter.js    Live Set API -> plain snapshot (defensive, feature-detected)
    mapper.js          Snapshot -> Brahma trait map + coherence/entropy + OSC
    osc.js             Zero-dependency OSC 1.0 encoder over UDP (dgram)
  test/
    smoke.js           Runs without Live: mock Set -> UDP listener -> assertions

Install (in Live)

Join the Live 12 Suite beta and install 12.4.5+.
The SDK ships @ableton-extensions/sdk and @ableton-extensions/cli as local tarballs (not yet on npm). Drop them in vendor/ and they will be picked up via optionalDependencies in package.json.
From this folder: npm run dev to load into the running Live extension host (hot-reloads), or npm run package to produce a distributable bundle.
Configure host/port/rate in the extension's settings panel (see manifest.json).

Test (no Live required)

npm test     # or: node test/smoke.js

This stands up a real UDP listener standing in for SuperCollider, mocks the SDK song object, drives one broadcast tick, and asserts the OSC packets decode to the expected addresses and values.

Notes

The Live Set accessor names in live-adapter.js are read defensively (several plausible shapes, falling back to 0/empty) because the beta API is still stabilising — only context.song is a hard requirement.
OSC sends are best-effort (errors swallowed), so a missing SuperCollider never disrupts Live, matching the PD and web bridges.