MIDI tools

Beat Detective

Phil Schalmv0.1.0

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An Ableton Live extension that detects transients in an audio clip and previews how they would snap to a rhythmic grid — a waveform-canvas onset analyzer.

Conway Clips

Phil Schalmv0.1.0

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An Ableton Live extension that grows, mutates, and evolves the contents of a MIDI clip by running Conway's Game of Life over its notes.

Groove Transplant

Phil Schalmv0.2.0

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An Ableton Live extension that extracts the timing and velocity "feel" of a MIDI or audio clip and stamps it onto other MIDI clips — and builds playable Drum Racks by slicing the individual drum voices out of an audio l…

Harmonic Lens

Phil Schalmv0.1.0

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An Ableton Live extension that reads the chords and key out of a MIDI clip, then lets you click-insert suggested next chords straight into the clip.

Lidal

Phil Schalmv0.1.0

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A TidalCycles-flavored live-coding extension for Ableton Live. Write patterns in a browser-based editor; they stream out as MIDI to three virtual ports (notes + drums + control) that you route to instruments, drum racks…

Petri

Phil Schalmv0.1.0

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An Ableton Live Extension that treats your MIDI clips as an evolving ecology — mutate, breed, and continuously oscillate clip content using genetic-style operators.

Clip Sync

chymeramusic

.ablx

Ableton extension to sync MIDI clip patterns across a track

jamcorder-import

Brandon Lincoln Snyderv1.0.0

.ablx

Ableton Extension: Import MIDI clips from a Jamcorder App Export zip file directly into Ableton

AI Copilot

Marasanige Samarth Mahendrav0.4.0

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An Ableton Live 12 Extension that brings GPT-powered MIDI generation, editing, and session analysis directly into your right-click context menu.

Ableton MCP

Thomas Gallawayv0.0.1

.ablx

An Ableton Live 12 Extension that adds an "Ask Claude…" action to Session clip slots. Right-click a cell, type a natural-language instruction, and Claude generates or edits MIDI in Live through the extension's own built…

MOD Importer

Matthias Ebertv1.0.0

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Ableton Live Extension for importing classic ProTracker .mod files as editable MIDI/Simpler tracks. Supports local MOD folders and single ModArchive URL imports, extracts samples, preserves pattern structure where possi…

Mutate

Adam Murrayv0.0.1

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Generate randomized variations of MIDI clips in Ableton Live.

Notation

Adam Murrayv1.0.0

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Render MIDI clips in Ableton Live as sheet music notation.

Isobare

Alex Boulangerv1.0.0

.ablx

Isobare generates a playable matrix of related ambient MIDI scenes in Ableton Live. You provide the tracks, instruments, and sound design; Isobare writes the notes.

midi-note-index-select

gmazelv0.1.0

.ablx

Ableton Live 12 Beta Extension — transpose MIDI notes by index pattern

Chord Progression

Cesarv1.0.0

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Ableton Live 12 extension (Extensions SDK): generate diatonic chord progressions as MIDI clips from Live's current scale

ambient

Charlie Gleasonv0.1.0

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An Ableton Live 12 Extension for writing generative ambient soundscapes. Right-click a MIDI track → Generate Ambient… to open a tabbed dialog, pick a key/mode and a generator, and it writes looping MIDI clips — building…

chords

Charlie Gleasonv1.0.0

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An Ableton Live 12 Extension for mapping out chord progressions. Pick a key and major/minor, and Chords shows you every diatonic chord laid out as a grid — columns are the scale degrees (I–VII), rows are variations (tri…

human-touch

Clay Smithv1.0.2

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Add human like jitter and variation to midi

chord-extension

Nagisa Dozonov1.0.5

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Ableton Live extension for generating chord progressions and matching MIDI drum patterns. It is built with @ableton-extensions/sdk.

Red Pen

LTracy86v0.9.3

.ablx

Red Pen for Ableton - review notes board for Ableton Live, built on the Live Extensions SDK

Neural Midi

Aaditv0.1.0

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On-device ML melody generation for Ableton Live

Drum Rack Cartographer

Zach Schefflerv0.1.1

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Analyze, label, preview, and remap drum MIDI clips for Ableton Drum Rack.

Shape To Midi Extension

AJ

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Shape to MIDI is an Ableton Live extension that allows you to draw or type musical ideas and convert them into MIDI data as precise shapes. By right-clicking on a MIDI track or on the timeline of a MIDI track, you can g…