MCP Server implementation for Ableton Live OSC control
The Ableton Live MCP Server is a server implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to facilitate communication between LLMs and Ableton Live. It uses OSC (Open Sound Control) to send and receive messages to/from Ableton Live. It is based on AbletonOSC implementation and exhaustively maps available OSC adresses to tools accessible to MCP clients.
This project consists of two main components:
mcp_ableton_server.py: The MCP server handling the communication between clients and the OSC daemon.osc_daemon.py: The OSC daemon responsible for relaying commands to Ableton Live and processing responses.python-osc (for OSC communication)fastmcp (for MCP support)uvpip install uv
git clone https://github.com/your-username/mcp_ableton_server.git
cd mcp_ableton_server
uv install python-osc fastmcp
mcp install mcp_ableton_server.py
The OSC daemon will handle OSC communication between the MCP server and Ableton Live:
python osc_daemon.py
This will:
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By default, the server and daemon run on localhost (127.0.0.1) with the following ports:
To modify these, edit the AbletonOSCDaemon class in osc_daemon.py:
self.socket_host = '127.0.0.1'
self.socket_port = 65432
self.ableton_host = '127.0.0.1'
self.ableton_port = 11000
self.receive_port = 11001
~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json"mcpServers": {
"Ableton Live Controller": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--with",
"mcp[cli]",
"--with",
"python-osc",
"mcp",
"run",
"/Users/simonkansara/Desktop/mcp-ableton-server/mcp-ableton-server.py"
]
}
}
Feel free to submit issues, feature requests, or pull requests to improve this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
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