madisonrickert/ableton-tools

ableton-tools is a Claude Code plugin that gives the AI coding assistant a set of tools for working with Ableton Live music production projects. Instead of running scripts manually in a terminal, you describe what you want to do in plain language inside Claude Code, and the right tool runs automatically. The toolkit focuses on several common but tedious tasks: checking whether exported stem files sum back to their master recording, finding a project's tempo and measuring drift between files, transcribing audio to MIDI, and making safe edits to Ableton's project file format (.als files). Installing it takes two commands in Claude Code's plugin system. Once installed, you work by describing tasks in plain language. For example, you can ask Claude to align a set of stems to an auto-warped master track, check whether a stem folder sums to the master, or update a project file to point at a new sample folder. Every change to an .als file is shown as a preview before anything is written. When a change is committed, a backup is saved automatically in Ableton's own backup folder format so it appears in Live's rollback interface. The core use case the project was built for is stem alignment: when Ableton has auto-warped a master audio file (such as a render from the AI music generator Suno), the import-stems tool clones that warped master's timing onto each matching stem track so they all line up. This avoids phase drift between stems that can happen when Ableton warps each stem independently. The MIDI transcription and tempo detection features are marked as experimental in the README. They overlap with Ableton's built-in tools and have not been benchmarked against them, so the project recommends treating their output as a starting point to verify by ear. The plugin runs locally using a uv-managed Python engine and requires ffmpeg on your system. No API keys are needed. No license is stated in the README.