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Re:Show HN: Ableton Live MCP by breakall on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:58PM (#48001981)
Yes! I want this for MainStage -- this would allow me to automate my weekly template setup for playing at my church. Each week before practicing I look up the songs in Planning Center and create a new MainStage concert file with one patch per song, and add notes to each patch screen with the song's key, etc. Automating this would save me the time of doing the busy work and get right to practicing.
Re:Show HN: Ableton Live MCP by bschoepke on Monday May 04, 2026 @08:22AM (#48007794)
Interesting use case! I'm not familiar with MainStage, but that workflow is possible with Ableton using this MCP. Codex itself can pull info from websites or other apps using its existing toolset and then push it into Ableton using this MCP.
Re:Show HN: Ableton Live MCP by Footprint0521 on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:48PM (#48012203)
We should talk! I have a cli that does exactly this, I was able to reverse engineer the MainStage concert format