Magenta Studio
An open-source AI MIDI plugin for Ableton Live Suite that generates melodies and drums, extends clips, and adjusts drum timing. Licensed under Apache 2.0.
Magenta Studio brings AI music generation into Ableton Live as a Max for Live MIDI plugin. It's for producers who want to develop melodies and drum patterns within their existing Live sessions. The interface runs inside Live on your computer and works with MIDI clips in Session View.
Its tools cover different stages of writing music:
- Continue extends a melody or drum beat, using the input's timing, note lengths and key as cues for additional material.
- Generate creates a four-bar melody or rhythm without an input clip, giving you material to build on when you don't have a starting phrase.
- Interpolate produces intermediate patterns between two melodies or two drum beats, so you can explore combinations of existing ideas.
- Groove adjusts drum timing and velocity using a model trained on recorded drummer performances.
- Drumify turns the rhythm of a bassline, melody or tapped pattern into a drum accompaniment. It accepts both performed and quantized input.
The output stays in MIDI form, so you can edit the notes and use them with instruments in your session. A randomness control lets you choose between more conservative results and greater variation.
The plugin is open source under Apache 2.0 and requires Ableton Live Suite. Melody input is limited to one note at a time, and drum input maps to a fixed set of drum instruments. The older standalone applications are no longer actively maintained.
