Pick a genre and a mood, get a progression — with all the rhythmic/dynamic "feel" chosen for you. Simpler and prettier than its sibling chord-progression; the technical knobs are tucked behind an Advanced button.
Converts any audio clip to a MIDI clip using Spotify's Basic Pitch neural network for polyphonic pitch detection. Runs entirely offline — no external software or internet connection required.
Features
- Polyphonic transcription — Detects multiple simultaneous notes from pitched instruments
- Works in both views — Session View (same clip slot) and Arrangement View (same position)
- Pitch bend support — Fine-grained pitch contour is captured and included in the output
- Fully offline — The ML model runs locally; no data leaves your machine
How to use
- Right-click any Audio Clip in Session or Arrangement View.
- Choose Convert to MIDI.
- A progress dialog appears while the model runs.
- A new MIDI track is created next to the original, containing the transcribed notes.
Download: https://github.com/federico-pepe/ableton-live-extensions
Search Freesound and download sounds directly into your Ableton Live tracks.
Features
- Freesound login — Log in with your Freesound account directly from the extension; no manual API key needed
- High-quality downloads — When logged in, sounds are downloaded in their original format (WAV, FLAC, AIFF, …) instead of MP3 previews
- Rich search — Query by text with filters for category/subcategory (Broad Sound Taxonomy), key, BPM, duration, channels, rating, license, and sort order
- Advanced timbre filters — Refine by brightness, hardness, depth, warmth, roughness, boominess, and sharpness
- Visual results — Each result shows a waveform thumbnail, Creative Commons license icons, and category/key/BPM at a glance
- In-dialog preview — Listen to any result before downloading with the ▶ play button
- Copy Freesound link — Grab the link to any sound's Freesound page straight from the results
- Session and Arrangement View — Place clips in the first empty session slot, or at the playhead in Arrangement View
- License-aware — Filter by Creative Commons license and see each sound's license, with a reminder of your attribution obligations
- Traceable imports — Clip names and downloaded files carry the Freesound sound ID and license (e.g. Kick [FS#12345 · CC-BY])
- Attribution helper — The Attributions view lists imported sounds and offers a one-click Copy attribution text for crediting creators
- Cached downloads — Already downloaded a sound? The local file is reused automatically
> Tip: Key, BPM and timbre rely on Freesound's audio analysis, so they only match analyzed sounds and work best combined with a Category.
How to use
1. Right-click any Audio Track (or an audio lane in Arrangement View) and choose Find samples.
2. Click Log in with Freesound and follow the login steps (grant access on Freesound, copy the authorization code shown, paste it back into the extension).
3. Enter a search query (e.g., "drums", "pad", "vintage") and click Search.
4. Press ▶ on any result to preview it, then click the card to download and import the clip.
> Without logging in, you can still search using an optional API key — downloads will be 128 kbps MP3 previews. Logging in unlocks original-quality files.
Licensing & attribution
Sounds on Freesound are released under Creative Commons licenses. Some (e.g. CC-BY) require you to credit the creator when you use them. This extension helps you comply:
- Filter and view each sound's license before importing.
- Imported clips and files are tagged with the Freesound sound ID and license.
- Open Attributions in the dialog and click Copy attribution text to copy credit lines(sound name, author, link, and license) for the sounds you've imported.
An AI assistant built into Ableton Live. Describe what you want in plain English — Live Agent executes it directly on your session. https://github.com/nonogv/live-agent
An Ableton Live extension that applies BBCut breakbeat cutting algorithms to AudioClips in the Live's Arrangement View. https://github.com/bencodec/BBenCut
Select audio in the arrangement, right-click, pick your brain sources. SampleBrain will: Chop your selection and brain tracks into spectral grainsMatch each target grain to the closest brain grain via kNN (MFCC or FFT)
Render the result as a new audio clip using OLA synthesis
Tune novelty, boredom and stickiness to control how the grain matching behaves. Based on the open-source SampleBrain tool — the concatenative synthesis engine Aphex Twin built with developer Dave Griffiths. Download: https://github.com/idriss-sernn/Samplebrain-live Have fun!
Fixes MIDI notes that start just before a clip's start/loop point and therefore miss their note-on, so the first chord or drum hit actually sounds.
If you play piano or program drums, you know the problem: a clip starts on the downbeat but the note (or chord) was played a hair early, so its note-on falls outside the clip and the first beat goes silent. Right-click a MIDI clip → Repair 1st beat, and any note crossing the start marker (or loop start) gets a guaranteed attack at that point.
Modes
Smart (default) — notes played just-early are nudged in for a clean attack; genuinely sustained notes are split so their body is preserved. Truncate — move the note head to the start point. Split — keep the outside part as a separate note. Cut at the start marker, the loop start, or both (re-attacks on every loop pass). Adjustable smart threshold (1/8–1/64). One undo step, idempotent (safe to re-run).
Download: https://rbld.com.br/audio/downloads/midi-clip-1st-beat-repair-1.0.0.ablx
Compatibility: Live 12 Beta (Extensions), SDK beta 1.0.0.
Known limitations: Operates on one MIDI clip at a time. Notes only — sustain pedal / CC64 and clip automation aren't accessible in the current SDK, so pedal-based sustain isn't handled yet (planned for a future release).
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Builds chord progressions from any key and writes the result as a MIDI clip, with two distinct harmony modes for different musical styles. Features
Progression II — Functional jazz grid ordered for common progressions (I–vi–IV–ii–V–iii–vii), showing secondary dominants, diatonic chords, and borrowed chords per column
Dark Harmony — Chromatic grid built around the natural minor scale with augmented, diminished, and Neapolitan colors
Queue and write — Click chords to build a progression queue, then write the result as a MIDI clip
Smart placement — Clip is placed in the first empty slot on the right-clicked track
How to use
Right-click any MIDI Track and choose Create Chord Progression….
Select a key and harmony mode.
Click chords in the grid to add them to the progression queue.
Click Write to MIDI Clip to create a new MIDI clip.
Each chord is written as four simultaneous notes (close voicing, whole-note duration, velocity 80) with one bar per chord. The clip is named with the chord symbols joined by " – " (e.g. Cm7 – F7 – Bbmaj7). Download: https://github.com/federico-pepe/ableton-live-extensions
When you right-click a MIDI clip, a score editor opens directly inside Live. Any edits made in the score can be written back to the clip immediately, making it possible to move seamlessly between MIDI programming and notation entirely within Live.
I built this because I wanted a music theory cheat sheet that actually lived inside Ableton. Right-click a clip, see the key, the Roman numerals, what scales to solo over, and which upper structure triads open up the sound — without leaving the session. The Modal Explorer came from wanting to poke at progressions I'd never naturally gravitate toward and understand why they work. Pure personal use, shared in case it's useful to anyone else.
Separate any audio clip into stems with any of MVSEP's 126+ models for free, right inside Ableton Live.
If you haven't heard of MVSEP, here's my rave review: MVSEP is a service made by one person and has become my go-to AI stem separation suite these days, and I've spent good money in the past on tools like iZotope RX Advanced and of course Ableton Suite. They have the latest open models like Demucs, their ensemble models are cutting-edge, they publish benchmarks, and their individual instrument models have enabled me to do things like pull my live saxophone performance out of a full arrangement that was recorded on a shitty cell phone mic at a gig, with enough quality for me to remaster the live video to nearly studio quality. Their service is no BS and they have a generous free quota of 50 generations per day. Plus, they have an API, which this extension uses.
(I'm not affiliated with or sponsored by MVSEP, although I did just email them asking if they want to work something out, haha)
This simple extension lets you right-click any MIDI clip and view it as sheet music. Handy teaching or practice tool! Features: Transpose for different instruments
Automatically quantizes your notes
Export as MusicXML, PDF, or PNG
Limitations: Currently only supports one MIDI clip
Sheet music is read-only
Time signatures support is basic, can improve once the SDK supports it
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Right-click any MIDI clip to snap every out-of-scale note to your project's key — reads rootNote and scaleIntervals directly from Live. Download: https://groovepilot.co/#extensions
A built-in kick drum synthesizer. Shape the sound with knobs covering the full signal path:
- Pitch envelope (start/end/decay, with snapback)
- Body oscillator with feedback FM and CZ-style phase distortion
- Sub oscillator
- FM layer
- Click transient (tone/level/decay)
- Pre-hit (reverse tail)
- Punch, drive, wavefold, asymmetry and more
Lock any parameter and hit Randomize to explore variations while keeping locked values fixed. Save, rename, and manage your favorite settings as presets, with import/export support.
When you're happy with the result, it renders one or more kicks and drops them in as audio clips: at the time-selection in the Arrangement, into selected Session clip slots, or at the start of the clicked track. MIDI tracks automatically get a new audio track to host the clip.
Browse sounds from the Synth.is evolutionary sound discovery platform — evolved from scratch, not sampled — and import them into your Live set with a right-click: [synth.is/live](https://synth.is/live)
This extension evaluates the notes in a midi clip using a couple popular key detection algorithms and ranks the most likely musical key. https://github.com/bencodec/Ableton-MIDI-Key-Detector-Extension
Select a time range on a MIDI drum track, right-click → Drum Fill Generator…, and it writes a fresh, humanized drum fill into the clip — capped with a kick + crash on the next downbeat. Never generates the same fill twice.
Hey everyone! I kept hitting the same wall while producing — drum loops that needed a little something to break the repetition, and drawing fills by hand every few bars got old fast. So I built this. You pick a spot, choose the intensity (simple → complex) and which rhythmic figures to use (1/4 down to 1/64), and it generates a fill that accelerates toward the downbeat, with optional humanization on timing and velocity. There's a MIDI Learn mode too — hit the button and tap your pads to map your kit live (Push, Launchpad, SL MkII, whatever you've got). It ships with presets for Addictive Drums 2, General MIDI, and a 64-pad AD2 drum rack I used on the tests, plus you can save your own using midi learn. Every generation is randomized, so you can keep clicking until one feels right.
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Compatibility:
Ableton Live 12.4.5+ (Extensions feature, beta) · built on the Extensions SDK beta 1.0.0 · single .ablx runs on Windows & macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon).
Known limitations:
Live Extensions are still beta. MIDI Learn relies on a small native module — prebuilt binaries for Win/macOS are bundled, and if you're on an uncovered platform the extension still runs fine, just with MIDI Learn disabled. Mainly battle-tested on Windows so far — macOS feedback very welcome!
Would love to hear what you make with it, and any feature ideas are super welcome. Cheers!
Kit-Maker is a workflow extension built using the open Ableton Live 12 Extensions SDK. It provides an intuitive interface to instantly generate custom Drum Racks by randomizing samples arranged in the standard General MIDI (GM) drum kit note map.
Whether you need inspiration from vintage hardware or modern styles, Kit-Maker populates your drum pads with a single click.
Features
Algorithmic Randomization: Generate drum kits inspired by classic drum machines (TR-808, TR-909, TR-606) or modern styles like Hip-Hop and Trap.
Pad Locking System: Individually lock specific drum pads to keep your favorite sounds while randomizing the remaining pads.
General MIDI Standard Alignment: Automatically maps elements (Acoustic Bass Drum, Snare, Claps, Hi-Hats, Toms) to their correct MIDI note coordinates.
Native Integration: Runs directly inside Ableton Live as a lightweight, floating extension UI panel.
System Requirements
DAW: Ableton Live 12 Suite (Public Beta version 12.4.5 or later).
Note: Standard, Intro, or Lite editions do not support the Extensions SDK.
Installation
Download the latest release (Kit-Maker.ablx) from the Releases tab.
Launch Ableton Live 12 Beta.
Open Settings / Preferences and navigate to the Extensions tab.
Drag and drop the Kit-Maker.ablx file directly into the Extensions pane.
Restart Ableton Live.
How to Use
Create or select a MIDI Track in your Session or Arrangement view.
Right-click on the MIDI track header.
Navigate to Extensions in the context menu and select Kit-Maker: Open.
Use the interface to customize your sound settings, lock preferred pads, and hit generate.
The extension will automatically construct and load a fresh Drum Rack directly onto your track!
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
generative drum grooves, but they actually groove. Extension: pick a genre, mess with the knobs, hit wonk me til a pattern slaps, then drop it straight into a clip.
what it does:
- 8 genres — boom bap, dilla, uk garage, trap, house, deep house, techno, trance
- 4 groove knobs — swing, feel, dynamics, density humanized MIDI — velocity + per-note probability so the loop breathes instead of sounding like a freaking robot
- writes notes right into your clip (session or arrangement), at standard drum pitches so it drops onto any kit auto-loads a kit if your track's empty so it makes sound immediately
- live preview + the dot graphic so what you see = what you hear = what gets written
Wonk it here:
https://7235229756657.gumroad.com/l/fwtovn Pick a price 0 or 1million. What am i worth lmao but enjoy it lmk what features to add or what bugs to fix. HAPPY PRODUCING! <33
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The Wavetable Sprite Lab Ableton Extension allows you to create custom audio files to use in Ableton's Wavetable and Simpler instruments. The Exported Wavetable Sprite file can be dragged directly into Wavetable's OSC window, or Export as a Simpler sample to have the file loaded into Simpler.
https://winterparkmusic.com/2026/06/03/ableton-extensions-wavetable-sprite-lab/
