What is song-to-ableton?

A workflow for taking an existing song from recording analysis through reconstruction or reinterpretation in Ableton Live, music-production software. It can examine bars, key, chords, lyrics, and drum patterns, then use that information for the Ableton work.

Use it to analyze a recording, transcribe its musical parts, rebuild or reinterpret it in Ableton Live, or do both.

It organizes the analysis and production stages of rebuilding a song in one workflow, while first asking whether the user wants analysis, Ableton building, or both.

song-to-ableton — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by PerIPan

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add PerIPan/music-workflow-skills --skill song-to-ableton

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PerIPan/music-workflow-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,047 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00053	$0.01047
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00419
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00209
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00105

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e059907bcba6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

song-to-ableton scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

song-to-ableton/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Song → Ableton (end-to-end orchestrator)

  existing audio ──▶  A. ANALYSIS                      ──▶  C. HANDOFF      ──▶  B. ABLETON (MCP)
                      stems · bars/BPM/key · chords          bars + chords +      build/reinterpret:
                      · bass MIDI · lyrics · drum read        drum logic           tempo · clips · MIDI
                                                                                   · devices · scenes · mix

ASK FIRST: "Do you want song analysis, Ableton building, or both?" Then route only to what's needed.

GOLDEN RULE: reason in BARS, never seconds. Every length and position is a bar count (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32…). Convert any "first 16 seconds" to bars and stay in bars.

Routing

Need	Skill
Analyze the recording (tempo/bars, stems, chords, lyrics, drum read, chart)	`song-analysis`
Drive Live — tracks, clips, notes, devices, mixing; connection issues	`ableton-mcp`
Arrangement craft — sections, bass/drum patterns, FX chains, dynamics	`ableton-arrangement`
The user plays bass (or another mono instrument) and wants it as MIDI	`bass-transcribe`

The handoff (analysis output → Ableton input)

Analysis output	Use in Ableton
`pulse_bpm`, `pulse_unit`, `beats_per_bar`, `num_bars`	`set_tempo(pulse_bpm × 4 / pulse_unit)` — Live's tempo counts quarter notes. One bar = `beats_per_bar × 4 / pulse_unit` Live beats (4/4 → 4, 7/8 → 3.5, 11/8 → 5.5); size clips in whole bars
`chord_proposal` per `(bar, cell)`	chord clips on a synth/keys track, or a chart for a live band
`bar_bpm`, `tempo_drift_pct`	above ~±3% drift, place notes through the beat grid, not one BPM (`ableton-mcp` → "Timing")
bass MIDI (root line)	reference clip — or leave the bass slot empty for a live bassist
drum-pattern read	match the original's kick/snare logic (or `generate_drum_pattern`); never impose a rock backbeat on a non-rock song
key/mode	scale + voicings (mind major-triads-under-minor-melody — Trap 2 in `song-analysis`)
section map	scenes (jam) or arrangement sections; mirror parallel sections

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · -25 tokens per session e059907bcba6
2mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A e4394578b211

Subscribe to this mod's changes

song-to-ableton is a skill published in the GitHub repository PerIPan/music-workflow-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,047 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Claude Code Creative and media ableton-live claude claude-skills mcp music-production

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