What is zoom-to-ableton?

A batch tool that turns multitrack recording folders from a Zoom H6 audio recorder into Ableton Live Set files. Ableton Live Sets are project files that open as mixable sessions in Ableton Live.

Use it to set up Ableton projects from Zoom H6 sessions, generate .als files, or restore project files for older recording folders.

It creates the project files without requiring Ableton Live to be opened, including for recordings that are missing their original project files.

zoom-to-ableton — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by scott-fryxell

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add scott-fryxell/brayness --skill zoom-to-ableton

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scott-fryxell/brayness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 938 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	$0.00104	$0.00938
Opus 5.5	$0.00042	$0.00375
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00188
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00094

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e4009870de63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zoom-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (h6-to-als.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/zoom-to-ableton/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zoom to Ableton

Batch-generate one Ableton Live Set per Zoom H6 session folder. Each WAV becomes an audio track with an arrangement clip at bar 1, color from the Ableton palette, and the Scott 2024 Effect Rack on the device chain.

An .als is gzipped XML, so files are built directly - no Live, no MCP server. Read references/als-format.md before modifying the generator.

Preconditions

Session folders live under the H6 root (default: iCloud ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Ableton User Library/H6/<year>/<session>/).
The track shell 2024/24-08-28/*.als and the 12.4 schema donor 2026/260115-162443/*.als still exist under the H6 root (footer, returns, Ableton root, and rack fragment schema). Update TEMPLATE_GLOB / SCHEMA_GLOB in the script if either moves.
Rack fragment references/scott-2024-effect-rack-devices.xml exists (expanded Devices XML; preset paths still point at the Ableton User Library .adg). Do not load a skill-local .adg copy.
Evicted iCloud files re-download on read; large batches may take time.

Run

python3 h6-to-als.py --dry-run            # preview everything
python3 h6-to-als.py                      # generate all missing
python3 h6-to-als.py --year 2026          # one year
python3 h6-to-als.py --only 260205        # substring match on year/name
python3 h6-to-als.py --tempo 92           # arrangement grid BPM (default 120)
python3 h6-to-als.py --base /path/to/H6   # different root

Clips are unwarped (IsWarped=false): audio always plays at real wall-clock speed. --tempo only sets Live's master tempo and how long clips appear on the beat grid. H6 sessions do not carry a detectable BPM; tap or type the song tempo in Live after open, or pass --tempo when you know it. Turning Warp on in Live is optional if you later want the clip to follow tempo changes. The script resolves relative to its own location; run it from anywhere.

Ordered flow

--dry-run first when scanning new folders; check the track lists.
Generate one session, open the .als in Live, confirm it loads, clips play, and the Scott 2024 rack is on each track. Only then batch the rest.
Re-run any time; sessions that already have an .als are skipped (never overwrites). To regenerate, delete the session's .als first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 First seen · 74 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A e4009870de63

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zoom-to-ableton is a skill published in the GitHub repository scott-fryxell/brayness (125 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 938 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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