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Dawbrain

Turn your loops into tracks. Dawbrain handles the mechanics.

An AI co-producer for Ableton Live that helps you sketch ideas fast, build full arrangements, set up the mix and finish your tracks. Everything it makes is yours to edit.

Start free Install Ableton Live 12 on macOS and Windows. No card, no API key.
An Ableton Arrangement view of a finished drum and bass track, with Bass, Pad, Drums, Vocal Chops, FX and two Texture tracks laid out across ten named sections
Empty project to a track 0:45 Rename every track 0:46 Drum and bass, start to finish 3:19 Full session 9:21

Forty minutes of real session cut down to forty-five seconds: Dawbrain takes an empty Ableton Live 12 project to a finished drum and bass track. Nothing staged, just shortened.

It works on the track you already started.

Most AI music tools hand you a finished render and a dead end. Dawbrain picks up where you are, in the Live Set you have open, with the devices you already use, the sample packs you never got around to digging through and your Splice library. Everything it adds is ordinary Live material: MIDI clips, device settings, mixer moves. Edit them, undo them or throw them out, like anything you played in yourself.

Learn Ableton as you go.

Ask Dawbrain questions about Ableton, sound design, music theory and mixing, and get answers that fit the track you're actually working on. Your knowledge grows session by session, without breaking your flow.

How Dawbrain teaches production →

Build a drum and bass loop

Start with something to react to.

The hardest thing about an empty Live Set is the first sound in it. "Build a drum and bass loop" is enough to get one, and so is a full brief: bright major scale, shimmering plucks, rolling Amen break, warm sub, 174 BPM. Ask for your own material and it finds it: "a one-shot kick from my trap packs," "chop a break." Ask for what you don't own and it searches Splice: "a dark techno bass loop, 126 to 130 BPM," and the hit you pick lands on the track you name. One-shots land in tune, breaks arrive already sliced into a new pattern, and grooves come from your own groove pool.

Six Ableton Session view tracks named Amen Break, Sub Bass, Chord Pad, Synth Plucks, Vocal Chops and FX One-Shots, each holding a clip in the first scene

Now create an arrangement from all this

Turn eight bars into a track.

This is the part that eats the day. "Now create an arrangement from all this" is enough, and it lays the whole thing into the Arrangement timeline, clip by clip, pulling across what you already built in Session. Hand it a bar map instead and it follows that: a 16-bar intro, the drop at 41, 88 bars total.

An Ableton Arrangement view with six tracks of clips: Amen Break, Sub Bass, Chord Pad, Synth Plucks, Vocal Chops and FX One-Shots, with parts dropping out around bar 41 and coming back at 49

Add some fills and short breaks

Make it move.

An arrangement of repeated loops isn't a track yet. "Add some fills and short breaks. Add movement, make it interesting." Or name it exactly: hats muted through the breakdown, the filter opening across the last eight bars, the bassline rewritten for the second half. Parts are genre-aware down to the figures they're built from, and chords come in real voicings. Swing sits on the grid the genre uses, and drums land on the pads your kit actually has.

The same Ableton arrangement with locators marking Intro, Build, Drop, Breakdown, Rebuild and Drop 2, and most tracks dropping out through the breakdown before coming back

Get the sub and the Reese sitting together

Mix it without leaving the chat.

Twelve tracks in, the mixer is where the menu-diving starts. "The mix is too low." "Improve the mix." "Get the sub and the Reese sitting together without mudding out." Dawbrain reads your actual mixer and device settings, sets parameters in real units ("filter cutoff to 400 Hz," "delay to a dotted eighth"), and explains its choices in production terms.

The Ableton mixer with twelve channel strips showing input and output routing, sends, faders and level meters

What it does today.

Start

  • Search your library by key, pack, source and type
  • Find sound-alikes across your library
  • Choose samples by how they sound, not their filename
  • Search Splice from the chat and land the sample on a track
  • Load one-shots in tune
  • Chop a break into a new pattern
  • Pull grooves from your groove pool
  • Write genre-aware drums, bass, chords and melody
  • Generate a one-shot, a loop or a song from a description

Arrange

  • Write clips into the Arrangement
  • Copy Session clips across
  • Follow a bar map you give it
  • Name every section with locators
  • Build a whole arrangement from a song form you describe

Refine

  • Add fills and breaks
  • Draw automation envelopes
  • Edit notes in place, in Session or the Arrangement
  • Thin a part with one intensity control
  • Flip a part to half or double time
  • Map drums to your kit's own pads
  • Read your clips and rename tracks based on what's in them

Mix

  • Read levels, devices and routing
  • Set parameters in real units
  • Load and configure Live's devices
  • Load the VST and AU plugins you own, and control your VST3 instruments and effects, presets included
  • Talk through sidechain, EQ and compression

What's still rough.

This is a preview, and it's better if you know the edges before you install.

Up and running in three steps.

  1. 01

    Create a free account

    Google, Apple or email, no card. 120 credits are waiting when you get there.

  2. 02

    Install and enable in Ableton

    An installer or one command on macOS and Windows, no admin rights. Then pick Dawbrain as a control surface in Live's settings.

  3. 03

    Chat with your session

    Live opens Dawbrain in your browser. Authorize once, then start talking to your track.

Full install instructions

Start free.

120 credits to start and 20 a month after that, no card, the whole product. When you need more, Starter is $19 a month and Studio is $45, billed at the end of each period.

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Recent posts.

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October 4, 2026

See the music in the chat, arrange your own clips

Dawbrain now shows the clips it writes with a piano roll and a Play in Live button, lays your own clips out into a song, and saves effect chains as rack presets.

September 29, 2026

Plugin presets, VST3 effects, 25 more supported plugins

Dawbrain now loads presets from Serum, Vital, u-he, Valhalla and FabFilter libraries, controls VST3 effects, supports 25 more plugins out of the box, and uses fewer credits per request.

September 21, 2026

What's new: VST plugins, Splice in the chat, and sharper ears

Dawbrain now turns the knobs on Serum, Vital, Surge XT and any other VST3 plugin you own, searches Splice from the chat, hears a lot more in a sample, and moves Arrangement clips in one step.