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.
Works with Ableton Live 12 on macOS and Windows, Intro, Standard, and Suite. No Max for Live device, no API key to paste.
Most AI music tools hand you a finished render and a dead end. Dawbrain is not designed to replace human creativity. It works in the track you already opened, with your devices and the sample packs you never got around to digging through, and everything it makes is ordinary Live material: MIDI clips, device settings, mixer moves.
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.
Four bars into a full arrangement. Forty-one unnamed tracks renamed from what's in the clips. Or the whole session end to end, if you want every step. The waiting is fast-forwarded.
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." One-shots land in tune, breaks arrive already sliced into a new pattern, and grooves come from your own groove pool.
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 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.
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.
This is a preview, and it's better if you know the edges before you install.
One command on macOS or Windows. No admin rights needed.
Open Ableton Live → Settings → Link, Tempo & MIDI → pick Dawbrain as a control surface.
Sign in and start talking to your track.
150 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.
August 15, 2026
Dawbrain writes drums, bass, chords, melodies and chopped breaks as MIDI in your Set. Here is what each one knows, and which single control to reach for when the result is close but not right.
August 14, 2026
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August 12, 2026
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