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Dawbrain is an AI co-producer for Ableton Live: you ask for things in a chat box and they happen in your project. It is free to start with no card, and installing takes a minute. This is where we write about the work around it, from arrangement and mixing to actually finishing a track. Most of it holds up whether or not you use Dawbrain to do it. For what shipped and when, see the changelog.
September 16, 2026
Search Splice in chat, land it in Ableton
Connect your Splice account, describe the sound you don't own, pick from the hits, and the sample lands on the track you named in your Ableton Live Set.
September 1, 2026
Generate audio into your Ableton Live Set
Describe a one-shot, a loop or a whole song in the chat and it arrives on a track in your Set: named, placed where you asked, and paid for only once it lands.
August 24, 2026
Fix a muddy mix: the 200-500 Hz buildup
Mud is the most used and least defined word in mixing. What the 200-500 Hz buildup is, the EQ Eight sweep that finds it, and why one 3 dB cut beats eight.
August 24, 2026
How to finish a track: ship at 70%
Perfectionism is why the track is still eight bars. Scope it to two minutes, set a deadline that hurts, freeze the palette, and finish the thing.
August 24, 2026
Level-match a reference track in Ableton
Louder always sounds better, so an unmatched A/B lies. How to set up a reference track in Live, match it with Utility, and what to compare once it's honest.
August 24, 2026
Sidechain compression in Ableton Live 12
Duck the bass out of the kick's way with Live's stock Compressor: the sidechain routing, the four settings that matter, and when an EQ cut does it instead.
August 15, 2026
Get the MIDI part you want in Ableton
Dawbrain writes drums, bass, chords, melodies and chopped breaks into your Set. What each generator knows, and the one control to reach for when it's close.
August 14, 2026
Pick samples by how they actually sound
Ask which of six kicks hits hardest and get an answer from your own library, plus the dead air that lands samples late and playback without leaving the chat.
August 12, 2026
Claude's Ableton connector: what it does
Anthropic's Ableton connector answers questions from the manual. It can't open your set or change anything. What it, the MCP servers and Dawbrain each do.
August 12, 2026
Turn a loop into a full song in Ableton
The 8-bar loop is the easy part. Here's the arrangement method that turns it into a finished track, and how to do each step in Dawbrain by asking for it.
August 8, 2026
Rename every track in your Ableton Set
Point Dawbrain at a session full of Audio 1 and MIDI 3. It reads clip names, devices and groups, then writes track names that make sense.
July 8, 2026
Dawbrain is in Early Access Preview
Dawbrain is free to try right now. Here's what it can actually do, what's still rough, and how to send us feedback.