Blog · September 1, 2026
Generate audio into your Ableton Live Set
You know the sound. A riser that takes eight bars to peak, a clap with a real room on it, two bars of bass with more grit than anything in your library. You can describe it in one sentence, and the search comes back with forty near misses.
Dawbrain now renders the sound you describe. Ask for it in the chat and an audio file arrives on a track in your Set a minute or two later, named after what you asked for, placed where you said, ready to warp, chop and process like any other sample.
Three things you can ask for
Make me a one-shot: a metallic clap with a short plate tail.
A one-shot. A hit, a riser, an impact, a foley sound, anything up to ten seconds. One credit. It lands in a clip slot, one drag away from a drum rack pad.
Generate a loop: 8 bars of dusty boom bap drums at 88 BPM in F minor.
A loop. Instrumental, up to a minute long. Put the tempo, the key and the bar count in the request. Two credits. It lands in a clip slot on its own track.
Write a song: a slow soul instrumental, about 90 seconds, that builds to a chorus.
A song. A full instrumental piece up to three minutes. Three credits. It lands in the Arrangement.
Say where it goes
Placement is part of the request. By default each generation gets a new audio track named after what you asked for, so it is easy to find in the track list. Name an existing audio track and it goes there. Ask for the Arrangement at bar 33 and that is where it lands. Say the destination in the request and Dawbrain skips the question.
Dawbrain records the destination the moment you ask and applies it the moment the audio arrives, so you can go on working in between.
Keep working while it renders
A generation takes from about half a minute for a one-shot to a couple of minutes for a song. The request starts and the conversation is yours again: ask for the drums under it, keep arranging, keep mixing. When the audio lands, the chat panel tells you which track it went to.
It arrives as its own undo step. If it was the wrong idea, one Undo removes the track and the clip together and leaves everything you did while you waited in place.
If Live is somewhere else by then
Dawbrain places audio automatically only while the Set you asked from is still the one open. Switch Sets, close and reopen the same one, or quit Live, and it downloads the file and tells you it is ready. Say “place it” in chat and it goes into the Set that is open now.
A generation that finishes while you are away is waiting for you when you come back, for up to a week. After that it is refunded. If your computer was asleep, the file arrives when it wakes.
The file is yours
Every generation is saved as a regular audio file under Dawbrain in your Music folder before it goes anywhere near your Set. Collect All and Save copies it into the project like any other external sample, and you can open it in any editor, drag it anywhere, or hand it to another Set.
What it costs
One credit for a one-shot, two for a loop, three for a song, and Dawbrain states the cost as it starts the job. You pay for audio that reaches you: a generation that fails costs nothing. The chat panel says so. On the free plan, a request that costs more than you have left is declined before it starts.
Where it is rough
Tempo, key and bar count in a loop request are a target. The result is close far more often than it is exact, so check the clip’s tempo and warp it before you build on it. The loop arrives with whatever Live’s auto-warp decided at load.
Songs are the roughest of the three. A one-line request can come back sparse, so name the sections you want, intro, build, chorus, outro, and roughly how long. A structure does better than a mood.
Songs with a vocal are the least tried. Hand it lyrics with [Verse] and [Chorus] sections on their own lines and it will attempt to sing them. Tell us what comes back.
It chops, warps, pitches and processes like any sample. For a part you want to edit note by note, ask for MIDI and Dawbrain writes it with the generators.
Dawbrain reaches for your library first. Ask for a kick and it searches what you own and ranks the candidates by how they sound. Generation is for the sound that so far exists only in your description.
Try it
Dawbrain is free to start: 150 credits, no card, no expiry date. It works with Ableton Live 12 on macOS and Windows, Intro through Suite. Install Dawbrain, describe the sound that has been missing from the track, and email info@dawbrain.com with what breaks.