Sideman

A melodic house track, start to finish

1 Learn

Sideman is an Ableton Live MCP server: you describe what you want, Claude does it in your Set, and you can always check. Two ways in:

• Start here — three prompts, ten minutes, a loop from nothing, automation as a curve, and Claude noticing what you did by hand.
• The tutorial — the same loop driven from a Python notebook, for readers who want to see the calls.

Then Reference, for when you are past the first loop: the tools Claude has, the wire protocol underneath them, the Python client for notebooks and scripts, and the conventions they all share — paths, undo, observers, and the places Live behaves differently from how it reads.

The full course — Make a track with Claude, ten lessons that build a melodic house track from an empty Set, and Under the hood, the same lessons as executed notebooks — is a separate publication.