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This is a work in progress. Right now only some of the API surface area of Ableton is exposed.

You can currently do the following:

• Create tracks
• List tracks
• Change tempo
• Insert clips
• Remove clips
• Insert midi patterns

The plumbing is all here for other things though, I just haven't needed to use them yet.

In order to communicate with Ableton we use the Max4Live bridge. This means you'll need a version of Ableton that supports Max4Live (Suite does for sure, maybe other versions?)

Basically we run a little UDP listener inside Ableton, via a Max4Live device (/device/device.amxd). We use TypeScript/Node to send OSC messages to this UDP listener, which will invoke the appropriate commands inside Live.

You don't really need to care about this, as a user you can just import the index file within /dist and start calling functions.