Write a chord progression from a prompt

How to write a chord progression from a prompt in Ableton: describe the progression in words and have your assistant write the notes into a MIDI clip, ready to play.

What it does

The assistant turns your description into a set of notes (pitches, start times, durations, velocities), creates a MIDI clip if needed, and writes the notes in. The write is one undo step.

The tool calls

1. live_find_track to resolve a MIDI track, then live_list_clips to find an empty slot.
2. live_create_midi_clip to make an empty clip of the length you want (if you are not writing into an existing clip).
3. The assistant builds the chord notes from your prompt.
4. live_set_notes to write the notes into the clip.

Try it

On my “Keys” track, make a 4-bar clip and write a I, V, vi, IV progression in C major, one chord per bar, as held triads.

The assistant creates the clip and writes the chords. One undo removes the notes; another removes the clip (create and write are two steps, as the SDK creates then configures).

The honest limit

The musical choices are the model’s. Loophole writes exactly the notes the assistant produces; it does not enforce voice leading or correct a questionable chord. If you want notes snapped to the scale set in Live afterward, the Scale Lock extension does that in one undo.