Releases: jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
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MIDI Snake
🐍 MIDI Snake
The old snake game, except the board is a bar of music — and everything you eat stays in your clip. Right-click any MIDI clip to play. Left to right is time, bottom to top is pitch, so the round you play IS the pattern.
- Eat a note name and it is written at exactly that step — the loop plays it back straight away
- Fully scale-aware — key, scale and tempo come from your set, and the board grows or shrinks with the scale (7-note, blues, pentatonic…)
- Board length 1, 2 or 4 bars, pre-set from your clip
- Triad bonus — collect the 1st, 3rd and 5th degree back to back
- Ping-pong tempo — the snake breathes between 1/8 and 1/16 every two bars
- Autopilot with three behaviours, so you can watch a pattern build itself
- Three looks: ARPMAN, C64 and Arcade with scanlines
- High score table — ten places, three letters, like the cabinets
- Replace clip / Add to clip / Discard — nothing is overwritten behind your back
- Update check — shows a notification when a new version is available
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/midi-snake/midi-snake.ablx
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MIDI Device Lookup
🎹 MIDI Device Lookup
Right-click any MIDI or Audio track to browse CC and NRPN parameters for 400+ hardware devices — no manual PDFs needed.
Data: midi.guide / pencilresearch/midi (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
- Full device list grouped by manufacturer, searchable in real time
- Export button — copy parameters as CSV or JSON to clipboard (Ableton) / download as file (Web version)
- NRPN filter chip — additive filter: activate NRPN, then type to narrow further (e.g. "Korg" shows only Korg devices with NRPN). Filter stays active while typing; click again to deactivate.
- NRPN badge on each device that supports NRPN (purple, right-aligned)
- Params count badge (green, right-aligned) for quick visual scanning
- Section chips in device view — jump directly to General / Filter / Oscillator / LFO etc.
- CC and NRPN parameters per device with min/max ranges, descriptions, and sections
- Filter within a device's parameters to zero in on what you need
- Click any parameter row to copy its CC/NRPN number directly to the clipboard
- Copy TSV button exports the full (or filtered) parameter list — paste into Excel/Numbers
- CSV ↗ button opens the raw source data for a device on GitHub
- Update Database button pulls the latest device data from midi.guide
- After updating, a "New (N)" chip highlights devices added since the previous version
- Device not listed? Direct contribute link to github.com/pencilresearch/midi
- Version check — shows a notification in the footer when a new version is available
Try it without installing: https://jdaehler.github.io/midi-device-lookup/
v1.0.25 — History and favorites now persist across sessions; per-entry × button to remove history items; New chip toggleable; clear button (×) in search bar; Update Database fixed (fetches via Node.js).
v1.0.21 — Fix: Export in Ableton uses clipboard (Copy to Clipboard) instead of file download — Ableton's WebKit view does not support Blob downloads. Web version footer now links to the web version.
v1.0.20 — Fix: export modal no longer appears on startup (missing .hidden CSS class).
v1.0.19 — Export button: download parameters as CSV or JSON. Multi-device export coming in a future update.
v1.0.18 — NRPN filter now stacks with search: activate NRPN, then type "Korg" to see only Korg devices with NRPN. Filter stays active while typing.
v1.0.17 — NRPN filter chip now toggles (click again to deactivate).
v1.0.16 — NRPN filter chip, NRPN + params badges, section chips per device, contribute link when device not found.
v1.0.14 — Data source switched to midi.guide API: single request replaces ~400 CSV downloads, faster and more reliable updates.
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
Set Info
🎛️ Set Info
Right-click any MIDI or Audio track for a quick overview of your current Live set.
Shows:
- Tempo (BPM)
- Active scale (root note + name, or "Off")
- Track count, return tracks, scenes
- Update check — shows a notification when a new version is available
No menu diving — just the info you need at a glance.
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/set-info/set-info.ablx
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
Scale Filter
🎹 Scale Filter
Two MIDI clip tools via right-click:
- Remove — deletes all notes outside the active Live scale
- Snap to Scale — moves out-of-scale notes to the nearest scale note (no notes lost)
- Update check — shows a notification when a new version is available
Live's built-in scale mode only prevents wrong notes while recording — it doesn't touch notes already in a clip. Scale Filter works on existing clips and cleans them up after the fact.
Uses whatever scale you have set in Live's View → Scale panel.
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/scale-filter/scale-filter.ablx
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
Note Forge
🔨 Note Forge
A scale-aware MIDI pattern generator for Ableton Live. Right-click any MIDI clip, dial in your settings and hit Generate & Write — fill clips with musical ideas in seconds.
- Steps: 16 / 32 / 64 / 128 (up to 8 bars)
- Rhythm: Euclidean, Random, On Beat, Every Step — with density slider
- Pitch contour: Random, Ascending, Descending, Bounce, Arc
- Octave range: 1–3 octaves, base octave C2 / C3 / C4
- Velocity: Fixed, Random, Crescendo, Decrescendo, Humanize
- Note length: Short / Medium / Long
- APPEND or REPLACE existing notes
- Live preview shows the pattern before you commit
- Update check — shows a notification when a new version is available
Everything is locked to the scale set in Live — no wrong notes.
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/note-forge/note-forge.ablx
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
MIDI Invaders
🕹️ MIDI Invaders
A Space Invaders game that writes MIDI notes directly into your clip — right inside Ableton Live. Right-click any MIDI clip to start. Each column = one 16th note step, each row = a pitch from your current scale — shoot an invader to place that note.
- Fully scale-aware — uses whatever key/scale is set in Live
- MONO mode (default): one note per step
- POLY mode: multiple pitches per step (chords)
- APPEND / REPLACE toggle — layer patterns or start fresh
- Clip gets named automatically (e.g. MI-C-Major)
- Enemy fire keeps you on your toes 🔴
- Update check — shows a notification when a new version is available
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/midi-invaders/midi-invaders.ablx
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
Clip Info
📊 Clip Info
Right-click any MIDI clip to get a detailed breakdown of its contents:
- Note count (with muted note indicator)
- Velocity min / avg / max with visual bar
- Pitch range (lowest → highest note)
- Top 5 most-used pitch classes with frequency bars
- Clip duration in bars and beats
- Update check — shows a notification when a new version is available
Useful for analysing patterns, checking velocity consistency, or just getting a quick read on a clip without opening the Piano Roll.
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/clip-info/clip-info.ablx
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
Clip Colors
🎨 Clip Colors
Right-click any MIDI or Audio track to instantly colorize all clips on that track.
Three modes:
- Fixed — always uses the first color of the chosen family
- Random — picks a random shade from the family each time
- Cycle — steps through the shades in order across clips
- Update check — shows a notification when a new version is available
Separate color families for Audio and MIDI clips. Settings are saved between sessions.
Available color families: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Teal
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/clip-colors/clip-colors.ablx
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions
BBC SFX Browser
🎧 BBC SFX Browser (ARPMAN)
Right-click any Audio track or Simpler to search and download BBC Sound Effects — directly into your session.
Shows:
- Full-text search across the BBC Sound Effects library
- Preview sounds before downloading
- Drop directly as a clip on an Audio track
- Load directly into a Simpler sample slot
- Works in Arrangement and Session view
License: BBC RemArc — personal and educational use only.
Based on the original BBC Sound Effects extension by ancientplaces (MIT).
Install: drag the .ablx file into Preferences → Extensions
🔗 Download: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions/releases/download/bbc-sound-effects/bbc-sound-effects.ablx
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All extensions: https://github.com/jdaehler/abletonliveextensions