Magenta Studio is a collection of music plugins for Ableton Live, built on the open source tools and models from the Magenta research project. It works on MIDI clips in Session View and includes five tools: Continue, Generate, Interpolate, Groove and Drumify. Each tool applies a machine learning model, such as recurrent neural networks or variational autoencoders, to melodies and drum patterns, with a temperature slider that controls how conservative or chaotic the output is. Version 2.0 runs as a plugin inside Ableton Live, and the older standalone applications are no longer actively maintained.
It is intended for music producers, beatmakers, composers and sound designers who already work in Ableton Live and want fresh MIDI ideas. Researchers and educators interested in machine learning for music can also use it, since the models and code are open source and the page links to GitHub. Installation requires Ableton Live 10.1 Suite or later, or an earlier version with a separate Max 8 install, and the plugin is a Max for Live device dragged onto a MIDI track.
A producer stuck on a drum loop can run Continue to extend it by up to 32 measures, or Generate to get a four-bar phrase with no input at all. A composer can use Interpolate to blend two melodies or two beats into up to 16 clips that morph smoothly between them. Drumify turns a rhythm into a drum pattern, and Groove adds human-like timing to a quantized pattern. Output clips are placed in the clip slots after the selected clip, so ideas land directly in the session. Melody input is limited to monophonic lines, and drum input maps notes onto nine standard drum instruments.
