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Clicked it expecting another "list of mixtapes by deadmau5", ended up very surprised, and bought a copy! Very cool!

I know Ableton Live has python scripting support built in. I wonder how hard it'd be to integrate all this into composer tools in the DAW

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Unfortunately I haven't seen an official Ableton Live python scripting support. I have tried to find it with no success.

Yes, the controllers are configured using precompiled python scripts and 3rd party users have been decompiling them and building their own bindings based on that. But liveapi.org / http://code.google.com/p/liveapi/ has been down for a while and was built for version 6.0.7 (current is version 8).

Currently official way to access Ableton API seems to be MAX [1] but I have no experience with that. At first sight it didn't seem to have any python reference. I could be wrong.

[1] http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/m4l-ref/m4l_live_api...

On a side note, Renoise is a terrific DAW/Tracker, and has built-in Lua scripting, plus native OSC support (something still lacking in Live).

Yes, Renoise is definitely a music program every geek should check out :D

Manipulating Ableton Live directly using python is tricky as you need to impersonate a proprietary device. However, there's a fairly there's a fairly straightforward Open Sound Control API here: http://livecontrol.q3f.org/ableton-liveapi/liveosc/

I few years back, I wrote Ruby and C wrappers to communicate with Live via OSC: https://github.com/tassock/ruby_4_live, https://github.com/tassock/ofxAbleton

Oh nice, thanks. I just wrote OSCPad for Android which I hope becomes the standard OSC controller for Android, I will look at some default templates supporting Ableton Live.

Not so fast, you only get the mixtape by deadmau5 if you buy 5 copies ;-)

If you're tired of deadmau5 mixtapes you can head to musicforprogramming.net for some new coding tunes :)

Clicky: http://musicforprogramming.net/ Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694

Music during 'Notch live coding 0x10c': http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3811332

Found somewhere in there, a 290GB 'Essential Mix' archive: http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix

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