Nap-trapped by a baby, they got Codex to build a song in Ableton
Nap-trapped by their baby, they built an MCP bridge so an agent could run their Ableton Live set directly. Codex composed an EDM track from scratch, then they revised vocals, drums and dynamics with follow up prompts.
Done withCodexSpotted· by GitHub user bschoepke· Oct 20, 2026
Result Also had Codex compose a piano duet debating AI's merits
“I made this MCP server so I could just ask Codex to do anything in Ableton Live for me, while I was nap-trapped by my baby.”
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What they did
They built a general-purpose MCP bridge, written while nap-trapped by their baby, that lets an agent eval arbitrary Python inside Ableton Live’s object model, covering MIDI clips, audio, devices and signal analysis. Then they asked Codex to make a self reflective EDM song with text to speech vocals, chiptunes and eighties drum machines, and kept giving it follow up prompts to adjust the mix.
How it went
Codex produced the song from scratch in just a few minutes, and they kept iterating with follow up prompts to fix vocal timing, add dynamics and bring in a new element before the final exit. They also used the built in audio tap to have Codex generate a spectrogram of two piano tracks.
Try it yourself with Codex
Set up an MCP bridge for your DAW, then ask your agent to build a track from scratch: specify the genre, instrumentation, and any text to speech vocals you want, e.g. '[a self reflective song with chiptunes and 80s drum machines]'. After the first draft, give focused follow up prompts one at a time, like '[add more dynamics after the drop]' or '[the vocals are squished, give them more length]', until the mix sounds right.
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