Music Studio

ABC sheet music + Strudel live coding studio with ext-apps widgets, harmony tools, and share links.

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    Do you need an account

    No: the server works without sign-in

    ABC sheet music + Strudel live coding studio with ext-apps widgets, harmony tools, and share links.

    How to connect

    How to connect Music Studio to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://mcp-music-studio.linxule.workers.dev/mcp

    1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
    2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
    3. Click Add custom connector.
    4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
    5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

    Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

    Authorization

    After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

    How to connect Music Studio to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://mcp-music-studio.linxule.workers.dev/mcp

    1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
    2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
    3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
    4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
    5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
    6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

    OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

    Authorization

    On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

    How to connect Music Studio to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://mcp-music-studio.linxule.workers.dev/mcp

    Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

    Manually:

    1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
    2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
    3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

    Authorization

    If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

    Server tool list (7)

    Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

    play-sheet-musicCompose and play sheet music with visual notation, multi-instrument audio, and style presets. Write ABC notation for melodies, arrangements, harmonized pieces, or well-known tunes. Add a style (rock, jazz, bossa, waltz, folk...) for automatic drums, bass, and chord accompaniment. Returns a parse-status confirmation and renders the player; it does not return raw audio. Use get-music-guide for genre templates, instrument lists, and ABC syntax reference. The music player renders inline with interactive playback controls.
    play-live-patternLive-code music patterns using TidalCycles mini-notation in JavaScript. Layer drums, synths, and bass with stack(). Choose from 71 drum machine banks, 128 GM instruments, built-in synths, and a full effects chain. Patterns play in a REPL the user can edit directly. Add .pianoroll() to a pattern to show a live piano-roll animation in the widget (or .punchcard()/.scope()/.spectrum() — one draw method per pattern). For a custom animated background, start the code with `await initHydra()` and write Hydra shader code — H(pattern) locks it to the sequence, and `() => a.fft[0]` makes it react to the audio itself (Strudel's output, not the mic); see get-strudel-guide topic 'hydra'. Rather not hand-write one? `visuals` picks a ready-made animation for code that has none (pianoroll/punchcard/scope/spectrum, or hydra-kaleid/pulse/wash/feed). `theme` sets the code-editor colour scheme, which also tints the visuals — match it to the mood (teletext chiptune, sonicPink synthwave, nord ambient, gruvboxDark lofi). Each call creates a NEW player rather than updating the last one — for a tweak, send the whole revised pattern and ask the user to stop the previous one. Use get-strudel-guide for genre templates, sound references, and advanced features like arrangement and sample loading. The Strudel REPL renders inline with an editable code editor, visualizations, and playback controls.
    get-music-guideReturns detailed reference material for music composition. Topics: instruments (GM instrument list + combos), drums (patterns + percussion notes), abc-syntax (notation reference), arrangements (multi-voice patterns), genres (complete ABC templates for jazz/blues/folk/rock/bossa/classical), styles (what each style preset does), midi-directives (%%MIDI reference).
    get-strudel-guideReference material for Strudel live coding (performance mode). Topics: mini-notation (pattern syntax), sounds (synths, 71 drum banks, 128 GM instruments, 128 vcsl orchestral/percussion samples), effects (filters, reverb, delay, FM synthesis, envelopes), patterns (transformations, probability, euclidean, arrangement), genres (complete templates: techno/house/dnb/ambient/jazz/lofi/synthwave), tips (tempo, common mistakes, ABC↔Strudel crossover), visuals (pianoroll/scope draw methods, the visuals presets and the theme parameter), hydra (WebGL shader backgrounds: initHydra, H(pattern), the audio-reactive a.fft object, recipes, cheat-sheet), advanced (sample loading, wavetables, ZZFX, continuous signals, chord voicings).
    search-music-docsSearch detailed documentation for Strudel live coding or ABC/ABCJS notation. Returns relevant code examples and explanations from the official docs. Use this when the curated guides (get-strudel-guide, get-music-guide) don't cover what you need — for specific functions, advanced techniques, or when you're unsure about syntax. Powered by semantic search over strudel.cc and ABCJS docs.
    analyze-harmonyMusic theory helper: name a chord from notes, guess the key, get a progression, or list what fits a key. Returns both the ABC chord-symbol spelling (for play-sheet-music) and the Strudel form (for play-live-pattern). Tasks: detect-chord (notes -> chord name + what to play next), detect-key (notes or chords -> best key + diatonic chords), suggest-progression (key [+ romanNumerals] -> chord symbols), scale-for-chord (chords -> the scale to improvise over each), key-chords (key -> every diatonic triad, seventh, and chord scale). Use it before writing chord symbols for a style preset, or to check a harmonization.
    convert-abc-to-strudelTurn an ABC melody into Strudel mini-notation so a scored piece can be remixed live. Returns runnable code — setcps() from the Q: tempo, one [...] bar group per bar inside note("<...>"), with a chord("<...>").voicing() layer stacked alongside it when the ABC has chord symbols (one stack(), because Strudel plays only the last expression) — then pass it to play-live-pattern. Durations become @ weights, rests become ~, triplets nest, the key signature is folded into the note names, and %%MIDI program picks the sound. Lists what was lost (grace notes, dynamics, repeats, lyrics, other voices, inline tempo changes, a short final bar, ABC's own gchord/drum accompaniment). Pick a single voice with `voice`; re-run per voice and stack() them for a full arrangement.