Music composition MCP server with style presets, 30 instruments, and sheet music.
Music composition MCP server with style presets, 30 instruments, and sheet music. That is what the music studio mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
Two-mode creative music studio for AI: scored composition (ABC notation with sheet music) and live performance (Strudel live coding with TidalCycles). Interactive UI renders inline in Claude Desktop, claude.ai, and other MCP clients.
mcp-music-studio on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The server publishes 6 tools. What each one is for:
play-sheet-music — ABC notation → visual sheet music + multi-instrument audioplay-live-pattern — Strudel code → live-coded patterns with synthesis + effectsget-music-guide — ABC reference (7 topics: instruments, drums, syntax, genres...)get-strudel-guide — Strudel reference (7 topics: sounds, effects, patterns, genres...)search-music-docs — Semantic search over strudel.cc and ABCJS docsShared — The Shared tool exposed by this serverThis sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Music Studio's toolset — play-sheet-music, play-live-pattern, get-music-guide and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by linxule; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| play-sheet-music | ABC notation → visual sheet music + multi-instrument audio |
| play-live-pattern | Strudel code → live-coded patterns with synthesis + effects |
| get-music-guide | ABC reference (7 topics: instruments, drums, syntax, genres...) |
| get-strudel-guide | Strudel reference (7 topics: sounds, effects, patterns, genres...) |
| search-music-docs | Semantic search over strudel.cc and ABCJS docs |
| Shared | The Shared tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"music-studio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-music-studio"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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