MCP Music Studio

What it does

MCP Music Studio brings a full creative music environment into your AI client. It offers two distinct modes: Scored Composition for writing structured sheet music using ABC notation with real-time rendering and multi-instrument playback, and Live Performance for live-coding rhythmic patterns using Strudel (TidalCycles-style mini-notation in JavaScript). The interactive UI renders directly inside Claude Desktop, claude.ai, and other ext-apps–capable clients.

Key features

• Sheet music rendering — ABC notation produces animated sheet music with notes highlighted as they play
• 30+ instruments — piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, synths — selectable by name; 8 style presets add drums, bass, and chord accompaniment automatically
• WAV export — download audio directly from the in-client UI
• Live coding REPL — Strudel patterns play immediately; users can edit the code and hear changes in real time; record and export as WAV
• 72 drum machine banks + 128 GM instruments — full synthesis and effects chain (reverb, delay, FM)
• Semantic doc search — search-music-docs queries strudel.cc and ABCJS documentation
• Remote-first — paste one URL and it works; no local install required

Installation

Remote (no install):

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

Add this URL in Claude Desktop → Settings → Connectors, or Claude.ai → Settings → Integrations.

Claude Desktop (local):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "music-studio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-music-studio", "--stdio"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "music-studio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-music-studio", "--stdio"]
    }
  }
}

Windsurf (~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "music-studio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-music-studio", "--stdio"]
    }
  }
}

Supported hosts

Claude Desktop, claude.ai, VS Code Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, Gemini CLI