Ableton Live Bridge

The Live bridge connects a Jam Club track to an open Ableton Live set. Your track stays the musical truth — the notes, patterns and arrangement live in Jam Club — while Live provides the sound: your own instruments, your own effects, your own signal chain.

What it is

The bridge is a small program you run on your own computer, separate from the browser app. It joins your track as a collaborator, exactly like another person would, and renders what it sees into Live over a local connection.

Because it joins as a genuine collaborator, everything that makes collaboration work applies to it: it receives changes live, and it does not need the browser tab to be doing anything special.

What it does

Pushing into Live

Your track's instruments and patterns are rendered into the open Live set. Edits you make in Jam Club arrive in Live as you make them.

Writing back

Edits made in Live's piano roll are sent back into your track's patterns. Since the Jam Club document is the source of truth, changes made on either side end up in the same place — and reach your collaborators too.

What you need

• Ableton Live, running, with a set open.
• AbletonOSC, the control surface the bridge talks to Live through.
• The bridge program, running on the same machine.
• A bridge token, which is how the bridge authenticates as you. See Bridge Tokens.

Why use it

Jam Club is a fast place to write and a limited place to sound. Live has your sample library, your plugins and your mixing setup. The bridge lets you keep composing in the browser — including with collaborators — while everything is monitored through the instruments you actually want to hear.

Where to go next

• Bridge Tokens — creating and revoking the credential the bridge needs.