Songwriting is a different relationship with a DAW than producing — Ableton is often a notebook for capturing chord progressions, sketching melodies, and demoing songs fast enough that the idea doesn't slip. The slower the path from "hearing it in your head" to "hearing it back in the room," the more songs you lose to that gap.
VIXSOUND collapses the gap. The chat assistant inside Ableton Live writes editable chord progressions in any genre and any key in seconds, transcribes voice memos and hummed melody recordings into MIDI clips, and generates full demo beds — chords, bass, drums, pad — so you can stop fighting the production and focus on lyrics and topline.
Then it stays available for the long-form harmonic conversations songwriters actually have during a session: where should the bridge go, can we modulate a minor third up here, what's a chord change that resolves the verse into the chorus more strongly than the I-V we have. The output is always editable MIDI you can shape with your own instruments and ship as 100% yours.
Hum the chorus into your phone in the kitchen. Drag the recording into VIXSOUND. Transcribe to MIDI. Swap the instrument to piano. Now you have a notated melody to develop, in any key, with full editing control.
"Give me four chord progression ideas for a sad ballad in F# minor at 72 BPM, extensions allowed, ending with a strong return to tonic." Four MIDI clips on four scenes, ready to A/B against each other.
Once verse and chorus are written: "suggest a bridge that goes a minor third up from the chorus key (D minor → F minor), four bars, then resolves back to D minor for the final chorus." The chat reads your existing clips and proposes a chord change that respects them. Pro mode (Studio + Ultra) is meaningfully better at this than Sonnet.
Open Ableton, type a chord progression idea, hum a melody. VIXSOUND turns ideas into MIDI fast. 7-day free trial.