Roadmap

Get Involved · In Progress · Planned Features · Changelog

Get Involved

I maintain the core tools and roadmap, but there's room to collaborate:

• Testing & evaluations — automated end-to-end testing, LLM comparisons
• Small model optimization — help make Ollama/LM Studio work better
• Voice interaction — experimental bidirectional voice chat
• Documentation — improvements and tutorials
• Bug reports — especially reproducible LLM tool misuse

Open a GitHub Discussion or reach out directly.

In Progress

1.4 - MIDI Modulation

Enhance the ppal-create-clip, ppal-update-clip, and ppal-transform-clips tools with flexible MIDI modulation features:

• Apply ramps, curves, and LFO shapes to MIDI velocity, start time, duration, and other note properties
• Apply timing patterns like swing
• Randomize velocity and timing
• Changes are applied directly to MIDI clips (the notes are modified). The results can be easily seen and edited by hand.

Changelog

1.3 - Device Control (December 2025 - January 2026)

• Full device control: add/delete/move native devices on any track, read/write parameters, insert into rack chains
• Rack macro and variation management
• A/B comparison for device parameters

Also added support for:

• Arrangement locators
• MIDI clip quantization

1.2 - Audio clip, mixer, and improved Arrangement support (November 2025)

• Audio clip support with a read-samples tool to scan folders for samples
• Track mixer control: gain, panning, and sends
• Arrangement clip positioning and length control
• Experimental ppal-transform-clips tool for slicing, shuffling, and randomizing clips

1.1 - Built-in chat UI (November 2025)

Direct API integrations for Google Gemini, OpenAI, Mistral, OpenRouter, LM Studio, Ollama, and more.

1.0 - Support for more LLMs (October 2025)

Expanded features and support for multiple AI platforms.

0.9 - Public Beta with Claude Desktop (July 2025)

Initial public release with Claude Desktop support and a focus on MIDI clip manipulation and basic Live Set management.

Planned Features

1.5 - Code Execution

• Sandboxed JavaScript for algorithmic composition and transformation

1.6 - Customization

• Custom skills, system prompts, tool descriptions, and task-focused personas for experimentation and local model optimization

1.7 - Harmony

• Chord notation
• Pitches as scale/chord degrees of the current chord (instead of absolute pitches)
• Microtonal support

1.8 - Audio Editing and Synthesis

• Reverse audio clips
• Generate audio files on demand from a selection of synthesis algorithms and arrange them as audio clips or use them in Drum Racks/Simpler/Sampler
• Generate novel DSP algorithms

1.x - Misc

• Take lane support
• Groove support
• Persist conversations from the built-in chat UI and continue them later
• Voice interface: Speak to Producer Pal instead of typing