Roadmap

Upcoming

1.4.x

• Take lane support

1.5 - Personalization and Extensibility

• Global context: add your own reference material and custom instructions across all Live projects
• Global memory: Producer Pal can adapt over time to your needs and interaction style
• Custom skills, system prompts, tool sets, and tool descriptions
• Workflows: pre-defined tool call sequences for reliable, repeatable operations
• Alternative MIDI syntaxes
• Context manager in the built-in chat UI for working with all the above

See Extending Producer Pal for more on the extension model.

Changelog

See the list of releases for more detailed information.

1.4 - MIDI Transforms, REST API, and Live API Access (February–May 2026)

MIDI transforms: math expressions for transforming note properties

• Ramps, curves, and LFO shapes (arrangement-relative or clip-relative)
• Randomization with arbitrary ranges, or choose from a set of values
• Helpers: swing(), quant(), legato(), seq(), step(), wrap(), reflect()
• Context variables like note index and clip position in the arrangement

REST API and agent skills:

• HTTP-based tool calls without MCP setup
• Drop-in agent skill for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and other SKILL.md-compatible runtimes

New tools and broader Live API coverage:

• ppal-library for searching the Live Library (samples)
• ppal-live-api for direct Live API access to cover gaps in specialized tools
• Simpler sample loading via ppal-update-device (requires Live 12.4+)
• Device-specific parameter control for 9 native devices (Drift, Wavetable, Simpler, Meld, Compressor, EQ Eight, Hybrid Reverb, Roar, Spectral Resonator)

Other improvements:

• Split arrangement clips at specified positions
• Multi-object create / update / duplicate operations
• Configurable Ollama and LM Studio URLs for remote hosting
• Experimental voice control in the chat UI (OpenAI realtime)
• Many built-in chat UI improvements: conversation history, token usage reporting, grouped tool calls, message editing, and more

1.3 - Device Control (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

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.

Beyond 1.5

After 1.5, the core stabilizes — future core changes focus on bug fixes and supporting new Live API features as they become available. New capabilities will come through extensions: community skills, workflows, and companion MCP servers.

Core features under consideration:

• Chord notation and pitches as scale/chord degrees
• Bar|beat and MIDI transform notation refinements (including alternate notations that may work better with smaller models)
• Audio analysis
• Audio synthesis