What you can ask for
Written the way you’d say it, not the way it’s implemented. Each entry is something Tine performs in your open set — and where a capability has a limit, it says so here rather than after you’ve bought.
30 of the 38 show tested phrasings: those exact words are run against a real Ableton session by our test suite, on every model below, and what Tine said back is quoted verbatim — transcripts, not examples.
They are a floor, not a syntax. You can be much vaguer than these, and how vague you can be scales with the model you run: a small local model wants a clear verb and a clear target, a larger one follows pronouns and implied targets, and the hosted model takes the most roundabout phrasing and the most compound requests. The capability underneath is identical — what changes is how much interpretation sits in front of it.
Tracks & mixing
Create a named track
Add a MIDI or audio track that arrives already named, instead of a Track 7 you rename later — or never.
tested phrasings- “make a midi track called Keys”
- “add an audio track called Gtr”
Delete or duplicate a track by name
Refer to a track the way you think about it. When two tracks could match, Tine asks which one rather than picking.
tested phrasings- “delete the Scrap track”
- “duplicate the Lead track”
Set a track's volume in dB
Say the level you want in the units the mixer shows, rather than dragging a fader towards it.
tested phrasings- “turn the Lead volume down to -6 dB”
- “set the Lead volume to -3 dB”
Pan a track
Place a track in the stereo field by description — hard left, slightly right, back to centre.
tested phrasings- “pan the Lead hard left”
- “pan the Lead slightly right”
Mute and solo
The fastest thing to do by hand, and still worth saying when your hands are on an instrument mid-take.
tested phrasings- “mute the Lead track”
- “solo the Lead track”
Sends and return tracks
Set how much of a track feeds a return, and create returns to send to — the routing chore, spoken.
tested phrasings- “turn up send A on the Lead track”
Rename, colour and fold tracks
Housekeeping that everyone postpones: naming, colour-coding and folding groups so a session stays readable.
tested phrasings- “rename the Lead track to Melody”
- “make the Lead track blue”
And the things it deliberately doesn’t do
A question is not an instruction, and thinking out loud in front of an open microphone is not a command. An assistant that edits your set because you wondered something aloud is one you switch off — so these are tested with the same weight as everything above, except the test asserts that nothing changed.
A question, not an instruction. Tine answers it and leaves your set alone.
Asking about a feature is not asking for it to be applied to the clip you happen to have selected.
Answers the question without switching your view to demonstrate.
Thinking out loud in front of an open microphone. Nothing is added, nothing is changed.