first conversation:
how to talk to it.
tonee isn't a command-line tool with a fixed vocabulary. It reads your set, infers what you mean, and asks when it isn't sure. This page covers how that works in practice.
01 /How tonee reads your set
Before every reply, tonee mirrors your Live session: track names, clip states, device chains, send levels, tempo, and scene names. It doesn't guess; it reads. That's why you can say "the pad track" instead of "track 3", and it knows what you mean.
Nothing is sent to the AI backend except this structured state snapshot and your message. No audio. No MIDI data. No file contents.
02 /Talking naturally
You don't need to learn a command syntax. Describe what you're trying to achieve. Production language works fine. tonee understands gear names, genre vocabulary, and Ableton-specific terms.
Vague intent ("do something with the send") will get a clarifying question. Specific intent with natural language ("raise the send to the plate by 2 dB") executes directly.
03 /When it asks, when it acts
tonee defaults to conservative. If a request could apply to multiple tracks or its interpretation could cause an unwanted change, it asks one short clarifying question before doing anything.
When the intent is unambiguous, it executes immediately and tells you what it did. Every change lands on the undo stack, so one ⌘Z in Live reverts it completely.
04 /Session memory
Within a session, tonee remembers the full conversation. You can refer back to earlier moves: "undo the thing you did to the reverb" or "actually, do the same to the delay track" both work naturally.
Every conversation is saved to the history tab in chronological order. You can reopen any past session and continue it. tonee picks up with whatever project is currently open. History is about the conversation, not a specific file.
For things you want tonee to carry across all future chats (your preferred signal chain, how you like your reverbs, anything), just tell it to remember:
Memories persist across all sessions. Recipes replay a fixed sequence of steps; memories shape how tonee makes decisions.
05 /A full example
A realistic back-and-forth working on a vocal chain mid-session: