Best Steinberg MCP Servers
Steinberg is a German musical software and hardware company that develops, manufactures and sells music recording, arranging and editing software, notably Cubase, Nuendo and WaveLab. The company was founded in 1984 and is now owned by Yamaha Corporation.
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Enables natural language control of Steinberg Dorico music notation software, allowing creation of scores, note input, notation, harmony analysis, orchestration checks, and more via the Dorico Remote Control API.
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenanceAn MCP server that enables natural language control of Steinberg Dorico music notation software through Claude Desktop or ChatGPT, offering tools for score creation, note input, notation, harmony analysis, and orchestration.5415MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to control Steinberg Dorico through its Remote Control API, enabling note input, rests, transposition, mode switching, playback control, and score edits in an open Dorico project.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceAn AI composition partner that remote-controls Steinberg Dorico through the Model Context Protocol, enabling composers to create, edit, play back, and refine musical scores using natural language.307AGPL 3.0Why this server?
Connects to a live Dorico 6 score, Steinberg's notation software, via Dorico Remote Control and built-in Lua scripting. It enables reading and editing music in the open project, including notes, chords, rests, dynamics, hairpins, articulations, playing techniques, voices, tuplets, clefs, tempo, text, and voice-leading checks, with each edit applied as an undoable and verified operation.
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Controls Steinberg Cubase through a MIDI Remote bridge script, exposing tools to inspect and modify tracks, inserts, plugins and their parameters, volume/mute/solo/record arm, transport and locators, markers, and automation; records automation curves, edits time ranges (cut/insert/delete silence) for podcast editing, changes project settings (cycle, metronome, count-in, punch, pre/post-roll), imports audio, exports mixes, and can save the open project when explicitly permitted.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityBmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to inspect and control Cubase DAWs, including tracks, mixing, plugins, transport, markers, automation, and podcast-oriented time-range editing, with read-only defaults and verified writes.AGPL 3.0Why this server?
Provides real-time viewing and control of Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo projects, including transport, tempo, locators, mixer and channel strip settings, insert and plug-in parameters, over 1400 Cubase commands, and MIDI note recording/generation.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityBmaintenanceEnables Claude or any MCP client to view and control a Cubase/Nuendo project in real time, including transport, tempo, locators, mixer, channel strip, inserts, plug-in parameters, and 1,454 commands. It also supports music generation and recording notes into tracks.1MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for controlling Steinberg Cubase AI 16 through a MIDI Remote background channel, including project lifecycle, MIDI and audio import/export, track and plugin management, transport control, automation, routing, and parameter editing.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityBmaintenanceEnables MCP clients to manage a local Cubase instance in the background via MIDI Remote, covering project lifecycle, MIDI/audio import, track, plugin, automation, and routing edits, transport control, and non-UI audio export.MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Cubase (by Steinberg) via MIDI Remote API and virtual MIDI ports, providing tools for transport control, track management, plugin parameter manipulation, and audio export.
FlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceEnables headless control of Cubase via MIDI Remote API and virtual MIDI ports, supporting transport, track, and plugin parameter operations through 238 registered MCP tools.3-Why this server?
Hosts third-party VST3 audio plugins (on macOS, Windows, and Linux) with native GUI windows and automatable/modulatable parameter controls, allowing external VST3 instruments and effects to be used within Infinite's modular audiovisual environment.
FlicenseNot gradedqualityAmaintenanceopen-source modular daw and audiovisual engine for ai agents. synthesize per-sample audio, generate procedural 3d geometry, and render 60fps video over 9 mcp tools.329-