Audio Studio MCP
Audio Studio MCP is an open-source MCP server that lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients generate background music and sound effects locally with Stability AI's Stable Audio 3 model, then loop, normalize and export them.
Why it matters
For people making videos, games or app demos who want custom background music and sound effects without a cloud service or per-clip fees. You describe the sound in plain language and your AI assistant generates and finishes the file on your own computer.
Highlights
- Four tools: generate_audio (music, instrument loops or sound effects, 1-4 candidates per call), edit_audio (re-style, regenerate a time range, or extend a track), process_audio (trim, seamless loops, fades, loudness, WAV/OGG/FLAC export) and unload_models.
- Runs Stable Audio 3 locally: MLX on Apple Silicon Macs and PyTorch on Windows PCs with an NVIDIA GPU (Windows support arrived in v0.2.0). Nothing is uploaded and no API key is needed.
- Every file gets a JSON sidecar with its prompt, seed and settings, so results can be reproduced.
- The server passes the official Stable Audio 3 prompt guide to the client, so casual requests are turned into prompts the model understands.
- The maker reports about 10 s for 20 s of music on an M1 Mac and about 1.3 s on an RTX 3060 once the model is loaded.unverified
Taken from the project's own README, docs or launch page. Claims about speed or accuracy are the maker's unless stated otherwise.
Worth knowing: Commercial use of the generated audio is governed by the Stability AI Community License, which the README says allows commercial use for individuals and organizations under US$1M in annual revenue; check the license yourself. The model download is about 6 GB on Mac and about 14 GB (with PyTorch) on Windows, and the Windows weights need a free Hugging Face account. It makes instrumental music only,
Quick facts
| Pricing | Free; generation runs on your own hardware |
|---|---|
| Free or paid | Free (open source) |
| License | MIT (code); model weights under the Stability AI Community License |
| Language | Python (3.10-3.13, needs ffmpeg and git) |
| Platform | macOS on Apple Silicon (16 GB RAM recommended) or Windows 10/11 with an NVIDIA GPU (8 GB+ VRAM); Linux untested; Intel Macs and AMD GPUs not supported |
| GitHub stars | ★ 206 (as of 2026-10-19) |
| Maker | KanaWorks_AI (Tokyo AI Visuals LLC) |
Links
- Official site: https://kanaworksai-hue.github.io/audio-studio-mcp/
- Repository: https://github.com/kanaworksai-hue/audio-studio-mcp
- Release notes: https://github.com/kanaworksai-hue/audio-studio-mcp/releases
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What we couldn't verify
- highlights[4] (performance figures are the maker's own)
Checked 2026-10-19 from the tool's own pages. Prices and star counts change, so confirm on the official site. Listing here is not a ranking or an endorsement.
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