ClipGain - Adjust clips' gain, transpose, warp and much more from the timeline!
What about clip gain, transpose, un/warp, change warp mode and much more directly from the clip in the timeline? Or with shortcuts? Or from a smartphone/tablet?
Sure! Simply use this device, ClipGain, oh yeah! MaxForLive is your friend, as always.
Let's Oversampled demonstrate it (with an older version):
Just select the clip you want to adjust, press the key/midi you've mapped to the device, and a nice little window will pop-up right next to your mouse... that's the little pop-up window you're going to love. And it works in both Arrangement and Session view.
- floating window to control the selected clip's gain, pitch, warp settings, clip launch mode and launch settings (quantization, legato), clip's ram mode, clip un/mute, in Arrangement timeline/Session view over the clip, right under your mouse's location, without the need to reach for the detailed clip view.
- shortcuts to quickly add/remove a user-defined amount of dB and semitones to the selected clip.
- select individual Warp modes with key/midi shortcuts.
- shortcut to un/warp the selected clip
- shortcut to crop the in the clip editor
- shortcut to Duplicate the midi clip's length
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can be controlled from a smartphone/tablet
HOW TO: place the device anywhere (I recommend to place it on your Master track and then save as template), key/midi map the single button. That's it. The device controls the currently selected clip.
You can check the User Guide here.
It's 3€, but you can give more if you feel like it deserves it.
Live 9 minimum (it should work with L8, but I didn't test) and a MaxForLive license is required.
Release notes:
v2.2:
- fixes an Undo issue
v2.1:
- floating window opening optimization
- Few colors tweaks to ensure compatibility with L12 Themes
v2.0:
- New GUI, thanks to ELPHNT, the one and only.
- Crop can crop audio clips too (as of L11.3.20)
- Added clip's Launch mode, Launch Legato, launch quantization, RAM mode, clip mute, duplicate midi clip length.
- Everything has been collected into a single floating window
- Fixed the Rex/Pro warp mode selection bug
- Mira support. The device can now be controlled from any smartphone/tablet or even a browser on your computer
v1.7:
- New key/midi mappable shortcuts to select individual Warp Modes
v1.6:
- It wasn’t possible to select the ComplexPro Warp mode
v1.5:
- new "quick edit shortcuts" : key/midi mappable buttons used to increment/decrement the clip's gain/pitch by the chosen amount.
(The increment/decrement gain value isn't exact with the Clip Gain's values below 0dB. For example a 1dB decrement below 0dB will not results in -1dB but in -1.18dB. That's because of the weird and non-linear curve Live is using to scale the clip's gain. I might fix this later on, or maybe Ableton will do it quicker than me. In any case, that really isn't a big deal, sound-wise.)
v1.4:
- reduced CPU usage by stoping mouse position tracking when floating window isn't displayed.
- warp mode selector was blocking Live's Undo history. It's also now shown as inactive (and can't be tweaked) when the selected clip is not warped.
- new "warp" button to un/warp from the Pitch window (for mouse only i.e not mappable)
v1.3:
- you can now change the Warp Mode (in the Pitch window). Audio clip only.
- new CROP button: can now crop midi clips (only)
v1.2.2:
- double click the gain fader now resets it to 0dB.
- you can't midi map the clip gain/transpose anymore. This removes the extra undo steps created by this device (and it's anyway better to midi map these directly from within Live).
- the un/warp button was blocking Live's undo history.
- some patch clean up (you might need to remap the buttons, sorry…)
v1.2.1:
- stretching a warped clip from Arrangement was slown down because of ClipGain.
- made sure pressing "WARP" doesn't do anything when no clip is selected
v1.2:
- Gain and Pitch can now be opened together with a single shortcut
- new WARP button that un/warps the selected clip
- after a clip was unselected by clicking in an empty area, moving the fader/knob would still change the last clip's values. This is now fixed.
- colour tweaks
v1.1:
- added new Pitch window for audio clip transposition
- gain and transpose are always observed so you don't need to close and re-open the windows for the values to be updated. It also means that you can keep the windows open all the time if you want.
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