Clip Tool v1.0.2
Maintenance release focused on long and warped clips, smoother feedback while rendering, and more consistent cropping.
Fixes and improvements
- Smooth processing progress. The progress bar now climbs steadily through the whole render — decode, pitch/time-stretch, and encode — instead of appearing to hang near the start. A moving bar (even a slow one on long files) means it's working.
- Warped clips re-import cleanly. Replacing or copying a warped clip no longer double-warps the result, which previously caused tempo drift and stutter/jitter.
- Consistent cropping across Process, Copy to Arrangement and → Simpler — all crop to an explicit loop selection.
- Sturdier preview. Recovers from a transient decode hiccup instead of going silent for the rest of the session, and reports a clear error if the audio fails to load.
- Clip guard runs after time-stretch, catching overlap-add overshoot as well as gain overshoot.
- Faster editor open on long clips (avoids an extra in-memory copy of the rendered audio).
Working with long stems — what to expect
- Opening the editor on a long stem takes a moment. Live renders the clip's audio before the waveform can be shown, so there's a short pause between choosing Clip Tool and the editor appearing. This is normal — it's preparing the waveform, not frozen.
- Pitch and time-stretch on long files take time to process. These are the heaviest operations; the longer the clip and the larger the pitch shift, the longer the render. Watch the progress bar — steady movement means it's working.
Install
- Download
clip-tool.ablxbelow. - In Live, open Preferences > Extensions.
- Drag the file onto the panel, then restart Live.
- Right-click any audio clip and choose Clip Tool.
Requires Ableton Live 12 with Extensions support.