Strip Silence v0.0.4-beta

What's new

This one is all tuning. After repetitive testing on real material, the built-in defaults changed:

• Threshold stays at -60 dB (unchanged).
• Head pad is now 0 ms instead of using the safety padding. At -60 dB the cut already lands right where each sound starts, and testing showed even half a sample of extra lead-in made no difference.
• Tail padding still falls back to the 25 ms safety padding.

If you have a .strip-silence.json, it still wins on any setting it mentions; anything it leaves out falls back to these values. No config file needed.

Everything else is untouched: detection algorithm, the Strip Silence Edit dialog, single-undo behavior.

Known issues

• If your selection starts exactly where a clip starts (no time selected before it), a few milliseconds of silence can remain at the very start of the selection after stripping. Workaround: extend the selection slightly before the clip and re-run.

Install

Download Strip-Silence-0.0.4.ablx below, drag it into Live's Settings → Extensions page, and restart Live.

Strip Silence v0.0.3-beta

What's new

Strip Silence now has two right-click commands:

• Strip Silence — runs exactly as before: reads your .strip-silence.json (or built-in defaults) and strips silence with no prompts.
• Strip Silence Edit — opens a small settings window first, so you can adjust before running:
  • Threshold in dB (e.g. -80)
  • Head pad in ms — quiet lead-in kept before each remaining clip
  • Tail pad in ms — quiet decay kept after each remaining clip

Notes on the Edit dialog:

• It starts prefilled from .strip-silence.json if you have one, otherwise built-in defaults.
• Values apply to that run only; nothing writes back to your config file.
• Leave a padding field blank to keep your current safety padding (25 ms unless your config says otherwise).
• Esc or Cancel closes without touching any clips.

Both commands share the same detection and clearing code, and everything still runs as one undo step.

Known issues

• If your selection starts exactly where a clip starts (no time selected before it), a few milliseconds of silence can remain at the very start of the selection after stripping. Workaround: extend the selection slightly before the clip and re-run.

Install

Download Strip-Silence-0.0.3.ablx below, then drag it into Live's Settings → Extensions page and restart Live.

Strip Silence v0.0.2-beta

Strip Silence v0.0.2-beta

Strip Silence automatically clears silent regions from selected audio tracks in Ableton Live's Arrangement view — no more manually trimming dead air from every clip.

This release fixes several cutting bugs and adds finer control over how much audio is preserved around each cut.

New

• Separate padding controls — headPaddingMs (lead-in kept before each clip) and tailPaddingMs (decay kept after each clip) can now be set independently in .strip-silence.json. Both fall back to safetyMilliseconds, so existing configs keep working.
• Tighter cuts are now practical: tested down to 0.5 ms head padding with a sensitive detection threshold (sampleThreshold: 0.00005) without clipping transients.

Fixed

• Safety padding now protects audio on both sides of every detected silent gap — previously only one side was padded.
• safetyMilliseconds from .strip-silence.json is now actually used by the detector; previously it was read but silently ignored (the built-in default always won).
• Removed a backwards second padding pass that could delete a few milliseconds of audio just before each gap.
• All clip-clear operations are now strictly clamped to your time selection — cleanup passes near the end of the range can no longer delete anything beyond it.

Upgrade notes

1. Remove any older version in Settings/Preferences → Extensions.
2. Drag Strip-Silence-0.0.2.ablx into the Extensions settings page and restart Live when prompted.

No config changes are required — your existing .strip-silence.json will behave as before unless you opt into the new keys.

Requirements & known issues

• Requires Ableton Live 12 Suite Beta (does not work in Standard, Intro, or Lite). See the Extensions FAQ.
• macOS tested; Windows not yet verified.
• A small (~4 ms) visual sliver may still remain at sliced clip starts due to host beat↔time rounding.
• Still no in-app settings UI — tune behavior via .strip-silence.json (see the README).

Full changes: see CHANGELOG.md.

Strip Silence v0.0.1-beta

Initial beta release

• Noise-gate style silence detection with configurable amplitude threshold and minimum silence duration
• Headless operation via .strip-silence.json config (no in-app settings UI yet)
• Safety padding and extra tail-clear logic to reduce rounding artifacts at clip boundaries
• Known issue: small (~4ms) visual slivers may remain at sliced clip starts in some host/clip combinations

Installation

1. Download Strip-Silence-0.0.1.ablx
2. Open Ableton Live 12 Suite Beta
3. Settings/Preferences → Extensions
4. Drag the .ablx file in
5. Restart Live

Usage

1. Arrangement view
2. Select audio track(s) + time selection
3. Right-click → Extensions → Strip Silence