Device Details
Overview
| Name | Version: | CPHN AUTOCLIP 1.0 |
| Author: | cellophanaudio |
| Device Type: | Audio Effect |
| Description: | cphn - auto clip Automatic clip-gain staging for Ableton Live 12+. cphn - auto clip is a Max for Live utility that listens to the audio passing through its track, estimates a calibrated VU/RMS-style average, and writes a static Clip Gain correction to the relevant audio clip. It is designed for fast pre-plugin gain staging before analog-modeled compressors, saturators, channel strips, and console-style processors. What it does: - Measures incoming track audio with a 300 ms VU-style RMS window. - Uses a rolling gated average to ignore silence, tails, and tiny noise. - Lets you choose a target reference level such as -18 dBFS. - Applies the correction directly to Ableton Clip Gain. - Passes audio through transparently; it is not a compressor, limiter, or live gain effect. UI guide: - Target: choose the reference level you want the clip to average around. - Enable: turns the analysis/control behavior on or off. Audio still passes transparently. - Apply: writes the calculated Clip Gain correction to the clip. - RMS: current calibrated rolling average estimate. - Peak: recent sample peak safety readout. - Correction: proposed Clip Gain change. - Pred Peak: estimated peak after correction. - Clip / Current / Proposed: selected or detected clip info and gain state. - Status: tells you when the device is ready, waiting for audio, or has applied gain. Workflow: 1. Place the device before your level-sensitive processors. 2. Play a representative section of the audio clip. 3. Wait for the correction readout to settle. 4. Click Apply. 5. Replay the same section to verify or apply a fine trim. Best for: - Fast -18 dBFS-style gain staging. - Preparing clips before analog-modeled plugins. - Session View clips playing on the same track as the device. Notes: Arrangement View has a Live API limitation, so select the target clip when working in Arrangement. MIDI clips are ignored. |
Details
| Live Version Used: | 12.0.5 |
| Max Version Used: | 8.6.2 |
| Date Added: | May 11 2026 15:41:26 |
| Date Last Updated: | May 11 2026 15:51:11 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
| Website: | https://cellophanaudio.gumroad.com/l/cphnautoclip |
| ⓘ License: | None |
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