#Waveform editor

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calm dirge
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An Ableton Live extension that lets you redraw the waveform of an audio clip with a pencil tool — a ProTools-style quality-of-life feature for spot-fixing pops, clicks, and clipping without leaving Live.

Inspired by the feature request from https://discord.com/channels/1019528834317553664/1512081251295563836

Download from GitHub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ottocoster/waveform-editor-ableton-live-extension/refs/heads/main/waveform-editor-1.0.0.ablx

Suports AIFF and WAV files, writes back the result as a new audio clip on a new track.

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Also includes audio playback while you're editing now

ornate socket
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Cool idea Otto. Could you add basic editing tools to it, say like fade in. and fade out selection, with curve options? And say set gain to -6, -3 for quikc destructive editing?

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Being able to do this in a sample edit window like old Logic would be killer.

atomic steppe
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this is sick
can we get a l/r link too?

calm dirge
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Added fade in, fase out with curve selection, quick gain adjustments and L/R link now:

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ornate socket
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Wow! Ace Otto. I will test it now.

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Do you have a fresh link?

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are the +3 -3 and +6 -6 gain amounts values, or set to -3 or -6dB?

ornate socket
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I think another super cool feature would be able to truncate the sample to say -50dB for the start and end of the audio clip.

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And being able to create a perfect loop with crossfade would be EPIC. Right now I use a third party app called Endless Wav. It is without a boubt the best looping app around. It is simple, but super at looping stuff that is very difficult to loop right. Worth checking out. https://www.bjoernbojahr.de/endlesswav.html. This built into you wave editor would be massive!

ornate socket
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Could you also add stereo to mono, if sound is dual mono?

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So, this would mean, not to sum the two sides, but delete say the left channel and render as just right. This would bypass the summing of both channels and create clipping.

quick forge
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Has anyone else run this extension on a mac and run into the the extension window not loading the waveform? I noticed that the extension will render the editor for the same time length as the wav I'm trying to edit, so I think the extension is able to see my wav file, but it just doesn't load the waveform on screen.

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ornate socket
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Working for me here on mac.

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I think the default should be selection tool on opening, and swap where both the selection and pencil tool are located. You also need a select all option for the full waveform. Latly, This should repleace the file you are editing in the arrange window, or clip, but add its edit to the processed consolindated folder if you can. Working well though. This is a great time saver.

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I think you should also retain the file name, but add edit and a number to the end of the name, instead of waveform-redraw if you can.

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All the new features are working fine for me here. Well done Otto.

fringe umbra
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This is nuts

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love it

calm dirge
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Updated version now uses the original filename-edit-# and has the selection tool default selected, makes more sense indeed!

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lyric prawn
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pls add pitch bending 🙂

sharp path
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This is cool. Should be a note that this works only in arrangement view

calm dirge
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Latest version should also work for the session view

ornate socket
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Otto, this is amazing my friend. Feels like editing audio in Logic back in the day.

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Maybe add a reverse selection as well?

ornate socket
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Otto, a few little things mate. The playhead will not play from anywhere wthin the loop after playback. Could you make it to play from selector, or selection?

calm dirge
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🚀 New release
Added pitch bending
Added reverse selection
Fixed play from start selection

ornate socket
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Nice Otto. I will test it out tomorrow. Thanks.

grim night
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to "update" the extension, do you just download the most recent version and it replaces it?

calm dirge
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Yeah, just replace the ablx file

lyric prawn
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your pitch bending is actually really cool !!- not done in the way i expected (lines and points or bezier)

nova anchor
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Thank you! Renoise comes with a similar tool. Always missed it since being on Live.

foggy iris
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Thank you so much for this great tool Otto! However I'm having one issue with it. It gives the clip a significant boost in gain even after I toggle the -6b. Am I doing anything wrong?

calm dirge
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I don't have this issue. Maybe your original clip has a negative gain applied, like in this example?

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ornate socket
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Hey Otto. Unfortunatley this last update does not work for me. it just does not launch on selection. Anyone else having this issue?

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Ok, forget that. I removed it. Restarted Live, then reinstalled it, and relaunched. Now it works fine. Everything seems to work great. Would it be possible to set a function button to add zero crossing selection for selection parts of the audio? This would stop clicks and stuff for editing say a small section you want to repitch, or reverse. That would be killer. The end up and down is ace mate. Nice feature.

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gilded moth
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I installed it, but it doesn't show up under Extensions. Any ideas?

calm dirge
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🚀 New release
Added support for longer samples
Added pitch correction editor
Added Snap to zero crossings
Fixed keeping original clip gain

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ornate socket
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Holy moly. Pitch correction? That is nuts.

fossil widget
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pitch correction editor is crazy!

mint thorn
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MELODYNE??

ornate socket
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This is sick Otto mate. The new pitching feature works very well. Well done sir!

lyric prawn
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WOW so cool

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is it still the version 1.0.0 file?

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west pumice
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GAMECHANGER!

pastel magnet
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WoW. Bravo!

neon bough
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is this working on mac? i tried it but couldnt manage to open it