PS Clip Jockey
Ghost clips for Live: tag a master clip, edit it, push the change to every linked clip in the arrangement. Up to eight groups per track.
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About PS Clip Jockey
PS Clip Jockey brings ghost clips to Ableton Live. Tag one clip as a master, edit it, and push that change to every linked clip across your arrangement. It is the linked-clip workflow Cubase users have had for years, now in Live. Free, and in active beta.
How it works: tag a clip as a master and the clips that follow it on the same track become its slaves. Make an edit to the master (a new kick fill, a transposed bassline, a tweaked groove), then hit Push Changes. Every slave carrying that tag updates to match, wherever it sits on the timeline. You can run up to eight independent master groups per track, so your intro, main, breakdown and outro can each carry their own linked set of clips.
The five right-click actions (Arrangement view, under Extensions):
- Tag as Master: marks the clip [M] and tags every clip that follows it on the track as a slave [S]. Up to eight master groups per track ([M], M2, M3 and so on).
- Push Changes: syncs all slave clips sharing that master's tag to match the master, anywhere on the timeline.
- Add to Master: drops an untagged clip into the nearest master group that precedes it on the timeline.
- Remove Tag: strips the tags from a group so those clips no longer update. Untag a single clip and it simply stops following.
- Sync Names: renames every clip in a group to match its master, so your intro group all reads "Intro", your main group all reads "Main".
Gaps break naming on purpose: where there is a gap between clips the tag sequence stops, so a later section you want to manage separately stays separate.
One thing the authors are upfront about: this is an offline version. Slaves do not update live as you edit, you push changes manually when you are ready. That is a current limitation of the Extensions SDK, not a design choice, and it is on their roadmap as the SDK grows.
Requirements: Ableton Live 12 Suite on the public beta (12.4.5 or higher) with Extensions enabled. It will not load on the standard Live 12 release. Download the free .ablx from the Producer Stack product page, open Live's Settings → Extensions tab, and install it there. Version 0.1.0 at the time of listing.
How to install
- Download the extension from the author's link above.
- In Ableton Live 12 Suite (beta 12.4.5+), open Settings → Extensions and add the
.ablxfile. - Right-click a arrangement selection in your Set and pick PS Clip Jockey from the menu.
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