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CLIPGAIN m4l device by ValiumDuPeuple

How to:
⁃ Place the device on your Master track (you can place it anywhere actually, it’s just convenient
to place it on the Master)
⁃ Key and/or midi map the « Gain » and « Pitch » buttons. You can also map the « All » button
if you want to open both gain and pitch windows simultaneously.
⁃ You can also map the « Warp » button. This will not open any window, but simply un/warp
the selected clip.
⁃ The « Crop » key/midi mappable button will crop your midi clip in the piano roll (not in
Arrangement). It’s like Consolidating a midi clip in Arrangement, but in the piano roll.
⁃ Map the « quick edit shortcuts » + and - buttons to quickly increment/decrement the
selected’s clip gain/pitch by the chosen amount. 
At this stage I recommend to save as a new default set so you won’t have to repeat these steps
anymore.
⁃ Select an audio clip, press the key(s) you’ve mapped. This will pop-up a window, under your
mouse, with the clip’s gain/transpose fader/knob
⁃ You can either close the pop-up window(s) or leave it where it is. Every new audio selected
clip will declare its gain and pitch values to the pop-up window(s) and will be editable
instantly.
⁃ Enjoy
⁃ Spread the word, and rate the device on my Gumroad if you feel inclined:
https://gumroad.com/l/wmAPD
⁃ take care

Release notes:
v1.7:
New key/midi mappable shortcuts to select individual Warp modes.

v1.6:
It wasn’t possible to select the ComplexPro Warp mode

v1.5:
- new "quick edit shortcuts" : key/midi mappable buttons used to increment/decrement the
clip's gain/pitch by the chosen amount.
(The increment/decrement gain value isn't exact with the Clip Gain's values below 0dB. For
example a 1dB decrement below 0dB will not results in -1dB but in -1.18dB. That's because
of the weird and non-linear curve Live is using to scale the clip's gain. I might fix this later
on, or maybe Ableton will do it quicker than me. In any case, that really isn't a big deal,
sound-wise.)

v1.4:
- reduced CPU usage by stoping mouse position tracking when floating window isn't
displayed.
- warp mode selector was blocking Live's Undo history. It's also now shown as inactive (and
can't be tweaked) when the selected clip is not warped.
- new "warp" button to un/warp from the Pitch window (for mouse only i.e not mappable)

v1.3:
- CROP can now crop midi clips (only)
- you can now change the Warp Mode (in the Pitch window). Audio clip only.

v1.2.2:
- double click the gain fader now resets it to 0dB.
- you can't midi map the clip gain/transpose anymore. This removes extra undo steps (and it's
anyway better to midi map these directly from within Live).
- the un/warp button was blocking Live's undo history.
- some patch clean up (you might need to remap the buttons, sorry…)

v1.2.1:
- stretching a warped clip from Arrangement was slown down because of ClipGain.
- make sure pressing "WARP" doesn't do anything when no clip is selected

v1.2:
- Gain and Pitch can now be opened together with a single shortcut
- new WARP button that un/warps the selected clip
- after a clip was unselected by clicking in an empty area, moving the fader/knob would still
change the last clip's values. This is now fixed.
- colour tweaks

v1.1:
- added new Pitch window for audio clip transposition
- gain and transpose are always observed so you don't need to close and re-open the windows
for the values to be updated. It also means that you can keep the windows open all the time if
you want.

v1.0:
first release

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