Seven professional MAX 4 Live plugins for sound designers, music researchers, and sample library creators. Every parameter calibrated to preflight QA standards — silence onset, peak protection, loudness, duration, spectrum, and WAV export.
A complete preflight QA suite for Ableton Live. Silence detection, peak monitoring, A/B comparison, duration verification, spectral inspection, loudness monitoring, and batch WAV export. One install, every stage covered.
Checks whether your audio starts within a defined silence window. Designed for researchers and sound designers who need to verify that exported clips start at exactly the right moment.
When bouncing or exporting clips, leading silence of even a few milliseconds can shift stimulus timing in controlled experiments or sample libraries. Manual waveform inspection is slow and inconsistent across many files.
Monitors sample peak levels and holds the worst-case maximum since last reset. Designed for sound designers and sample library creators who need to catch headroom issues before committing to a render.
Clipping during export is destructive and irreversible. Ableton's built-in meters do not hold peak maximums for post-session review. Peak Guard gives you a dedicated peak hold display for headroom verification before bounce.
Auditions two audio variants back-to-back without switching tracks. Designed for sound designers and researchers who need fast, focused comparison of stimulus variants.
Comparing two clips in Ableton requires track switching, re-arming, and context changes that disrupt listening focus. A/B Comparator plays two selected files sequentially in one click — no track management needed.
Checks whether a rendered clip falls within a defined length window. Designed for researchers and sample library creators who need every exported file to hit a precise duration target.
Recording methods do not always stop at exactly the intended length. Fade tails, noise floors, and transport timing introduce variation. Duration Checker measures from detected onset to confirmed end of signal and flags deviation from a configurable target.
Inline FFT spectrum display for AUX return monitoring. Designed for sound designers and researchers who need a persistent spectrum view inside the device chain without opening a separate window.
Ableton's Spectrum device lives in a separate floating window and interrupts workflow. Spectrum Analyzer runs inline on a return track, stays visible in the device chain, and supports frame freeze for inspection without interrupting playback.
Momentary and running loudness monitor referenced to −18 LUFS. Designed for researchers and sound designers who need inline loudness monitoring without leaving the device chain.
Ableton has no native LUFS display. Third-party meters live outside the device chain. LUFS Meter gives you momentary and running loudness readouts directly inline, with a one-glance OK/WARN flag referenced to −18 LUFS ±1 LU.
Fixed-duration WAV capture with automatic file naming. Designed for researchers and sample library creators who need to produce many precisely-named files without manual file management.
Ableton's Export dialog is a multi-step process interrupted by system dialogs. For batch workflows — 10 cells × 10 variants = 100 files — manual export introduces naming errors and inconsistent onset alignment. Export Utility v2 captures a fixed 2500 ms window and names the file automatically.
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