Clip Tool

Stretch, pitch and output

Tempo, pitch and stretch

The row under the header holds the detected tempo, Bars and Beats, Pitch with its grain controls, and the target BPM.

Control	What it does
Bars, Beats	Set the clip’s length in bars and beats. The beat grid follows them, or the detected tempo, so edits line up musically.
Pitch	Shifts the pitch in semitones without changing the length.
Win, Trans	Grain Window and Transient controls, for tuning the character of the pitch shift and stretch.
Target BPM	Type a tempo and press Stretch for a pitch-preserving, loop-seamless stretch, from a quarter to four times the length. The button shows MIN or MAX when the target asks for more.

Clip Tool also reads the key and tempo of the clip and shows them in the header, which is handy for matching samples to a track.

Getting the result into Live

Each output renders what the preview plays: the selection, or the loop while Loop is on. To render the whole clip, right-click and choose Clear selection first. Every output applies your gain, fades, stretch, channel and DC settings.

Button	What it does
Process	Replaces the clip in place. A cropped result stays where that audio sat in the arrangement.
Copy to Arrangement	Drops a new clip just after the original.
→ Simpler	Builds a new MIDI track with Simpler loaded and ready to play.
Clip Guard	Scales the result down if it would go over 0 dBFS. On by default; leave it on unless you want levels above full scale.

Right-click the file name to rename the new sample before you render. Every edit is written to a fresh file in your project’s Samples/Imported/ folder, so you can always get back to where you started. Clip Tool acts on the one clip you right-clicked, not every clip that shares the same audio file.