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Normalize and level clips

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Mute a clip

Select clips and press the key left of 1: ` on US keyboards, ^ on German ones. The clip goes silent and keeps its gain. Press any of 1–9 or 0 to bring it back at that level.

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Type an exact gain

Select clips, press ⌘K, run Set Clip Gain and type a value from −60 to +24 dB.

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Change the gain of every linked copy

Open the clip in Focus Mode with ⌥↓ and drag the gain slider in the focus bar. Every linked copy follows.

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Good to know

  • Each clip is measured against its own peak, so a mixed selection ends up at matching levels instead of sharing one gain.
  • The number keys unlink the clips they change. Their copies keep their level. Use the Focus Mode gain slider when a change should reach every copy.
  • Boost is capped at +24 dB, so very quiet tails are not amplified into walls of noise.
  • With no clip selected, or while recording, the number row plays instead. It retriggers the last note or slice at the chosen level: Play with the Keyboard.
  • Normalize Volume (⌥N) is a different thing. It sets the track fader from playback peaks: Track Mix. Clip normalize measures the source file and works without playing first.
  • MIDI clips take the number as an absolute gain. Peak normalization has no meaning for velocity.
  • Time-stretched audio is measured across the source span that actually plays, not the clip’s visual length, so sped-up loops normalize correctly.
  • Mute is a flag and never touches the gain value. Repeated presses on the same selection are one undo step.
  • Set Clip Gain writes the clip’s shared gain, so it reaches linked copies like the slider does. −60 dB is silence.
  • The gain keys can’t be reassigned. They are read as plain key presses, not as commands, so the Command Palette can’t rebind them.
  • Inside Focus Mode the number keys never change clip gain. In the piano roll they set note velocity (Piano Roll).
  • ⌃ with the same keys drives the track’s clipper instead, because it needs only a selected track: Track Mix.
  • To draw levels across many clips or slices, use Dynamics Mode (⌥V).
Last modified on October 22, 2026