Hollt SMPLR TRNS Automate Transient and Preserve
Update: Thank you for all your feedback. A new version of my...
- Type
- MIDI Effect
- Author
- holltmusic
- Version
- 2.0
- License
- None
- Live version
- 11.0.12
- Max version
- 8.1.11
- Downloads
- 0
- Updated
- 2025-11-24
Description
Update: Thank you for all your feedback. A new version of my SMPLR/TRNS plugin is out now, version 2.0! Read below to see the changes I made into this new plugin.
Explanation/Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_39s8Ujj0c
The Hollt SMPLR/TRNS 2.0 M4L Plugin allows you to manipulate, automate and map the transient, whilst preserving mode, inside a simpler device by selecting the different warp modes (beats, tones, textures and complex pro).
Previously, as there was no option to get this done via automation inside Ableton, you had to do this manually. For example, when recording your transient envelope onto an audio track, you could not change it afterwards, as it’d be recorded audio.
In this plugin, every parameter and the warp mode selector is midi mappleble and could be automated inside Ableton Live!
How it works:
1) Load a simpler device after this plugin, and make sure the order / position persists: you can place midi effects in front of this plugin or you can add this plugin inside a drum or instrument rack, but the simpler always has to be loaded after the Hollt SMPLR/TRNS 2.0 M4L Plugin.
2) Once loaded, the plugin will change all the settings to the correct values inside the simpler in order to make it work.
3) You're good to go. play with the different warp modes (beats, tones, textures and complex pro) and turn the parameters inside the Hollt SMPLR/TRNS 2.0 M4L Plugin.
Version 2.0 updates:
1) Added all the warp modes.
2) Works inside a drum or instrument rack.
3) Updated the design.
4) Includes a warning message if the plugin is placed wrong.
5) You don't have to press a 'Make it Work' button anymore, as it does that automatically now.
Please keep an eye on my Gumroad page or any of my socials (@holltmusic) as I'm making more of these kind of plugins for Ableton.
Comments (33)
So you could play multiple loops, with this and jugbeat... years and years of jungle fun :) Is it possible?
Yes, that would be possible I think, but it really looks to the settings of the Simpler. So, if there is a device other than a Simpler, the plugin would not work anymore.
But I could make it work to place it inside a drum rack / group, so you can place more of them and assign the knobs of the plugin to a macro for example :)
Let me know your thoughts.
I was wondering if it would be possible(perhaps a separate device) to access the same thing inside an audio clip? So if I have an audio channel with a couple of audio clips in it for live sets it would be amaaaazing to be able to manipulate the transient envelope of all the clips with a knob inside that channel.
The preserve mode inside an Audio channel clip is unfortunately not possible in Ableton..
But you could insert your audio file inside the Simpler (make sure that it is in a 1 or 2 bars length for example), then draw a middle C (C3) in the length of the sample (1 or 2 bars) and then trigger the clip.
That's basically the same and you could use this in your live set!
Of course! For some reason I thought I needed to splice it up for the transients to work. Works nicely!
I do however have some problems with the device when its inside a instrument rack or a drum rack in my case. I would like to have multiple audio loops on the same channel(gonna be limited to 8 in total, so all leads on one channel, all bass on one etc) so I figured a drum rack and then just automating the pitch of the drum rack per clip to change sample. But it doesnt seem to want to connect inside a drumrack(placing it infront of the simpler). Is there some workaround for that?
Thanks again!
Per
Do you think it would be possible to update the device to support being inside a drum rack?
thank you so much!
Let me know your thoughts."
This.
If you do this I will leave my job and play all day, but first I will pay you whatever price you ask :)
Thank you for all your feedback. A new version of my SMPLR/TRNS plugin is out now, version 2.0! What is different?
1) Added all the warp modes.
2) Works inside a drum or instrument rack.
3) Updated the design.
4) Includes a warning message if the plugin is placed wrong.
5) You don't have to press a 'Make it Work' button anymore, as it does that automatically now.
Please keep an eye on my Gumroad page or any of my socials (@holltmusic) as I'm making more of these kind of plugins for Ableton.
that wold be pretty amazing!
thanks for letting me know. Actually Ableton doesn't allow this function inside m4l yet - as it's not accessible (yet) in their API. Once it's available, I'll definitely will implement this into the plugin:)
Re-Pitch would be greatly appreciated here as well.
At first congrats 4 ur work making this plugin, I´d like 2 know if hollt works on Ableton 11,0,10 version ?
Thanks in advance
@inz1 ty for letting me know, will implement this later:)