PS Clip Jockey ghost clips extension for Ableton Live 12
PS Clip Jockey master and slave clips in Ableton Live arrangement view
PS Clip Jockey beta Ableton Live extension by ProducerStack

Ghost Clips for Ableton: PS Clip Jockey (Free Beta)

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PS Clip Jockey brings ghost clips to Ableton Live. Tag one clip as a master, edit it, and push that change to every linked clip across your arrangement. The linked-clip workflow that Cubase users have had for years, finally in Live. Free, and in active beta.

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PS Clip Jockey master and slave clips in Ableton Live arrangement view

What PS Clip Jockey Does

PS Clip Jockey brings ghost clips to Ableton Live. If you have used Cubase, you know the idea: one master clip, and slave clips that follow it. Ableton has never had this. Now it does.

Tag a clip as a master and the clips that follow it on the same track become its slaves. Make an edit to the master, a new kick fill, a transposed bassline, a tweaked groove, then hit Push Changes. Every slave carrying that tag updates to match, wherever it sits on the timeline.

One difference from Cubase worth being upfront about: this is an offline version. Slaves do not update live as you edit, you push changes manually when you are ready. That is a current limitation of Ableton's Extensions SDK, not a design choice, and it is one of the first things we will revisit as the SDK grows. In practice it is fast, and pushing on your own terms means you decide exactly when a section changes.

You can run up to eight independent master groups per track, so your intro, your main, your breakdown and your outro can each carry their own linked set of clips.

Everything Clip Jockey Can Do

Tag a Master, Push Your Changes

Tag as Master: marks the clip with an [M] tag and tags every clip that follows it on the track as a slave [S].
Push Changes: syncs all slave clips sharing that master's tag to match the master, anywhere on the timeline.
Up to eight master groups per track ([M], M2, M3 and so on), each with its own independent set of slaves.

Add, Remove and Reassign Clips

Add to Master: drops an untagged clip into the nearest master group that precedes it on the timeline.
Remove Tag: strips the tags from a group, freeing those clips so they no longer update. The lowest available master number is then reused next time you tag.
Untag a single clip and it simply stops following. Push changes and it is left untouched.

Name and Organise

Sync Names: renames every clip in a group to match its master, so your intro group all reads "Intro", your main group all reads "Main", and so on.
Gaps break naming on purpose: where there is a gap between clips, the tag sequence stops, so a later section you want to manage separately stays separate.

PS Clip Jockey Walkthrough

How to Get the Ableton Live 12 Beta

PS Clip Jockey, and every ProducerStack Extension, runs on the Ableton Live 12 beta. It will not load on the standard release of Live 12. The beta is free to anyone who already owns Live 12, and it installs separately, so your stable version of Live stays untouched.

  • Go to Ableton's beta page at ableton.com/en/beta and sign in with your Ableton account.
    Create a free Centercode account if you do not already have one. This is the portal Ableton runs its beta testing through.
  • Request access to the Live 12 public beta. Invitations are granted gradually, so you may wait a short while after signing up.
  • Install the Live 12 beta (12.4.5 or higher). It sits alongside your normal Live install, it does not replace it. Extensions require Live 12 Suite. Any Live 12 edition can join the beta, but the Extensions feature itself is Suite only.
  • Open the beta, enable Extensions, and you are ready to install Clip Jockey.

Two things worth knowing before you start. Sets saved in the beta cannot be opened in earlier versions of Live, and beta software is a work in progress by its nature, so keep backups of anything important.

Honest About the Beta

PS Clip Jockey is version 0.1.0. It works, we use it, and it is free. It is also genuinely early. Ableton are updating the Extensions SDK almost daily, and as they unlock more, Clip Jockey gets better.

We are actively developing it and we want your feedback.
Tell us what is missing.
The roadmap is being shaped by the people using it.
PS Clip Jockey ghost clips extension for Ableton Live 12

TECH SPEC

REQUIREMENTS

Ableton Live 12 Suite, beta program (tested on 12.4.5b4 or higher)
Ableton Extensions enabled (the Extensions SDK is in public beta as of June 2026)
macOS or Windows
Will not load on the public release of Live 12. You must be on the Live 12 beta.

HOW TO INSTALL
Open Live's Settings and go to the new Extensions tab at the bottom.
Choose the .ablx file, or drag and drop it into the window.
Confirm the install prompt. It will warn that the extension runs code on your computer, this is standard for any extension.
Restart Live.
In Arrangement view, right-click any clip and look under Extensions for the five Clip Jockey entries.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
PS Clip Jockey Extension (PS-Clip-Jockey-0.1.0.ablx)
Free during beta
Updates as the Ableton Extensions SDK develops
A direct line to the developers via the ProducerStack Discord
Feedback, bug reports and ideas: support@producerstack.com

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