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Overview

Name | Version: The Pocket 1.0.0
Author: rubatoaudio
Device Type: MIDI Transformation
Description: The Pocket is a musical quantizer for Ableton Live that tightens your timing without flattening your feel — then lets you shape the feel itself.

Tighten to the grid with four dials:
• Amount — how far notes move toward the grid
• Leeway — a window around each grid line that's left untouched
• Knee — how gently the correction ramps in
• Bias — pull early and late notes by different amounts

Then shape the groove:
• Swing — slide the off-beats late, from a subtle shuffle to a hard swing
• Groove templates — Ableton's library plus your own pool
• Offset — push the whole pocket ahead of the beat, or lay it back
• Automatic grid, feel, and swing detection on every clip you focus

Plus straight/triplet/both-grid feels, a manual grid picker with per-clip memory, an always-on live preview so you hear it before you commit, per-lane control for drums, and commit to session or arrangement clips.

The Pocket is pure MIDI — it works on any MIDI clip, on macOS and Windows, in Ableton Live 12 and up.

There's also a free version, The Pocket Lite, for corrective quantizing. More info, the free version, and purchase: https://rubato.audio/the-pocket

Made by Rubato Audio — plugins for people who love to play.

Details

Live Version Used: 12.0.5
Max Version Used: 8.6.2
Date Added: Jun 28 2026 20:50:48
Date Last Updated: No Updates
Downloads: 0
Website: https://www.rubato.audio/the-pocket/
License: Commercial
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