Clarity for live voice.

v1.1 installs as its own product, next to your existing v1.0. In your host you will see two entries: Clear Voice Live (your v1.0, untouched) and Clear Voice Live 1.1. Existing show files keep loading v1.0 - v1.1 never takes over on its own. To move a channel across, insert Clear Voice Live 1.1 and remove the old instance; going back is one insert swap, with nothing to reinstall.

Presets and your license are shared by both versions, so your own presets are already in v1.1's User menu and your license unlocks it. Both may run in the same session, which makes an A/B on a single channel easy.

One thing to watch: v1.1 is a new engine. It no longer pulls the level down the way v1.0 did, so re-check your gain staging, and run your presets through a soundcheck before you rely on them.

Need the v1.0 installer for a fresh machine that never had it? Write to info@clearvoice.live and we will send it.

Yes. v1.1 starts its own fresh 10-day trial, independent of where your v1.0 trial stands, so v1.0 testers can evaluate the new engine properly.

Two tools for two jobs. In feedback-heavy setups - loud monitors, handheld mics walking near the PA - use LOW: it is the most aggressive against coupling and the cheapest to run, so it also scales to every channel of the show.

For quality denoising - broadcast, streaming, conference, recording, and live channels where sound comes before feedback headroom - use HIGH: finer resolution and a more natural residual noise floor. In LOW latency mode, HIGH costs no more than LOW, which makes it the obvious choice on any channel that does not feed a stage monitor.

The short version: make Clear Voice Live the first insert on the vocal channel, before compressors and EQ. Give each microphone its own instance, use close mics (handheld, headset, lectern, lavalier), and for live monitoring keep the buffer at 32 to 64 samples. Dial in Strength first, then Dereverb. The full best-practice chapter is in the online manual.

First insert on the vocal channel, before compressors and EQs. The plug-in expects a relatively clean dynamic input; heavy compression upstream muddies the noise floor and makes the AI work harder. Avoid placing it on a subgroup behind a compressor: the compressor lifts the noise floor between phrases and you hear pumping.

For live use, 32 to 64 samples. Anything above ~64 samples introduces enough roundtrip latency that the artist hears their voice twice through the in-ear monitor. The plug-in itself adds 0.0 ms; driver and host buffer are what determine roundtrip.

Yes. One instance per vocal channel is the standard setup. Routing many mics through an auto-mixer (Dugan-style) into a single group and running one instance on the group is one option, but because the CPU cost is so low, you can just as easily run a dedicated instance on every single channel for the best, most consistent result.

No. Clear Voice Live is built for one voice on its own close mic (handheld, headset, lectern, lavalier). On a room or ambient mic, everything that is not a voice gets pushed down, and that is the very content you want to keep.

Dereverb is part of the same pipeline as Strength. If Strength is at 0 %, the entire processing chain is bypassed and Dereverb has no effect. Raise Strength first, then bring up Dereverb.

Yes: internal latency is 0.0 ms in the default ZERO mode. The AI core processes lookahead-free at the host's block size; the plugin reports zero PDC. The optional LOW latency mode adds a fixed 127 samples (2.65 ms), reported to your host as PDC, and processes the full spectrum with the AI model. Roundtrip latency depends on the audio driver.

No. Clear Voice Live is fully self-contained: the AI model and all code ship inside the plug-in itself. No runtime installers, no extra DLLs, no model files, and the same consistent sound on every machine.

CPU permitting, yes. The LOW CPU mode is built for exactly this: it is light enough that a dedicated instance on every channel is realistic on an ordinary laptop. Even HIGH, the full AI model, stays light enough for the handful of channels that matter most.

48, 96 and 192 kHz. At unsupported rates the plugin shows a banner and bypasses audio cleanly.

A gate cuts below a threshold. Clear Voice Live separates voice from background continuously, so you keep low-level speech and breath while the noise floor goes away.

No notch filters and no static EQ. Clear Voice Live uses AI-driven voice processing that separates voice from background in real time. At the right strength, the voice itself stays untouched while the noise floor and feedback resonances are reduced.

Pro Tools loads AAX plug-ins only, and a native AAX build is not on the roadmap right now. Loading Clear Voice Live through a VST3 wrapper such as Blue Cat PatchWork or DDMF Metaplugin works today.

Yes, the plug-in runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Note for Waves SuperRack Performer: it lists third-party VST3 plug-ins only from its current version, with third-party VST3 support enabled, and only when the host itself runs natively (not under Rosetta).

Stereo works: a stereo insert is processed with stereo-linked gain decisions to keep the image stable. By design each instance handles one voice. A Linux build is planned.

One license is per person, not per machine. After buying you get a personal license file: load it once, completely offline, with no activation and no machine binding. Install it on as many of your own machines as you like (studio, laptop, FOH rig, backup); the only rule is one machine in use at a time per license. Running it on two machines at once needs a second license.

A 10-day fully-functional trial is available now: the plug-in runs unrestricted for 10 days, then needs a license. Get it here.

Click the "Clear Voice Live" plate in the plug-in's top-left corner - that opens the About panel. Copy the entire license block from your purchase email (from BEGIN to END) and hit PASTE, or use LOAD FILE with the attached .cvllic. The header then reads "Licensed to: your name" - permanently, with no activation and no machine binding.

Any trouble? Write to info@clearvoice.live and we'll sort it the same day.

Online at clearvoice.live/manual. It also installs to your Documents folder under Clear Voice Live › Manual 1.1.

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