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Set Janitor

Set Janitor is the whole-set hygiene sweep. One pass finds empty tracks, placeholder names, off-palette clip colors, and clips that overrun their loop. You tick which to fix; it renames, recolors, or deletes in one undo.

It reads the whole Set, detects a list of issues, and groups them. You choose which groups to fix. Renames and recolors apply inline; deletes are off by default and you opt into them. The whole sweep is one undo.

Right-click (a general or Scene-scoped entry), then Clean Up Set…. A checklist dialog shows the issues found, grouped: “3 empty tracks”, “7 unnamed clips”, “2 clips overrun their loop”, “4 clips off-palette”. Tick the groups to fix, then press Fix selected. Destructive items (delete a track or clip) are flagged and unchecked by default.

Set Janitor sweeps the whole Set for mess and fixes what you tick: empty tracks, placeholder names, off-palette clip colors, and clips that overrun their loop. It is not a clip renamer (Ableton’s own RNMR does that, and better, for content-aware MIDI naming); Janitor is the structural sweep around it. Deleting a track or clip is permanent within the Set until you undo, so those fixes are off by default and you opt into them. It cannot relink missing samples, consolidate the project folder, or fix automation, because the beta exposes none of those. It is user-invoked, and the whole sweep is one undo.