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I am using the standard version not the suite. I am looking through my Live devices and do not see anything out the box for noise reduction at all. Did I miss something? If not what are some decent plug ins for noise reduction?

I never tried a gate or a compressor for this. I have the new IK channel strip and it has a gate on it I will give that a shot thanks

no, basically.
try these third party (inexpensive) options :
http://www.voxengo.com/product/redunoise/
http://www.clickrepair.net

If the noise is really constant, like an AC hum:

Track 1: your audio with noise
Track 2: a clip with only noise, add a utility and reverse the phase
Send both tracks to the same track, e.g. master, and the noise from track 2 should be subtracted from the audio.

GUY SMILEY wrote:no, basically.
try these third party (inexpensive) options :
http://www.voxengo.com/product/redunoise/
http://www.clickrepair.net

hmm redunoise looks interesting. Can I run it with Wavelab? I am looking for something that I can use to clean samples prior to use in Ableton...

If the noise is in specific frequency band then you can try using the multiband dynamics effect That way you can limit the gating effect to just the relevant frequencies.

There is a gate in all versions of Live and the Multiband Dynamics in Suite can be used for downward expansion, another common noise reduction method.

Of course, the best noise reduction is done at the source