Peak Clipper.
A Little Off the Top.
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Turn up Input, bring down Threshold, and the samples that cross the clipping boundary get cut back. That can make a snare feel more immediate, give a drum bus some bite, or let a mix sit louder before the final limiter has to work so hard. You'll hear the attitude when you push it. That's the point.
A Little Off the Top. A Lot More Room to Move.
Watch the live clip scope - clean signal in grey, actual output in fluorescent green. Wherever grey pokes out past green, that's the part that got trimmed. Hit Delta to hear only what got shaved away.
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Hard Cut. Soft Landing.
Hard Clip draws a sharp line: anything beyond the ceiling gets stopped there. It's the setting for a firmer edge and more obvious harmonic grit. Soft Clip bends the signal as it approaches the ceiling, rounding the transition while leaving quieter material outside the clipping region completely alone.
See the Damage. Hear the Evidence.
Mix blends the processed signal with the clean signal from 0 to 100% - clip a snare aggressively and bring back some of its original peak shape, or add a touch of density to a full mix without committing to the entire cut. The live clip scope shows the original waveform in grey and the output in fluorescent green, so you always know exactly what's getting cut.
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VST3 (64-bit) - Windows, macOS, Linux
AU (64-bit) - macOS only
Windows 10 / 11
macOS 11 Big Sur or later (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Linux - Ubuntu 22.04+ or equivalent
Any VST3-compatible host: Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio, Nuendo, and more
AU (macOS): Logic Pro, GarageBand, MainStage
Plugin buffer only, plus a few samples of oversampler latency when Oversample is engaged - reported to the host
Perpetual, single user
3 simultaneous activations
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Tested on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 12, Fedora 40. Requires one system library for license verification:
sudo apt install libsodium23 # Ubuntu / Debian sudo dnf install libsodium # Fedora / RHEL sudo pacman -S libsodium # Arch
VST3 only. Confirmed working in REAPER and Bitwig.
Perpetual license - pay once, own it forever.
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