ClipSoftly
TL;DW: ClipSoftly is ClipOnly2 but as a softclipper: a very handy building block.
What more needs be said? ClipSoftly is ultimate softclipping, using the techniques used on ClipOnly2 for softening the edge of the hard clipping, but on the softest possible clipping. Where ClipOnly2 manipulates the onsets of the brightest transients to give you pure hard-clipping without digital grit, ClipSoftly is doing that without even hardclipping.
So what we have here, basically, is a control-less (like ClipOnly and ClipOnly2) safety clipper, but it’s a saturation effect. It’s also a building block I (or others) can use inside larger plugins or new versions of Console, much like the recent Pop2 uses ClipOnly2 on the output, to give you the ability for really aggressive attacks.
You’d use something like ClipOnly2 in mastering specifically because it won’t touch the values of any unclipped samples. ClipSoftly is different: it will touch the values of ALL samples, reshaping the whole sound to make it bigger, fatter, tubier.
I hope you like it, and the way it’ll affect my plugins going forward :)
download StarterKit.zip for just the basics
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download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
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Hi Chris. Thank you :) This video got serious, I can relate to the “too many ideas in mind”… for me it is song ideas right now and not having the skills, time or stamina to get them recorded. To end the video with that increase of gain driving the clippers calmed my mind… I smiled. Pop2 is a win as well! Good Luck for you and your loved ones.
Maybe all these nice-to-nasty clippers could use a ceiling setting so they start clipping before 0 dBfs and get REAL nasty?
Hi Chris,
I wanted to let you know I will be praying for you and your family.
I’ve been using your free VST3 more on the learning side so I came to your page to hear about your new VST3 program and I heard a call to pray for you and yours.
Hmm, using Studio One, and it seems that ClipSoftly64 & ClipOnly2-64plugins appear without any controls. It’s like a blank interface with no rotary knobs. I installed into the correct folder, along with a handful of other of your impressive plugins, and the others seem to be fine. Thank you! =)
(Doubler64, Texturize64,TexturizeMS64, Doublelay64, ZLowpass2, ZNotch, ZRegion)
…So yeah, just a heads up, not sure if its a Studio One thing or not.
Thanks Chris
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your free plugins, though I haven’t yet been able to run any.
I downloaded Distance plugin (from zip file winvst64s) yesterday. In FL Studio 21 it did open, but didn’t work.
Pls let me know if I have to become a member in Airwindows first before it starts working?
Thanks and regards,
BTW my mail to chrisj at airwidnows dot com didn’t get through. The comment given by Mail Delivery Subsystem is “Your message wasn’t delivered to chrisj@airwidnows.com because the domain airwidnows.com couldn’t be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again.”
Chris hi, I have used ClipSoftly and ClipOnly2, the plugins load but no controls, please help me
I want it.
Hello P K MUKHERJEE, it is because you were supposed to correct the misspelling in “widnows” to “windows” as it was done on purpose to prevent spam detection. Then it will work.