Final Clipper
Transparent, surgical clipping for the last stage of the chain, in three distinct harmonic signatures. Hard, Warm and Tube, each with its own knee and harmonic colour, plus a native 0 dBFS ceiling, oversampling up to 16× and Delta listen to hear exactly what you're shaving. Our Transparent Ceiling Engine. Transparency, at its peak.
VINAIclip touches amplitude only. The ceiling comes down with zero phase smear, so your transients and stereo image stay perfectly intact.
We ship numbers measured to the floor of the instrument itself.
~1.3 ms latency at the default 4× · 0 ms at 1× · zero-latency ceiling · bit-exact bypass · phase fully preserved · zero self-noise · 48 kHz
After rounds of internal testing we made a deliberate call: keep it as transparent as a clipper can be. VINAIclip is built for electronic music, where every transient and every detail carries the track, and none of it can be lost on the way to the ceiling. The result is the maximum transparency a DSP can give you: no colour you didn't choose, no smear you didn't ask for, at the lowest latency the processing allows.
Pick the harmonic signature that fits the master. HARD is a brick-wall clamp with aggressive odd harmonics; WARM is the gentlest, most musical tanh kernel; TUBE adds even-harmonic, second-order warmth. The SOFTNESS control morphs the knee on WARM and TUBE, from a clean corner to a rounded curve. HARD stays a fixed brick wall.
Each algorithm is a distinct clipping kernel with its own harmonic fingerprint, running from a transparent brick wall to dense tube colour. Same threshold, same softness, three very different ceilings.
Brick-wall clamp: pure odd harmonics, aggressive and uncompromising. The transparent ceiling.
tanh kernel with dense odd harmonics, the gentlest and most musical of the three. Smooth glue.
Asymmetric tanh for even-harmonic, second-order tube warmth. Colour and weight, not just a ceiling.
CEILING is a native-rate clamp that pins your sample peaks exactly at 0 dBFS, loud and clean, with zero added latency. Turn it on and the output sits right at the ceiling: full level, no overshoot, no phase smear. Push oversampling from 1× up to 16× to keep aliasing out of the harmonics you just generated.
Delta listen is the clipper's secret weapon: solo the clipped difference (only the harmonics and transients you're shaving off) and set your threshold by ear with total confidence, never guessing how hard you're hitting it. Alongside it, a LUFS / RMS meter and a pre / post / delta scope show exactly how much you're removing, and where.
| Type | Final-stage / mastering clipper |
| Algorithms | 3: Hard · Warm · Tube |
| Softness | Knee 0–100% on WARM and TUBE |
| Threshold | −24 dB to 0 dB |
| Gains | IN ±12 dB · OUT ±12 dB · Gain Link (mirror IN/OUT) |
| Ceiling | Native-rate clamp at 0 dBFS, pins the sample peak, zero added latency |
| Oversampling | 1× / 2× / 4× / 8× / 16× (default 4×) |
| Metering | LUFS / RMS meter · pre / post / delta scope · gain-reduction indicator · Delta listen |
| Phase | Transparent, phase fully preserved |
| Latency | ~1.3 ms @ 48 kHz at the default 4× and every oversampled rate (the ceiling adds none); 0 ms at 1× |
| Formats | VST3 · AU |
| Systems | macOS 11+ (Universal) · Windows 10+ · 64-bit |
| Engine | Native C++ · fully phase-preserving · time-aligned PDC bypass |
| Version | 1.1.0 |
Generate the harmonics, then catch the peaks. Four bands, five distortion characters each, with a real-time analyzer.
When you want loudness from a single control before the final clip. Saturation, dynamics and safety in one knob.
Watch the flat-topped waveform the clipper leaves behind. Bit-transparent metering with phosphor persistence.