Pinzu has released SORYNO Clip, a free clipper VST3 plug-in for Windows.
SORYNO CLIP is built around showing what it takes away:
- The waveform view draws the output over the input, so the colour sticking out is the part that was removed.
- The ceiling line moves down as DRIVE is raised, so the amount being removed can be followed by eye.
- A transfer curve with a glowing dot for where the sound is right now. The curve on screen and the audio come from the same calculation.
- Readouts for the clipped percentage, the auto gain amount and the oversampling in use.
- The graph that responds to the control just moved is framed in that control’s panel colour, with its name and value, for about two seconds. This also happens for automation, presets and A/B.
The controls are:
- DRIVE from 0 to +24 dB, which sets how far the signal is pushed into the ceiling.
- CEILING from -24 to 0 dB. The clipped path stays under it, and overshoot from oversampling is caught by a 16-sample lookahead.
- SHAPE (Hard, Soft or Round), which sets how far below the ceiling the curve starts to bend: at the ceiling, about 3 dB below it, or about 7 dB below it.
- MIX from 0 to 100 % for parallel clipping, and an OUT trim from -24 to +24 dB.
- AUTO GAIN, which only ever turns the level down, so clipped and unclipped are compared at the same loudness.
- QUALITY (oversampling) at 1x or 2x, 2x by default. Latency is zero at 1x and 19 samples at 48 kHz at 2x.
- 12 presets and user presets, A/B comparison with an undoable copy between the two settings, undo/redo, tooltips and a resizable window.
Bypass is latency compensated, so switching the plug-in off does not shift the timing against other tracks.
Clipping is a quick way to make room before a limiter: short peaks are removed rather than the level being turned down and brought back up.
The plug-in can be downloaded directly from pinzu.tech with no account, or from BOOTH, which requires a free pixiv account. The ZIP includes an English readme.
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