LVC-Audio Releases ClipShifter – Wave-Shaping Plugin

Following the success of their original transient dissector plugin, LVC-Audio has now released ClipShifter. Their latest plugin has a unique limiter function in that, depending on the incoming transients, can dramatically alter the way a source is processed. ClipShifter can perform subtly with compression/limiting to hard clipping and saturation.

Take a peak at the transient processor, Clipshifter.

The plugin is offered as a free or paid version with the paid version adding mid/side processing, oversampling & doubling and multiband crossover controls. The paid version is available now for $11.76 and both work with Mac or PC in VST, VST 3 and Audio Unit (32-bit AU only) formats.

Here are more details from LVC-Audio:

Clip, Compress, Distort, or Limit: you get to choose

ClipShifter is a wave-shaping audio plugin that functions like a clipping-style limiter.  It provides enough user controls to be useful in all mixing stages: from distorting basses and drums, to maximizing mix buses and warming-up overall mixes. The sonic characteristics of the clipping distortion can be altered from hard, brickwall-style clipping, to softer saturation with compression.

Dynamic Control

ClipShifter can function as a static clipping effect, but it can also respond to the transient qualities of the incoming signal. The threshold for clipping can be set to either rise or fall as the level of audio increases. The speed can be set using the Attack Time control and the Fast Release button. Let the transients through while distorting the rest, or distort that initial bass thump while letting the rest sound clean.  A new feature in version 2.2 is the independent Left/Right (or Mid/Side) Threshold Control.  Choose between Independent, Maximum, or Average to determine how the the clipping thresholds dynamically change.

Dial-in the sound of your choice, from heavy distortion to subtle compression

ClipShifter includes controls to change the clip shape and to adjust the harmonic content. Setting the Clip Shape control to maximum produces a hard-clipped sound, while lesser settings verge on subtle compression with minimal auditory distortion. The harmonics control allows you to control the amount of even-order and odd-order distortion.

Main Features:

• Clipping style limiter: from transparent sounding compression to hard clipping distortion
• Controls for Clip Shape (hard to soft) and harmonics (even- and odd-order), so you can be in control of the sound
• Low CPU usage for running multiple instances on multiple tracks
• Visual display of signals using VU-style, PPM-style, and loudness meters to easily monitor input and output levels
• Scalable waveform history view with click-and-drag editing of threshold controls to easily change and set clipping levels based on the incoming signal
• 3-band crossover (paid feature) control utilizing 4^th order LR filters for flat crossover response
• Independent frequency clipping (paid feature) to target the right frequencies for processing
• Selectable EQ gain controls that can be used pre- or post-processing
• Oversampling with Double Processing (paid feature) at 2X, 4X, and 8X the incoming sample rate for reducing aliasing

See more features for the paid version here!

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