ClipOnly3

Airwindopedia.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Biquads: BiquadStack, BiquadNonLin, BiquadHiLo, BiquadPlus, Biquad, BiquadDouble
 
 Brightness: Air4, Air3, Slew4, PlatinumSlew, DeBess, GoldenSlew, Sinew, SlewSonic, Acceleration2, DeEss, Smooth, EverySlew, Slew3, Slew2, Slew, Air2, Air, PurestAir, Acceleration, DeHiss, Hypersonic, HypersonX, Ultrasonic, UltrasonicLite, UltrasonicMed, UltrasonX
 
-Clipping: ClipOnly2, ADClip8, ClipSoftly, OneCornerClip, ADClip7, AQuickVoiceClip, ClipOnly, FinalClip
+Clipping: ClipOnly3, ADClip8, ClipOnly2, ClipSoftly, OneCornerClip, ADClip7, AQuickVoiceClip, ClipOnly, FinalClip
 
 Consoles: Console9Buss, Console9Channel, ConsoleLABuss, ConsoleLAChannel, ConsoleMCBuss, ConsoleMCChannel, ConsoleMDBuss, ConsoleMDChannel, Console8LiteChannel, Console8LiteBuss, Console8BussHype, Console8BussIn, Console8BussOut, Console8ChannelHype, Console8ChannelIn, Console8ChannelOut, Console8SubHype, Console8SubIn, Console8SubOut, Console0Channel, Console0Buss, PurestConsole3Buss, PurestConsole3Channel, PurestConsole2Buss, PurestConsole2Channel, Console7Buss, Console7Channel, Console7Cascade, Console7Crunch, PurestConsoleBuss, PurestConsoleChannel,Console6Buss, Console6Channel, PDBuss, PDChannel, Console5Buss, Console5Channel, Console5DarkCh, C5RawBuss, C5RawChannel, AtmosphereBuss, AtmosphereChannel, Console4Buss, Console4Channel, EveryConsole
 
@@ -1076,6 +1076,18 @@ This produces a hard-clip suitable for safety clipper purposes, which is purely
 
 ClipOnly2 takes this principle and changes the ‘one sample’ to ‘the space of one sample at 44.1k’. Same tone, same ear-friendly approach to clipping extreme highs, except that now it’s effective at high sample rates. I’m demonstrating it and its predecessor at 96k, but ClipOnly2 is designed to work up to 700k or so, in case people get giddy with their newfound power :)
 
+############ ClipOnly3 is just plain stinkin' loud.
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+Turns out you can go harder than ClipOnly2, through the power of noise!
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+This plugin takes an idea currently rocking its way through bass music loudenation, the idea of covering up the sound of hardclipping through using noise, and runs in a completely different direction with it, to substantially upgrade ClipOnly while still not working quite the same as anything else.
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+There's still the ClipOnly behavior of softening the onsets and exits from clipping. Still the total not-changing of any sample below the threshold. Still an ability to not add edgy digital glare to clipped highs like cymbals.
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+But now, delicately clipped stuff gets a delicate tinge of noise. Hitting the clip harder begins to produce more noise… and then as you blow past that limit in turn, the noise gets replaced with purely hard clipping to a greater and greater extent, so that hyper-slamming restricts the noise part to only the onset and departure edges of the clips. And then there's an intersample peaking stage that was put in to deal with super-high-frequency test tones, which lets the maximum clip amplitude go insanely high without triggering analog peaking.
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+So, like all ClipOnly, it's a tiny featureless plugin that will pass most audio untouched. It's just that when you slam it, there's practically no limit to what you can get away with. It's a clipper, so if you need a limiter this is probably not for you. But if you already knew you were going to be getting some clipping, or if your sounds mask it, or if you were just looking for total meltdown… have fun :)
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 ############ 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.
@@ -1666,7 +1678,7 @@ Here's the filter out of Donut! This started as an experiment to see if I could
 
 Turns out a State Variable filter is about the simplest way you can do biquad-filter-like things (read: controllable and flexible) and plugin devs really like this one. That includes heavyweight genius devs like Andy from Cytomic who made The Glue and The Drop (Andy is a 'model every component' guy doing stuff I choose not to do, a rigorous circuit modeler). Dattorro is not that: Dattorro is me taking the concept of the state variable filter and doing Airwindowsy things with it.
 
-For instance, the frequency control's designed to go right up to the high frequency limit of the filter no matter what sample rate it's running under. It does this not by restricting the max frequency, but by altering the logarithm taper of the control so midrange frequencies will always be roughly in the middle of the control's travel. That means you never see exatly what frequency you're using, but neither do you see it on a 303 or x0xb0x and those are great, and this is very much a synth style filter.
+For instance, the frequency control's designed to go right up to the high frequency limit of the filter no matter what sample rate it's running under. It does this not by restricting the max frequency, but by altering the logarithm taper of the control so midrange frequencies will always be roughly in the middle of the control's travel. That means you never see exactly what frequency you're using, but neither do you see it on a 303 or x0xb0x and those are great, and this is very much a synth style filter.
 
 There's code for every kind of SVF inside Dattorro's source code, commented out, but the lowpass you get (and the resonant behavior, it has a great reso flavor) is not stock SVF, but airwindowsized. That's because I'm using a sin() function in there (for code simplicity. PurestSaturation would work just as well for this, or TapeHack) but not in the way you'd think. The obvious thing to do is put it on as a post clipper for simply adding distortion.
 

what.txt

@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ ChromeOxide is an alternate path to vibey old tape sonics.[coll=Latest]
 Cider is a re-release of another old Character plugin.[coll=]
 ClearCoat is an array of bright ambience reverbs.[coll=Basic,Recommended,Latest]
 ClipOnly is a clipper plugin that suppresses the brightness of digital clipping without affecting unclipped samples.[coll=]
-ClipOnly2 suppresses the brightness of digital clipping without affecting unclipped samples, at any sample rate.[coll=Latest]
+ClipOnly2 suppresses the brightness of digital clipping without affecting unclipped samples, at any sample rate.[coll=]
+ClipOnly3 is just plain stinkin' loud.[coll=Basic,Recommended,Latest]
 ClipSoftly is ClipOnly2 but as a softclipper: a very handy building block.[coll=Latest]
 CloudCoat is an array of blur effects with a taste for evil.[coll=Latest]
 Coils models the types of distortion you'll find in transformers.[coll=]