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 true-peak safety, oversampling up to 32× and Delta listen to hear exactly what you're shaving. Our Transparent Ceiling Engine. The ceiling you can trust.
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 · bit-exact bypass · anti-aliasing to −109 dBc @ default 8× OS · zero self-noise · 48 kHz
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 from a clean corner to a rounded curve across all three.
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.
A 0 dBFS sample peak can still overshoot once the converter reconstructs it. TRUE PEAK adds a 4×-oversampled inter-sample-peak safety clip that catches those overshoots before they reach the limiter on the other end. Push oversampling from 1× up to 32× 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%, all algorithms |
| Threshold | −24 dB to 0 dB |
| Gains | IN ±12 dB · OUT ±12 dB · Gain Link (mirror IN/OUT) |
| True Peak | 4×-oversampled inter-sample-peak safety clip (adds latency when on) |
| Oversampling | 1× / 2× / 4× / 8× / 16× / 32× (default 8×). 32× export-only, live caps at 16× |
| 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 default 8× (scales with oversampling / true-peak) |
| Formats | VST3 · AU |
| Systems | macOS (Universal) · Windows · 64-bit |
| Engine | Native C++ · one-pole ~5 Hz DC blocker · 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.