Audiogarden Clipper
Exactly the clipper a trap sound calls for, and thanks to oversampling up to 8× a mastering tool as well.
Runs on its own in your DAW, and inside Audiogarden Core it works as the Clipper module.
Free
Free, no activation. Until release, downloads go out through the beta.
WHAT IT DOES
Audiogarden Clipper shaves peaks off gently and predictably, so a mix or a drum bus gets louder without falling apart. With oversampling up to 8× it holds up in mastering too, and the display shows what it did to your signal over the last four seconds. Free, no activation.
- Soft clipping with Threshold and Post, on a live transfer curve
- Quality 1×, 2×, 4× or 8× oversampling
- History of the last four seconds: input, output and what was clipped
- Low Cut keeps the bass out of the clipper, with Listen
- Short-term and integrated loudness, Auto Gain
- Ceiling with true peak, and Monomaker
- Delta: hear only what the clipper removes
- In, Out, Mix and Width, factory presets
DISPLAY
See what the clipping does
On the left, the transfer curve shows where Threshold starts to bend the signal and how far Post lets it go. On the right, the history runs through the last four seconds: input, output and, in orange, exactly what was clipped. The meters beside it show input, gain reduction and output.
LOW CUT
Keep the bass out of the clipper
Low Cut sends everything below the chosen frequency around the clipper untouched and adds it back afterwards, so the low end stays round while the peaks above it get shaved.
- Transparent, Steep 24 or Linear phase
- Slope 6, 12 or 24 dB/oct for Transparent
- Listen: hear only the bass that goes around the clipper
LOUDNESS AND CEILING
Louder, not just bigger numbers
Short-term and integrated loudness sit right under the display. Auto Gain matches the output to the input loudness, so you judge the sound and not the volume. A ceiling with true peak keeps the output under the limit, and Monomaker folds the low end to mono.
IN AUDIOGARDEN CORE
Also a module in Audiogarden Core
Inside Audiogarden Core, Audiogarden Clipper works as the Clipper module, next to the others in the rack.
- What it unlocks
- Nothing extra — the Clipper module is already part of the free Audiogarden Core.
- Installer
- The installer also installs Audiogarden Core.
SPECS
What is inside
| Window | 860 × 506 points, scalable 70–200 %, Clean or Analog look |
|---|---|
| Formats | VST3 and AU, macOS and Windows |
| Presets | the factory presets of the module in the menu on its panel, shared with Audiogarden Core |
PLUGINS
Other Audiogarden plugins
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Audiogarden Tape Echo
A tape echo with three playback heads, a built-in spring, wow and flutter, self-oscillation and Freeze. Coming soon -
Audiogarden Spectral
A spectral processor that blurs, freezes, warps, shifts and thins sound in the frequency domain. Coming soon