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FAC Clipper by Frederic Corvest (Released)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fac-clipper/id6742354555
50% Off until March 16 | Promo Price is $4,99!
Regular Price is $9.99 (US Ref)
• Enhances Mix Loudness and Adds Harmonic
Warmth
• Full-Band and Two-Band Clipper in a Single Plugin
• Quick, lightweight, and designed for effortless flexibility!
• Precise Visual Metering for Fast Peak Control
• Knee Curve Adjustment, from Super Soft to Hard
• Shape Control of the Harmonic Profile
• Dry/Wet Mix for a Natural, Balanced Sound
• Low Latency with Optional Oversampling
• Advanced Responsive Design, portrait and landscape views
• Universal Purchase: AUv3 for iOS (iPad/iPhone), macOS and Vision Pro
FAC Clipper is designed to enhance your mix's loudness and add signature harmonic warmth.
While it is based on a similar DSP architecture to the Clip processor in FAC Punchlab, it takes a different approach to clipping control, featuring an advanced user interface with precise metering to track and manage the peaks of the audio signal.
The plugin also includes both a full-band clipper that processes the entire spectrum and a multi-band clipper, allowing you to independently clip low, high, or both frequency bands. This provides the flexibility to maintain transparent processing or experiment with creative adjustments, depending on your needs.
Built with simplicity and flexibility in mind, FAC
Clipper is quick, lightweight, and highly intuitive. The clean, streamlined interface lets you focus on what matters most; controlling the peak levels to maximize loudness while preserving clarity and avoiding the pumping effects often associated with heavily limited signals.
Thanks to its precise waveform and level meters, using FAC Clipper is a breeze. Simply add the plugin to your track and adjust the input gain until the waveform meter reaches 0 dB. This gives you a clear view of the signal's dynamic range, making it easier to identify peaks. Next, set the ceiling just below the peaks you wish to control. You can also adjust the Knee parameter for smoother clipping and fine-tune the saturation to achieve the perfect warmth and character.
Use the Mix parameter to blend the clipped signal with the original audio, allowing you to control the amount of clipping applied. This helps preserve the natural character of the sound while enhancing loudness and harmonic warmth.
This is an AUv3 Effect and requires a compatible host to work
The documentation is available at fredantoncorvest.com/FAC_Clipper.html
Comments
Oh the icon is dope!
Excited to hear what magic the talented hands around here can create with it!
Here's this for anyone interested:
I don't necessarily need FAC Clipper, but I'll purchase it to support @FredAntonCorvest . And who knows? It may become my next "secret sauce" on drums. 😂 Man you never know with me.
First pre-order of an app I’ve ever done …this seems like a must have
Looks to be on another level. Next gen clipper?
I’ve been lucky enough to give this a go and it’s a corker, just what I’ve been looking for in a clipper plugin and I think it’s the first multiband one I’ve come across - I don’t think anyone will be disappointed!
Will give it a go, i just love clippers 😅
Yep, it's really good. There's nothing I know of for iOS that does clipping as well as this.
I’m excited to try this out! I got a copy, but I’ve honestly never really used a clipper before. Can someone give me a tl;dr on what clippers are, how they are useful, use case scenarios, and what makes this one stand out?
Big fan of everything I’ve gotten from FAC
Is there a subtle distinction between a compressor, a limiter and a clipper. I think of clipping as a waveform that exceeds
a circuits capabilities for amplification… something that is modeled in the digital domain. The signal is clipped at the mathematical limits of the modeled circuit design.
I’m buying this of course to complete may FAC collection because Fred always surprises me.
With this one no one will ever 'clip' again
I've not been able to make this one crash or misbehave so it's more than likely as solid as they come, 5/5...
It's for shaving of transient peaks to get some headroom for limiting after
and if it's a good one, it also alters the sound, in a good way
I'm just testing a couple of clippers on the desktop, and the ones I like best so far are from Schwabe Digital and Fuse Audio Labs
the Schwabes are quite expensive, but the Ocelot Clipper from Fuse Audio is also very good (and only $29 at the moment)
might also try the FAC Clipper, not sure yet
Honestly there is no need for expensive clippers, as long as they have delta option and oversampling option you are good to go.
Ocelot is great, have it on tracks and buses, v clip also good, standard clip oldschool but great, kazrog one. For ios i think Knock is also good
Didn't check but does FAC clipper actually have delta and oversampling? @ninobeatz edit : oversampling yes, but delta?
Little reminder: no one on the beta for this app is supposed to be talking about the app's features prior to release. The dev, Fred, before inviting people to his betas, sends an email with the following text, and people should really respect such requests:
"As part of the beta testing program access for Clipper, you are required to maintain the confidentiality of any information related to the app, including but not limited to features, designs, and functionality, until the official release. This confidentiality ensures that I can deliver the best possible experience and protect the integrity of the development process."
Ok. It seems a clipper only changes the values of peaks above some dialed in value.
Compressors modify a whole wave form mathematically.
Limiters might be very close to a clipper but again I’m answering my own question I find an authoritative (or at least convincing) response.
I wonder why no one has combined all 3 of these things (compressor, limiter, clipper) into one plugin just to make all of these somewhat similar options available at once? They could call it a "complimitipper".
Speaking for myself, I never know what I'm doing anyway when it comes to mixing and mastering. I just fiddle with things until they sound right.
I tend to buy whatever Fred releases and will be happy to have this. I'm looking forward to pushing its boundaries.
Limiter is just extreme case of compressor … and yeah clipper is basically form of limiter just with much more sophisticated method of shaping peaks over treshold.
Compressor itself DOES NOT do anything different, and definitely does not modify whole waveform, clean compressor just affects audio which exceeds treshold, that’s it.
Coloring compressors (when we talk about plugins). are just adding to compression also another processes (equalisation, saturation, etc) which may (or may not) affect signal bellow treshold - it really depends in implementation but but has nothing to do with compression itself. It’s additional process.
Analog compressors are different case but again it’s not result of principle how compression works but result of analog components and their non-linear characteristics, which are primary doing their compression job (eg. lowering dynamic range above treshold), but as secondary effect they are affecting more or less entire signal.
Have you not heard of Punchlab ( which this app ) gets its inspiration from ( the same dev )
Iv got a punchlab on every drum tracks output.
No need to wait until final mix etc to get your sound.
Although I may record with and without punchlab if I do get to a complete song.
Iv bought clipper to see what it might be like with a synth.
Now conpleting my drums, with cc knobs out to adsr ( on these output tracks ) adsr needs midi. May as well add frequency shifters etc whilst there and an array of cc knobs to the bass synth ( for automation )
My other ipads dont need to work this way ( cc knobs will be on the same track as the source )
Drums need an mfx version for sequencing.
I do have Punchlab, which is quite good. It's also more complex than the trio of compressor, limiter and clipper.
No way.
I dont know how compressors, limiters or clippers really work.
But Punchlab has these along with other modules and its easy to use.
Theres just a semi circle to add amount per module etc.
Limiter is compressor with ratio at infinity.
A clipper cuts off the audio when it’s too loud above threshold chopping off top off curve. A limiter reduces gain, like compressor.
Any compressor becomes limiter when set ratio to infinity.
In ideal world a mathematical limiter won’t distort or color sound but turn it down when its over threshold.
There are different ways of cutting audio for clipper (soft/hard/multiband). A clipper is definition distorting audio as it chops off peaks. Clipping is often used in distortion plugins. Clipping is distortion.
Limiters can add distortion and all 3 can add color by adding harmonics like analog.
TLDR. Limiters turns down gain when over threshold. Clipper cuts off waveform over threshold.
“Clipper cuts off waveform”
Does it peg the wave form at the maximum value until the input drops below this clip limit?
I wish someone with DSP knowledge might speak up to share this deep digital signal knowledge.
LOL!
@McD said:
Reading the app description leaves (me) the impression that you can control the amount of uh…pegness above the set clip limit. Think rounded square wave from a clean sine. Sounds like you can make it out to be a hard or soft clipper.
And rest assured, I have Decimal, Substraction, and Percentages knowledge.👊
It’s out!!!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fac-clipper/id6742354555
Definitely when 'gain match' is disabled it's possible to drive it pretty hard
(no drive into the clipper, gain-match off)
(+30db drive, gain-match off and values set for hard-clip).
But there's no 'auto-pegging' to 0db when lowering the threshold and some manual output compensation might be needed.
Regardless, it's a pretty fun plug-in for 'trashing' and creating some 'sausages'