N-SMART CLIP [LIVE 11] (Patreon)

N-SMART CLIP v1.0 FOR ABLETON LIVE 11.3.3

This snap heap rack is a detail preserving soft clipper!

N-SMART CLIP solves a big problem with traditional soft clipping of signals with low frequency content. A strong sub fundamental can result in loss of mid and high frequency information when being soft clipped too hard. This can be great for sound design purposes but limits you to gain much higher RMS while retaining sound quality.

While a regular soft clipper will saturate the whole frequency spectrum, this ableton live rack adds soft clipping to the sub frequency region independently from the rest of the spectrum. This results in the sub being held back from distorting and squarifying the rest of the frequency spectrum. This results in a more detailed, but still saturated signal and ultimately helps you get more RMS out of any sound.

N-SMART CLIP can dial in this detail preservation method, which means you can find a great middle ground between traditional soft clipping and detail preserving soft clipping.

PRESERVE at 63 (middle) will fully saturate the sub frequency region independently, while turning this macro up to 127 (right) will create headroom by lowering the sub region down to -3db.

This rack uses a linear phase filter crossover to process the sub independently!

It requires the N-SMART CLIP IR.wav IR audio file and the N-MLC m4l device in order to function properly.

FEATURES:

DRIVE: Increases the input gain with up to 16db.

PRESERVE: Lets you adjust the amount of detail preservation. At 0 (left) the sub frequency content will bypass the saturator and go straight into the final soft clipper, resulting in traditional soft clipping. At 63% (middle) the sub frequency saturator is fully active, soft clipping the sub to 0dB. At 127 (right)PRESERVE will create sub frequency headroom by lowering the sub down to -3dB.