Clip-a-me

Clip-a-me is a free max4live designed and built by Aval.

It's a Soft Clip device with various clipping function to choose from.

It's ready to use, just choose a function and turn the "THS" dial down to start clipping your sound. Try to experiment with different function and listen how it will change the distortion from one to another: you’ll see your audio stream in the scope and the threshold clipping it; the two shapes bottom left are standard clipping (white) and soft clipping function in use (red).

IMPORTANT: The scope only works with Ableton 11

• THS: Clipping threshold
• Function box: Various type of clipping function
  • Digital: digital clipping with no soft clipping function
  • Tanh: hyperbolic tangent, adds a tube-like saturation
  • Sinusoid: sinusoidal clipping curve, adds a subtle saturation
  • Exponential: Exponential function based clipping function, creamy and clean
  • Cubic1: type 1 cubic clipping curve, very clean
  • Quadratic: quadratic clipping curve, even cleaner
  • Cubic2: type 2 cubic clipping curve, alternative to type 1