How to Unlock this Plugin
Once you own VCME, you get VCME Soft Clip for free
Advanced Controls
VCME Soft Clip has 2 pages of advanced controls. Click on the images below to see the advanced pages in detail. You can also read about the advanced pages in the plugin manual.
During the development of Vulf Compressor Mastering Edition, we often found ourselves wanting to use VCME’s Soft Clipper by itself, or in a different position than the compressor.
The Soft Clip was just too to good play second fiddle in VCME — it deserved its own plugin: VCME Soft Clip. The best part? VCME Soft Clip is FREE for all VCME owners!
VCME Soft Clip is identical to the Soft Clip section in VCME, but it adds a powerful Saturation Emphasis section for enhanced sculpting & harmonic shaping. And because it’s running alone, it also has lower latency and lower CPU usage than the full version of VCME.
In addition to the Emphasis filter, VCME Soft Clip supports external sidechaining, allowing you to saturate an input signal based on the dynamics of another signal — a very interesting & unusual effect.
VCME Soft Clip is not sold separately and can be unlocked by purchasing VCME.
VCME Soft Clip was created by examining and deconstructing several world-class analog mastering chains. Each of these chains featured different analog hardware, different A-to-D conversion, and different clipping and saturation characteristics.
The Soft Clip Saturation module captures the analog part of the chain: tubes, transformers, transistors, etc. all color the signal with subtle saturation, harmonics, and when pushed hard enough, full-on analog clipping & distortion.
The Soft Clip Limiter module captures the digital part: inspired by soft clipping A-to-D converters, it builds on this legacy but with a fundamentally new approach, separating transient and steady-state material to achieve punchier results with less distortion artifacts.
VCME Soft Clip is the ultimate special sauce to add a little extra kick to a mix or spice up an instrument or vocal. Part limiter, part saturator: it’s perfect for increasing loudness & presence while preserving a track’s natural character & dynamics.