We are now in the download and voting stage of the KVR Developer Challenge 2012. This news item features an entry called Clip Shifter by LVC-Audio. You can download it for free here.

Here's what they say about it:

Clip Shifter is a plugin designed to provide saturation and clipping effects to your audio. This can be useful for individual tracks such as kick, snare, room mics, bass, etc.; on mix busses such as drums; and on overall mixes. The sonic characteristics of the clipping distortion can be altered from hard, brickwall-style clipping, to softer saturation with compression.

The threshold controls for Clip Shifter's clipping dynamically responds to the transient characteristic of the incoming audio. Distortion/Saturation can be selectively applied to part of the audio signal.

Clip Shifter is available as a Windows 32-bit or 64-bit VST plugin.