V-Clip by Venn Audio - On Sale, 50% off!

[ScrLk]

I was hoping that the autogain was like clipping with equal loudness in Limiter 6 GE.

[JHVenn]

Hello everyone. It's that time of the year again! V-Clip is on sale, 50% off until Friday 3rd. https://www.vennaudio.com/product/v-clip/

In addition, we've also been working on updating the mac builds to be notarised so that you no longer need to add exceptions to Gatekeeper for newer versions of macOS, we're implementing notarisation as part of our build scripts so we should expect to see notarised builds very soon.

As for general V-Clip updates, the new plugin framework that we plan to port V-Clip to is still being worked on, I hope to be able to provide more news on that in the coming months.

[lfo2k]

"In addition, we've also been working on updating the mac builds to be notarised so that you no longer need to add exceptions to Gatekeeper for newer versions of macOS, we're implementing notarisation as part of our build scripts so we should expect to see notarised builds very soon." <- Would you maybe explain how to get this to work in Monterey, till you have the notarisasion? I am new to Mac.

[Ploki]

"In addition, we've also been working on updating the mac builds to be notarised so that you no longer need to add exceptions to Gatekeeper for newer versions of macOS, we're implementing notarisation as part of our build scripts so we should expect to see notarised builds very soon." <- Would you maybe explain how to get this to work in Monterey, till you have the notarisasion? I am new to Mac.

you need to right click installer and hold "option" and then go into system preferences > security, and say "allow".

if it fails validation, you need to go into security when logic pops up and tells you "unidentified developer" and do the same, then you can rescan it in logic's plugin manager

[lfo2k]

Thanks but it is not working at all for me. Did you try it on Monterey for yourself?

There is no whatever option with option+rightclick.

I had it at a point where Security gave me option to allow anyway, but even then nothing is happening. Studio One is still telling that this VST is not allowed to load.

When will this notarisation happen?

[lfo2k]

Any news? It is still not working on M1 Pro, Monterey, Studio One.

[eytanmich123]

Any news about the new framework ?

Current plugins are kinda smallish (gui size) and the operation is on the rough side...

[lfo2k]

Not much communication with the customers other than "sale, buy it", it seems

[JHVenn]

Thanks but it is not working at all for me. Did you try it on Monterey for yourself?

There is no whatever option with option+rightclick.

I had it at a point where Security gave me option to allow anyway, but even then nothing is happening. Studio One is still telling that this VST is not allowed to load.

When will this notarisation happen?

Hi @lfo2k, sorry just saw your post. V-Clip should work on Monterey, make sure you're using the latest installer which is notarised, here is a direct link to it:

https://www.vennaudio.com/downloads/v-c ... _64Bit.dmg

For future reference, for tech support it's normally best to contact us via our contact page (https://www.vennaudio.com/contact-us/).

[lfo2k]

Thanks but it is not working at all for me. Did you try it on Monterey for yourself?

There is no whatever option with option+rightclick.

I had it at a point where Security gave me option to allow anyway, but even then nothing is happening. Studio One is still telling that this VST is not allowed to load.

When will this notarisation happen?

Hi @lfo2k, sorry just saw your post. V-Clip should work on Monterey, make sure you're using the latest installer which is notarised, here is a direct link to it:

https://www.vennaudio.com/downloads/v-c ... _64Bit.dmg

For future reference, for tech support it's normally best to contact us via our contact page (https://www.vennaudio.com/contact-us/).

Ok, cool. Now it did work ; )
But: In my downloads i still get the old 2019 installer offered. Thats confusing if i as customer want to check if there is a new version. (and there is, but not in my downloads)

Also: Running my DAW native M1 mode, V-Clip only the AU shows up. So i guess as the VST2/3 version is missing here, V-Clip ist not completly M1 compiled yet?

Please also in the name of all Apple M1 user, do so.

[JHVenn]

Thanks for alerting us to the issue with the my downloads page, that should now be fixed. V-Clip is not yet compiled for M1 but should run fine through Rosetta.

[JHVenn]

Update: MacOS M1 Native version of the plugin for Apple M1 Silicon machines is now available!

https://www.vennaudio.com/product/v-clip/

[Boy Wonder]

<--- Late to the V-Clip Party. I used it today for the first time. Wish I'd known about it before. It masters like a dream. I guess I could always go back and remaster my old albums, but nah. What's done is done. I'll just keep utilizing it from here on out.

[JHVenn]

Hey guys, once again, you can find V-Clip 50% off until Friday 2nd! https://www.vennaudio.com/product/v-clip/

So comes another Black Friday deal, and many of you will be asking 'where are the updates?', which is a fair question! V-Clip was released in summer 2019, but there have been no major updates or sequels to it since, other than maintenance patches and adding support for Apple Silicon.

I want to reassure you all that we have been developing products all throughout this period, although life events have slowed us down (on top me and my business partner Adam both having full time jobs, I have also recently moved to a new place, and have just switched to a new job). Despite this we were able to separately launch Viper, a visual cue plugin that has been adopted by various post production studios! Still, our musician producer focused product line has gone stale, so I want to provide an insight into where we're at and where we're going.

Blobs

After V-Clip was released, and taking into account the many feature requests from our users, I wanted to focus on making the 'ultimate' dynamics plugin, one that could compete with the many other fully featured dynamics plugins out there. What I thought this meant was that we needed to support all kinds of complex workflows, such as multi-band processing, mid side processing, oversampling, multi channel processing and more. Combining all the possible workflow combinations into a standard plugin of buttons and knobs proved a challenging task. So what I decided to do instead was to create a product where users can define their own workflow and fully customise the UX to their needs, which resulted in work on a fully modular 'everything' plugin that we decided to call 'Blobs', so named because of the workflow of connecting various different 'blobs' or audio processing modules together to form the full processing chain.

Naturally such an ambitious project would require a huge amount of work, and what was initially thought of as a several months long project eventually morphed into a several years long project. Nevertheless, a significant amount of work was completed for this project - the basics of a fully modular and fully customisable processing chain was completed, where you could 'connect anything to anything', and define all kinds of complex workflows, such as an oversampled container with dry/wet processing connected to multi band splitting connected to mid side waveshaping and dynamics. And what's more, any combination of blobs could be grouped, saved as a preset, and then simply re-added to the blob workspace as many times as you wanted, allowing for incredible levels of processing depth and modularity. Below is a screenshot demonstrating the plugin, essentially an audio operating system, complete with windows and even a start menu!



But such an ambitious project proved perhaps too ambitious, the work to truly add all the features I'd like to see for a release became increasingly complex, and it seems bad business at this point to deprive customers of more products for so long. In order to try and give back to those customers that have been patiently waiting, we've decided to make use of some of the work that has gone into Blobs so far, which brings us to:

Free Suite

Free Suite is a set of plugins based on the work done for blobs, providing some of the blobs as free standalone plugins. The idea is to create a completely free, performant, light weight, resizeable, zero fuss set of cross-platform plugins. And when I say free, I mean no nag screens, no registration, no ads and no analytics, just full freeware. My ultimate aim would be for this suite to become a reference or standard, a set of plugins one might load when in a new production environment or DAW and quickly need all the necessary tools to do a complete mix of a track. Or perhaps as a reference to compare a new plugin to, in terms of performance and sound. The aim for the GUI is to be maximally simple and fully resizeable, and to have the plugins support as many different platforms and formats as possible.

The current line up includes: gain, pan, EQ, clipping (yes Free Clip 2 is coming!!), compression, delay, convolution reverb, test tone and metering. The DSP/back-end is already complete, there's just a bit more GUI polishing to do. I plan to release an alpha for testers as soon as possible, and I will create a discord server where I will push regular builds of the alpha and seek ongoing feedback, where anyone is welcome to join and give their thoughts.




Note: early alpha screenshots, GUI subject to change.

Free Suite will be our first offering out of the larger framework we have created when working on Blobs, with further commercial releases on the way based on this same framework, including a sequel to V-Clip, a commercial compressor, and oversampling and analysis tools. Stay tuned!


https://www.vennaudio.com/development-updates/

[Halonmusic]

wow awesome! thanks for this Blobs seems really interesting