Fuse Audio Labs releases the OCELOT Clipper Peak Shaper with Intro Offer

[fuseaudiolabs]

OCELOT CLIPPER PEAK SHAPER RELEASE



CRAFTING LOUDNESS

Welcome to a streamlined approach for managing loudness without sacrificing quality or introducing unwanted artifacts. The OCELOT Clipper is your ultimate tool for peak reduction and mastering dynamics, empowering you to create more headroom and deliver energetic mixes. Its intuitive interface keeps the focus where it matters – on your music, not the knobs.

HARMONIC TWEAKS

The OCELOT Clipper’s advanced dynamics control unlocks powerful tone shaping capabilities, offering separate knee controls for both the positive and negative swings of your signal. Sculpt the tonal balance of your harmonics with great flexibility, whether you’re adding subtle warmth, a gritty edge, or taming peaks on individual sources.

HIGH FIDELITY

The OCELOT Clipper ensures exceptional sound quality. Anti-aliasing options, including user-selectable oversampling up to 32x or ADAA technology, and a true peak mode, deliver pristine results while keeping CPU load manageable. With low latency under 1.5 ms, it’s equally effective for both live applications and studio use, keeping your workflow seamless and responsive.

MULTI DISPLAY

With its efficient workflow and extended analysis display, including waveform, distortion and harmonic spectrum visualization, the OCELOT Clipper makes even tricky loudness tweaks easy to handle. It’s the perfect companion to the OCELOT Limiter, offering everything you need to shape your dynamics with precision, whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out.

OCELOT SERIES

In an ever-growing sea of plugins, a select few stand out as essential tools you rely on in every session. These gems enhance your workflow with their powerful features and intuitive user interfaces, building the core of your personal sound. They become indispensable, evolving alongside you. The Ocelot Series puts these tools right in your hands, delivering cutting-edge low CPU, zero or low latency studio essentials built with top-notch DSP tech...more coming soon!

On sale for only $29 ($69 regular) until March 21st 2025.

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[SeeingInMidi]

ah helllll yeaahhhhhhhh. cant wait to test drive this.

[Cyanide Lovesong]

Ocelot Clipper & Ocelot Limiter pair beautifully together. If you have the ear for it, both of these are different enough from the competitors that they're worth owning even if you have this type of plugin already...

But even if you don't have the ear for such differences -- the UI on these is a huge selling point. They look good, feel good, but most importantly the metering is really useful and easy to read.

They're also low latency for how good they sound, and I consider them competitive with my other favorite (Pro L-2 and Ozone Maximizer) except both of those use considerably more latency.

With a Limiter and then Clipper -- it makes me think Fuse Audio is going to come out with an Ocelot Compressor next, and I'm waiting eagerly for it. That will be a POWERFUL combo for the mix bus (and otherwise.)

And to top it all off -- Fuse Audio launches these with an affordable entry price which is super appreciated for a fans that want to own everything by a developer.

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But back to the Clipper... This clipper has a waveshaper so it's competitive with Sonnox Inflator, except the UI is WAY better and it has really good oversampling options (Sonnox Inflator doesn't.) Put this before your limiter and it's easy to shave those peaks (or round them out with the knee settings.) It strikes a perfect balance between being effortless and easy to use (the pos/neg knee controls are linked by default) -- but the controls are nuanced enough to tune to your needs. Good balance between ease of use and adjustability.

Lastly -- it has both a ceiling AND output level (not all clippers do) and that makes it useful within your mix on tracks or submix busses as well.

Well done, Fuse Audio. I really hope the Ocelot Compressor is coming next!!!

[DNAudio]

Love to see ADAA being implemented, this is the single feature that peaked my interest in the plugin. True peak protection is also nice to see in a clipper. I'm curious as to if it's a non-oversampled hard clipper put after the oversampled one or something more sophisticated.
UI is gorgeous. Love the mix of digital & hardware and the harmonic series graph is a cool way of showing people how different transfer curves & asymmetry can effect the distortion! GR graph is well done too.

Personally though I feel the $69 asking price is a bit too much, but at $29 intro offer it's a bargain. I understand many companies have high asking prices but frequent sales nowadays but that's just my 2 cents.

Regardless I'm very, very happy with this release!

[VariKusBrainZ]

Ask your Mum for a pocket money bump, cos youre worth it

[Vortifex]

It's a decent clipper. It doesn't give me a reason to ditch StandardCLIP or Kclip3 but I'd consider it if I was looking for my first third party clipper.

[fuseaudiolabs]

Hi DNAudio,

Thanks for your comments.

I'm curious as to if it's a non-oversampled hard clipper put after the oversampled one or something more sophisticated.
UI is gorgeous.

It‘s a little more sophisticated and that’s why enabling True Peak mode also comes at the expense of additional CPU.
Simply adding a non-oversampled clipper at the end of the chain would reintroduce plenty of aliasing that one is attempting to suppress by using oversampling in the first place. The overshoots produced by the downsampling FIR can be quite significant depending on the complexity of the signal.
Instead of computing only the decimated sample we apply the downsampling AA kernel for all the "intermediate" samples in the oversampled time domain, i.e. we aren’t discarding the ones that wouldn’t be sampled at the target rate. Then we perform an absmax operator + lookahead window and smoothing just like a TP limiter would in order to anticipate the overshoots introduced by the ringing.

Hope that makes sense/helps.

Best,
Ray

[Scotty Ellis]

So nice to see a developer put in the hard work to create high quality oversampling to combat aliasing rather than take the easy way out and let Reaper handle it. You've earned my purchase, good sir!

[nordickvr]

@Ray
I took the form from your website regarding a question for my previous orders.
Haven’t been replied yet.
May be that wasn’t the good way to reach you for that kind of request?

[fuseaudiolabs]

Hi nordickvr,

@Ray
I took the form from your website regarding a question for my previous orders.
Haven’t been replied yet.
May be that wasn’t the good way to reach you for that kind of request?

Can you please get in touch via PM? We’ll try to handle your request ASAP.

Best,
Ray

[nordickvr]

Done.

[DNAudio]

Hi DNAudio,

Thanks for your comments.

I'm curious as to if it's a non-oversampled hard clipper put after the oversampled one or something more sophisticated.
UI is gorgeous.

It‘s a little more sophisticated and that’s why enabling True Peak mode also comes at the expense of additional CPU.
Simply adding a non-oversampled clipper at the end of the chain would reintroduce plenty of aliasing that one is attempting to suppress by using oversampling in the first place. The overshoots produced by the downsampling FIR can be quite significant depending on the complexity of the signal.
Instead of computing only the decimated sample we apply the downsampling AA kernel for all the "intermediate" samples in the oversampled time domain, i.e. we aren’t discarding the ones that wouldn’t be sampled at the target rate. Then we perform an absmax operator + lookahead window and smoothing just like a TP limiter would in order to anticipate the overshoots introduced by the ringing.

Hope that makes sense/helps.

Best,
Ray

Lot of that went over my head but I do believe I heard a bit of lookahead smoothing taking place when pushing it at very high levels.
Very few clippers have true peak limiting capabilities and it also being oversampled is quite rare. Most true peak limiters either only oversample the sidechain and are often a separate process from the base limiter. It generally creates an exceptionally weak sounding transient in my experience but the impact with Ocelot clipper remains strong.

Will definitely be purchasing!

[FTsounds]

Hi, i have just downloaded the trial and i have few questions i hope you can answer to.

Is it possible to run the plugin without any kind of OS or 2x is the minimum?
Any chance to have an different online and offline OS option like StandardClip?
Can you please ELI5 what HQ/ADAA does?
How True Peak works? I mean it looks like it takes care of overshoots as i see, is there for that reason or is just another stage of OS? Is it possible to know the blocks of the internal routing?

This is a product i'm really interested in, i usually don't like how True Peak sounds, but i will do some earing tests to see if here it sounds better than other products, cause the only reason i wanna use it is to take care of overshoots, i don't really care about ISP

[DNAudio]

Hi, i have just downloaded the trial and i have few questions i hope you can answer to.

Is it possible to run the plugin without any kind of OS or 2x is the minimum?
Any chance to have an different online and offline OS option like StandardClip?
Can you please ELI5 what HQ/ADAA does?
How True Peak works? I mean it looks like it takes care of overshoots as i see, is there for that reason or is just another stage of OS? Is it possible to know the blocks of the internal routing?

This is a product i'm really interested in, i usually don't like how True Peak sounds, but i will do some earing tests to see if here it sounds better than other products, cause the only reason i wanna use it is to take care of overshoots, i don't really care about ISP

Read the above posts for some clarity on true peak. As for what it does exactly, it compensates for peaks created by digital to analog conversion. "In-between" samples/inter-sample peaks that can be louder than what regular peak analyzers can detect in their reconstructed form.

As for ADAA, it further reduces aliasing in a way that oversampling simply can't. It can technically be run without oversampling if you're running at 96khz but it requires you to properly filter the signal beforehand, so most companies only enable it when oversampling is also enabled. In other words, it requires additional bandwidth to be effective. It costs next to no additional CPU usage yet handles infinite series of harmonics much better than oversampling alone can do. (Hard clipping for example)

It's a very abstract algorithm that I can't pretend I truly understand but the results speak for themselves. I posted a screenshot in another thread showing that 4x oversampling + ADAA in apShaper outperforms 64x StandardClip with similar settings. It's seriously a game-changer for most forms of non-linear processing. Even if you don't care about having the lowest aliasing possible it still lets you achieve better results for lower CPU usage when used at lower oversampling levels like 2x.

[kritikon]

Looks interesting, will try to get to the studio today and give it a proper listen. Will also endeavor to check out the other Ocelot thingumabobs - not heard of them before today. TBH I don't use clippers that much, but not for any real reason I can think of, just never got into the habit. This GUI really attracts me, and makes what the clipper's doing really obvious. AND...it has a delta function, superb and wish more processor plugins had this. Tempted to buy it just on looks alone, which is most unusual for me, so a big for the visuals. Hopefully it sounds as good as it looks. Great intro price too, makes it a very easy purchase IMO.