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[Albina Hickel]

What has happened here is that the signal has gone so far off the scale that it has appeared on the other side.
Actually that should never happen, and is partly due to your sound card handling the overload incorrectly.

For a good recording, you need to be able to be able to avoid clipping rather than try to correct it. Correcting bad recording is really a last resort which can sometimes work in removing small imperfections in an otherwise good recording.

If that is where the clipping occurs, you need to turn down the gain on that channel and use the level fader to bring the volume up to match the other inputs. If the level fader will not go high enough, then you need to turn down everything else.

Of course we still have to establish what exact value of Δ_y_ is required for something to be identified as a clip. This could be left a variable for the user to set himself while executing the plugin. A second requirement for an area to be identified as clipping (to prevent false positives) is that the y-value must remain in the negative until a sudden high slope is found, marking the end of the clip.

Well, I sent this topic to the mailing list but I did some research myself and found that Nyquist is better equipped for higher level operations than for sample-by-sample processing. However this particular idea should be possible with the following functions:
-forum.de/download/edgar/nyquist/nyquist-doc/manual/part6.html#index164

maxduration: amount of samples that each negative clipping area is allowed to contain. In practice this defines the maximum amount of samples that the algorithm will look ahead to find the very high slope (marking the end of the clip) after having found the very low slope (start of the clip). Not implemented in the pseudo-code because this fits in the observation-first principle as described above.

slowness and inability to work with a whole 3 minute track except on the fast machines with a lot of memory (this is as I understand it really a known problem with memory management in the Audacity implementation of Nyquist)

manual deamplification of the audio is necessary before running Clip Fix (that could easily be added by someone who knows what they are doing, in my experience a 10 - 15 dB deamplification is necessary).

The amount of de-amplification depends on how much the audio is clipped and on the threshold level that is set. Determining a precise amount of de-amplification would be quite tricky and would require a pre-scan, but it could be either set with a second slider, or for a more simple interface could be set to a generous amount, and the waveform normalized post de-clipping. The problem with automating this task by either method is that if the effect is applied to a selection, rather than the whole track, there will be a noticeable jump in amplitude in the processed section.

I agree with all of that, but the prior de-amplification (even if simply a fixed generous amount) is possibly more important to put in, because if selections are processed some manual re-adjustment of levels is almost always going to be necessary whether Clip Fix normalises afterwards or not. If Clip Fix worked more efficiently it would probably be better in most cases to simply apply it to the whole track, just as applying noise removal to the whole track may leave the whole sounding more uniform.

I am using Waveform Audio Player plugin but only get MP3 audio files to play. All my files are WAV format. Can this plugin work with WAV as well or is there another plugin I can use to play WAV files?

I have done some testing to ensure I provide the most up-to-date information, and the plugin was working correctly with WAV music files. The waveforms were created correctly, and the song played with no issues.

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most of the times Cubase crashes, it has to do with plugins. Also, Cubase is often not able to create a DMP file to tell us, which one was the culprit. Let alone all the hassle and lost time when crashes happen. Thats why I am requesting a Sandboxing feature to prevent that.

There are multiple ways to do this, per plugin, all plugins together in one wrapper, all plugins of one manufacturer in one wrapper, etc. A error message then appears and tells us that there is a crashed plugin. The plugin can then be reloaded (be it manually/automatically).

You can imagine how much more stable Cubase would be with a solution like this and how fast you could sort out faulty plugins or contact the developer to fix their issues.
90% of all crash reports here on the forum would instantly disappear, providing more resources for Steinberg and less headache for their customers.

I created a project in Bitwig with 100 tracks and 200 plugins in total and did the same in Cubase. To prove, that if implemented well, this system has no real impact on the latency or resources. The results can be found here (Post #43 in this thread):

Yep, and I mean if you could enable it not only globally, but per plugin/track too, then the resource thing would be a non issue imho. As soon as you see which plugins always crash cubase, you could sort that problem out and then disable the sandbox again. Or leave it enabled for it, if there is no fix and you really need this plugin.

And even if there would be a slight decrease in efficiency and latency, by having the option to enable/disable it per plugin/track or globally, you can always disable it again, after you found the faulty plugins crashing your projects.

And sorry, but your conclusion does not make sense. This would be the opposite of making plugin vendors more lazy, because finally you 'd know for sure which plugin caused a crash and you can let them know that their plugin was the fault. As it is now, unless you have a dmp file which proves the cause of a crash precisely, there is not much you can do to.

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