Schwabe Digital Orange Clip 3 Mac Download

Schwabe Digital Orange Clip 3 Mac is a Mac-only multiband clipper from Schwabe Digital. It recreates the FL Studio stock soft clipper for any DAW, so Mac producers can use that clipping character in Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Cubase, Studio One, and other hosts that support VST3, AU, or AAX.

What is Orange Clip 3

Orange Clip 3 is version 3.1.1 of the Orange Clip plugin. It is a multiband clipper built around a linear phase filter-bank. Each band can be clipped on its own, which gives more control than a single-band clipper when a mix or a master needs loudness in one frequency range and headroom in another. Orange Clip 3 is reverse compatible with OC1, so sessions and presets made with the first Orange Clip keep working in version 3.

Multiband clipping for the master bus and individual tracks

Use Schwabe Digital Orange Clip 3 Mac on the master bus to add loudness and glue, or on drums, bass, and vocals to tame peaks without flattening the whole signal. The linear phase filter-bank splits the signal into bands before clipping, so the bands stay in phase and the tone stays intact. Clipping per band keeps low-end weight while the top end stays open, which is what makes a multiband clipper useful on a full mix as well as on single tracks.

Mac only: Intel and Apple Silicon

Schwabe Digital Orange Clip 3 Mac is for Mac only. It is available for Intel Macs and for Apple Silicon Macs, with separate native builds for each processor. It is not a Universal Binary / U2B build, so choose the installer that matches your Mac. There is no Windows version of this product.

Formats and system requirements

The formats included are VST3, AU, and AAX. The system requirement is macOS. Orange Clip 3 v3.1.1 works in any Mac DAW that supports one of those formats.

Developer: Schwabe Digital

The developer of this plugin is Schwabe Digital, by Grammy-nominated engineer Ryan Schwabe. Ryan Schwabe is known for his mastering work, and Orange Clip 3 brings the clipping approach from his studio into a plugin that any Mac producer can use.

Product details

Product: Schwabe Digital Orange Clip 3 Mac. Version: 3.1.1. SKU: SCH-OCLIP-003-MAC. Platform: Mac only, Intel and Apple Silicon. Formats: VST3, AU, AAX. Includes: Orange Clip 3, the multiband clipper, a recreation of the FL Studio stock soft clipper for any DAW, with a linear phase filter-bank and reverse compatibility with OC1.