Blue Cat Audio

Blue Cat’s Dynamics is a full featured dynamics processor: it can be used as a compressor, limiter, gate, expander, waveshaper or all at once!

 The dynamics response of the plug-in can be tweaked with a unique two-thresholds system, and provides detailed visual feedback about its behavior.

Dynamics Version 4.2 is OUT NOW!

Main Features:

• Full featured dynamics processor: compressor, gate, limiter, expander, waveshaper with a unique two thresholds system.
• Total control over the processor: continuous peak/RMS and Opto/VCA modes selection, peak envelope shape control, depth control to limit the gain range.
• Total control over the signal: dry/wet control for parallel compression, input and side chain filters.
• Stereo or mid-side processing with multiple channels linking options.
• Post brickwall limiter or clipper.
• Optimal monitoring: dynamics response, envelopes and gain reduction real time display with zooming capability. The main compression information can be recorded as automation curves.
• Best quality: up to 4x oversampling for the best sounding quality.
• Multiple side chaining modes: a unique way to perform side chain compression, ducking, gating and much more.
• Fully configurable user interface for optimal experience.
• No latency.

The plug-in includes several filters to control the frequencies affected by the compression. Its continuous VCA/Opto and Peak/RMS controls let you smoothly and precisely choose the behavior of the envelope detection like you have never been able to.

The plug-in also provides advanced stereofeatures, with mid/side processing capability, multiple stereo linking options and the ability to choose the channels affected by the processor.

An additional brick wall limiter and clipper protects the output for complete control over the dynamics response.

Three different modes are available for external side chaining, using either the external side chain input, MIDI control or automation lanes.

The configurable visual feedback shows every detail of what is going on inside the plug-in. You can also record this information as automation curves, to monitor the modifications applied to the signal on top of the audio representation of your favorite host application.

All these features can be controlled from a fully configurable and “skinnable” user interface, or from any external controller.

The package includes a mono and a stereo version for optimal CPU usage.

• Brand new GUI design, with improved usability and touchscreen support.
• The GUI can now be zoomed from 70% to 200%.
• Lock the GUI state to prevent changes when loading presets.
• New lookahead function for the dynamics section.
• New brickwall limiter with optional lookahead.
• Link pre and makeup gain to compensate gain changes.
• Lock GUI state to prevent changes when loading presets.
• Last loaded preset is now remembered in session and displayed in the presets menu.
• Plug-in state can now be reverted to the last loaded preset.
• Save and reload dynamics curves and bands as presets (+copy & paste).
• Now supports retina displays on Mac (text and graphs using high resolution).
• Mac: new installer.
• Mac: fixed minor compatibility issues with Mac OS High Sierra and Mojave.
• Changed demo limitations: up to 5 instances allowed, bypass time changed to half a second, and bypass parameter is not affected anymore.
• Dropped support for Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier.
• Dropped support for legacy RTAS and DirectX plug-ins formats.
• Fully compatible with previous versions of the plug-in (except for VST3 on Mac, as explained below).

Blue Cat’s AcouFiend is an acoustic feedback simulator plug-in that can make your guitars scream, growl, or sing, even at low volume or through headphones, and it gives you total control over it!

AcouFiend simulates the acoustic feedback (a.k.a “Larsen effect”) well known to guitarists playing loud and close to their speaker… Except that here, you have total control over the effect.

You can choose when and how to trigger the feedback, on sustained notes or chords.

The plug-in lets you select the main harmonic of the feedback, and you can even choose to transpose it for more creative effects.

Of course, it can be entirely automated or controlled via MIDI.

And since it is a plug-in, it is not just for guitars: create screaming synths, sustained vocal harmonies and more…

MAIN FEATURES:

• Acoustic feedback simulator
• Total control over the feedback: adjust the rise and fall time, the sensitivity to pitch and amplitude changes, and the generated harmonic
• Supports chords
• Limit the range of notes that can produce feedback
• Transpose the feedback signal to create harmonies
• No latency

BLUE CATS AUDIO STANDARDS:

• Available in most plug-in formats for Mac and Windows.
• Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn.
• No CPU load on idle: processing shuts down when fed with silence (optimal the CPU usage).
• Customizable user interface with transparency & zoom.
• Smooth Bypass: noiseless plug-in activation / deactivation.
• Undo/Redo. Full featured integrated presets manager.
• Copy/paste the state of the plug-in between instances.
• Any sample rate supported.

Blue Cat’s StereoScope Pro is a real time stereo field analyzer with multiple views and MIDI/automation output capabilities. It is a powerful help to analyze how the audio signal is spread in the stereo field, and you can easily detect potential phase and mono compatibilities issues.

Main Features:

• Real time stereo image analyzer.
• Three detailed views: stereo image, “stereogram” (evolution of the image over time) and output parameters.
• Animated zoom for all views.
• Precise measurement capabilities.
• 3D waterfall view with full 3D control.
• solid or wireframe 3D surface display.
• Integrated correlation meter.
• Instant, peak and average stereo image curves display.
• Easy phase cancelation and mono compatibility issues detection.
• Save the curves for easy A/B comparison.
• Opacity control for the user interface.
• Custom absolute and relative threshold control.

The stereo analysis can be controlled in details, and the precise measurements capabilities combined with the zoomable displays let you monitor what is exactly happening.

Choose your preferred view for your needs: real time stereo field display, evolution of the stereo image over time (2D or 3D) or output parameters that explicitly describe the average position and extent of the audio signal in the stereo field. The 3D waterfall view lets you see in details from your preferred viewpoint the evolution of the stereo image over time.

The four memory slots let you store any curve in memory: it helps you make comparisons between several tracks or effects setup very easily. You can compare your mix with other commercial hits!

Like our other professional analysis tools, the output parameters of this plug-in can be used to control other effects in real time: the generated automation envelopes or MIDI CC messages include the minimum and maximum positions in the stereo field and the perceived position based on the audio energy spread in the stereo image.

Thanks to Blue Cat’s skinning language support and the included window opacity management feature, you can adapt the plug-in user interface to your personal needs and enhance your workflow: work faster and more efficiently.

With Re-Guitar, you can emulate many kinds of guitar tones (electric or acoustic), regardless of the solid body guitar model used for recording: keep playing your own guitar and get all the sounds that you like, and more!

The built-in pickup simulator lets you emulate many types of electric guitar pickups without the need to modify your favorite instrument: choose from a selection of popular guitar pickups or create your own.

You can also dig and expand the body “in the box” to craft your own hollow body guitar tone thanks to the body simulator. The plug-in includes a selection of acoustic guitar simulations, and you can craft your own too. In addition to the brightness and gain adjustments, the virtual tone and volume pots let you tweak the tone in details.

They can even be automated to follow the performance.

If you do not play guitar but are producing music with recorded guitars, you will enjoy “re-guitaring” too: you can now “fix it in the mix” and virtually switch guitars after recording!

This plug-in is also available as a built-in effect inside Blue Cat’s Axiom, the multi effects processor for guitar and bass.

• Guitar tone modeler with electric pickups, acoustic guitars and hollow body emulations.
• Built-in single coil pickups: single hot, vintage, modern, active, tele, neck+mid, bridge+mid, P90, P90J.
• Built-in humbucker pickups: vintage, classic, ricky, modern, rails, bright, wide, wide(jazz), jazz box.
• Built-in piezo & acoustic guitars: solid body piezo, acoustic sim pedals, modern & vintage dreadnought, jumbo, mini jumbo, 000, small.
• Create your own electric pickups or acoustic guitar emulations with the custom electric and custom acoustic models.
• Adjust hollow body thickness and amount.
• Adjust simulations brightness and gain.
• Built-in virtual volume and tone pots.
• No latency.

• Available as: Mac-AAX, Mac-AU, Mac-VST, Mac-VST3, Win-AAX, Win-VST, Win-VST3, Win x64-AAX, Win x64-VST, Win x64-VST3.
• Native DSP code for optimal performance.
• Full MIDI control and automation support with silent, zipper-free parameters update, advanced response control and MIDI Learn.
• No CPU load on idle: when the plug-in is fed with silence, the processing smoothly shuts down, to optimize the CPU usage of your Digital Audio Workstation.
• Customizable user interface with transparency management and zoom.
• Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plug-in with absolutely no noise.
• Undo/Redo.
• Full featured integrated presets manager.
• Copy/paste the state of the plug-in between instances using the system clipboard.
• Any sample rate supported.

Main Features:

• Linear phase graphic equalizer
• very short latency (less than 3 ms: 128 samples at 44,1 kHz), with minimal pre-ringing artefacts.
• customizable range (+/- 40 dB).
• Exact EQ curve display.
• Four EQ shapes.
• Automatic gain compensation.
• Real time spectrum analyzer display.
• High resolution color and greyscale spectrogram display.
• High resolution color peak meter.
• Single and dual channel versions.
• Left/right or mid/side processing for spectral stereo widening or narrowing.
• Advanced channels linking capabilities.
• Multiple display sizes.
• Highly customizable user interface: display what you need, the way you need.

Blue Cat’s Liny EQ is an 8 bands linear phase equalizer with very low latency and comprehensive visual feedback: thanks to its highly optimized linear phase kernel, it processes the signal without phase distortion, with an unusually short latency (less than 3 milliseconds).

Its wide range of gain (+-40dB) and multiple filter shapes make it very flexible for a graphic EQ, letting you create unique EQ curves. The dual channels version offers independent settings for the left/right or mid/side channels, with flexible linking capabilities for an optimal workflow.

The highly customizable user interface includes a first class spectrum analyzer and spectrogram viewer. It lets you choose the best layout and display options to adapt the plug-in to your own workflow.

Thanks to its ability to update the EQ curve continuously using MIDI or automation and its additionnal “Mix” control, dynamic equalization tasks can be performed easily when used together with any of our control generation plug-ins.

All you need to finalize your mixes or master your audio tracks is here: visualize, monitor and verify the content of your tracks with ultimate precision thanks to Blue Cat’s DP Meter Pro, Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Pro and Blue Cat’s StereoScope Pro.

Adjust the spectrum with Blue Cat’s Liny EQ and Blue Cat’s Parametr’EQ, improve your tracks’ dynamics with Blue Cat’s Dynamics and maximize the loudness of the track with Blue Cat’s Protector.

Last but not least, Blue Cat’s MB-5 Dynamix will let you finalize the dynamics and spectral balance.

Bundled Products Include:

• DP Meter Pro
• Dynamics
• FreqAnalyst Pro
• Liny EQ
• MB-5 Dynamix
• Parametr’ EQ
• Protector
• SteroScope Pro

Blue Cat’s Oscilloscope Multi is a unique multiple tracks real time waveform renderer and comparator: it lets you visualize the content of several audio tracks on the same screen and compare them thanks to its X-Y view.

Blue Cat’s DP Meter Pro (DPMP) is a unique audio analysis tool: it combines very flexible and customizable audio meters with advanced side chaining control capabilities thanks to its MIDI and automation outputs.

Main Features:

• Multichannel peak, RMS & crest factor meter.
• True dynamic range measurement with levels histograms.
• Instant, average and maximum audio levels.
• Modular user interface to fit into your workflow, with multiple screen sizes.
• Total control over the metering characteristics, including attack/release shape.
• Bob Katz’s K-System scales support (K-12 / K-14 / K-20 and custom)
• Mono, stereo, mid-side or surround analysis.
• Record measurements (peak, RMS, crest factor, clip etc.) as automation curves.
• Control in real time any MIDI-compatible plug-in or external MIDI device with the generated envelopes thanks to the plugin’s MIDI CC output. See the Tutorials section for more examples.
• Manage the shape of the output envelope: record reversed envelope, change amount of signal, and offset the generated envelope. This lets you use the plug-in for side chain ducking, compression and much more.
• Easy ‘stereoness’ and phase cancelation measurement.

The metering capabilities of the DPMP plug-in let you control and monitor audio signals exactly the way you want: almost every aspect of the peak, RMS and crest factor meters can be customized. It proposes five different scales by default, including Bob Katz’s popular K-System scales (K-12, K-14, K-20), and you can create your own.

Large colored statistics displays following your own scales are included for an overview of a track, while histograms give you a precise measurement of the dynamic range of the track. The graphs show the evolution of the audio envelopes over time, and the mid-side switch lets you verify mono compatibility problems and check the “stereoness” of your audio sources very easily. Whether you are working with mono, stereo or surround tracks, this plug-in will fit into your workflow.

All envelopes (peak, RMS, crest factor…) can be reused for additional monitoring or side chaining purposes: combined together, reversed, modified and recorded as automation curves or sent as MIDI CC messages, they can control other effects in real time.

The DP Meter Pro Tutorials explain how to use these unique capabilities in your favorite host. Possibilities are endless, from voice over and ducking to side chain compression, multiple tracks monitoring or dynamic stereo enhancement.

It is also possible to control external MIDI hardware (such a synths, MIDI effects), video effects or lighting systems with an audio signal.

Blue Cat’s Axiom is a powerful and open multi effects processor and amp simulation software for guitar and bass. Based on the acclaimed Destructor plug-in for amp simulations, Axiom offers an infinite number of exceptional tones for your axe.

What’s new in 1.6?

• Improved Tone Maps navigation, with updated user interface (for amp simulation and 9 built-in effects).
• Added MIDI control support (MIDI CC messages) for Next and Previous Preset commands, with MIDI learn.
• Improved MIDI & automation control settings with lock, reset and “save as global setting” capabilities.
• Preset files can now be dropped onto the preset LCD area to be loaded.
• Level meters, spectrum analyzers and tuner stop processing when the user interface is closed, reducing CPU usage.
• Multiple DSP performance improvements.
• Reduced the number of threads used by the plug-ins.
• Improved global and preset settings window loading time on Windows.
• Reduced time to load Axiom, Destructor or any built-in plug-in.
• Full unicode support.
• Native Apple Silicon (M1 processor) support.
• Dropped 32-bit support on Mac.
• Now requires MacOS 10.9 and newer.
• Fixed VST3 (and sometimes VST) version freezing Ableton Live upon save on Windows.
• Up to 5 times more processing power with the new multicore engine that processes each channel and each tool on a separate core.
• Multicore engine also available for the built-in Late Replies plug-in (Pattern module).

• Updated all 460 factory presets with appropriate drive range for all simulated amps.
• New built-in looper plug-in (in the “Utils” category).
• New built-in distortion and dynamics pedals based on Destructor with new pedal GUI.
• New built-in delay models based on Late Replies 1.5 with new “EZ mode” GUI.
• New DSP workload meter that displays the DSP activity and CPU load.
• Tap Tempo with MIDI CC to set BPM in the application with a footswitch.
• Lock effects bypass switches to match the state of MIDI foot controllers when changing presets.
• Improved buffer management in standalone application on Mac, reducing both latency and CPU usage.
• reverted default preset to empty preset to improve performance upon load (the preset is still available as “Default Clean”)
• Added ability to select the plug-in to load when a shell plug-in file is dragged and dropped onto a slot.

Main Features

• Powerful and unlimited multi-effects processor and amp modeling software for guitar and bass.
• Realistic and fully customizable amp simulation based on Blue Cat’s Destructor.
• Flexible routing: 2 parallel amp simulation channels with effects + input and master sections.
• 40 high quality built-in effects: wah, delays, reverb, pitch bender, EQ, filters, distortion units, compressor, gate, chorus, flanger…
• Includes Blue Cat’s Destructor and Late Replies as built-in effects.
• Built-in high precision tuner.
• Open and extensible: load any third party VST, VST3 or Audio Unit (AU) plug-in.
• Delivered with thousands of presets for all sections and built-in effects.
• Load third party virtual instruments to play along.
• Global stereo spread control.
• Lock sections to prevent changes when loading presets.
• No latency.

It includes two amp simulations channels (with pre and post effects) that can be mixed together or used alternatively like a real amp. You can choose your amp models from hundreds of presets or launch the amp editor to build your own, with complete control over the tone. Additional input and master sections let you adjust the tone at the input and the output of Axiom, with 4 additional effect slots each and an integrated high precision tuner. A brickwall limiter also protects the output from overshoot. Axiom includes 40 built-in effects that can be loaded in any of the 32 plug-in slots, including a built-in version of Late Replies for creative delays and reverbs, and a built-in version of Destructor to add your own distortion pedals, cabinets or additional amp simulations. Blue Cat’s Axiom is not limited to its built-in effects: these slots can also host third party Audio Unit, VST or VST3 plug-ins: you can use your favorite plug-ins anywhere in the signal chain and expand Axiom’s capabilities. And because playing alone is not so much fun, we have added a tools section with 3 additional slots to load virtual instruments: add a metronome, a drum machine, sequencer or your keyboardist’s favorite synthesizer there to get it mixed with your guitar.

Blue Cat’s StereoScope Multi is a unique tool to compare the stereo image of several tracks in real time. It is the ideal solution for mixing: you can actually see which part of the stereo field every single instrument uses. It can also be used to analyze an effect chain and see how audio effects influence the stereo image of your content.

This plug-in is based on the same stereo analysis algorithms as Blue Cat’s StereoScope Pro analysis plug-in, and the instant, peak or average responses of several audio tracks can be displayed on the same graph (the plug-in supports up to 16 curves). The same zooming capabilities and coordinates display let you exactly measure the characteristics of the stereo image for each audio track. The advanced routing capabilities let you define different settings for each track, and thus adapt the parameters for each audio signal you want to analyze. Our multiple tracks audio analysis tutorial shows you how to use this multitrack analysis feature.

Thanks to Blue Cat’s skinning language support and the included window opacity management feature, you can adapt the plug-in user interface to your personal needs and enhance your workflow.

The Virtual Cable For Your Virtual Studio

Blue Cat’s Connector is an audio & MIDI streaming plug-in that can be used to transmit audio and MIDI signals in real time between several computers or applications, or create your own routings within a single application, with minimal latency.

• Have you ever dreamt to overcome the limitations of your favorite DAW and draw virtual audio and MIDI cables between any places that accept plug-ins?
• Have you ever been frustrated not to be able to create feedback loops with plug-ins?
• What about connecting multiple applications together, on different computers?

The wait is over! Blue Cat’s Connector lets you do all of this, and more! It can stream audio and MIDI data in real time, between any locations that accepts plug-ins: one or several applications, on one or several machines connected to a network.

With precise buffering control, you can achieve the lowest possible latencies: down to 0 samples, when used in a single application.

Its built-in resampling and drift compensation algorithms let you create seamless connections between locations with different sample rates and unsynchronized master clocks: it just works!

Features

• Universal connection plug-in available in VST, VST3, AAX or Audio Unit format.
• Create your own audio/MIDI routings inside your DAW (feedback loops allowed).
• Create connections between any audio software on multiple computers.
• Minimal latency, with full control over buffering.
• Supports multiple sampling rates on a single connection (built-in resampling).
• Built-in drift compensation.
• Send and receive back audio/MIDI with a single instance.

Blue Cat’s Late Replies is a powerful delay and multi effects plug-in that can be indefinitely extended by hosting third party VST, VST3 or AU plug-ins anywhere in the signal path.

With its unique topology, the plug-in is a full-featured delay machine with unlimited powers: both the 8 taps pattern module and the two nested feedback loops include plug-in slotsthat can host built-in effects or third party plug-ins.

So it’s not just about delays! The plug-in includes 25 built-in effects to further manipulate the delay lines: modulation effects, EQ and filters, dynamics processors, pitch and frequency shifters, wave shaper…

With the integrated ducker and its side chain input, ducking delays or reverbs has never been so easy.

Blue Cat’s Late Replies is delivered with hundreds of presets producing many kinds of audio effects: classic delays, rhythmic or melodic patterns, reverbs, vintage echoes, shimmer effects, sci-fi sounds and more.

Main Features

• Powerful delay with built-in effects and third party plug-ins support.
• 8 taps pattern section with integrated mixer and plug-ins slots.
• 2 feedback loops with crossfeed and plug-ins slots.
• 25 built-in effects: EQ, filters, pitch & frequency shifter, delays, modulation effects, compressor, gate, bit crusher, wave shaper and more.
• Supports third party VST, VST3 and Audio Unit plug-ins, with latency compensation.
• Tempo/Host Synchronization.
• Global stereo spread control.
• Several hundreds of fully editable presets.
• Integrated ducking, with internal and external side chain.
• Comprehensive visual feedback with detailed impulse response display.
• Protect your ears with the included feedback and output brickwall limiters.
• No latency.

New features and improvements in Late Replies 1.5:

• New dual user interface: browse and quick-edit presets with the new easy mode, or create your own delays and reverb with the full editor.
• Up to 8 times more processing power with the new multicore engine that can process each reply on a separate core.
• New echoes and ping pong delay presets with effects.
• New DSP workload meter that displays the DSP activity and CPU load.
• Added MIDI control support (MIDI CC messages) for Next and Previous
• Preset commands, with MIDI learn.
• Reduced time to load Late Replies or any built-in plug-in.
• Multiple DSP performance improvements.
• Level meters and spectrum analyzers are not updated anymore when the user interface is closed, reducing CPU usage.
• Reduced the number of threads used by the plug-in.
• Improved global and preset settings window loading time on Windows.
• Added ability to select the plug-in to load when a shell plug-in file is dragged and dropped onto a slot.
• Full unicode support.
• Preset files can now be dropped onto the preset LCD area to be loaded.
• Smoother loops Freeze when quickly switched from 0 to 100%.

Compatibility:

• Native Apple Silicon (M1 processor) support.
• Dropped 32-bit support on Mac.
• Now requires MacOS 10.9 and newer.

Fixes:

• Fixed host loop end value not properly passed to hosted plug-ins, for the VST2 version.
• Fixed several crashes upon load for multiple third party plug-ins (mostly VST3).
• Fixed MIDI control for hosted plug-ins not always working when fed with silence.
• Fixed VST3 (and sometimes VST) version freezing Ableton Live upon save on Windows.
• Fixed harmonizer and Pitch Shifter built-in plug-ins that did not always flush their buffer upon bypass (short sounds could be heard when getting out of bypass)

Want to bring energy and dynamics to your tracks? Looking for a complete wideband, multi-band and side chain dynamics processing solution? It’s here!

This bundle of plug-ins includes our best tools to manage the dynamics of your audio tracks: Blue Cat’s DP Meter Pro monitors the levels and offers unique ducking capabilities thanks to its side chain features. Blue Cat’s Dynamics includes all you need for broadband dynamics processing, while Blue Cat’s MB-5 Dynamix takes care of multiband effects. Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer is the perfect companion for these dynamics processors: it will let you create powerful multiband side chain effects. Finally, Blue Cat’s Protector’s simple yet efficient limiting capabilities completes the bundle.

All these plug-ins offer unique side chaining capabilities using MIDI or automation control. They can thus be used for a wide range of dynamics-based side chain effects. Check our tutorials for more information.

Bundled Products Include:

• DP Meter Pro
• Dynamics
• MB-5 Dynamix
• MB-7 Mixer
• Protector

“Mixing room experience with headphone convenience”

Enjoy studio monitor sound in your headphones with Re-Head, a unique head-response plugin.

Re-Head uses a head response model to recreate the effect of your head and skull on the audio coming in from your speakers.

Together with stereo processing, impulse response treatment, EQ and more, Re-Head takes care of the most common problems associated with headphone use in professional work: unnatural sound and ear fatigue.

For many audio professionals, listening on headphones is a necessary evil. Perhaps you need headphones when tracking? Perhaps you need to work away from your studio? Or perhaps your studio has that one neighbor that simply can’t enjoy your creative output at 3 AM in the morning? Listening through headphones creates an unnatural sound that’s quite different from how we hear music from speakers.

Re-Head will create a mixing room experience when using headphones, even when recording distorted guitars and other instruments that tend to sound unnaturally in-your-face in a headphone mix.

At the center is a head response model that mimics the effect of your own skull on your hearing when listening through loudspeakers. Add to that stereo processing to avoid the hard-panned sound so common in headphones, a spectrum analyzer and EQ. There is even an impulse response representation of your favored mixing room to let you feel right at home, even when you’re not.

Re-Head won’t replace your favorite studio monitors, for sure. But it will make the transition from speakers to headphones less dramatic.

MAIN FEATURES

• “Head response” model: get a more natural tone when working with headphones.
• Adjust the position and the angle between the virtual speakers.
• Adjust the brightness.
• Built-in EQ and spectrum analyzer.
• Impulse response (IR) loader to mimic your listening room, and compensate actual headphones.
• Flip left and right channels.
• No latency.

BLUE CAT AUDIO STANDARDS:

• Available in most plug-in formats for Mac and Windows.
• Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn.
• No CPU load on idle: processing shuts down when fed with silence (optimal CPU usage).
• Customizable user interface with transparency & zoom.
• Smooth Bypass: noiseless plug-in activation / deactivation.
• Undo/Redo.
• Full featured integrated presets manager.
• Copy/paste the state of the plug-in between instances.
• Any sample rate supported.

Blue Cat’s Remote Control is a set of plug-ins which let you control and monitor in real time several MIDI controllable plug-ins or devices from a single customizable user interface: the user interface of your favorite DirectX or VST plugin does not satisfy you?

Your favorite hardware device is too complicated to control? Your project contains hundreds of plug-ins and you would like to control them all from a single user interface? You want undo/redo for all your modifications? This product was designed for you.

The package includes 3 plug-ins: Remote Control 16, 32 and 64, which have the ability to manage up to 16, 32 or 64 parameters. You can assign a MIDI channel and CC number to each controller, customize its response curve. You can as well choose a skin that suits your needs for every instance of the remote control (several skins are included in the package, see the screenshots), or create your own (see the Skins section): this is the best way to create your own user interface to control your entire Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) the way you have chosen. If you have a very specific project and you do not have time to spend on our Skinning Language, Blue Cat Audio can also create custom skins for you: see our Consulting page for more information.

Another way to use the product is for MIDI control remapping and transform: assign an input parameter a given MIDI CC, and assign the associated output parameter to another MIDI CC with different response curve parameters: the plug-in will remap the controller to the new CC and channel with a new response curve.

Main Features:

• Virtual MIDI control surface and monitoring tool.
• Control or monitor in real time any MIDI-controllable plug-in or external MIDI device.
• Customize the controls response curve with advanced settings.
• Create your own Digital Workstation controller thanks to Blue Cat’s Skinning Language.
• MIDI learn.
• Full automation support.
• DirectX and VST formats.
• Undo/Redo.
• Load and Save presets in a host independent format.

This bundle contains the complete collection of our multiple instances analysis plugins. These plugins offer unique multiple tracks audio analysis capabilities thanks to our data sharing technology. This solution is ideal for mixing, tracking defects within an audio processing chain, teaching audio processing or learning sound synthesis.

Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi plugin provide extremely smooth spectrum and frequency content analysis, the Blue Cat’s StereoScope Multi analyzer let you visualize the stereo image of your audio content in details, and the Blue Cat’s Oscilloscope Multi waveform viewer shows the waveform of audio signals as well as their phase relationship.

All plug-ins integrate specific capabilities to compare audio signals and display their differences.

Bundled Products Include:

• FreqAnalyst Multi
• Oscillloscope Multi
• SteroScope Multi

Blue Cat’s MB-5 Dynamix is an extremely powerful all-in-one multiband dynamics processor: it can be used as a multiband compressor, limiter, gate, expander, waveshaper or all combined at once, on any part of the spectrum.

The unique dynamics processing section of the Blue Cat’s Dynamics plug-in has been streamlined and integrated in this plug-in to process each one of the 5 bands separately.

The plug-in provides unique envelope detection capabilities that let one band trigger the dynamics response on others (internal side-chain). Combined with the advanced stereo features including mid/side processing and independent channels activation, it gives you full control over the dynamics of the signal for a wide range of effects.

An additional brick wall limiter/clipper protects the output for complete control over the dynamics response.

The plug-in provides comprehensive visual feedback to let you know what’s exactly going on at every step of the dynamics processor: for each channel, monitor the spectrum, the in/out levels, dynamics response, compression ratio and in/out level of each band…

The user interface has been designed to streamline the workflow, and despite the wide range of functionalities offered by the plug-in, it is extremely easy to use. Inter-bands controls (copy/paste, link…) lets you create complex treatments with a few clicks.

Thanks to its advanced MIDI and automation output capabilities, Blue Cat’s MB-5 Dynamix is capable of advanced side-chaining features: you can control other plug-ins with the output of the dynamics processing stage for simple side chain dynamics effects or more advanced signal-dependent effects. Check out our MB-5 Dynamix Tutorials for more details.

What’s New in PatchWork 2.65:

• Plug-ins oversampling: it is now possible to oversample processing for every plug-in (up to 16x).
• Custom Colors: Each individual plug-in instance can now be assigned a custom color.
• Updated 120 factory presets and all built-in plug-ins with custom colors.
• PatchWork can now use its own parameters in macros, mixed together with loaded plug-ins parameters.
• Graphical user interface refresh performance improvements, especially on Mac.
• Improved resampling when the application starts streaming audio as a network server with Blue Cat’s Connector.
• Fixed custom tone maps (https://www.bluecataudio.com/Blog/tip-of-the-day/tone-maps-a-new-approach-to-sound-design-and-tone-control/) presets not properly saved for some built-in plug-ins (Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Sweep Filter, Wave Shaper, Freq Shifter, Wah, EQ).
• Fixed stuck notes with some VST3 instruments.
• Fixed some VST3 instruments not producing any sound (like Toontrack instruments).
• Ableton Live 11: Fixed PatchWork VST3 MIDI input not detected and PatchWork Synth VST3 not loading.

Blue Cat’s Crafters Pack is the ultimate audio toolkit to design your own custom toolbox.

Write your own effects or virtual instruments with Blue Cat’s Plug’n Script, create custom MIDI controllers with Blue Cat’s Remote Control, and connect everything together with Blue Cat’s PatchWork, as a plug-in or standalone application.

With Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer, create your own multiband processors by applying plug-ins of your choice (including your own!) to distinct frequency bands.

The “Multi” analysis plug-ins series are also included, to help you during the creation process: analyze and match existing gear, or check how your processing chains are impacting the signal.

If you really care about having tools that adapt to your own workflow, or if you are a programmer and want to speed up your development process, check it out: Blue Cat’s Crafters Pack will unleash your creativity!

Bundled Products Include:

• FreqAnalyst Multi
• MB-7 Mixer
• Oscilloscope Multi
• Patchwork
• Plug’n Script
• Remote Control
• StereoScope Multi

Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi is a unique multiple tracks real time spectrum analyzer: it lets you visualize the spectral content of several audio tracks on the same screen with extreme smoothness and high resolution, for both time and frequency.

It is the ideal solution for mixing: you can use it as a frequency overlap detector and actually see which part of the spectrum every single instrument uses. It is now also possible to easily compare the spectrum of several instances (for EQ matching or response curve measurement) thanks to the new ‘Diff’ view which displays the difference between several curves.

Just like with Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Pro plug-in, the frequency analysis can be fine tuned in details, and three modes are offered for each channel: instant, peak or average response of several audio tracks can be displayed on the same graph (the plugin supports up to 16 curves). Zooming capabilities and coordinates display let you exactly measure the characteristics of the spectrum for each audio track. Thanks to the advanced routing capabilities you can define different settings for each track and thus adapt the analysis for each audio signal you want to analyze. Our multiple tracks tutorial shows you how simple multiple tracks spectrum analysis can be.

The four memory slots let you store any curve in memory: it helps you make comparisons between several setups or portions of your audio project very easily.

Thanks to included window opacity management feature and advanced layout customization capabilities, you can adapt the plug-in user interface to your personal needs and enhance your workflow. It is also possible to create a completely custom user interface using Blue Cat’s skinning language.

Main Features:

• Mono, stereo or mid/side multiple tracks real time spectrum analyzer: visualize and compare the spectrum of several audio tracks on the same screen.
• Unique data sharing technology with multi-core processors support.
• Compute and display the difference between spectra for easy EQ matching and response curve measurement.
• Total control over the analysis parameters, with slope and offset correction.
• Smart interpolation algorithm for extreme display smoothness.
• Spectrum view with zooming and precise measurement capabilities as well as note info display.
• Multiple display sizes
• Instant, peak and average curves display for each track.
• Choose a name for each curve for easier sharing.
• Save the curves for easy A/B comparison.
• Opacity control for the user interface.
• Custom absolute and relative threshold control.