"Linear phase equalization, without the latency."
Description
Blue Cat's Liny EQ is a 9 bands linear phase equalizer. It processes the signal without the usual phase distortion most classical digital EQs produce. Its customizable and wide range of gain (+/-40 dB per band) makes it suitable for any sound sculpting to subtle final mix equalization task. Additionaly, two shapes are available for the filters ("Notch" or "Symmetric").
The Smooth Update mechanism has been included in this plug-in so that you can automate the equalizer in your favorite sequencer or use the MIDI capabilities of your sequencer to control it in real time. You will get an absolutely zipper-free continuous time-varying equalization. This equalizer also has a very small latency (less than 3 milliseconds) thanks to its optimized very short kernel.
The built-in Blue Cat's skinning engine enables you to skin this plug-in: adapt the user interface to your needs and customize the look of your Blue Cat's plugin! 3 skins are included in the install package. This web sites offers you to download more skins or learn how to create new ones. It's all free!
This version is a mono effect, which means that you will get the same effect on left and right sides of your audio signal. You may also want to check the Stereo Liny EQ or Widening Liny EQ effects.
Features
- Linear phase equalizer.
- customizable +-40 dB range.
- Two different EQ shapes available.
- Automatic gain compensation.
- Very short latency: 2.9 ms (128 samples at 44,1 kHz).
- Window opacity management: make the plugin window transparent.
Blue Cat Audio Standards:
- Available as:
Mac-AAX, Mac-AU, Mac-RTAS, Mac-VST, Win-DX, Win-RTAS, Win-VST, Win x64-DX, Win x64-VST.
- 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.
- Skinnable and customizable user interface with transparency management.
- Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plug-in with absolutely no noise.
- Undo/Redo.
- Import/Export presets in a host independent format.
- Any sample rate supported.
Screenshots
You can find more skins for this product here.
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System Requirements
Windows
- An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or later).
- Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or 8.
- Any DirectX / VST / RTAS / AAX compatible host software (32 or 64 bit).
Mac OS X
- An Intel or PowerPC processor.
- Mac OS X Moutain Lion (10.8), Lion (10.7), Snow Leopard (10.6), or Leopard (10.5).
- Any VST / Audio Unit (32/64-bit) / RTAS / AAX compatible application.
For more information about supported platforms, see our FAQ.
Demo Limitations
- One single instance of the plug-in per session.
- The plug-in is regularly bypassed for a few seconds.
V4.11 (2011/02/10) |
- Fixed keyboard focus stealing issue in Pro Tools and several other host applications.
- 64-bit Mac VST support.
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V4.1 (2010/05/04) |
- RTAS plugin format support for Pro Tools (Mac and Windows).
- 64-bit applications support for Windows DX and VST under Windows x64.
- Mac AU 64-bit format support (compatible with 64-bit Logic 9.1 on Snow Leopard)
- Space bar does not trigger plug-in buttons anymore (avoids conflict with transport control in most applications).
- Demo version now displays a nag screen only once per session, and only when opening the user interface of the plug-in.
- Fixed MIDI learn issues.
- Fixed issue with EQ curve type that was sometimes not properly recalled.
- Mac: fixed user interface crashes in some hosts under Snow Leopard.
- Mac: fixed keyboard/mouse focus issues in some hosts.
- Mac: fixed multiple screens issue.
- Mac-AU: fixed settings lost issue when doing offline rendering in some applications.
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V4.01 (2009/05/05) |
| Mac VST update: fixed incompatibility issues with Cubase 5 on Mac. |
V4.0 (2009/03/09) |
- Mac Audio Unit support.
- Mac VST Support.
- New user interface design.
- The plugin now offers two types of EQ curves.
- EQ range is now customizable.
- Undo/Redo support.
- Preset import/export in a host independent format.
- Window opacity control for plugin transparency.
- New Windows installer.
- New documentation.
- This version is installed as a new plugin because of the new parameters. You can keep the previous version and this one side by side.
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V3.0 (2006/11/29) |
- Advanced MIDI control with customizable parameters curve response and MIDI learn.
- Now supports Blue Cat's Skinnning language 1.2.4 with several skins per session.
- Parameters can be fine tuned when the shift key is down, which offers a .1 dB gain resolution.
- CPU efficiency improvement: no processing occurs when input is silent.
- Settings window now loads faster.
- (Bug fix): in some plug-in adapters (such as FxPansion's VST to RTAS adapter) the GUI did not display properly when first loaded.
- (Bug fix): when reinstalling the software in another directory, the "skin not found" message was displayed.
- Warning: because it now supports MIDI events, the DirectX plug-in may appear in the "Synth" or "DXi" category instead of "effects" in some hosts (such as Cakewalk Sonar).
If it does not appear in you host, you might want to use our DXi Manager to de-activate MIDI features.
- Warning: this new version breaks the presets compatibility.
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V2.0 (2006/06/19) |
- New skinnable user interface, with several skins included.
- Blue Cat's Skinning Language 1.1 support, for an easy user interface customization.
- User manual available from the user interface.
- (Bug fix): no more constant -3dB offset on global gain.
- (Bug fix): the VST version now reports the latency to the host.
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V1.2 (2005/06/17) |
| Brand new GUI. |
V1.1 (2005/05/17) |
- Right clicking on a slider now sets the default value of the parameter
- (Bug fix): smooth update mechanism did not work properly on very fast variations
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V1.0 (2005/04/19) |
| First release. |
