"The all-at-once waveform visualizer and comparator."
Description
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.
The plugin offers stereo or mid-side channels waveform extraction as well as several synchronization modes. The zooming and precise measurement capabilities let you analyze the waveforms in details, and the XY phase scope view will help you track phase issues within an effect chain or while recording with multiple microphones.
The additional histogram display complements the toolset to check the distribution of the values in the waveform and get an idea of the average peak level.
The four memory slots let you store any waveform in memory: it helps you make comparisons between several setups or portions of your audio project very easily.
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.
Features
Main Features
- Multiple tracks real time oscilloscope: visualize and compare the waveform of several audio tracks on the same screen.
- Waveform display with loop and flow modes.
- Histogram display.
- Dual channel XY phasescope view (Lissajous) for easy phase cancelation and mono compatibility issues detection on multiple tracks or within an effect chain.
- Latency compensation capability to align waveforms.
- Animated zoom for all displays.
- Precise measurement capabilities.
- Save the curves for easy A/B comparison.
- Unique data sharing technology with multi-core processors support.
- Opacity control for the user interface.
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.
- Skinnable user interface.
- Smooth Update: silent, zipper-free parameters update.
- Full automation support.
- 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.
- Real time MIDI control with advanced settings and MIDI learn.
- 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
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User Comments & Reviews
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System Requirements
Windows
- SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or later).
- Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7.
- Any DirectX / VST / RTAS / AAX compatible host software (32 or 64 bit).
Mac OS X
- An Intel or PowerPC processor.
- Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6).
- Any VST / Audio Unit (32/64-bit) / RTAS / AAX compatible application.
For more information about supported platforms, see our FAQ.
Demo Limitations
- Two instances of the plug-in per session.
- The plug-in is frozen for a few seconds every 35 seconds.
V1.7 (2011/07/11) |
- Output data rate can now be customized, from 20 to 500 Hz.
- Increased the default output data rate (from 20 to 50 Hz) for smoother curve display.
- New trigger mode: the oscilloscopes can now be synced using a trigger, based on the value and direction of the incoming audio signal.
- Windows: improved settings dialog loading time.
- Mac: user interface performance improvement (up to 30% lighter on cpu).
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V1.62 (2011/02/10) |
- Fixed keyboard focus stealing issue in Pro Tools and several other host applications.
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V1.61 (2010/11/29) |
| Fixed incompatibility issues with older presets in the previous version. |
V1.6 (2010/11/18) |
- New histogram view.
- New delay compensation feature to compare out of sync waveforms.
- 64-bit Mac VST support.
- User interface enhancements:
- Improved readability.
- Zooming is now animated.
- You can now directly drag rulers when zoomed: no need to select the drag tool.
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V1.5 (2010/06/19) |
Performance Improvements (all platforms):
- Improved user interface performance and increased graphs display refresh rate.
- Reduced memory footprint.
- Faster skin loading.
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V1.41 (2010/02/25) |
- Demo version now displays a nag screen only once per session, and only when opening the user interface of the plug-in.
- Fixed a crash on Mac and 64-bit Windows that randomly occured when opening and closing the user interface multiple times.
- Mac: fixed crash with demo version in Ableton Live 8.1.1.
- Win: fixed incorrect version number displayed in the installer.
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V1.4 (2010/02/15) |
- 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)
- Fixed MIDI learn issues.
- Space bar does not trigger plug-in buttons anymore (avoids conflict with transport control in most applications).
- Mac: fixed user interface crashes in some hosts under Snow Leopard.
- Mac: fixed keyboard/mouse focus issues in some hosts.
- Mac: fixed user interface crashes in some hosts, when used with particular display settings.
- Mac: fixed multiple screens issue.
- Mac-AU: fixed user interface resizing issue when changing skin in some hosts (Logic).
- Mac-AU: fixed settings lost issue when doing offline rendering in some applications.
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V1.31 (2009/05/05) |
| Mac VST update: fixed incompatibility issues with Cubase 5 on Mac. |
V1.3 (2009/02/27) |
- Mac Audio Unit support.
- Improved Performance.
- New Windows Installer (you should uninstall any previous version before installing this new one).
- New documentation format.
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V1.2 (2008/12/10) |
- Now available for Mac in VST format.
- New manual sync capability to manually trigger multiple instances synchronization.
- Minor user interface changes.
- DirectX version: improved multiples instances synchronization on multiple processor machines.
- (Bug fix): keyboard shortcuts are no longer forwarded to host application when entering the names of the curves in edit boxes.
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V1.1 (2008/06/09) |
- XY view improvements:
- New density and time zoom controls for a better analysis experience.
- Added an option to connect the XY curve points.
- New zooming capability.
- The xy view can now display two curves for comparison.
- Improved navigation between views.
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V1.0 (2008/05/12) |
| First version. |
There aren't that many oscilloscope plug-ins available at the moment, and Oscilloscope Multi compares pretty well to similar software [...]. It's definitely slicker [...] and certainly boasts more features.
7/10 rating granted by Computer Music Magazine (CM), November 2008 - www.computermusic.co.uk