Blue Cat Audio - Software Made by Musicians for Musicians
Blue Cat's Remote Control
"The Virtual Control Surface for your Virtual Studio"

Description

Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin

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 Services 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.

Read our Remote Control Tutorials and see this product in action!

Price: 39 EUR or $59
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Supported Platforms: Windows-VST / Windows-DirectX
Included in Bundle: All Plugins Pack

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.

Screenshots

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Blue Cat's Remote Control - Assign the Midi channels and CC within the plugin UI Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - Ultra Wide 64 Controls and Meters Skin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - The joysticks skin let you control two parameters at the same time Blue Cat's Remote Control - MIDI virtual Control Surface DirectX and VST Plugin Blue Cat's Remote Control - Make the user interface transparent thanks to the built-in window opacity control Blue Cat's Remote Control - The Principle: Transform Automation, MIDI CC and User Interactions to Visualization, MIDI CC And Automation

You can find more skins for this product here.

User Comments & Reviews

Blue Cat's Remote Control was granted the Innovation award by Computer Music Magazine

"Looking to wield greater power over your MIDI software and hardware? This suite of virtual control surfaces might be the answer. [...] Remote Control 2 gives you deep, unified control over MIDI Continuous Controller data.[...] Does it work? Indeed it does. [...] Remote Control 2 does what it says on the tin, and does it well, all for a reasonable price."

"Verdict: Remote Control is a bit of a niche product, but for those who do need to unify their MIDI-manipulating activiies, it could be a real lifesaver." - 8/10 rating granted by Computer Music Magazine (CM), March 2008 - www.computermusic.co.uk

"The Remote Control plugins [are] fantastic for DAW workstation control.[...] The possibilities are really almost endless and this makes it another one of my favorite plugins of the [All Plugins Pack] bundle." - Glen Heffner, CakewalkNet [Read full review]

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System Requirements

  • Microsoft Windows XP or Vista.
  • Any DirectX or VST compatible host software (you can easily find one on www.kvraudio.com)
  • Note to Sony software users (Sony Vegas, Soundforge...): please follow this Sony DXi tutorial in order to be able to use the DirectX version.

Demo Limitations

  • One single instance of the plug-in per session.
  • The effect is bypassed for 3 seconds every 30 seconds.

Versions History >subscribe to our newsletter

2008/02/07

V2.0

  • New user interface design.
  • New joystick skin with XY controls.
  • Undo/Redo support.
  • Window Opacity Management: make the plugin window transparent and see behind.
  • Load/Save presets in a host-independent format: you can now share presets between the directX and VST versions.
  • New toolbar to access main functionalities.
  • MIDI settings are now available from the plugin user interface.
  • Improved Skins loading performance.
  • Curves are now anti-aliased.
  • Improved the display of parameters values in the MIDI settings panel and the host application.
  • Improved graphs refresh rate.
  • Reduced memory consumption when using several instances.
  • Default values for MIDI controllers have been changed to be more convenient.
  • Blue Cat's Skinning Language 1.4.1 support.
2006/12/16

V1.0

First version.
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