We are happy to announce significant free updates for 6 plug-ins! Blue Cat’s Dynamics, Protector, FreqAnalyst Multi, StereoScope Multi, Oscilloscope Multi and DP Meter Pro will be demoed on our booth (#16300) at NAMM this week.
If you are a registered customer, check out the preview versions that are already available on the full versions download pages (link received by email upon purchase)! Continue reading
There are many ways to match the tone of your favorite guitar players with your own gear.
Here is Hans Van Even‘s method, using Blue Cat’s Destructor to mimic Eddie Van Halen’s famous guitar tone, also known as the “brown sound”. Watch out! Sick guitar shredding inside!
Update: Hans’ EVH preset for Blue Cat’s Destructor (compatible with all plug-ins formats) and the Cubase session of the tutorial are now available for download. Check them out!
Enjoy!
Despite all our efforts, sometimes bugs are not caught before the software is released, and this one has an impact on VST3 users on Mac, so we’d like to share more information about it with you, so that you can avoid major problems. If you are on Windows or do not use VST3, you don’t need to read this!
We have noticed a bug on the first release of our VST3 plug-ins that affect the Mac versions: the identifier for the plug-ins (used by host to identify a particular plug-in) were not properly reported to the host on Mac.
The consequence was that the plug-ins inserted in sessions created on Mac would not be reloaded on Windows and vice-versa.
We are now progressively releasing new versions of our plug-ins with a fix for the wrong ID on Mac (see impacted products list below). But this means that older sessions will not reload the new versions of the plug-ins, as they are seen by the host as a different plug-in.
How To Open Old Sessions
So here is a way to open older sessions without losing any plug-in data. You can then migrate these sessions quickly to use the new version of the plug-in so that they are future-proof.
The idea is just to install the old and new versions side by side, so that older sessions are reloaded with the older version of the plug-in (which would be missing otherwise). Renaming the old plug-in before installing the new version will do the trick:
Open the VST3 plug-ins directory
Rename old plug-ins (for example with “Legacy” at the end, but do not change the extension (vst3)
If the plug-in has multiple versions (Synth, Dual, Mono etc.), do not forget to rename them all. Once you are done, install the new version. Both should now be available, side by side:
Side by side installation
You can now open the existing sessions: the “legacy” version of the plug-in will be loaded, keeping the sessions unchanged.
Since you probably do not want to keep both versions side by side forever, you can quickly migrate existing sessions so that they use the new plug-in in the future, instead of the old version:
Open the legacy plug-in in the session and copy its state
Replace the legacy plug-in with the new one and paste the state.
Voila! The old plug-in is replaced by the new one, with the exact same state.
So far, the plug-ins impacted by this change are the Mac VST3 versions of the following plug-ins:
Other VST3 plug-ins that are not listed above still have the Mac-Windows compatibility issue, except for Blue Cat’s Destructor, Late Replies, Axiom and Re-Guitar that were released with the fix from the very first version.
The release of Blue Cat’s Plug’n Script 2.0 is also the opportunity for us to unleash a new bundle: Blue Cat’s Crafters Pack.
This bundle combines our most powerful tools to customize your virtual studio and build the ultimate audio toolbox: yours.
Let’s have a look at its content and what it can be used for! Continue reading
In this video Jerry Mateo shows how to use Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi in a busy mix.
There is nothing like eating your own dog cat food and use the tools that you sell for your own work.
Testing Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer V2’s crossovers curves with Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi
So we have decided to take benefit from Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer’s new ability to host VST plug-ins, in order to test its crossover curves, using Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi.
We have simply added an instance of Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi on each band, and set them up to analyze the instant frequency response with maximal resolution.
Then a white noise signal was sent into the MB-7 Mixer plug-in. The reading on the FreqAnalyst Multi plug-in now simply shows the spectral response of the crossover filters, which exactly matches the one displayed on the Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer plug-in.
Nice, isn’t it?