Blue Cat Audio on FacebookFollow Blue Cat Audio on TwitterFollow Blue Cat Audio on InstagramBlue Cat Audio's Official Youtube ChannelThe Blue Cat Audio ForumThe Blue Cat Audio Blog - The Dark Side of the Cat
Blue Cat Audio - Software Made by Musicians for Musicians
Blue Cat's Plug'n Script Tutorials
Blue Cat's Plug'n Script Tutorials

Videos

Getting Started With Audio Plug-Ins Prototyping

Getting Started With Audio Plug-Ins Prototyping

Wondering how to get started with Plug’n Script and write your first audio processing script? Check out this tutorial, brought to you by MA Audio! This is a really basic …  Read More 

Plug’n Script – Native C++ Plug-In Tutorial

Plug’n Script – Native C++ Plug-In Tutorial

Plug’n Script is an audio and MIDI scripting plug-in and application that can be programmed to build custom effects or virtual instruments, without quitting your favorite DAW software. This video posted by …  Read More 

Plug’n Script: Unison Oscillators at Beat Frequency (Tempo-Synced)

Plug’n Script: Unison Oscillators at Beat Frequency (Tempo-Synced)

Florian Mrugalla’ PNS series continues, with an original approach to oscillators today. Check it out! “Usually you want the unison frequency between two oscillators to depend on the current note’s …  Read More 

DSP Parameters Smoothing With Plug’n Script

DSP Parameters Smoothing With Plug’n Script

In today’s episode, Florian Mrugalla explores the various possibilities for parameters smoothing and how it affects the sound of your DSP code. No Smoothing, Block-based smoothing, Linear Smoothing, Lowpass Smoothing… …  Read More 

Plug’n Script: ProcessBlock vs ProcessSample

Plug’n Script: ProcessBlock vs ProcessSample

Plug’n Script provides two ways to process incoming audio, either sample by sample, with the processSample function, or block per block (groups of samples), with the processBlock function. In today’s …  Read More 

JSON Parser for AngelScript

JSON Parser for AngelScript

As you may know, Angelscript is the scripting engine used by KUIML, our user interface description language for all our plug-ins, and can also be used to write DSP processing …  Read More 

Lagrange Interpolation Wavetable With Plug’n Script

Lagrange Interpolation Wavetable With Plug’n Script

Today Florian Mrugalla investigates how to implement a wavetable with Lagrange interpolation in Plug’n Script, check it out! This video is not very mathy, so you might want to check …  Read More 

A Simple Vibrato Plug-In With Plug’n Script

A Simple Vibrato Plug-In With Plug’n Script

In this new episode of his PNS series, Florian Mrugalla explores a new type of modulation effect: vibrato. Enjoy! Programming a simple vibrato-effect by resampling the input signal with the …  Read More 

Building A Basic Compressor With Plug’n Script

Building A Basic Compressor With Plug’n Script

Here is a new tutorial for Plug’n Script by Florian Mrugalla, building a very basic compressor, using the envelope follower built in the previous episode to apply gain reduction in …  Read More 

Creating A Delay Plug-In With Tempo Sync In Plug’n Script

Creating A Delay Plug-In With Tempo Sync In Plug’n Script

In today’s episode, Floran Mrugalla deep dives into an unavoidable time-based effect: delay! This tutorial covers both feed forward and feedback delays and how to create such effects in Plug’n …  Read More 

A Wavetable Oscillator With Spline Interpolation

A Wavetable Oscillator With Spline Interpolation

In this new episode, Florian Mrugalla explores wavetable synthesis and the various types of interpolation to build a simple synthesizer plug-in. If you want to check the source code for …  Read More 

Build Your First Plug-In With Plug’n Script: Waveshaper

Build Your First Plug-In With Plug’n Script: Waveshaper

Florian Mrugalla’s PnS Series continues, with a tutorial about how to create one of the most basic plug-ins with Plug’n Script, a wave shaper. It’s just the simplest thing you …  Read More 

Plug’n Script: The processBlock Function

Plug’n Script: The processBlock Function

In today’s episode of his series about Plug’n Script, Florian talks about the processBlock function in a DSP script and the various ways you can implement it, check it out! …  Read More 

How To Make A Step Sequencer With Plug’n Script

How To Make A Step Sequencer With Plug’n Script

In today’s episode of his PnS series, Florian gets very practical and explains you how to build a simple step sequencer with Plug’n Script, check this out! The source code …  Read More 

DSP: About Decibels and Amplitude

DSP: About Decibels and Amplitude

Today, in his PnS series of tutorials, Florian Mrugalla talks about amplitude and decibels, a basic foundation that you have to understand before diving deeper into DSP (Digital Signal Processing) …  Read More 

Getting Started with Plug’n Script

Getting Started with Plug’n Script

Florian Mrugalla recently started a series of tutorials about Plug’n Script to help you get started with our plug-in that lets you creates your own plug-ins. Check it out! “In …  Read More 

Programming The Simplest Reverb In Plug’n Script

Programming The Simplest Reverb In Plug’n Script

Want to learn the basics of reverb development? You are in the right place! In this new tutorial, Florian Mrugalla shows you how to program the simplest reverb DSP algorithm …  Read More 

How To Make A VST, Audio Unit or AAX Plug-In, In 20 Minutes!

How To Make A VST, Audio Unit or AAX Plug-In, In 20 Minutes!

Have you ever wondered how you could create your own audio or MIDI plug-ins, without headaches, deep knowledge of C, C++, compilers and linker errors? Ilya Orlov (also known as …  Read More 

Plug’n Script: Building A Plug-In Without Much Coding

Plug’n Script: Building A Plug-In Without Much Coding

Florian Mrugalla‘s video is an introduction to Plug’n Script, our plug-in that lets you create your own plug-ins without much coding. In this example, Florian builds a simple pitch shifter …  Read More 

LetiMix Custom Skin Add-On For Plug’n Script: Tutorial

LetiMix Custom Skin Add-On For Plug’n Script: Tutorial

Did you know that LetiMix had created a custom skin to make custom plugin development with Plug’n Script even easier? Here is a tutorial that shows the main features that …  Read More 

How To Create AAX Plug-Ins For Pro Tools And Media Composer

How To Create AAX Plug-Ins For Pro Tools And Media Composer

With Plug’n Script 3.2 you can now export your audio and MIDI plug-in creations as AAX plug-ins that can be loaded directly into AVID’s Pro Tools or Media Composer on …  Read More 

VST3 Plug-In ID Changes on Mac

VST3 Plug-In ID Changes on Mac

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 …  Read More 

Blue Cat’s Plug’n Script 2.0 Is Out!

Blue Cat’s Plug’n Script 2.0 Is Out!

We are happy to announce the release of Blue Cat’s Plug’n Script 2.0. This new version brings many improvements, such as an extra side chain input and multiple auxiliary outputs, native …  Read More 

Using MIDI FX in Pro Tools

Using MIDI FX in Pro Tools

Did you know that you can use AAX plug-ins as MIDI Effects in Pro Tools? AAX plug-ins can receive MIDI events, modify them, and send them to another plug-in. Yes, …  Read More 

Plug’n Script 1.1: What’s New?

Plug’n Script 1.1: What’s New?

We are happy to unleash Blue Cat’s Plug’n Script 1.1 today, with a couple of improvements and fixes for this new scripting plug-in. Let’s have a look at the main …  Read More 

Tutorial - Using MIDI Connectivity in a Modular Host (Plogue Bidule)

Read Tutorial - Using MIDI Connectivity in a Modular Host (Plogue Bidule) - Custom Side Chain Effects

This tutorial shows you how to use the MIDI connectivity of our plugins in a modular host such as Plogue Bidule. We are using the Mac version of Bidule in this tutorial. The scenario here is very sim... Read More 


Tutorial - Using Blue Cat Audio plugins connectivity in Reaper

Read Tutorial - Using Blue Cat Audio plugins connectivity in Reaper - Side Chain Dynamics Processing

This tutorial shows how to use our plugins MIDI connectivity within Reaper. We use Blue Cat's Dynamics plugin as an example, but you can use any other audio plugin which provides output parameters, su... Read More 


Tutorial - Connecting plug-ins together in Logic for advanced side chain effects

Read Tutorial - Connecting plug-ins together in Logic for advanced side chain effects - Side Chain Filtering

This tutorial shows how to use the connectivity capabilities of our plugins within Logic. We use Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro plugin (DPMP) as an example, but you can use any other audio plugin which provi... Read More 


Tutorial - Using Blue Cat Audio plug-ins connectivity in Pro Tools

Read Tutorial - Using Blue Cat Audio plug-ins connectivity in Pro Tools - Side Chain Filtering

This tutorial shows how to use the MIDI connectivity of our plugins within Pro Tools. We use Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro plugin as an example, but you can use any other audio plugin which provides output ... Read More 


Any questions, comments? You want to submit your own tutorial to win a free license? Please post on our Forum!