Blue Cat’s PatchWork

Description

Blue Cat’s PatchWork is a universal plug-ins patchbay and multi FX that can host up to 64 VST, VST3, Audio Unit or built-in plug-ins into any Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) in a single instance, with both serial and parallel routing options.

It is possible to chain effects in series or create up to 8 parallel chains that you can activate independently. This lets you create your favorite effects or instruments configurations within the plug-in, without the need for multiple busses. You can save these configurations as presets and recalled instantly, or shared with multiple DAWs, using any plug-in format (full list below). Use the built-in audio effects to add color to your own plug-in chains.

Despite the name, you can forget about wires or cables: configuring plug-ins routing is as simple as adding or removing a row or a column in the rack’s matrix. All plug-ins can also communicate with each other or with the host application using the virtual MIDI ports offered by the plug-in.

Overview

For each plug-in slot, latency compensation, presets management, undo/redo integration, audio i/o selection and individual plug-in bypass are included for optimal operation. The plug-in also stores the position of the window for each plug-in so that the layout is restored with your session or saved with presets.

Also, sub plug-ins can be automated or controlled with external control surfaces using Blue Cat’s PatchWork parameters mapping capabilities.

This product is available as an audio plug-in (effect or a virtual instrument) and standalone application, so that it can used alone or inserted on any type of track in your favorite DAW, with up to 16 audio channels.

Input and output level meters are also available to monitor the signal that is dispatched to inserted plug-ins, including side chain and aux channels.

Blue Cat Audio Standards:

• Available as a standalone application and in most plug-in formats for Mac and Windows.
• Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn.
• No CPU load on idle: processing shuts down when fed with silence (optimal CPU usage).
• Customizable user interface with transparency & zoom.
• Smooth Bypass: noiseless plug-in activation / deactivation.
• Undo/Redo.
• Full featured integrated presets manager.
• Copy/paste the state of the plug-in between instances.
• Any sample rate supported.

Version 2.66

• Drag and drop macro parameters to change order / insert / copy.
• Macro Parameters & params assignments can now be saved and copied/pasted.
• The “Remove” macro command now removes the currently selected macro parameter instead of the last one.
• Macro LEARN mode is now disabled automatically when the Params Map Editor is closed.
• AAX plug-in now reports the recording status to hosted plug-ins (in recent versions of Pro Tools that support it).
• Synchronize multiple MIDI controllers: when “all channels” (0) is used for MIDI input control and “send MIDI events when parameters values change” is active, the plug-in now sends MIDI events to all other channels.
• Updated parameters layout for GUI-less plug-ins to accomodate plug-ins with multiple parameters.
• GUI-less plug-ins generic editor now follows PatchWork’s zoom level.
• Improved plug-in loading time.
• Fixed a crash when opening the editor of a VST2 GUI-less plug-in that uses non-unicode encoding in its parameters (piz-midi plug-ins).
• Fixed plug-in slots display issue on Mac OS 10.9.
• Fixed plug-in slot menu issues when loading plug-ins with more than 22380 parameters on Windows.