Blue Cat's Destructor 2

The distortion and amp sims factory that goes to 11, and beyond!

Blue Cat's Destructor is a powerful distortion and amp sim modeling tool capable of replicating a vast spectrum of distortion styles, from the edgiest digital mayhem to velvety smooth compression, and even pristine guitar amp recreations (yes, it nails those pristine clean tones too!). The best part? It helps you discover and forge your own signature sound for guitars, bass, drums, synths, vocals, or even full mixes!

Experience Destructor, the ultimate tone-sculpting tool, loaded with hundreds of presets and ready-to-rock models. Inspired by iconic gear like guitar and bass amps, cabinets, compressors, pedals, and tape machines, or crafted by Blue Cat's destructive minds, these presets will serve as your sonic playground to build your own tone.

But here's where the magic truly happens: Destructor's customizability knows no bounds. Tweak every parameter of existing presets to create a limitless universe of distortion simulations - no need to purchase additional presets or amp models. And if you want to keep it simple, use tone maps to create new sounds without diving into the details.

The approach taken by Blue Cat Audio, rooted in perceptual modeling rather than electronic designs or impulse responses, streamlines the tone-tweaking process, ensuring it seamlessly fits into your mix. You can also load and transform your own impulse responses to add color to your tone.

Destructor boasts an exclusive adaptive shaper, providing an organic, analog-like responsiveness that musicians yearn for. Yet, it also ventures into uncharted digital territory, offering a realm of effects that transcend the boundaries of the "real" world.

Tailor the plug-in's appearance with over 600,000 visual styles, selectable module by module. Choose "EZ mode" for rack or guitar pedal-style control with just a handful of parameters.

For precision tone matching, import reference curves measured with Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Multi.

If you are seeking a comprehensive amp simulation package with built-in effects, check out Blue Cat's Axiom. To delve into frequency-selective or multiband distortion, you can seamlessly pair the plug-in with Blue Cat's MB-7 Mixer.

Typical applications: Distortion modeling, guitar amp simulation, non-linear tone shaping channel strip, overdrive, bit crushing, analog compression, hard & soft clipping, coloring, tape saturation, Lo-fi, fuzz, digital noise, aliasing, filter effects.

Features

• Powerful distortion and amp modeling tool for versatile sound sculpting.
• Distortion diversity: wide spectrum of distortion types, from analog to digital, guitar and bass amps, saturation, clipping, bit crushing, compression, and even clean tones.
• Works for "clean" sounds too.
• Inspired Presets: Kickstart your creativity with hundreds of editable presets, many inspired by real-world gear, providing a solid foundation for your own sound.
• Tailor your user experience by crafting unique racks and pedals from a vast selection of knobs, backgrounds, faceplates, and handles, with over 600,000 style options.
• Control the dynamics with the input gate and compressor.
• Control the tone with the pre and post filters.
• Exclusive shape dynamics control: adapt the tone to the dynamics of the signal.
• Tone maps: explore and morph presets in 2D to create new tones.
• Side Chain Creativity: Trigger distortion using either the internal or external side chain, infusing rhythmic and dynamic nuances into your music.
• Impulse Responses Integration: Load and transform your own cabinet or reverb impulse responses, seamlessly blending them with built-in simulations.
• Protect your ears with the output brickwall limiter.
• Comprehensive visual feedback: real-time spectrum analysis, dynamic distortion curve display with embedded signal histograms.
• Load reference curves for precise tone matching.
• No latency.

Blue Cat Audio Standards

• Available 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.

What's New - v2.0

• Revamped 3D HD Graphics: Enjoy an enhanced visual experience with additional knobs and backgrounds that add a touch of sophistication to your sound crafting journey.
• Rack Designer: Customize presets like never before with our brand-new Rack Designer, offering a staggering selection of over 600,000 styles. Tailor the look and feel of your presets to match your unique artistic vision.
• Random GUI Component Selection: Get creative effortlessly with the option to randomly select GUI components in the Rack Designer.
• Enhanced Filtering Precision: Elevate your sound precision with added peak and comb filters in the Preamp and Post Filter modules, giving you more control over your sonic canvas.
• Drive Dynamics Parameter: Fine-tune your distortion dynamics by adjusting the influence of the drive parameter on the waveshaper curve, ensuring your tones hit just right.
• Perceived Loudness Control: Choose the gain reduction applied when increasing the drive parameter to keep perceived loudness equal.
• Tailored EQ Controls: Select the EQ controls to display in easy view (pre, post filter, or no EQ).
• New BASS/MID/TREBLE parameters that follow the eq displayed in easy view for MIDI or automation control.
• Hundreds of presets and module settings have been updated to take advantage of the new DSP capabilities.
• Guitar & Bass Presets Overhaul: We have given our guitar and bass amps and pedal presets a makeover, enhancing filtering, drive response, EQ frequencies, and EQ placement for an even more authentic and satisfying experience.
• High-Gain Tone Revamp: Explore high-gain guitar tones that have been meticulously rebuilt from the ground up
• New Guitar Amps and Pedals: Dive into new creative possibilities with our latest additions to the guitar amps and pedals presets.
• Improved tone maps computation efficiency.
• 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.
• Fully compatible with Destructor V1.

System Requirements

• Available Formats: AU, VST2, VST3, AAX
• 32/64 bit compatible