Blue Cat's Dynamics

"The most flexible all-in-one dynamics processor"

Blue Cat's Dynamics is a full featured dynamics processor: it can be used as a compressor, limiter, gate, expander, waveshaper or all at once! The dynamics response of the plug-in can be tweaked with a unique two-thresholds system, and provides detailed visual feedback about its behavior.

The plug-in includes several filters to control the frequencies affected by the compression. Its continuous VCA/Opto and Peak/RMS controls let you smoothly and precisely choose the behavior of the envelope detection like you have never been able to.

The plug-in also provides advanced stereo features, with mid/side processing capability, multiple stereo linking options and the ability to choose the channels affected by the processor.

An additional brick wall limiter and clipper protects the output for complete control over the dynamics response.

Three different modes are available for external side chaining, using either the external side chain input, MIDI control or automation lanes.

The configurable visual feedback shows every detail of what is going on inside the plug-in. You can also record this information as automation curves, to monitor the modifications applied to the signal on top of the audio representation of your favorite host application.

All these features can be controlled from a fully configurable and "skinnable" user interface, or from any external controller.

The package includes a mono and a stereo version for optimal CPU usage.

Features

Main Features

• Full featured dynamics processor: compressor, gate, limiter, expander, waveshaper with a unique two thresholds system.
• Total control over the processor: continuous peak/RMS and Opto/VCA modes selection, peak envelope shape control, depth control to limit the gain range.
• Total control over the signal: dry/wet control for parallel compression, input and side chain filters.
• Stereo or mid-side processing with multiple channels linking options.
• Post brickwall limiter or clipper.
• Optimal monitoring: dynamics response, envelopes and gain reduction real time display with zooming capability. The main compression information can be recorded as automation curves.
• Best quality: up to 4x oversampling for the best sounding quality.
• Multiple side chaining modes: a unique way to perform side chain compression, ducking, gating and much more.
• Fully configurable user interface for optimal experience.
• No latency.

Blue Cat Audio Standards:

• Available as: Mac-AAX, Mac-AU, Mac-RTAS, Mac-VST, Win-AAX, Win-DX, Win-RTAS, Win-VST, Win x64-AAX, Win x64-DX, Win x64-VST.
• Native DSP code for optimal performance.
• Full MIDI control and automation support with silent, zipper-free parameters update, advanced response control and MIDI Learn.
• No CPU load on idle: when the plug-in is fed with silence, the processing smoothly shuts down, to optimize the CPU usage of your Digital Audio Workstation.
• Skinnable and customizable user interface with transparency management.
• Automation and MIDI output: record output parameters as automation curves or send MIDI CC messages to other plug-ins for powerful side chain effects.
• Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plug-in with absolutely no noise.
• Undo/Redo.
• Full featured integrated presets manager.
• Copy/paste the plug-in's state between instances using the system clipboard.
• Any sample rate supported.

System Requirements

Windows

• An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or later).
• Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 10.
• Any DirectX / VST / RTAS / AAX compatible host software (32 or 64 bit).

Mac OS X

• Intel or Apple Silicon processor (M1)
• Mac OS 10.9 or newer
• Any VST / Audio Unit (32/64-bit) / RTAS / AAX compatible application.