Blue Cat Audio has announced the release of Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer 2.0, a complete rewrite of the multiband processing plug-in, now including multiband VST hosting capabilities.
Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer is a unique plug-in that splits the signal into several frequency bands and lets you mix and process them as if they were separate tracks.
In addition to the ability to host up to 4 VST plug-ins per band and thus transform any regular plug-in into a frequency-aware processor, Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer has now a brand new modular user interface, with lots of new features and enhancements: a spectrogram display, a new presets manager, multiple display sizes, new MIDI and automation mapping capabilities, and more.
Changes in MB-7 Mixer v2.0
- New Features
- Brand new, fully customizable user interface
- New look and feel.
- Show only what you need.
- New color or greyscale overlayed spectrogram view.
- Multiple display sizes.
- Customizable gain range.
- Improved readability.
- Animated transitions.
- Multiband VST Hosting
- Apply VST effects to a selected frequency range.
- Add up to 4 VST plug-ins on each band.
- Pre and post fader plug-ins slots.
- Integrated latency compensation engine, with real time host reporting.
- Optional undo/redo integration.
- VST Presets Management.
- Bypass inserted plug-ins individually.
- New integrated presets manager
- Load/save presets from the plug-in’s user interface.
- Organize presets with folders.
- Customize the default preset.
- Exchange presets easily.
- Automation range and response curve can now be customized for each parameter (in and out).
- Automation and MIDI settings (channel, MIDI learn etc.) are now accessible from the main user interface.
- Brand new, fully customizable user interface
- Improvements
- New presets to get started faster.
- The windows installer now automatically detects the most appropriate VST install path.
- License is now shared between plug-ins types (register only once for all formats).
- Improved value display in fine edit window.
- Improved parameters display on control surfaces.
- Optimizations and Performance Improvements
- Improved parameters precision (now stored as 64-bit).
- More compact presets format (uses less space and loads faster).
- Smaller binaries on Mac (dropped PowerPC support).
- Bug Fixes
- (RTAS) Fixed parameters control with EUCON control surfaces in Pro Tools.
- Fixed user interface issues in Final Cut Pro X.
- Fixed keyboard stealing issue in Digital Performer 7 on Mac.
- Fixed copy/paste keyboard shortcut issues in the registration panel on Mac.
MB-7 Mixer 2 is available to purchase for the introductory price of 74 EUR / $96 USD until September 30th, 2013 (regular 99 EUR / $129 USD). The upgrade from MB-7 Mixer 1 is 19 EUR / $25 USD. The plug-in is also included in various bundles, which are also 20% off until September 30th.
More information: Blue Cat Audio / MB-7 Mixer