Blue Cat Audio has released a free update for two of its creative multi-effects plugins which can also host third party plugins.

This new version of Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer and Late Replies adds 15 new styles for macro parameters knobs, improves multicore performance for parallel processing on both Windows and Mac, and adds offline rendering support for third party plugins.

Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer is a multiband processor that splits the signal into several frequency bands and lets you re-mix and process them as if they were separate tracks: change levels, apply panning, add built-in effects, or even third party plug-ins. Blue Cat’s Late Replies is a powerful delay, reverb and multi effects plug-in that can be indefinitely extended by hosting third party VST, VST3 or AU plug-ins anywhere in the signal path.

MB-7 Mixer and Late Replies are available to purchase for 129 USD/EUR each at Blue Cat Audio and from distributors Plugin Boutique and ADSR Sounds. Existing users can update for free.