Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Fader Hub

Blue Cat's Fader Hub is a network mixing and streaming software that provides an easy solution to play and record with other musicians on a local network or thru the Internet in real time.

Join the LLAN party! Connect your instrument and play with other musicians over the Low Latency Audio Network (LLAN) thanks to this unique network mixing and streaming console.

Fader Hub features a local mixing console to mix several audio inputs from an audio interface, and a network mixer that can send the local mixdown to other computers over the network, and mix it locally with the audio streams received from them.

It is fully compatible and interoperable with the Connector plug-in. It includes several built-in audio effects and can also load third party VST, Audio Unit and VST3 plug-ins.

Fader Hub can also record the full mix and individual streams to disk, making it easy to record multiple instruments over an IP network.

Thanks to Fader Hub's low latency peer-to-peer connection, every musician with a laptop in a band can easily manage his/her personal headphone mix, while keeping the lowest possible latency for his/her own instrument.

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.

V1.2

• SYNCED input: ensure all connected participants hear a backing track or click simultaneously (no latency), regardless of the distance.
• Synchronized transport: synchronize all connected applications, with built-in clock latency compensation for latency-less realtime playback.
• Synchronized recording: start/stop recording in sync with playback accross multiple devices on the network, and keep all recorded files synchronized.
• Optional realtime network latency compensation: Fader Hub can compensate the network latency on all LLAN mixer strips for a perfectly synchronized mix.
• Automatic network latency compensation for recording: latency is automatically compensated for perfect synchronization of individual recorded tracks.
• Reported latency is now displayed in the status bar (bottom right).
• Check reception latency for each LLAN Mixer channel by hovering the mouse on the drift meter (ppm).
• Synchronize app transport & bpm with other devices/software with MIDI Clock and/or MIDI Timecode (MTC). Both send and receive supported.
• Improved connection stability when sender under high CPU load.
• Optimized performance: Up to 50% lighter on CPU when not using all available channel strips.
• New MIDI Loopback port to route MIDI events from hosted plug-ins back to Fader Hub's input.
• Improved connection status reporting for LLAN Mixer channels.
• Recorded tracks are now saved in a separate folder for each recording.
• Show current preset in Finder/Windows Explorer.
• New built-in phase flip plug-in.

Features:

1. Network mixing console: play with other musicians thru a local network or over the Internet.
2. Multitrack recording: record the full mix or individual tracks on your own machine.
3. Built-in effect plug-ins (EQ, Compressor, Gate, delays, reverb...).
4. Load third party VST, vST3 or Audio Unit plug-ins.
5. Supports multiple sampling rates on a single connection (built-in resampling).
6. Built-in drift compensation.
7. Fully compatible with Blue Cat's Connector.
8. Connect up to 8 musicians together (and more by loading the plug-in).
9. Up to 8 local stereo audio inputs (personal mix).
10. Optional audio compression to reduce the bandwidth (powered by Wavpack).

Requirements:

• mac
  • cpu:An Intel or Apple Silicon processor.
  • ram:0
  • disk:0
  • version:Mac OS 10.9 or newer.
  • plugins:
    • VST-2
    • VST-3
    • AU
    • AAX
• windows
  • cpu:An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or newer).
  • ram:0
  • disk:0
  • version:Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 10.
  • plugins:
    • VST-2
    • VST-3
    • AAX

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