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Blue Cat's Protector is a 0 dB stereo brickwall limiter with adjustable dynamics response. It will typically find its place on the master bus of your DAW to protect your audio output from overshoot, limit the general volume and improve the perceived loudness, thanks to a very transparent frequency response. Despite its very simple set of controls, it offers a wide range of sounds and it is also suitable as a track limiter for more creative effects such as distortion, pumping or heavy limiting.
Its large colorful meters and its custom dynamics histogram provide premium visual feedback and make it the perfect tool to monitor and control the dynamics on your master buss. You can also check in real time the loudness boost obtained with the limiter. Beyond its powerful dynamics processing features, and like most of our plug-ins, Blue Cat's Protector also offers a powerful side chain capability thanks to its MIDI CC output. This unique technique not only lets you do side chain limiting but also parameters modulation: control any parameter of any plugin to create powerful side chain effects in real time. If you are looking for a complete dynamics processing solution, you might be interested in Blue Cat's Dynamics plugin.
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Features
- 0 dB brickwall peak limiter and waveshaper.
- Continuous control of the dynamics response from transparent limiting to colorful distortion.
- Stereo link control.
- DC Filter to get rid of DC offset.
- Large zoomable peak and RMS audio levels and gain reduction meters for optimal monitoring.
- Loudness boost monitoring.
- Fully configurable dynamics response histogram.
- Side chaining capability: a unique way to perform side chain compression and much more.
- No latency.
Blue Cat Audio Standards
- Available as: Mac-AAX, Mac-AU, Mac-RTAS, Mac-VST, Win-DX, Win-RTAS, Win-VST, 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.
- Import/Export presets in a host independent format.
- Any sample rate supported.
- Full featured integrated presets manager.
Supported Platforms
- Mac-AAX
- Mac-AU
- Mac-RTAS
- Mac-VST
- Win-DX
- Win-RTAS
- Win-VST
- Win x64-DX
- Win x64-VST
Installing on Mac OSX
1. The plugin is delivered as a downloadable .dmg file. Almost every internet browser will open the file right away, mounting a disk on your desktop. If not, please locate .dmg file and double click it.
2. In order to install your VST plugins, drag and drop the vst bundles to the "VST Plugins Folder" alias, or copy them manually to the /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST folder manually so that your favorite host application can find the plugin.
3. Following installation of the software you will be prompted to enter your registration information. Please follow this link to find out how to authorize your software. When entering your registration information, please input your Plugin Boutique email address as your username and the Key serial that will be in your Plugin Boutique account once the software has been purchased.
Installing on Windows
1. Run the installer .exe file. Click Next to continue.
2. Read through Blue Cat Audio's license agreement and click "I agree..." to continue installation.
3. Select appropriate destination for the software and click Install to continue installation.
4. Software installation will commence.
5. Following installation of the software you will be prompted to enter your registration information. Please follow this link to find out how to authorize your software. When entering your registration information, please input your Plugin Boutique email address as your username and the Key serial that will be in your Plugin Boutique account once the software has been purchased.
6. Your software is now ready to use!
