Happy New Year! Blue Cat's MB-5 Dynamix V2 is Here!
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Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Audio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39981
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5821 posts since 8 Sep, 2004 from Paris (France)
Happy new year, kitties!
We are very excited to finally unveil today Blue Cat's MB-5 Dynamix 2.0, a new version of our multiband dynamics processing plug-in announced at NAMM last year.
The user interface has been completely redesigned, and the plug-in now offers better control over the dynamics response, external side chain support and many other new features and enhancements (full list below).
Pricing:
- Upgrade: free for customers who purchased the plug-in in the past two years, 29 EUR/USD for others.
- 99 EUR/USD instead of 149 (33% off) for registered customers until January 31st.
- 119 EUR/USD instead of 149 (20% off) until January 31st for new customers.
- Energy Pack bundle: 299 EUR/USD instead of 399 (25% off) until January 31st
Upgrade & customer offers are sent by email, as usual.
More details about the plug-in, videos and demo downloads can be found on the MB-5 Dynamix multiband processor page.
What's New:
-Fully redesigned algorithms with improved performance and precision.
-External side chain input.
-Control the maximum gain reduction or increase for each band using the new "Depth" parameter.
-Brand new GUI design, with improved usability and touchscreen support.
-The GUI can now be zoomed from 70% to 200%.
-Lock the GUI state to prevent changes when loading presets.
-Faster GUI loading / instantaneous GUI display after it has been opened once.
-Adjust contrast for spectrogram display.
-Spectrogram now keeps history when resized.
-Brand new presets manager with MIDI program and bank messages support, copy/paste.
-Added presets managers for individual bands and dynamics curve settings.
-Now supports retina displays on Mac (text and graphs using high resolution).
-VST3 plug-in format support.
-New installer on Mac.
-Changed demo limitations: up to 5 instances allowed, bypass time changed to half a second, and bypass parameter is not affected anymore.
-License is now shared between plug-ins types (register only once for all formats).
-Dropped support for Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier.
-Dropped support for legacy RTAS and DirectX plug-ins formats.
Also, the regular price has dropped to 149 EUR/USD (instead of 199 for version 1).
Enjoy!
We are very excited to finally unveil today Blue Cat's MB-5 Dynamix 2.0, a new version of our multiband dynamics processing plug-in announced at NAMM last year.
The user interface has been completely redesigned, and the plug-in now offers better control over the dynamics response, external side chain support and many other new features and enhancements (full list below).
Pricing:
- Upgrade: free for customers who purchased the plug-in in the past two years, 29 EUR/USD for others.
- 99 EUR/USD instead of 149 (33% off) for registered customers until January 31st.
- 119 EUR/USD instead of 149 (20% off) until January 31st for new customers.
- Energy Pack bundle: 299 EUR/USD instead of 399 (25% off) until January 31st
Upgrade & customer offers are sent by email, as usual.
More details about the plug-in, videos and demo downloads can be found on the MB-5 Dynamix multiband processor page.
What's New:
-Fully redesigned algorithms with improved performance and precision.
-External side chain input.
-Control the maximum gain reduction or increase for each band using the new "Depth" parameter.
-Brand new GUI design, with improved usability and touchscreen support.
-The GUI can now be zoomed from 70% to 200%.
-Lock the GUI state to prevent changes when loading presets.
-Faster GUI loading / instantaneous GUI display after it has been opened once.
-Adjust contrast for spectrogram display.
-Spectrogram now keeps history when resized.
-Brand new presets manager with MIDI program and bank messages support, copy/paste.
-Added presets managers for individual bands and dynamics curve settings.
-Now supports retina displays on Mac (text and graphs using high resolution).
-VST3 plug-in format support.
-New installer on Mac.
-Changed demo limitations: up to 5 instances allowed, bypass time changed to half a second, and bypass parameter is not affected anymore.
-License is now shared between plug-ins types (register only once for all formats).
-Dropped support for Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier.
-Dropped support for legacy RTAS and DirectX plug-ins formats.
Also, the regular price has dropped to 149 EUR/USD (instead of 199 for version 1).
Enjoy!
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- KVRian
- 753 posts since 2 Aug, 2013
Nice release! Is this capable of creating aggressive up upward/downward OTT like compression?
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Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Audio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39981
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5821 posts since 8 Sep, 2004 from Paris (France)
Yes of course (it has a two threshold system).
- KVRAF
- 1672 posts since 3 Aug, 2017 from San Diego, CA
I dunno guys, I think I need more control over how the individual bands are triggered.
Seriously though, this is a great upgrade. The new depth parameter is interesting ... I'm gonna watch your new intro videos and see if I can learn a little more about it. The new interface layout is excellent and much easier (for me) to follow. I'll be using this much more in the future!
Seriously though, this is a great upgrade. The new depth parameter is interesting ... I'm gonna watch your new intro videos and see if I can learn a little more about it. The new interface layout is excellent and much easier (for me) to follow. I'll be using this much more in the future!
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- KVRAF
- 6827 posts since 28 Apr, 2004 from france
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Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Audio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39981
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5821 posts since 8 Sep, 2004 from Paris (France)
Glad that you like it! There are actually a few more controls that we could add for each band, but the GUI is already quite busy as is
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- KVRian
- 753 posts since 2 Aug, 2013
The CPU consumption seems pretty high for even just using 3 bands. Are there going to be CPU optimization improvements?
- KVRAF
- 1672 posts since 3 Aug, 2017 from San Diego, CA
How much are you seeing?SeeingInMidi wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:12 am The CPU consumption seems pretty high for even just using 3 bands. Are there going to be CPU optimization improvements?
I have an i7-8700k and 16 gigs of RAM. When I engage a 3-band instance, the performance meter in Reaper shows usage of about 0.27%.
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- KVRian
- 753 posts since 2 Aug, 2013
I own an i7-3930k and 16 gigs of ram. With 3 bands engaged, and with up and down compression engaged, i get a reported CPU usage of around 4%. I'm comparing it to xfer OTT which Studio One reports that it's using less than 1%.Tappistry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:12 amHow much are you seeing?SeeingInMidi wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:12 am The CPU consumption seems pretty high for even just using 3 bands. Are there going to be CPU optimization improvements?
I have an i7-8700k and 16 gigs of RAM. When I engage a 3-band instance, the performance meter in Reaper shows usage of about 0.27%.
Edit: MB-5 with 5 bands engaged can rise up all the way up to 7% of CPU usage in Studio One
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Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Audio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39981
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5821 posts since 8 Sep, 2004 from Paris (France)
This is strange. Are you maybe using another plug-in before the MB-5 Dynamix that could generate denormals?
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- KVRian
- 753 posts since 2 Aug, 2013
Could it be because i'm using the trial version? I'm testing it in a blank project and I'm still running into CPU issues.
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Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Audio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39981
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5821 posts since 8 Sep, 2004 from Paris (France)
No i don't think the demo version changes anything (unless you notice that CPU spikes occur when the plug-in gets bypassed?)
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- KVRian
- 753 posts since 2 Aug, 2013
Ill do some more testing and on different DAWs. I really would love to use this efficiently. Its a pretty unique dynamic processor.Blue Cat Audio wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 1:48 pm No i don't think the demo version changes anything (unless you notice that CPU spikes occur when the plug-in gets bypassed?)
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- KVRian
- 753 posts since 2 Aug, 2013
I've tested the plugin in Reaper, I'm getting a reported low CPU usage of around .3%. It seems like it's Studio One 3 issue. I'm not sure if it's my end if Studio One is naturally being a CPU hog.
- KVRAF
- 1672 posts since 3 Aug, 2017 from San Diego, CA
I'm not sure if it's Studio One being a CPU hog as much as it is just being temperamental with this particular plugin for the moment.SeeingInMidi wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:43 am I've tested the plugin in Reaper, I'm getting a reported low CPU usage of around .3%. It seems like it's Studio One 3 issue. I'm not sure if it's my end if Studio One is naturally being a CPU hog.
Out of curiosity, have you tried any other Blue Cat plugins in Studio One?