Description
Blue Cat’s Protector is a versatile 0 dB stereo brickwall limiter tailored for mastering applications, ensuring audio output protection from overshoot while enhancing perceived loudness. Featuring transparent frequency response and lookahead capabilities, it guarantees optimal audio quality. Despite its simple controls, it offers a wide range of sounds and serves as a track limiter for creative effects like distortion or heavy limiting. Its intuitive interface, including peak and RMS meters, provides premium visual feedback for effective dynamics monitoring. Additionally, its innovative side-chain capability enables real-time parameter modulation for dynamic side-chain effects. Blue Cat’s Protector adheres to Blue Cat Audio’s standards, offering full MIDI control, automation support, and smooth bypass. With version 2.31, Apple Silicon support for AAX Plug-in Format has been added, along with various enhancements for improved performance and compatibility.
Adjustable Dynamics Response
Blue Cat's Protector offers an adjustable dynamics response, allowing users to fine-tune the limiting effect from transparent to colorful distortion. This flexibility ensures optimal control over the audio output, whether aiming for subtle volume limiting or more pronounced creative effects.
Visual Feedback
With large, colorful peak and RMS meters, along with a customizable dynamics response histogram, Blue Cat's Protector provides premium visual feedback. Users can easily monitor audio levels, gain reduction, and the dynamics response in real-time, enhancing precision in mastering and mixing workflows.
Side Chaining Capability
Beyond standard dynamics processing, Blue Cat's Protector features a unique side-chain capability through its MIDI CC output. This allows users to implement side-chain compression and parameter modulation in real-time, unlocking creative possibilities for dynamic audio effects and advanced mixing techniques.
Zero Latency Processing
Blue Cat's Protector ensures seamless integration into audio production workflows with zero-latency processing, except when using lookahead. This feature minimizes any delay in audio playback, providing a smooth and responsive user experience during mixing and mastering tasks.
- 0 dB brickwall peak limiter and waveshaper.
- Optional lookahead.
- 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 (except with lookahead).
MAC
OS X Mac OS 10.9 or newer.
CPU: An Intel or Apple Silicon processor.
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX
WINDOWS
Windows Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 10.
CPU: An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or newer).
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX
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