Hook up any digital audio!

[@ahmedyadam7240]

Connecting DAW's is becoming a must since so many of us are using at least 2 of them

[@MarcoPolux]

the latency..... a Universal interpreteur is needed, but I believe it should be a combination of hardware with its own software (something like Universal Audio....)

[@whitenoisestudio]

You can offset ofcourse.

[@amulpatel]

completely agree.. I bet this becomes the most popular use case

[@whitenoisestudio]

It certainly can do that.

[@Ryahan]

I really appreciate you being on top of important and useful plugins early. Very helpful.

[@whitenoisestudio]

I do my best for that! It helps the viewers, right :-) Thank you for the kind words !

[@ze2like]

This plugin is pure genius, a simple and powerful concept opening so many doors!

[@whitenoisestudio]

It is a very fine tool for sure!

[@TheSakuraGumiLTD]

Blue Cat has some great unique plugins… their multi-band plugin insert plugin is amazing… put whatever plugin you want on any band… great for adding vocal effects where you have only a part of the vocal frequency bands to add more subtle effects or what I love it for is when making sampled hip hop beats… once you recorded the vinyl then effect it into a new song before chopping it up… Now with this plugin I can maybe create music with my daughter in her room and me in the studio… or when she suddenly has something cool and can play it through… pretty cool

[@whitenoisestudio]

Who knows! Set it up and find out :-) the plugin is pretty flexible for sure.

[@silaspfeifer]

Saw this first for creating a feedback-loop

[@whitenoisestudio]

Then this one will be fully up your alley: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWnOZYOng76Knpo

[@lloydbrothers3315]

Amazing! And super useful in so many ways! Thank you for taking the time to explain this! So glad this is now on my radar. Soon to be in my toolbox of tricks! 🤘

[@whitenoisestudio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@drago7635]

Can you make a video on the Blue Cat Plugin to use Windows VST's on a mac!!!!? please!@@whitenoisestudio

[@EricRabb]

Awesome!

[@whitenoisestudio]

Yup!!

[@atcordice]

this is a better solution than Dante. Can be use for beginners or intermediate and professional

[@whitenoisestudio]

I dont mind Dante, but it's for other types of applications i'd say.

[@AmeyahOfficialTV]

thanks for this short intro video. helped a lot to get started.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Glad it helped!

[@zackyzackyzacky1]

Before this plugin, there was Elevayta's Stream Boy. I still use it, but it's only available as a 32bit plugin on Windows. But Blue Cat's connect solves my problem as it has a 64 bit vst.

[@whitenoisestudio]

yeah and for how will 32bit still be accessible? there are some wrappers around still.

[@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY]

You may use JBridger 1.6+ to convert Stream Boy to x64 runnable DLL.

[@bluecataudio]

Very nice video, thanks!

[@whitenoisestudio]

Thanks for creating the plug-in!!

[@AndreasR86]

Cool plugin. I personally use audiogridder for running vsts on a secondary computer, but this seems to give some extra options. Of course audiogridder is free though.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Connector is all about audiostreaming ( and midi) so that would be a different application than offloading VST procesing to another machine.

[@AndreasR86]

@@whitenoisestudio I agree it's not the same, but there's overlap, depending on your use. AG also has midi over network so you can use it to offload instruments as well as process signals. Obviously you can't use it to send audio to another daw though.

[@whitenoisestudio]

@@AndreasR86 exactly :-)

[@thedevilsadvocate5210]

How hard is it to set up audio gridder? Does it save you CPU? Is it a worthwhile endeavor? Is the connection stable?

[@AndreasR86]

@@thedevilsadvocate5210 Installation was easy. You just need to install the server on the places you want to offload DSP to, and install a plugin. It saves the must CPU if you use it on a second PC, but you can also run the server on the same PC as where you use the plugin so it will offload to another core on your CPU. If you have a lot of cores that can get you extra power too. I think it's worthwhile. It's been stable for me. I don't use it very often though, only for very big projects.

[@synthoelectro]

Something like JACK in Linux has come to Windows, that's pretty neat.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Loopback on mac is also nice if you want to stay on 1 computer.

[@synthoelectro]

@@whitenoisestudio Just on windows here.

[@timsamsung3736]

Wow Amazing plugin

[@whitenoisestudio]

So much potential in this one

[@timsamsung3736]

@@whitenoisestudio kinda Vienna Ensemble competitor... 🤔

[@whitenoisestudio]

@@timsamsung3736 spot on!

[@transparentzwindows]

Marlon, thank you for your work and it's certainly worth some coffee, (thank you for the link to do that)! BTW, what are the different types you get?

[@whitenoisestudio]

Thank for the kind words! Can you explain ''different types''?

[@transparentzwindows]

@@whitenoisestudio Coffees. ;-)

[@whitenoisestudio]

I got your coffees! Many many thanks!!

[@desreb740]

Is the connection needed., -) thank you.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Which connection?

[@unc1589]

Hope this is what I’ve been hoping for. A device that can tell any sound on my Mac to play through wherever I want it sent. What took so long?

[@whitenoisestudio]

It can do that for sure when you use a DAW. But if you stay on the mac itself you can also try the Loopback Software by Rogue Amoeba. I use that to capture audio with quicktime.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Create awesome feedback loops with Blue Cat's Connector! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWnOZYOng76Knpo

[@MondstaubMusik]

Very usefull plug in. Might be my first Blue Cat plug i buy. In your other video on feedbackloops did you set up the fx chain with connector on a separeta bus or on the audio channel itself? Until now i had to route out from my daw to my interface and back in again into my daw to achieve a feedbackloop with fx, with the fx chain on my interface. Connector opens up some very good creative possibillities, besides the practical ones you showed in this vid! Going to test it tomorrows,.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Hey Rico, the feedback loop i showed in the other video is in the same audiochannel, which makes it great. No hassle with complicated routing outside a daw anymore. Some DAWs can do this natively, but not all.

[@bobco5]

Thanks for the video ! Well done , seconds after you roll your audio example I cmd -F "Owner" - not found , hmm no one else heard the intro to Yes' "Owner of a Lonely Heart" your riff alluded to it imo with the first three notes and rhythm "duh duh duht... [duh duht]' .. I was playing around with this last night between my Mac Pro DAW 2008 3,1and a Windows PC desktop. Best scenario for me was playing live input monitoring guitar with amp sim plug-in in Reaper [BC Connector send] into Gig Performer on the Mac Pro with BC Connector [Rcv] , playable latency ! Trying the same Snd- Rcv Scenario in Logic ProX Rcv from Reaper I could only get the audio connected by using a AU Midi Controlled Instrument Channel strip , and even then it wouldn't really work until I invoked Play and it was sort of rough hiccupy before it settled , then a test recording by sending to a Bus in LPX and recording that Bus output into a track and the latency was huge , still interesting for many other scenarios , and for me host names didn't really get me connected , it was IP address's 192.168.100.108 in my case .... thanks again !

[@whitenoisestudio]

Hey Bob. You're reply is a bit hard to read tbh. That music is more closely related to 80 funk ;-) Have you tried using the computer's name? I have done that with much better luck.

[@bobco5]

@@whitenoisestudio sorry what happened to my font lol , strikeout

[@whitenoisestudio]

Yeah weird indeed !

[@hansdorenstouter3813]

Thanks for this great video! Question: i have 2 pc's and want to run let's say 2 or more plugins from the server PC to the DAW pc. Do i also need Blue Cat's Patchwork? Or will Connector do the whole job?

[@TheTonyTitan]

This was interesting

[@whitenoisestudio]

Yup!

[@Cefshah]

Nice video, as you usually produce!! 🙂👍 I'm curious about this, and will likely find it somewhere... but will ask here also: Does this program send/receive all parts of MIDI such as MIDI Clock and/or MIDI Time Code?

[@Cefshah]

Pretty sure the Blue Cat's website answered my question: ["Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn."]

[@whitenoisestudio]

Good question! I havent tested that. Blue Cat audio states on their site for this plugins: Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn. So i would say yes. Edit: you already found it. Yt decided to put a lot of comments in the “to be approved” section, but that only showed up on mobile … :-/

[@Cefshah]

@@whitenoisestudio ❤

[@musicmould]

Looks great! I suppose you need two licenses if you stream audio between two computers? 🤔

[@whitenoisestudio]

It does! No 1 license will install on multiple machines

[@umanoid1523]

I was wondering about this. I could see using this between Two computers depending on how well it works and latency. Synth VST’s are so cpu heavy and I’m looking to upgrade to a newer mac this year if it comes out. This way i could still use my upgraded but ancient 5,1 macpro tower.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Latency is a thing of course, but you can offset the midi going to th eoteh rmachine to compensate for that like I show in the video.

[@deeklithgow1765]

Thanks for the video. Looks very interesting. Lets say i'm using a standalone soft synth app (not vst) controlled by midi in cubase. Would this enable me to record the audio output of the standalone synth into cubase? I'm thinking of investing in a rme interface just because of this.

[@whitenoisestudio]

The plugin needs a host which can run a plugin. So unless that stand-alone softsynth can do that I don’t think it will be possible.

[@royklerks1266]

Nice video ! I had tried it out my self and bought it … sometimes it says (not connected ) and i gave problem with bouncing audio with the effects from another DAW… i gad sculpture running in to bitwig snd out of bitwigand while playing the signal sounds great but when bouncing only the dry signal ?!??!

[@whitenoisestudio]

Do you do realtime bouncing? That is a must of course with this plugin, if you route outside of the DAW you're working , it wont be synced. I would record the audio before bouncing actually, to have that audio in your main DAW.

[@royklerks1266]

@@whitenoisestudio exactly … im on a m1 macbook pro and routed it to bitwig (for an effect i did in the “Grid” )and back in to logic than it all sounds great but whrn i want to record that (routed to audio bus i dont get that anything near it out of it. And followed the video with thr mai tai (studio one) for example😞

[@whitenoisestudio]

If you use the plugin on the audio mixing track, then you must do realtime audio bouncing. Otherwise the audio of the plugin doesnt get exported. If you want to record the audio in logic, I would think you need to go to the bus routing route. So route the audiotrack which has the incoming audio of connector to for instance bus 10 and create a new audio track with bus 10 as input and record that track.

[@royklerks1266]

@@whitenoisestudio thx a lot Marlon do you know how this realtime bouncing works inside Logic Pro ??

[@nicknolin]

Can it be used to connect hardware ? Like studio one pipeline ?? But in any DAW

[@whitenoisestudio]

Only if you have such a plugin inside that daw. AFAIK there aren’t any or many third party plugins who support external audio.

[@transparentzwindows]

Just got it as I have Cakewalk where it seems to be impossible to make a feedback loop and wondering if anybody's having success in making a feedback loop between two mono delays, (one 1/2 one 1/4 for example) to create a decaying feedback that could incorporate an effect that increases while delay decays?

[@cornoc]

yes feedback loops are pretty easy to achieve with this plugin.

[@whitenoisestudio]

yup, i will make a video on it, it's really cool to do.

[@vjwunderkind]

Thanks for this. Is there a way to sync two DAWs on a network?

[@cornoc]

there can be many ways. depends on what each DAW supports. MIDI clock sync and Ableton Link are two examples.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Talking about remote control?

[@vjwunderkind]

@@whitenoisestudio I don’t really know. I was just thinking how to use this. For me, this would make sense having Ableton on one machine and reason on a second one. But in order for this to work, there must be some way of syncing them if both DAWS actually contain audio.

[@cfhklhog]

@@vjwunderkind this is exactly my first question.

[@alekslocksmith]

Can you solve this doubt please?? I have mac mini with audient id44 (with 4 inputs) and macbook pro with audient evo 8 (with 4 inputs also), so can I record to mac mini with 8 mics (4 form id44 and 4 form evo8)? I understood that with network it's possible.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Yes very much. 4 instances of the plugin will transfer the audio from the Mac mini to the pro. Route it so that you can record on an audiotrack ( bus out to audio track input). Be aware that there will be a delay of the network tracks, you need to time align later if your audio is real-time.

[@alekslocksmith]

@@whitenoisestudio thank you very much!!

[@whitenoisestudio]

You’re welcome!

[@JohannWard]

I'm having trouble getting this to work, is it a demo restriction preventing me to connect from windows FL Studio to Mac Logic?

[@whitenoisestudio]

i had it working perfectly from windows cubase to mac cubase. I would check the manual.

[@DanCeese]

Is there anything similar to this that could stream from DAWs to discord? Or if the Blue Cat's connect can be used that way I'd like some insight on how to achieve that. Thanks!

[@whitenoisestudio]

Depends on your OS. Loopback on Mac is very nice, on pc I have my rme totalmix loopback functions which can do this.

[@DanCeese]

@@whitenoisestudio Bummer! I only have my SSL 2+ with no loopback function. I guess I'll just have to resort to other alternatives/workarounds out there. Anyway thx for the reply!

[@whitenoisestudio]

What OS are you using? On mac you have the nice ''loopback'' software by rogue amoeba which works excellent. Alternatively on an SSl 2+ you can connect for instance an headphone out into the mic preamps with a stereo jack to 2x mono jack cable and route audio to the headphone out which you want to play back in discord. Of course use the mic in of the ssl 2+ as mic input sources in discord.

[@DanCeese]

@@whitenoisestudio Hi, thanks again for another reply! So, I'm on Windows 10 PC, thus no option you mentioned above I'm afraid. And as for the method you mention; it sound nice if I didn't have to sacrifice my mic input to do so, or I could still do it but the sound from DAW that is being output from headphone would become mono sound, thus might mess certain things up when I try to show my playback to people on discord. There are many other ways I've heard of though. I was just really curious whether the blue cat's connector can achieve the same things without any extra hassles!

[@ahmedyadam7240]

Still this pretty app can't be used to connect for ex. Studio one, Standalone version ofArturia V Vocoder And will need app like Audio Jack Kit Since Studio one has no Instrument midi out like in Abelton, Cubase , Calkwake If u can solve it for me in this case With this program it will be great

[@PabloUliver-Bass-Guitar]

Hello! Have you ever tried the rearoute Asio from Reaper? It works very well to get extra & virtual in-outs between different daw or standalone programs with Asio support. It's an option you have to select at Reaper install. It gives you 16 or 32 virtual in & outs

[@ahmedyadam7240]

@@PabloUliver-Bass-Guitar many thanks for the advice I used it before but between DAW's only So I will try this

[@whitenoisestudio]

Studio One support vst plugins except the entry version. So it should work . If you drop the v vocoder in any host which hosts vst plugin all of your problems will be solved. There are a few out there.

[@ahmedyadam7240]

@@whitenoisestudio Arturia Vocoder standalone version enable us to use live feeding While inside Studio one as VST It vocodes only what is pre recorded or sampled So for live vocoding must be used as no Midi output inside studio one for Instrument Track That is why I route Audio signal through Audio Jack Kit Driver From Arturia Vocoder standalone to Studio one I use the Pro version by the way

[@ahmedyadam7240]

@@PabloUliver-Bass-Guitar rearoute needs Reaper Daw to be running when using it While I use Studio One , Fl studio, some standalone software like Arturia Vocoder As much as I knoe ReaStream vst Can't be used instead since Arturia Vocoder can't use any plugins from inside it I need to use the Standalone version to be able to Vocode live from a Mic , Studio one has no Instrument track midi out like other Daw's as Abelton , cubase Any solution other than AUDIO JACK KIT DRIVER

[@FelipeTellez]

Do you know what the max amount of ports is? is it dependent on processing power or does the app have a build in limit?

[@whitenoisestudio]

I don’t know tbh. I’d say it’s limited to cpu.

[@FelipeTellez]

@@whitenoisestudio That's my hunch as well. The manual is quite short. Deeper documentation would def be a plus, same goes with port convention. I noticed that not all port numbers work so it has to be something specific. Still, this opens the door to a lot of interesting possibilities. Thanks for sharing the vid!

[@whitenoisestudio]

For sure! I can drop a message to them to find out.

[@FelipeTellez]

@@whitenoisestudio that would be great!

[@whitenoisestudio]

I got an answer, so consider it offficial: ''There are 65535 network ports available on a network interface (for local or remote connections), but some of them may be already in use by some applications. It is not limited to cpu usage (unless you are using a firewall that can drastically decrease performance), but of course if you are using all available ports it might start to make the computer busy.''

[@tevo4555]

can I use this system somehow to achieve in-ear monitoring?

[@whitenoisestudio]

Theoratically yes. It will really depend what kind of setup you had in mind.

[@tevo4555]

@@whitenoisestudio My church has no in-ear monitoring right now but I´m studing options on what to buy to have a good cost-benefit, that´s actually how I discovered your channel btw, I was thinking mabe sending audio from our mixer, wich is x32 to my pc, then using blue cat to send it to musician´s earbuds somehow, I really haven´t figured out exactly what to do but I´m studing ways to save money in that situation.

[@nicksaya]

Will it send surround channels? Or just stereo and mono ?

[@whitenoisestudio]

I havent's tested in anything other than mono/stereo. But since you can use multiple instances on multiple channels, you should be able to use it in a surround set up.

[@nicksaya]

@@whitenoisestudio and for use between two computers i assume you have to purchase plugin for second computer? BTW you can do this with AVB audio. but not midi.

[@whitenoisestudio]

No you dont need to. I copied this from their site: ''What do I get when I purchase software from Blue Cat Audio? You buy a personal lifetime license to use the software. If the plug-in exists in different formats and platforms, you get a license for all formats and platforms at the same time. * You can install the software on several machines if you wish, as long as you are the owner and only user of the software on these machine.* You also gain free upgrades to minor versions of the software and discounts on future major versions of the software. You will benefit from our support if you have any trouble with our software. For more information, please read our our terms and conditions. Note that we also usually have special offers on new products for existing customers.''

[@nicksaya]

@@whitenoisestudio ive been trying this today. not unusable. buffer issues. you set your buffer at 2500??? that's not useable. you should just use Vienna ensemble pro to do what you want with two machines. i have 2,000 virtual instruments running on second machine. no latency

[@whitenoisestudio]

have you seen why i set the buffer at 2500 for the video?

[@boulevardsound5137]

You sound like Electroboom haha

[@whitenoisestudio]

I take it as a compliment ;-)

[@boulevardsound5137]

@@whitenoisestudio Definitely haha

[@whitenoisestudio]

@@boulevardsound5137 wasnt planning on electrocuting myself in every video though.

[@boulevardsound5137]

@@whitenoisestudio Hahahaha! Great videos btw. How rude of me.

[@whitenoisestudio]

Bzzzzzzt! thanks ;-)