The Virtual Control Surface for your Virtual Studio
Description
Blue Cat's Remote Control is a set of plug-ins that let you control and monitor in real-time several MIDI controllable plug-ins or devices from a single customizable user interface.
The user interface of your favorite plug-in is not satisfying? Your favorite hardware device is too complicated to control? Your project contains hundreds of plug-ins and you would like to control them all from a single user interface? You need undo/redo for all your modifications? You would like to instantly recall all settings of your favorite MIDI devices from your DAW projects? This product was designed for you!
With Blue Cat's Remote Control, you can choose any type of control (switches, faders, joysticks, knobs) or meter, assign a MIDI channel and CC number to each control, customize its response curve. You can as well choose a built-in skin that suits your needs for every instance of the plug-in, or create your own (see the Skins section): this is the best way to create your own user interface to control your entire Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and external hardware the way you have chosen.
Since the Remote Control can also be controlled via MIDI, you can also use it to remap and transform MIDI messages, from one MIDI CC to another, with different response curves or MIDI channels.
Read our Remote Control Tutorials and see this plug-in in action!
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.
- 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: 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.
Version 3.1
- Now available as a standalone application (can run without any host application)
- Added an option in global & preset input settings to send MIDI events when MIDI-enabled parameters are modified in the plug-in (to update control surfaces accordingly). These MIDI output messages work independently from the usual Remote Control outputs (it's only for control surface feedback).
- Improved undo management and automation when using the mouse wheel to move knobs and sliders.
- Fixed VST3 version not showing in Cubase.
- Fixed VST3 version not loading properly in Ableton Live 11.
Features
- Virtual MIDI control surface and monitoring tool.
- Control or monitor in real time any MIDI-controllable plug-in or external MIDI device.
- 30 built-in skins with various typs of controls and meters (knobs, faders, switches, joysticks...).
- Customize the controls response curve with advanced settings.
- Create your own Digital Workstation controller thanks to the KUIML Language.
- Transform automation lanes into MIDI CC messages.
- Instant preset recall with MIDI CC messages.
- Easy controls assignements with MIDI learn.
- Undo/Redo.
Tech Specs
MAC
OS X Mac OS 10.9 or newer.( An Intel or Apple Silicon processor.)
Audio Card: For the standalone application, a Core Audio compatible audio interface.
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX
WINDOWS
Windows Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 10.( An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or newer).)
Audio Card: For the standalone application, an ASIO, MME or WASAPI compatible audio interface (ASIO recommended).
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX