Blue Cat's PatchWork

Blue Cat's PatchWork is a complex and efficient piece of software whose main purpose resides in offering you the ability to load and work with multiple VST or audio unit plugins simultaneously, supporting up to sixty-four entries in a single DAW.

Subsequent to the installation operation, you can launch the application and begin working with it right away, its method of functioning being sufficiently straightforward as to pose little difficulty in handling it, even if your experience in the field might be rather limited.

The main window of Blue Cat's PatchWork allows you to add the columns and rows that you need, after which you can begin loading your plugins into series or parallel chains.

After creating your chains, you can activate them individually using the ‘On / Off’ flips, and adjust their ‘In Gain’ and ‘Out Gain' levels, by means of dedicated knobs, in order to obtain the effect that you are after.

These settings you can then save to your computer and load them later, when you need to work with them; you can even define your favorite one as a default configuration.

Nonetheless, from the ‘Menu’, you can load an existing ‘Preset’, being able to opt between several ‘Factory Presets’, such as ‘C-Strip’, ‘Solo’, ‘Wrapper’, ‘MIDI Settings’, ‘No Meters’, ‘Parallel Busses’ and others.

From the ‘Audio Configuration’ section of Blue Cat's PatchWork, you can define the number of inputs and outputs, the audio device to work with, as well as the sample rate and buffer size, the tempo and the time signature.

To sum it up, Blue Cat's PatchWork is an advanced and reliable utility that can assist you in using multiple plugins in series or parallel chains, functioning as a patchbay that can host numerous such plugins in just one Digital Audio Workstation.