Product Information
Blue Cat's Fader Hub is a network mixing and streaming software that provides an easy solution to play and record with other musicians on a local network or thru the Internet in real time.
Join the LLAN party! Connect your instrument and play with other musicians over the Low Latency Audio Network (LLAN) thanks to this unique network mixing and streaming console.
Fader Hub features a local mixing console to mix several audio inputs from an audio interface, and a network mixer that can send the local mixdown to other computers over the network, and mix it locally with the audio streams received from them.
It is fully compatible and interoperable with the Connector plug-in. It includes several built-in audio effects and can also load third party VST, Audio Unit and VST3 plug-ins.
Fader Hub can also record the full mix and individual streams to disk, making it easy to record multiple instruments over an IP network.
Thanks to Fader Hub's low latency peer-to-peer connection, every musician with a laptop in a band can easily manage his/her personal headphone mix, while keeping the lowest possible latency for his/her own instrument.
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.
- 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.
V1.3
- Send individual input signals (instead of just the stereo mix) to other Fader Hub or Connector instances, thru the network, the Internet or on the same machine.
- Visualize and remix individual channels from remote instances in the LLAN Mixer, which gets automatically upated upon remote changes.
- Aggregate, mix and record up to 64 stereo inputs (128 audio channels) from up to 8 different computers (and even more by loading Fader Hub inside itself).
- Windows multitouch support (manipulate multiple controls at the same time with several fingers).
- Changed Mute button color to yellow to avoid confusion with record buttons.
- Improved skin loading time on slow hard drives.
- Optimized size of image resources for GUIs.
- Fixed factory FX strips not listed in FX Strip menu.
- Fixed window opacity changes not shown in plug-in when host application modifies it.
- Fixed selected text in text edit box sometimes not easy to read on Mac depending on the color scheme.
- Fixed text edit boxes sometimes losing focus when hovering mouse over other controls.
- Minor Graphics resources optimizations for Hi resolution displays.
- Fixed Mac installers not showing brand image in dark mode.
- Windows: fixed context menu not always displayed in the right position when the window spans across several screens with different DPI.
- Windows accessibility: native system widgets are now scaled according to text size settings on Windows 8 and newer in settings windows.
- Windows: fixed return key sometimes unexpectedly forwarded to host while typing in a text edit box.
- Select Macro params control style: knob or switch.
- Set macro params default/neutral value (the value set upon right click or alt-click).
- A missing plug-ins report is now displayed in case plug-ins are missing upon loading a session or presets.
- Improved synchronization of hosted plug-ins to host transport when using plug-ins with latency.
- Built-in plug-ins can now follow host zoom.
- future updates of Blue Cat Audio VST, VST3 and Audio Unit plug-ins will be able to follow Fader Hub's zoom like built-in plug-ins (previews available).
- Plug-in format is now displayed in the title bar of the plug-in window.
- Recording status is now reported to Audio Units that support it.
- It is now possible to use different oversampling options for realtime and offline rendering (experimental).
- Fixed two memory leaks in VST3 plug-ins host (causing potential crashes upon VST3 plug-in unload too).
- Fixed plug-in latency not always fully compensated when using plug-ins with latencies of more than 1024 samples.
- Improved undo management with built-in and VST3 plug-ins, now detecting non-parameter changes (for Axiom: Destructor skin changes etc.).
- Fixed built-in multitap delay high DSP usage upon first load when syncing delay to host BPM.
- Fixed offline rendering mode not always reported to hosted plug-ins.
- Fixed some VST3 plug-ins taking several minutes to load (HALion and several other plug-ins with multiple audio busses).
- Fixed unexpected bypass control behavior with some Audio Unit plug-ins.
- Fixed VST3 plug-ins not loading when moved to a directory with the same name as the original .vst3 library file.
- Fixed revert current preset not always triggering undo properly
- Recorded audio files now contain current transport position to help synchronizing recordings when imported into a DAW (BF format).
- Audio file recorder now switches automatically to RF64 file format for files larger than 2 GB.
- Fixed mp3 files loaded in audio player not always in sync with transport.
- Audio recording and playback now take plug-ins latency into account (with latency compensation).
- Improved playback and recording synchronization (locally and remotely).
- All plug-in parameters can now be controlled with MIDI notes, pitch bend, NRPN, 14-bit CCs, aftertouch or channel pressure, in addition to existing MIDI CC.
- MIDI settings window can now be resized to display more parameters.
- Optimized MIDI settings window display on Windows (load time and scroll).
- MIDI Settings window now splits parameters into multiple pages for faster access.
- MIDI Settings window now shows custom display names if any.
- Optimized preset load upon MIDI messages when using several hundreds of user presets.
- Fixed plug-in sending Bank number 0 when loading a preset that is not located in a bank.
- Fixed audio dropouts when navigating presets via next/previous and plug-in set to send MIDI Program Change messages.
- Windows: ASIO driver now keeps running when ASIO Control panel is opened from the app audio preferences.
- Windows: the application now follows ASIO driver buffer changes made in the ASIO control panel or external ASIO configuration app.
- Performance: application now automatically selects the minimum number of I/O required from the driver.
- Fixed audio dropouts when selecting MIDI output devices in preferences when using many MIDI devices.
