Blue Cat's PatchWork Host Native M1 Support

[Blue Cat Audio]

We are glad to announce that Blue Cat's PatchWork, the lightweight plug-ins host available both as a standalone application and plug-in, now officially supports M1 processors natively with version 2.51.

This update also adds a MIDI tap tempo option in the standalone application, and brings several other improvements, as described in details here.



As benchmarks confirm, the M1 processors are very powerful, but the real benefits for low latency audio processing come when running software built for M1 (not going thru the Rosetta translation layer).

The new PatchWork can of course be run both natively on the M1, or thru Rosetta if you need to load older Intel-only plug-ins.

[BBFG#]

Wondering if you will ever add a separate controller update to it for multiple controllers?
(Such as HALion does allowing up to four.) This would make it great for live use.

[Blue Cat Audio]

What do you mean by "separate controller update" ?

[BBFG#]

What do you mean by "separate controller update" ?

Hoping on each new update that it will include an "assign controller" to separate chains.
e.g. HALion has a menu under settings to recognize up to four controllers and assign them to a/b/c/d. Then you can choose your Input controller (each with 16 MIDI channels which is not as necessary for this), and have it control specific vsti & fx. As it is now, the global control really limits the standalone use to simple sounds design for later use in our DAW or simple hosting similar to, albeit better at layered multiples and VST3, via savihost.

Check out how HALion does it. Once you try it, not having it seems to be a shortcoming.