New Plug-In Alert: Blue Cat's PolyVibe Released! (Intro Sale)

[Blue Cat Audio]

Dear KVR Members,

We are happy to announce Blue Cat's PolyVibe, a complete re-creation of the vintage "Vibe" pedals in a plug-in, with a couple of twists.

Based on the original pedal designs from the sixties and with a couple of innovations, Blue Cat's PolyVibe lets you recreate these legendary sounds and explore new tonal universes: the plug-in can indeed simulate many kinds of "vibes" such as chorus, phaser, rotary or wah/vocal effects, while keeping this particular vintage flavor that is so typical to "vibe" pedals.

Thanks to all these extensions, the plug-in is not only suitable for guitars, but for many other instruments, including the human voice.



A special introduction offer applies to the plug-in until May 19th (details below), and existing customers will receive a special offer by email.

More information about this new plug-in, demo versions and videos can be found on www.bluecataudio.com.



Blue Cat's PolyVibe Main Features:
- Re-creation and extension of the original "vibe" pedals in a plug-in.
- Create new effects with the 3 filter modes: classic, reverse and phase.
- Total control over the filters shapes and motion.
- "Swing" control for more musical effects.
- Control the stereo width of the effect.
- Synchronize the LFO to the host application, or control the effect with automation or a MIDI expression pedal.
- Navigate presets and create new tones easily with the tone maps explorer.

System requirements:
- Intel or M1 Mac running Mac OS 10.9 or newer.
- PC running Windows Vista or newer.

Introduction Pricing Until May 19th:
- Blue Cat's PolyVibe: 59 USD/EUR, instead of 79 (25% off)

Enjoy!

[PsychicVST]

Awesome! Congrats Blue Cat!

[Blue Cat Audio]

Thanks!

[ElVincente]

I missed something like that! No real alternatives it seems to me... Congrats
Already bought it !

[Blue Cat Audio]

I missed something like that! No real alternatives it seems to me... Congrats
Already bought it !

Thanks!

[metalifuxx]

Hands down best opto emulated univibe/phaser emulation so far. Somehow captures the unpredictable chewy wobble and throb of the low end, doesn't completely thin out at the end/fall of the wave cycle, and keeps the glassy high end intact but stays full. And does some other cool phaser/chorusy/rotary and panning sounds in mono and stereo, in front of an ampsim or after. On the to buy list so i don't have to plug my Dry Bell Vibe pedal in every time i need authentic univibe guitar sounds.

[Blue Cat Audio]

Hands down best opto emulated univibe/phaser emulation so far. Somehow captures the unpredictable chewy wobble and throb of the low end, doesn't completely thin out at the end/fall of the wave cycle, and keeps the glassy high end intact but stays full. And does some other cool phaser/chorusy/rotary and panning sounds in mono and stereo, in front of an ampsim or after. On the to buy list so i don't have to plug my Dry Bell Vibe pedal in every time i need authentic univibe guitar sounds.

Thanks!

[kopa]

Nice Plugin, how about some new Axiom Presets to take it to the next level?

[Blue Cat Audio]

Nice Plugin, how about some new Axiom Presets to take it to the next level?

Yes, we'll probably share the Axiom presets used in the demo video shortly!

[Blue Cat Audio]

New videos about the PolyVibe univibe plug-in have been published, check them out!

PolyVibe dissected by White Noise Studios:


Have you tried Univibe on synths yet?

[glokraw]

One of my favorite effects is Bitwig's Gated Tremolo, so I tried to get close to that territory in PolyVibe, (my settings in the screenshot) and the fiddling around led to a couple feature requests, But I'm blissfully ignorant of all coding concepts, so please forgive any obvious numbskull output
1. Sliders for global control of both rate and depth on the plugin output, with a selector to let them be either addendums to, or over-rides of the existing sundry knob controls, with On-Off switches for both sliders, and

2. The ability to select global rate and depth settings, and then gang the sliders to move as one throughout their remaining range, as one range might curtail the full movement of the other, when ganged).

3. An attack-sustain-release envelope for the plugin output. In my screenshot settings, a little bit of release time, would make the effect more natural sounding
for some types of play, as the sound cuts off pretty hard after each pulse. Hope that all makes sense. Maybe you have Bitwig in your test-suite to listen to their gated effort? I haven't gone through all the Polyvibe presets yet, but I can hear the future, and it's vibrating!

(an aside, the Depth knob in my example doesn't seem to add depth when moving from 100% to 200%, maybe there's a natural reason for that, based on various settings?)

PolyVibe-gated-tremolo.jpg

(the gui reminds me of our local small-town rock-festivals in the late '60's
((yeah, that's an epic age-giveaway ))

[Blue Cat Audio]

One of my favorite effects is Bitwig's Gated Tremolo, so I tried to get close to that territory in PolyVibe, (my settings in the screenshot) and the fiddling around led to a couple feature requests, But I'm blissfully ignorant of all coding concepts, so please forgive any obvious numbskull output
1. Sliders for global control of both rate and depth on the plugin output, with a selector to let them be either addendums to, or over-rides of the existing sundry knob controls, with On-Off switches for both sliders, and

2. The ability to select global rate and depth settings, and then gang the sliders to move as one throughout their remaining range, as one range might curtail the full movement of the other, when ganged).

3. An attack-sustain-release envelope for the plugin output. In my screenshot settings, a little bit of release time, would make the effect more natural sounding
for some types of play, as the sound cuts off pretty hard after each pulse. Hope that all makes sense. Maybe you have Bitwig in your test-suite to listen to their gated effort? I haven't gone through all the Polyvibe presets yet, but I can hear the future, and it's vibrating!

(an aside, the Depth knob in my example doesn't seem to add depth when moving from 100% to 200%, maybe there's a natural reason for that, based on various settings?)


PolyVibe-gated-tremolo.jpg


(the gui reminds me of our local small-town rock-festivals in the late '60's
((yeah, that's an epic age-giveaway ))

Thanks for the suggestions. I am not sure I exactly understand what you mean with the two global sliders. Are you maybe thinking about separate controls that would not be changed when gong thru presets, or is it something else?

[Blue Cat Audio]

Interested by the story and the research behind the PolyVibe plug-in? Check out this new blog post:

Univibe as a plug-in: beneath the surface of PolyVibe

[glokraw]

I'll try to explain what I'm thinking...

Any control(s) in a preset that modify the rate of fluctuation in sounds, would be 'heard' by the code controlled by a global rate slider. If one part of the modulations was moving the equivalent 60 bpm, and another moving part was 90bpm, the global control could modulate
the audio at a rythmic or syncopated rate, relative to the originals, and add it to the output perhaps via a sidechain?

The depth slider's code would calculate the various peaks and valleys
and gang their depths together, so that all would move in one accord with the slider. If there were two active modulations that had depths of twenty and forty, the slider could make them 25 and 45, Or 15 and 35.

Hope that makes my ideas have more shape than vapor

[Blue Cat Audio]

I'll try to explain what I'm thinking...

Any control(s) in a preset that modify the rate of fluctuation in sounds, would be 'heard' by the code controlled by a global rate slider. If one part of the modulations was moving the equivalent 60 bpm, and another moving part was 90bpm, the global control could modulate
the audio at a rythmic or syncopated rate, relative to the originals, and add it to the output perhaps via a sidechain?

The depth slider's code would calculate the various peaks and valleys
and gang their depths together, so that all would move in one accord with the slider. If there were two active modulations that had depths of twenty and forty, the slider could make them 25 and 45, Or 15 and 35.

Hope that makes my ideas have more shape than vapor

Oh, so if I understand well, you are thinking about controlling the modulation depth with the input signal, right? You could probably try that with the DP Meter Pro plug-in that would control the depth slider with MIDI CC, based on the amplitude of the input signal.