Blue Cat's Late Replies 1.1 [Now 1.2] Creative Delay Workstation & Host Released!

[Blue Cat Audio]

Dear KVR Members,

We are happy to announce a free update for Blue Cat's Late Replies, our creative delay and multi effects plug-in also capable of hosting third party plug-ins anywhere in the signal path.

This new version brings many graphical user interface enhancements such as full GUI zoom, new presets management features and major performance improvements. It also fixes a couple of issues on both Mac and Windows (full change list below). It is a recommended free update for all existing users, available from the same location as the original full version (link received by email upon purchase).

For new customers, the plug-in is available for purchase for 99 EUR/USD instead of 129 until April 20th. Demo versions of the plug-in can be found on our website, and we also have a couple of video examples and tutorials.

What's New:
- The GUI can now be zoomed from 70% to 200%.
- Input and output effects strips can now be locked.
- Last loaded preset is now remembered in session and displayed in the presets menu.
- Plug-in state can now be reverted to the last loaded preset.
- Default preset now also saves the state of locks (when using "save as user default").
- Major presets loading improvements: hosted plug-ins are now reloaded only when changed, and updated otherwise. Improves performance and audio rendering when loading presets using the same plug-ins.
- Faster GUI loading / instantaneous GUI display after it has been opened once.
- Limiter on/off state is now independent from presets ("always locked").
- New option to keep plug-ins windows always on top.
- Performance and memory usage improvements.
- Improved Pitch Shifter built-in plug-in (fixed aliasing artefacts and added new modes).
- VST3: factory presets are not exposed to the host application anymore.
- Fixed minor compatibility issues with Mac OS High Sierra.
- Fixed: changing bypass in the Audio Unit version did not update host application's bypass state.
- Fixed: bypass buttons are now in sync with the hosted plug-ins' state.
- Mac: fixed presets directory not properly created for built-in plug-ins, breaking the save preset feature.
- Win: fixed copy/paste that sometimes stopped working until next app restart.

System requirements:
- Intel Mac running Mac OS 10.7 or newer.
- PC running Windows Vista or newer.
- A VST, VST3, AAX or Audio Unit compatible host application.

Pricing:
Blue Cat's Late Replies: 99 EUR or $99, instead of 129 EUR or $129 (tax included), until April 20th

Enjoy!

[Blue Cat Audio]

Just to give you an idea of what this "delay" plug-in can do (no third party plug-in or MIDI involved)

[metalifuxx]

Just wondering if this was a feature request by anyone yet and if it's in the update too:

The ability to change the order of the insert effect plugins/VST (maybe use up/down arrow buttons unless drag and drop can be implemented)

[MrBauer]

What a fantastic plugin and what a nice update!

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

This looks pretty insane. Won't have much time to demo for a few days, so a couple of questions: Is there any way to reverse taps/repeats? And, if we want to control feedback for each tap, do we need to load an extra delay plug on that tap?

Cheers

[Blue Cat Audio]

The ability to change the order of the insert effect plugins/VST (maybe use up/down arrow buttons unless drag and drop can be implemented)

There is no drag and drop (yet), but you can copy/cut/paste the plug-ins between slots.

[Blue Cat Audio]

This looks pretty insane. Won't have much time to demo for a few days, so a couple of questions: Is there any way to reverse taps/repeats? And, if we want to control feedback for each tap, do we need to load an extra delay plug on that tap?

There is no reverser included, but I guess you could load a third party plug-in in the tap strip to do this.

The multitap section does not have feedback (here is a built-in echo plug-in if you want to do multiple repeats in one, though), but there are two nested feedback loops right after the multitap section, with effects slots inside each loop. And if you (really?) want more, late Replies can load itself into itself so...

[gaf_thit]

This is stoking the GAS-fire... So many possibilities

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

This looks pretty insane. Won't have much time to demo for a few days, so a couple of questions: Is there any way to reverse taps/repeats? And, if we want to control feedback for each tap, do we need to load an extra delay plug on that tap?

There is no reverser included, but I guess you could load a third party plug-in in the tap strip to do this.

The multitap section does not have feedback (here is a built-in echo plug-in if you want to do multiple repeats in one, though), but there are two nested feedback loops right after the multitap section, with effects slots inside each loop. And if you (really?) want more, late Replies can load itself into itself so...

Thanks for getting back to me.

It's a shame about reverse, though I suppose i could use RP-Delay in the slots. As for the feedback, I was hoping for more control than the two loops (I'm guessing they just work on the patterns as a whole). But is there any reason why I can't load up a delay on, for example, the second and seventh tap and set those two to feedback in their own ways.

I guess I should just demo it

[Blue Cat Audio]

I guess I should just demo it

Indeed: you can already do a lot of things without extra delays...

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I guess I should just demo it

Indeed: you can already do a lot of things without extra delays...

Except the two things i want to do i.e Reverse individual taps, and control the feedback of individual taps

Theoretically, it should be easy to put a delay on each tap that I want to independently control. And it does work calling up the internal delay to each channel. However, I got into difficulties with a couple of external devices. It became unusable with just two plugins

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[Blue Cat Audio]

Do you mean you have a CPU problem here?

Wouldn't you be using the AU version of the SoundToys plug-in? They are known to cause huge CPU spikes when hosted in our plug-ins (but the VST versions are fine though).

Also, if you just need two parallel feedback delays, you can simply bypass the pattern section and use the feedback loops only: with cross-feedback set to 0 they are fully independent.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Do you mean you have a CPU problem here?

Wouldn't you be using the AU version of the SoundToys plug-in? They are known to cause huge CPU spikes when hosted in our plug-ins (but the VST versions are fine though).

Also, if you just need two parallel feedback delays, you can simply bypass the pattern section and use the feedback loops only: with cross-feedback set to 0 they are fully independent.

Yep! AU version. VST worked fine

With regard to the feedback, I am really interested in having control of feedback of every tap, individually. And a quick proof of concept with Echoboy (Heavy feedback, hard-left), RP-Delay (Reversed, heavy feedback, hard-right), and Outer Space (Crazy dubbed out feedback, centre), worked out great. 2caudio's B2 on 'post' If the plug only allowed this functionality, it would be great. Obviously, there is so much more to explore.

II can't see any way of soloing the taps? Would be very helpful

[Blue Cat Audio]

If you need more than two parallel feedback delays, you can simply use several taps and load either the simple "echo" built-in plug-in or load Late Replies into itself (there is a built-in version for this purpose).

There is indeed no "solo" for taps but we are thinking about it.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

If you need more than two parallel feedback delays, you can simply use several taps and load either the simple "echo" built-in plug-in or load Late Replies into itself (there is a built-in version for this purpose).

There is indeed no "solo" for taps but we are thinking about it.

It's not so much a question of need, but a question of experimenting with what's possible for sound design. The included plugins are perfectly serviceable, but do not possess the kind of character that I am looking for. In these cases, I'm looking at Echoboy, Ohmboyz, Rp-Delay, Replika, or Outer Space. I could experiment with setting up multi-fx chains to approximate the sound I am after, but that will eventually become too unwieldy. It's much simpler to load up a plugin that has everything I am looking for, in an interface I am familiar with.

Of course, that's not to say that I'm not interested in Late Replies as a self-contained unit.

Thanks