Most cats I know seem to sit around all day doing bugger all, but that’s not the case with Blue Cat Audio, releasing a preview of updates to the already super useful PatchWork plug-in.

For those not aware of PatchWork it allows the user to host AU and VST plug-ins in Pro Tools and then create complex set-ups and routing, all of which can be saved for fast recall. It’s an essential plug-in to have in your Pro Tools collection dealing with two PITA issues, hosting AU and VST plug-ins and creating track presets.

Now Blue Cat Audio have added even more functionality to the PatchWork plug-in. In their latest blog post they report:

For example, you can now:

• Route any of the outputs of an instrument to any aux output of the PatchWork plug-in.

• Apply effects to a subset of audio channels (for example to apply multi -mono effects on stereo or surround tracks, or apply different effects to different aux outputs fro an instrument).

• Create sends from a channel to another (re-routing a processed signal to another aux output for example, while the dry signal is kept on the current channels).

• Reorder audio channels.

• Apply effects to the side chain bus, or use any audio channel as a side chain.

• Of course latency is compensated on unprocessed channels (if you apply for example a mono plug-in with latency only on the left channel, the right channel will be delayed accordingly).

Visit the Blue Cat Audio blog to find out more and to download a demo of Blue Cat PatchWorks.

Also check out our free Pro Tools plugins page to see the great collection of free Blue Cat plug-ins.