Affiliate Link Generator Copied!

|
1.415.462.1982
  1. Home
  2. Vendors
  3. Blue Cat Audio
  4. Blue Cat Destructor

v2.0 Blue Cat Destructor

EDIT in Admin Edit in WP

Add to Wishlist

Blue Cat Destructor
  

Downloads

Download demos and trial versions, product documentation, free presets and more.

Blue Cat Destructor

You may download a free Demo after logging in.

The distortion and amp sims factory that goes to 11, and beyond!

Introducing the Blue Cat Destructor – the ultimate distortion and amp sim modeling tool for musicians! The Destructor is capable of recreating a wide range of different distortion styles – from the edgiest digital mayhem to velvety smooth compression, and even pristine guitar amp recreations for those who crave a classic, clean sound. Whether you’re looking to add grit to your guitars, bass, drums, vocals, or full mixes, the Destructor can help you find and create your own unique sounds. With its intuitive interface and expansive range of options, you can be sure it will help you take your sound to the next level. Don’t wait any longer and experience the creative power of the Blue Cat Destructor today!

Customize with Destructor

Experience Destructor, the ultimate tone-sculpting tool, loaded with hundreds of presets and ready-to-rock models. Inspired by iconic gear like guitar and bass amps, cabinets, compressors, pedals, and tape machines or crafted by our destructive minds, these presets will serve as your sonic playground to build your tone.

But the magic truly happens here: Destructor’s customizability knows no bounds. Tweak every parameter of existing presets to create a limitless universe of distortion simulations. In other words, there’s no need to purchase additional presets or amp models. And if you want to keep it simple, use tone maps to create new sounds without diving into the details.

Our approach, rooted in perceptual modeling rather than electronic designs or impulse responses, streamlines the tone-tweaking process, ensuring it seamlessly fits into your mix. You can also load and transform your impulse responses to add color to your tone.

Destructor boasts an exclusive adaptive shaper, providing an organic, analog-like responsiveness that musicians yearn for. Yet, it also ventures into uncharted digital territory, offering a realm of effects that transcend the boundaries of the “real” world.

Tailor the plug-in’s appearance with over 600,000 visual styles, selectable module by module. Choose “EZ mode” for rack or guitar pedal-style control with just a few parameters.

For precision tone matching, import reference curves measured with Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi.

If you are seeking a comprehensive amp simulation package with built-in effects, check out Blue Cat’s Axiom. To delve into frequency-selective or multiband distortion, you can seamlessly pair the plug-in with Blue Cat’s MB-7 Mixer.

Blue Cat Destructor Screenshots

blue cat destructor basic
Distortion and Amp Simulation Plug-In (VST, AU, AAX, VST3)
blue cat destructor style pedals
Choose from more than 200,000 visual styles to build your own pedals.
blue cat destructor full edit mode
Distortion and Amp Simulation Plug-In (VST, AU, AAX, VST3)
blue cat destructor guitar styles
Distortion and Amp Simulation Plug-In (VST, AU, AAX, VST3)
blue cat destructor minimalized view
Minimized “rack style” view
blue cat destructor pedal vies
Minimized pedal style view: build your guitar pedals
blue cat destructor rack designer
Select individual components to build your guitar amp or distortion/compression rack with a new rack designer (more than 200,000 styles available!).
blue cat destructor tone map
Browse factory and user presets on 2D maps, and morph between them to create unique new tones.

Blue Cat Destructor Main Features

  • Powerful distortion and amp modeling tool for versatile sound sculpting.
  • Distortion diversity: a wide spectrum of distortion types, from analog to digital, guitar and bass amps, saturation, clipping, bit crushing, compression, and even clean tones.
  • Works for “clean” sounds too.
  • Inspired Presets: Kickstart your creativity with hundreds of editable presets, many inspired by real-world gear, providing a solid foundation for your sound.
  • Tailor your user experience by crafting unique racks and pedals from a vast selection of knobs, backgrounds, faceplates, and handles, with over 600,000 style options.
  • Control the dynamics with the input gate and compressor.
  • Control the tone with the pre and post-filters.
  • Exclusive shape dynamics control: adapt the tone to the dynamics of the signal.
  • Tone maps: explore and morph presets in 2D to create new ones.
  • Side Chain Creativity: Trigger distortion using either the internal or external side chain, infusing rhythmic and dynamic nuances into your music.
  • Impulse Responses Integration: Load and transform your cabinet or reverb impulse responses, seamlessly blending them with built-in simulations.
  • Protect your ears with the output brickwall limiter.
  • Comprehensive visual feedback: real-time spectrum analysis, dynamic distortion curve display with embedded signal histograms.
  • Load reference

Description

Blue Cat Audio Standards:

  • Available 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.

Distortion modeling, guitar amp simulation, non-linear tone shaping channel strip, overdrive, bit crushing, analog compression, hard & soft clipping, coloring, tape saturation, Lo-fi, fuzz, digital noise, aliasing, filter effects.

Credits: this plug-in includes several factory presets created by Sink and Hans Van Even.

System Requirements

MacOS

  • An Intel or Apple Silicon processor.
  • Mac OS 10.9 or newer.
  • Any VST / Audio Unit / AAX compatible application (64-bit)

Windows

  • An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or newer).
  • Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 10.
  • Any VST / AAX compatible host software (32 or 64 bit)

Change Log

V2.0 (2023/11/07)

  • Revamped 3D HD Graphics: Enjoy an enhanced visual experience with additional knobs and backgrounds that add a touch of sophistication to your sound crafting journey.
  • Rack Designer: Customize presets like never before with our brand-new Rack Designer, offering a staggering selection of over 600,000 styles. Tailor the look and feel of your presets to match your unique artistic vision.
  • Random GUI Component Selection: Get creative effortlessly with the option to randomly select GUI components in the Rack Designer.
  • Enhanced Filtering Precision: Elevate your sound precision with added peak and comb filters in the Preamp and Post Filter modules, giving you more control over your sonic canvas.
  • Drive Dynamics Parameter: Fine-tune your distortion dynamics by adjusting the influence of the drive parameter on the waveshaper curve, ensuring your tones hit just right.
  • Perceived Loudness Control: Choose the gain reduction applied when increasing the drive parameter to keep perceived loudness equal.
  • Tailored EQ Controls: Select the EQ controls to display in easy view (pre, post filter, or no EQ).
  • New BASS/MID/TREBLE parameters that follow the eq displayed in easy view for MIDI or automation control.
  • Hundreds of presets and module settings have been updated to take advantage of the new DSP capabilities.
  • Guitar & Bass Presets Overhaul: We have given our guitar and bass amps and pedal presets a makeover, enhancing filtering, drive response, EQ frequencies, and EQ placement for an even more authentic and satisfying experience.
  • High-Gain Tone Revamp: Explore high-gain guitar tones that have been meticulously rebuilt from the ground up
  • New Guitar Amps and Pedals: Dive into new creative possibilities with our latest additions to the guitar amps and pedals presets.
  • Improved tone maps computation efficiency.
  • Synchronize multiple MIDI controllers: when “all channels” (0) is used for MIDI input control and “send MIDI events when parameters values change” is active, the plug-in now sends MIDI events to all other channels.
  • Fully compatible with Destructor V1.
  • Fixed Graphical User Interface performance issues on Mac OS Sonoma (caused by an Apple bug)

 

V1.62 (2022/12/12)

  • Added Apple Silicon support for AAX Plug-in Format.
  • Fixed VST3 version not always loading properly in Ableton Live 11.
  • Improved VST parameter value display in some host applications.
  • Added an option in global & preset input settings to send MIDI events when MIDI-enabled parameters are modified in the plug-in (to update control surfaces accordingly).
  • Improved undo management and automation when using the mouse wheel to move knobs.
  • AAX: Fixed erratic mouse behavior in Pro Tools on Mac.
  • Mac: installers and plug-ins have been notarized to avoid security warnings on Mac OS Catalina and newer.

V1.6 (2021/06/29)

New Features & Improvements

  • New “Guitar Pedal” mode: build your own effect pedals with Destructor.
  • New drive range parameter to adjust the range of distortion available in a preset.
  • Revisited all 707 factory presets and related tone maps, with adjusted drive range and improved tone.
  • Added 19 new distortion and compression pedal presets.
  • Improved tone maps navigation, with the updated user interface.
  • The opacity of the tone map window can now be adjusted.
  • Arrow keys can now be used to navigate presets, in the main view or in the presets browser.
  • Smoother preset switching.
  • Improved smooth plug-in bypass (faster and smoother transition).
  • Added MIDI control support (MIDI CC) for Next and Previous Preset commands, with MIDI learn.
  • Improved MIDI & automation control settings with lock, reset and “save as global setting” capabilities.
  • Preset files can now be dropped onto the preset LCD area to be loaded.
  • reduced time to load the plug-in.
  • Level meters, spectrum analyzers and tuner stop processing when the user interface is closed, reducing CPU usage.
  • Reduced the number of threads used by the plug-in.
  • Improved global and preset settings window loading time on Windows.
  • Full unicode support.

Compatibility:

  • Native Apple Silicon (M1 processor) support.
  • Dropped 32-bit support on Mac.
  • Now requires macOS 10.9 and newer.

Fixes:

  • Fixed VST3 (and sometimes VST) version freezing Ableton Live upon save on Windows.
  • Mac: fixed GUI performance issues on native P3 displays and improved performance on other displays.
  • Mac: fixed mouse wheel that required large movements to change parameter values.
  • Mac: fixed mouse cursor flickering issues.
  • Mac: fixed Esc key not closing fine edit parameter dialog.

Blue Cat’s Destructor 1.5 (2019/9/23)

Blue Cat’s Destructor 1.5 is now available as a free update, introducing a new tone explorer with 2D presets morphing, a new presets browser, hundreds of new built-in tones, and many other improvements!

 

New in Blue Cat’s Destructor V1.41 (2018/12/06)

  • Spectrum analysis is now performed in the background and does not affect audio performance.
  • Improved convolution performance for the impulse response loader on multicore processors.

New in Blue Cat’s Destructor V1.4 (2018/10/09)

  • Load custom impulse responses (cabinets, reverbs) into the pre or post filters.
  • Shape impulse responses in the edit view to match the perfect tone.

New in Blue Cat’s Destructor v1.32:

  • New “randomize” feature to create new sounds using random destruction and pre/post presets.
  • New guitar amp factory presets imported from the new Axiom software.

New in Blue Cat’s Destructor v1.3:

  • New minimized view (displays only the main “Guitar Amp-style” controls).
  • New clean guitar amp presets.
  • Faster GUI loading / instantaneous GUI display after it has been opened once.
  • Limiter on/off state is now independent from presets (“always locked”).
  • UI lock now also includes control settings display (green arrows).
  • Performance and memory usage improvements (both GUI and DSP).
  • Improved automation recording (and undo) in many host applications when controlling the plug-in with MIDI.
  • Fixed: changing bypass in the Audio Unit version did not update host application’s bypass state.
  • Win: fixed copy/paste that sometimes stopped working until next app restart.

FAQs

Tutorials



Blue Cat All Plug-Ins Pack

Blue Cat All Plug-Ins Pack

$1,749.00 From $1,399.00

 Shop Now
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Opt-Out IconYour Privacy Choices Notice at Collection