1.6.x Blue Cat Late Replies

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).

Mac OS X

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

For more information about supported platforms, see our FAQ.

V1.66 (2024/03/20)

• Added 15 new styles for macro knobs.
• offline rendering support: hosted plug-ins are now notified when the host is rendering offline (non-realtime).
• Fixed multicore performance issues for Apple Silicon systems (random audio dropouts).
• Improved multicore performance on Windows PC and Intel Macs.

v1.6.5 (2023/06/13)

• Plug-ins oversampling: it is now possible to oversample processing for every plug-in (up to 16x).
• Custom Colors: Each individual plug-in instance can now be assigned a custom color.
• Updated hundreds of factory presets and all built-in plug-ins with custom colors.
• Late Replies can now use its own parameters in macros, mixed together with loaded plug-ins parameters.
• Macro Parameters & params assignments can now be saved and copied/pasted.
• Drag and drop macro parameters to change order / insert / copy.
• The “Remove” command now removes the selected macro parameter instead of the last one in the list.
• Added pre-delay macros to some reverb presets.
• Graphical user interface refresh performance improvements, especially on Mac.
• Fixed custom tone maps presets not properly saved for some built-in plug-ins (Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Sweep Filter, Wave Shaper, Freq Shifter, Wah, EQ).
• Fixed plug-in slot menu issues when loading plug-ins with more than 22380 parameters on Windows.
• Updated parameters layout for GUI-less plug-ins to accommodate plug-ins with multiple parameters.
• GUI-less plug-ins generic editor now follows Late Replies’s zoom level.
• Fixed a crash when opening the editor of a VST2 GUI-less plug-in that uses non-unicode encoding in its parameters (piz-MIDI plug-ins).
• Fixed delay ramping up when first unbypassed after being loaded from bypass state.
• LEARN mode is now disabled automatically when the Params Map Editor is closed.
• AAX plug-in now reports the recording status to hosted plug-ins (in recent versions of Pro Tools that support it).
• Ableton Live 11: Fixed Late Replies’s VST3 MIDI input not detected.

V1.61 (2022/12/12)

• Added Apple Silicon support for AAX Plug-in Format.

V1.6 (2022/10/17)

• New macro controls editor to edit plug-in parameters mapping and create your own delay/reverb effects with their own controls.
• Assign multiple parameters from multiple effects to a single macro control, and adjust the range for each parameter.
• Assign a name to each macro control, that is now displayed in automation lanes in most host applications (may require a session reload in some cases).
• Parameter names for existing sessions will be automatically updated upon load.
• Select macro knobs’ appearance among 18 predefined styles.
• Updated hundreds of presets with macro parameters: you can now keep Late Replies in “EZ” mode and have access to main sub-plug-in parameters without having to dig into the structure of the preset.
• New learn modes to quickly assign plug-in parameters.
• 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).
• You can now tap tempo when using the “manual tempo” sync mode.
• In most plug-in formats, internal audio I/O configuration can now be selected regardless of the configuration defined by the host.
• Improved VST parameter value display in some host applications.
• Fixed bypass that did not let MIDI messages go thru for some MIDI plug-ins.
• Fixed some GUI resizing issues with some VST3 plug-ins.
• The installer has been notarized to avoid security warnings on Mac.

Warning: presets and sessions saved with this new version will not reload properly with older versions (params maps will be lost).

V1.52 (2022/03/28)

• Native Apple Silicon (M1) version can now load 64-bit Audio Units that are not compatible with Apple Silicon (via the macOS bridge).
• Presets can now be loaded via MIDI even when the user interface is closed.
• Fixed MPC Beat plug-in not loading.
• Fixed VST3 version not always loading properly in Ableton Live 11.
• Fixed latency compensation changes are not always picked up by host applications.
• VST3: Fixed parameters update issues in Studio One when bouncing tracks.
• Fixed VST & VST3 automation not recording properly in some hosts (Cubase 11, Ableton Live).