Blue Cat's PatchWork is a versatile software tool that acts as a universal patchbay for plug-ins and provides multi-effects capabilities. With the ability to host up to 64 VST, VST3, Audio Unit, or built-in plug-ins in a single instance, PatchWork seamlessly integrates with any Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). It offers both serial and parallel routing options, providing greater flexibility and control over your audio processing.

Key Features:

• Configurable VST, VST3 or Audio Unit plug-ins rack: host up to 64 third party plug-ins or instruments in series or parallel.
• 30 built-in effects: Reverb, EQ, filters, pitch & frequency shifter, delays, modulation effects, compressor, gate, bit crusher, wave shaper and more.
• Available as an effect, virtual instrument or standalone application.
• Build your own effects chains: up to 8 "pre" and "post" plug-ins slots to chain plug-ins in series.
• Parallel processing made easy: up to 8 parallel plug-ins chains, with phase flip, solo and gain controls.
• Multicore processing support for parallel chains.
• Plug-ins Oversampling: select oversampling ratio and quality for each plug-in.
• Host up to 8 virtual instruments in parallel and mix them within the plug-in.
• Global Dry/Wet control ("Mix").
• Macro controls & parameters mapping: map plug-ins parameters to automate them or use a control surface.
• Flexible MIDI routing: connect sub plug-ins together or with the host application.
• Flexible Audio routing: connect sub plug-ins i/o to any audio channel.
• External side chain and multiple outputs support.
• Link pre and post gains for automatic gain compensation.
• Drag and drop or cut, copy and paste plug-ins with their settings between slots.
• Recall complex processing setups and plug-ins layouts with one click and share them between your DAWs.
• Input and output levels monitoring, built-in CPU meter.
• Plug-ins Latency compensation.
• Network audio/MIDI processing server for the Connector plug-in.
• Supports VST Shell plug-ins.
• Integrated undo/redo.

System Requirements:

Mac

• An Intel or Apple Silicon processor.
• Mac OS 10.9 or newer.
• For the plug-in, any VST / Audio Unit / AAX compatible application (64-bit) .
• For the standalone application, a Core Audio compatible audio interface.

Windows

• An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or newer).
• Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 10.
• For the plug-in, any VST / AAX compatible host software (32 or 64 bit).
• For the standalone application, an ASIO, MME or WASAPI compatible audio interface (ASIO recommended).