Blue Cat Audio Launches Liny EQ 5.0 – Linear Phase Graphic EQ

Audio engineering should be an elegant experience.

That belief is easy to see in the newly released Blue Cat Audio Liny EQ 5.0, which represents a complete rewrite of the French developer’s low latency linear phase EQ plugin.

Lots of plugins are capable of communicating information, but the attractive way that Liny EQ does it – and providing so much in the process — makes you want to dive in deeper for your mixing and mastering. An 8-band linear phase graphic equalizer, it sports very low latency while providing extremely comprehensive visual feedback, processing audio signals without phase distortion, with an unusually short latency (less than 3 milliseconds, according to Blue Cat).

The Blue Cat Liny EQ 5.0 opens up additional visual information on your audio.

A plugin for VST, RTAS, AAX, Audio Unit and DirectX formats, for both Mac and PC (32 and 64-bit), Liny EQ 5 is available now as a standalone or as part of Blue Cat’s Master Pack bundle. Right now as standalone it can be had for a special intro price of $96, going up to $129 on June 15th. As well, the Master Pack bundle is available now for $509, going up to $599 on June 15th.

Here’s more on this new ear-and-eye popper, direct from Blue Cat :

Blue Cat’s Liny EQ Version 5.0 has now a brand new, fully customizable user interface, and includes many new features and enhancements: premium visual feedback with EQ curves, spectrum and spectrogram displays, new EQ shapes, single and dual channels modes, a new presets manager, Windows AAX support, multiple display sizes, new MIDI and automation mapping capabilities, and much more (full list below).

The plug-in is available alone or as part of Blue Cat’s Master Pack, a bundle including the company’s recommended plug-ins for mastering. A special introduction offer is available to new customers until June 15th: 25% off the plug-in and 15% off the bundle. Customers who recently purchased the software (in the past 3 months) will receive the upgrade for free, and others can upgrade to the new version for a small fee. Other Blue Cat Audio customers can purchase the plug-in with 40% discount.

Demo versions are available for download on http://www.bluecataudio.com, in VST, RTAS, AAX, Audio Unit and DirectX formats, for both Mac and PC (32 and 64-bit).

What’s new in Blue Cat’s Liny EQ 5.0:

New Features:
– Brand new, fully customizable user interface:
—  New look and feel.
—  Show/hide what you need.
—  New EQ curve display.
—  New instant spectrum curves display.
—  New color or greyscale overlayed spectrogram view.
—  New output peak levels meters.
—  Multiple display sizes.
—  Improved readability.
—  Animated transitions.
– New “mix” parameter for instant dry/wet control or side chain dynamic equalization.
– New interpolation mode for up to four different EQ shapes.
– Now includes both single and dual channels versions and superseds the three plug-ins previously included in the Blue Cat’s Liny EQ Pack bundle.
– Spectrum and spectrogram displays can be frozen to capture spectral snapshots.
– New integrated presets manager:
—  Load/save presets from the plug-in’s user interface.
—  Organize presets with folders.
—  Customize the default preset.
—  Exchange presets easily.
– Automation range and response curve can now be customized for each parameter (in and out).
– Automation and MIDI settings (channel, MIDI learn etc.) are now accessible from the main user interface.
– AAX plug-in format is now also supported on Windows (Pro Tools 10.2 required).

Improvements:
– Different EQ shapes can now be selected for each channel.
– New presets to get started faster.
– The windows installer now automatically detects the most appropriate VST install path.
– License is now shared between plug-ins types (register only once for all formats).
– Improved value display in fine edit window.
– Improved parameters display on control surfaces.
Optimizations and Performance Improvements:
– Improved parameters precision (now stored as 64-bit).
– More compact presets format (uses less space and loads faster).
– Smaller binaries on Mac (dropped PowerPC support).

Bug Fixes:
– (RTAS) Fixed parameters control with EUCON control surfaces in Pro Tools.
– Fixed user interface issues in Final Cut Pro X.
– Fixed user interface display issues in Wavelab on Mac.
– Fixed keyboard stealing issue in Digital Performer 7 on Mac.
– Fixed copy/paste keyboard shortcut issues in the registration panel on Mac.
Note: this new version can be installed side by side with the previous version for backward compatibility reasons. Installing this new version won’t break previous projects.

System requirements:
– Intel Mac running Mac OS 10.5 or newer.
– PC running Windows XP or newer.

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