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.

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.

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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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