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Blue Cat's Fader Hub
"The Network Mixing & Streaming Console, Connecting Musicians Together" Price: (-20%) 99€ 79€ or (-20%) $99 $79 (tax incl.) Blue Cat's Fader Hub is a network mixing and streaming software that provides an easy solution to play and record with other musicians or aggregate audio streams from multiple devices on a local network or thru the Internet, in real time. Join the LLAN party! Connect your instrument and play with other musicians over the Low Latency Audio Network (LLAN) thanks to this unique network mixing and streaming console.
Fader Hub features a local mixing console to mix several audio inputs from an audio interface, and a network mixer that can send the local mixdown (or individual inputs) to other computers over the network, and mix it locally with the audio streams received from them.
It is fully compatible and interoperable with the Connector plug-in. It includes several built-in audio effects and can also load third party VST, Audio Unit and VST3 plug-ins.
Fader Hub can also record the full mix and individual streams to disk, making it easy to record multiple instruments over an IP network, with automatic latency compensation and transport synchronization.
Thanks to Fader Hub's low latency peer-to-peer connection, every musician with a laptop in a band can easily manage his/her personal headphone mix, while keeping the lowest possible latency for his/her own instrument.
With "Synced inputs", it is also possible to play a backing track or a click in perfect sync for everyone accross all connections, whatever the distance, resulting in even shorter latency to play together!
Main Features:
- Network mixing console: play with other musicians thru a local network or over the Internet.
- Multitrack recording: record the full mix or individual tracks on your own machine.
- Distributed recording: synchronize playback and recording accross multiple instances over the network, with network latency compensation.
- SYNCED input: exact synchronization of a backing track or click accross all instances, regardless of the distance.
- Built-in effect plug-ins (EQ, Compressor, Gate, delays, reverb...).
- Load third party VST, vST3 or Audio Unit plug-ins.
- Supports multiple sampling rates on a single connection (built-in resampling).
- Built-in drift compensation.
- Fully compatible with Blue Cat's Connector & Freeceiver.
- Connect up to 8 musicians together (and more by loading the plug-in into itself).
- Up to 8 local stereo audio inputs (personal mix).
- Remote multitrack: send either a personal stero mix or individual inputs to others, so that they can remix and record them individually.
- Aggregate, mix and record up to 128 audio channels from up to 8 different computers.
- Optional audio compression to reduce the bandwidth (powered by Wavpack).
Blue Cat Audio Standards:
- Available as a standalone application and 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.
Typical applications: Network audio, live sound, multitrack recording, personal headphones mixing, online jamming, remote collaboration, remote recording, online music teaching, distributed mixing, plug-in host. User Comments & ReviewsTo add your own comment about this product, please contact us. Demo Downloads
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Demo Limitations:
- Limited number of instances of the plug-in per session.
- The application or the plug-in is regularly bypassed for a few milliseconds.
System Requirements
MacOS
- 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, 10 or 11.
- 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).
For more information about supported platforms, see our Knowledge Base. Versions History V1.3 (2026/01/20) | New Network Audio Multi-Channel Mode (Multitrack):
- Send individual input signals (instead of just the stereo mix) to other Fader Hub or Connector instances, thru the network, the Internet or on the same machine.
- Visualize and remix individual channels from remote instances in the LLAN Mixer, which gets automatically upated upon remote changes.
- Aggregate, mix and record up to 64 stereo inputs (128 audio channels) from up to 8 different computers (and even more by loading Fader Hub inside itself).
Performance:
- Major audio processing performance improvements.
- Major user interface performance improvements on Windows.
User Interface:
- Windows multitouch support (manipulate multiple controls at the same time with several fingers).
- Changed Mute button color to yellow to avoid confusion with record buttons.
- Improved skin loading time on slow hard drives.
- Optimized size of image resources for GUIs.
- Fixed factory FX strips not listed in FX Strip menu.
- Fixed window opacity changes not shown in plug-in when host application modifies it.
- Fixed selected text in text edit box sometimes not easy to read on Mac depending on the color scheme.
- Fixed text edit boxes sometimes loosing focus when hovering mouse over other controls.
- Minor Graphics resources optimizations for Hi resolution displays.
- Fixed Mac installers not showing brand image in dark mode.
- Windows: fixed context menu not always displayed in the right position when the window spans across several screens with different DPI.
- Windows accessibility: native system widgets are now scaled according to text size settings on Windows 8 and newer in settings windows.
- Windows: fixed return key sometimes unexpectedly forwarded to host while typing in a text edit box.
Macros Parameters:
- Select Macro params control style: knob or switch.
- Set macro params default/neutral value (the value set upon right click or alt-click).
Plug-ins Hosting:
- A missing plug-ins report is now displayed in case plug-ins are missing upon loading a session or presets.
- Improved synchronization of hosted plug-ins to host transport when using plug-ins with latency.
- Built-in plug-ins can now follow host zoom.
- future updates of Blue Cat Audio VST, VST3 and Audio Unit plug-ins will be able to follow Fader Hub's zoom like built-in plug-ins (previews available).
- Plug-in format is now displayed in the title bar of the plug-in window.
- Recording status is now reported to Audio Units that support it.
- It is now possible to use different oversampling options for realtime and offline rendering (experimental).
- Fixed two memory leaks in VST3 plug-ins host (causing potential crashes upon VST3 plug-in unload too).
- Fixed plug-in latency not always fully compensated when using plug-ins with latencies of more than 1024 samples.
- Improved undo management with built-in and VST3 plug-ins, now detecting non-parameter changes (for Axiom: Destructor skin changes etc.).
- Fixed built-in multitap delay high DSP usage upon first load when syncing delay to host BPM.
- Fixed offline rendering mode not always reported to hosted plug-ins.
- Fixed some VST3 plug-ins taking several minutes to load (HALion and several other plug-ins with multiple audio busses).
- Fixed unexpected bypass control behavior with some Audio Unit plug-ins.
- Fixed VST3 plug-ins not loading when moved to a directory with the same name as the original .vst3 library file.
- Fixed revert current preset not always triggering undo properly
Audio Recording/Playback:
- Recorded audio files now contain current transport position to help synchronizing recordings when imported into a DAW (BF format).
- Audio file recorder now switches automatically to RF64 file format for files larger than 2 GB.
- Fixed mp3 files loaded in audio player not always in sync with transport.
- Audio recording and playback now take plug-ins latency into account (with latency compensation).
- Improved playback and recording synchronization (locally and remotely).
MIDI Control:
- All plug-in parameters can now be controlled with MIDI notes, pitch bend, NRPN, 14-bit CCs, aftertouch or channel pressure, in addition to existing MIDI CC.
- MIDI settings window can now be resized to display more parameters.
- Optimized MIDI settings window display on Windows (load time and scroll).
- MIDI Settings window now splits parameters into multiple pages for faster access.
- MIDI Settings window now shows custom display names if any.
- Optimized preset load upon MIDI messages when using several hundreds of user presets.
- Fixed plug-in sending Bank number 0 when loading a preset that is not located in a bank.
- Fixed audio dropouts when navigating presets via next/previous and plug-in set to send MIDI Program Change messages.
StandAlone Application:
- Windows: ASIO driver now keeps running when ASIO Control panel is opened from the app audio preferences.
- Windows: the application now follows ASIO driver buffer changes made in the ASIO control panel or external ASIO configuration app.
- Performance: application now automatically selects the minimum number of I/O required from the driver.
- Fixed audio dropouts when selecting MIDI output devices in preferences when using many MIDI devices.
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V1.22 (2025/09/08) |
- Fixed MIDI settings display issues on Mac.
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V1.21 (2025/08/12) |
- Fixed Audio Unit registration issues in Logic and GarageBand after using the demo version.
- Improved whitespace stripping to streamline username/key registration.
- App: fixed occasional crash when unselecting MIDI output devices while sending MIDI.
- Mac App: fixed scrollbar not always appearing to select MIDI Input or Output devices.
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V1.2 (2025/06/05) | Synchronization & Network Latency Compensation:
- SYNCED input: ensure all connected participants hear a backing track or click simultaneously (no latency), regardless of the distance.
- Synchronized transport: synchronize all connected applications, with built-in clock latency compensation for latency-less realtime playback.
- Synchronized recording: start/stop recording in sync with playback accross multiple devices on the network, and keep all recorded files synchronized.
- Optional realtime network latency compensation: Fader Hub can compensate the network latency on all LLAN mixer strips for a perfectly synchronized mix.
- Automatic network latency compensation for recording: latency is automatically compensated for perfect synchronization of individual recorded tracks.
- Reported latency is now displayed in the status bar (bottom right).
- Check reception latency for each LLAN Mixer channel by hovering the mouse on the drift meter (ppm).
- Synchronize app transport & bpm with other devices/software with MIDI Clock and/or MIDI Timecode (MTC). Both send and receive supported.
Performance:
- Improved connection stability when sender under high CPU load.
- Optimized performance: Up to 50% lighter on CPU when not using all available channel strips.
Other New Features & Improvements:
- New MIDI Loopback port to route MIDI events from hosted plug-ins back to Fader Hub's input.
- Improved connection status reporting for LLAN Mixer channels.
- Recorded tracks are now saved in a separate folder for each recording.
- Show current preset in Finder/Windows Explorer.
- New built-in phase flip plug-in.
Fixes:
- Fixed issue with some older VST2 instrument plug-ins not receiving MIDI events (such NI Kontakt 6).
- Fixed VST3 plug-ins sometimes not updating meters when loaded in Fader Hub.
- Fixed Arturia VST3 plug-ins editor not re-opening properly when closed with the plug-in slot button.
- Fixed Audio Player crashes when using file with less channels than the plug-in.
- Fixed Audio Player not properly syncing its playback position when resampling.
- VST/VST3 plug-in: fixed occasional performance issue when controlling fader Hub macro parameters via MIDI.
- Fixed CPU meter display sometimes off by one pixel.
- Fixed memory leak in receiver when using resampling.
- Mac: Fixed Audio Unit plug-in taking a very long time to validate in Logic or GarageBand.
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V1.1 (2024/11/29) |
- Each input can now be independently sent to the local mix ("ME") and/or others via the network ("OTHERS").
- New Aux output bus to manage two separate audio ouputs (with optional recording). Select which strip is routed to each mix in the LLAN mixer.
- Plug-in and App can now send Bank Select and Program Change MIDI messages upon changes in the user interface to keep external controllers in sync.
- Find currently selected preset easily in the menu (folders containing the preset now display a check mark).
- Next/previous preset can now be cycled in the current bank (optional).
- App can now receive and send MIDI even when no audio interface is selected.
- Both plug-ins and application now support SysEx MIDI events.
- Improved performance of VST3 plug-in and VST3 host when receiving program change messages.
- Plug-in bypass now follows plug-in upon drag and drop.
- Fixed plug-in slot bypass reset upon plug-in removal.
- Fixed a crash in the params map editor upon GUI load in some rare cases.
- Fixed plug-in slots display issue on MacOS 10.10.
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V1.02 (2024/09/09) |
- Windows: Multi monitor High DPI scaling support for high resolution displays (4K monitors, hi-res laptops...) for Windows 10 version 1607 (Anniversary Edition) and newer.
- Mac: Improved Retina display support, with crispier graphics at all resolutions and zoom levels.
- Auto Scale option for third party plug-ins that do not support HiDPI on Windows.
- New option to disable "suspend processing on silence" for plug-ins that do not report tail size properly (such as Valhalla plug-ins).
- Mac: fixed random GUI refresh issues in Reaper on Retina displays.
- Fixed a potential issue with VST3 plug-ins using unicode characters in parameter names and values.
- Fixed a crash with some VST3 plug-ins requiring inputParameterChanges (such as Martinic plug-ins).
- Fixed crash on Apple Silicon and wrong preset names on other platforms when loading VST3 plug-ins that define presets without names (such as FabFilter plug-ins).
- Fixed minor memory leak when using oversampling for plug-ins.
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V1.01 (2024/04/10) |
- Playback, recording and rewind for the application (to synchronize loaded plug-ins) can now be triggered by MIDI.
- Offline rendering support: hosted plug-ins are now notified when the host is rendering offline (non-realtime).
- Fixed target IP address lost when loading presets while the LLAN Mixer section is locked.
- Fixed stereo issues in the audio player when loading mp3 or aiff files on Mac.
- Fixed audio recording issues under very low latencies and high CPU usage.
- Reduced GPU usage under MacOS Sonoma, now that Apple fixed their initial graphics performance issue (Sonoma 14.3 and newer required).
- Fixed displayed name for the plug-in installer on Windows.
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