Offloading Plugin Processing onto Remote Computer with Blue Cat's Connector & Patchwork

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Жыл бұрын

It is pretty cool when you harness the power of two plugins to solve a problem. In the video below you will see how to run a plugin in one computer using Patchwork and sending the audio back and forth with Connector from a different computer.
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@JudgeFredd 25 күн бұрын

Great product

@bluecataudio 23 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@amusik7 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial! Very helpful :)

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad that it helps!

@BartekEVH Жыл бұрын

Amazing solution!!!! :)

@MattStevens9824 5 ай бұрын

I landed here after I saw a promo for this plugin. Thanks for explaining! I initially thought this was a loopback plugin of sorts but now, I realize this is a CPU resource offloader. This is a big help for those using resource intensive plugins and huge sessions,. It's probably a big help too to those with CPUs that aren't great at multi-threaded work?

@bluecataudio 5 ай бұрын

Well it is actually a plug-in to send/receive audio or MIDI between apps or computers. It's just that combined with PatchWork you can indeed use it for this purpose.

@MattStevens9824 5 ай бұрын

@@bluecataudioMIDI too!? That's cool! May I ask a question? Let's say I arm a track on a DAW which doesn't support MIDI (like Fairlight, Audacity, and Adobe Audition) will I be able to send MIDI or audio output using this on the track armed for recording from a separate computer that has Cubase/Ableton? Thanks!

@bluecataudio 5 ай бұрын

If the DAW does not support MIDI I am afraid it will not be able to do anything with it. However if you want to control a virtual instrument, you can load both Connector and the Instrument inside the PatchWork and control the instrument remotely from Cubase, as PatchWork knows how to route MIDI between plug-ins. @@MattStevens9824

@MattStevens9824 5 ай бұрын

@@bluecataudioThank you bluecataudio! A mighty useful plugin! Thank you for developing this.

@timsamsung3736 Жыл бұрын

Amazing, just WoW 😲😲😲 Please do tutorial on Windows machines

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

It is not very different on Windows machines: it just works the same way!

@dayzaudio 4 ай бұрын

Latency wise with this or even as Localhost in the same computer... This is a really great example when its your entire mix bus and all audio flowing out and back in and monitoring only that vs putting connector in as an insert on just a track or bus, because even if in this example... Turn that thru up and it will be delayed - so why wasn't that covered in this video?? I have a support ticket out on this currently, but no on explains it, not even the manual :-(

@zee6115 Жыл бұрын

Can you make a video for a windows setup? and do you need patchwork to setup everything fully?

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

On Windows the setup is exactly the same (except that you can use machine names instead of IP addresses). PatchWork is indeed required if you want to run a processing server as demonstrated here.

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

@@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios Exact same place. Either Edit menu/ Audio/MIDI Preferences or CTRL+P shortcut

@alxbarajas Жыл бұрын

I'm checking your demo and I managed to send midi signals from another computer, only I couldn't send MPE signals as pitch per note, in my daw (bitwig), turn on the MPE function, I'm missing something or it doesn't have the ability to send MPE signals along with midi signals, thanks.

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

Hello Alejandro, Thanks for your comment. Can you please log a support call on our webpage? www.bluecataudio.com/Support/Home/ It is impossible to do proper customer support through KZfaq comments. Thanks.

@davidefant3045 Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Finally. :) Are the computer IP every time the same therefore sessions with this system are perfectly recallable or do IP changes sometime and do we have to re-set them accordingly? (Speaking of Mac).

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

It depends on your setup. If the network is properly set (either with fixed IP or DHCP reservation), IP addresses should remain the same. You can even recall PatchWork presets remotely using MIDI Bank Select and program change messages.

@davidefant3045 Жыл бұрын

@@bluecataudio Thanks! Great to know.

@MisticDW Жыл бұрын

Do you have to control the plugin via the server's keyboard, mouse & screen? can you still use automation?

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

Yes there is no built-in remote control access. You can send MIDI data to control the PatchWork instance directly. It behaves just like external physical gear.

@th3soundmachinz Жыл бұрын

Can you guys please please make a asymmetrical distortion plug-in that's like the Clip Distortion from Logic Pro or Distroyer Plug-in from Cubase? I always wanted an asymmetrical distortion like this so that I can make hardstyle kicks and other buzzy basses in my projects. I would really like to use a plugin like the Clip Distortion or the Distroyer in my DAW. It would be awesome if you guys made a plugin like this 😊

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

Have you ever checked out Blue Cat's Destructor? It's the ultimate tool to build your own clipping/distortion, including of course asymmetrical www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_Destructor/

@th3soundmachinz Жыл бұрын

@@bluecataudio Wow that looks like it can work. I might check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!

@djkurtstudio Жыл бұрын

@@th3soundmachinz Better than 'Trash' for Hardstyle kicks!

@th3soundmachinz Жыл бұрын

@@djkurtstudio Is it really!? I still sadly havent tried it yet but I will. What is better about it compared to iZotope Trash 2?

@Theodora-ik1xy 11 ай бұрын

I have a simple sound card, it is not suitable for loopback.. Is this software suitable so that I can loop back the output in Cubase and record the sound? So .. If I open an audio track that I effect with, for example, a reverb, then open another audio track below it, and start playback here and record the previous track in real-time (that is, everything that can be heard on the main output) ??

@bluecataudio 10 ай бұрын

I think it should indeed work. To record you will however have to use an aux bus with the plug-in on it (as receiver) and us this aux bus as input for the recording track.

@BestAIRapmusic Жыл бұрын

is it possible to control the server patchwork plugins via the main computer?

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

Yes, that's possible if you use MIDI to control the PatchWork server remotely. PatchWork supports MIDI CC or MIDI Bank Select and Program change messages.

@GTSongwriter 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if it runs on a Debian server? Like if I can run on a VPS Debian server? I could easily setup several VPS servers and have a ton of processing power using multiple internet computers is that was possible?

@bluecataudio 10 ай бұрын

I cannot say for sure, but it usually runs fine under Linux using WINE.

@MagikPete Жыл бұрын

How does this work with multiple instances / plugins in Patchwork Standalone on the remote machine? Allow me to go down the rabbit hole: In trying, It seems like the virtual connection is a single 2 channel device only. If you startup multiple instances, then the port adjustments affect all instances. The only workaround I can think of is running patchwork starting with the FULL preset and the adding a separate connector set in the First and Last slot of the parallel chains. Perhaps there is an easier way I'm missing? Maybe setting up individual Patchwork chains in a VST3 and then importing those into Patchwork standalone? Ultimately it would be great if you set the I/O on network audio mode each to a different port number (or just map them sequentially from a starting port number for easy routing). Then all the internal routing would basically be the same as using a direct ASIO link, but with connector ports. I'm thinking of a use case where, basically, you could setup 8 reverb/delays at the same time coming in/out on different connectors. It seems like patchwork should be able to handle this multi I/O with ease.

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

Using parallel chains wit separate COnnectors is indeed the way to go if you want to process several streams in parallel. There are more details about this here: www.bluecataudio.com/Blog/tip-of-the-day/offloading-plug-ins-processing-to-another-computer/

@MagikPete Жыл бұрын

@@bluecataudio Ah, right on. That's exactly what I had in mind.

@andrewventham 6 ай бұрын

Why does wifi have to be off?

@bluecataudio 5 ай бұрын

Just to avoid using the WiFi connection by mistake... You want to make sure you use the wired connection here, or the latency will be much larger.

@joakimjocka8022 Жыл бұрын

Is there minimum spec requirements on server side?

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

No, it really depends on the number of plug-ins you want to use and the latency that you are expecting

@pakipoli4895 Жыл бұрын

hi from italy. But it need of two sound card ?

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

No, in fact if the sound you are working on is already on a computer you don't need an audio interface except for monitoring what you do (which can be done through the headphone output of your computer).

@pakipoli4895 Жыл бұрын

Hi ... I have a laptop on which I have installed Cubase 12 daw with various vst and plug-ins and I have connected a server pc with a Vst orchestra which needs a lot of ram. How can I manage the vst orchestra on my slave server from my lap top? Do I have to install Cubase on the slave server as well? Thank you

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

@@pakipoli4895 I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do in details, but you should get in touch with support with as many details as possible so that we can help! www.bluecataudio.com/Support/HelpDesk/

@timsamsung3736 Жыл бұрын

Thtee questions: 1) can connect synchronize two DAW's on two computers? 2) if one computer plays project and I want to play a VSTi synth on another computer will there be a big latency or not? 3) Can I write from one computer's DAW to another DAW on another computer though connect? (live)

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

Synchronization is not possible because unfortunately a plug-in is not able to send sync signals to a DAW. You could however do it via MIDI but that's an extra cable... The latency depends on the network and the DAW settings, we have an article about how to optimize this in the support. But yes there will be some latency. You can definitely record in another DAW, as shown in our other video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNhnp8hqzeDHhqc.html

@timsamsung3736 Жыл бұрын

@@bluecataudio is there any plans to make Connect to be able to send sync signals to DAW? PS. you said about midi and extra cable. What do you mean and how to do it?

@bluecataudio Жыл бұрын

@@timsamsung3736 Unfortunately this is a limitation on how plug-ins works. For MIDI you can sync up DAWs in general using MIDI, so you would simply need a MIDI cable to connect the output of your MIDI interface back to the input and make sure that one DAW is send MIDI sync messages to the other via this MIDI interface

@deepsynth3495 6 ай бұрын

@@bluecataudio FYI i have been playing with this in Ableton, if you open two instances of ableton on the same computer you can use ableton link to sync them and it works pretty flawlessly. love your plugins man.

@bluecataudio 6 ай бұрын

@@deepsynth3495 do you mean you transfer audio between them thru connector and use link for sync?