Blue Cat's Axiom 1.6 released (not a deal)

[TheSteven]

Dear Customer,

We are happy to announce the release of Blue Cat's Axiom 1.6, with a new multicore processing engine, Apple M1 support, a new looper plug-in, new delays, compression and distortion pedals, new MIDI control features and much more (full change list below).

This is a free update that you can download from the same location as the original full version (you may have to refresh the web page):

Download Blue Cat's Axiom 1.6

New Features & Improvements:

• Up to 5 times more processing power with the new multicore engine that processes each channel and each tool on a separate core.
• Multicore engine also available for the built-in Late Replies plug-in (Pattern module).
• Improved Tone Maps navigation, with updated user interface (for amp simulation and 9 built-in effects).
• Includes Destructor 1.6 and Late Replies 1.5.
• Updated all 452 factory presets with appropriate drive range for all simulated amps.
• New built-in looper plug-in (in the "Utils" category).
• New built-in distortion and dynamics pedals based on Destructor with new pedal GUI.
• New built-in delay models based on Late Replies 1.5 with new "EZ mode" GUI.
• New DSP workload meter that displays the DSP activity and CPU load.
• Added MIDI control support (MIDI CC messages) for Next and Previous Preset commands, with MIDI learn.
• Improved MIDI & automation control settings with lock, reset and "save as global setting" capabilities.
• Tap Tempo with MIDI CC to set BPM in the application with a footswitch.
• Lock effects bypass switches to match the state of MIDI foot controllers when changing presets.
• Preset files can now be dropped onto the preset LCD area to be loaded.
• Improved buffer management in standalone application on Mac, reducing both latency and CPU usage.
• Level meters, spectrum analyzers and tuner stop processing when the user interface is closed, reducing CPU usage.
• reverted default preset to empty preset to improv performance upon load (the preset is still available as "Default Clean")
• Reduced time to load Axiom or any built-in plug-in.
• Multiple DSP performance improvements.
• Reduced the number of threads used by the plug-in.
• Improved global and preset settings window loading time on Windows.
• Added ability to select the plug-in to load when a shell plug-in file is dragged and dropped onto a slot.
• Full unicode support.

Compatibility:

• Native Apple Silicon (M1 processor) support.
• Dropped 32-bit support on Mac.
• Now requires MacOS 10.9 and newer.

Fixes:

• Fixed standalone app not always asking for Microphone access on most recent MacOS systems.
• Fixed host loop end value not properly passed to hosted plug-ins, for the VST2 version.
• Fixed several crashes upon load for multiple third party plug-ins (mostly VST3).
• Fixed display issues with Waves plug-ins V12 in Mac standalone application.
• Fixed MIDI control for hosted plug-ins not always working when fed with silence.
• Fixed VST3 (and sometimes VST) version freezing Ableton Live upon save on Windows.
• Fixed harmonizer and Pitch Shifter built-in plug-ins that did not always flush their buffer upon bypass (short sounds could be heard when getting out of bypass)

Enjoy!

Edited June 29, 2021 by TheSteven