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Blue Cat's Protector is a 0dB stereo brickwall limiter with adjustable dynamics response. It will typically find its place on the master bus of your DAW to protect your audio output from overshoot, limit the general volume and improve the perceived loudness, thanks to a very transparent frequency response.

Despite its very simple set of controls, it offers a wide range of sounds and it is also suitable as a track limiter for more creative effects such as distortion, pumping or heavy limiting.

Beyond its powerful dynamics processing features, and like most of our plugins, Blue Cat's Protector also offers a powerful side chain capability thanks to its MIDI CC output. This unique technique not only lets you do side chain limiting but also parameters modulation: control any parameter of any plugin to create powerful side chain effects in real time.

Main Features:

0 dB brickwall peak limiter and waveshaper.
Continuous control of the dynamics response from transparent limiting to colorful distortion.
Stereo link control.
Large audio levels and gain reduction meters for optimal monitoring.
Side chaining capability: a unique way to perform side chain compression and much more.
Plugin window transparency management.
No latency.

Blue Cat Audio Standards:

Available as: Mac-AU, Mac-RTAS, Mac-VST, Win-DX, Win-RTAS, Win-VST, Win x64-DX, Win x64-VST.
Native DSP code for optimal performance.
Skinnable user interface.
Smooth Update: silent, zipper-free parameters update.
Full automation support.
No CPU load on idle: when the plug-in is fed with silence, the processing smoothly shuts down, to optimize the CPU usage of your Digital Audio Workstation.
Real time MIDI control with advanced settings and MIDI learn.
Automation and MIDI output: record output parameters as automation curves or send MIDI CC messages to other plug-ins for powerful side chain effects.
Smooth Bypass: activate/deactivate the plug-in with absolutely no noise.
Undo/Redo.
Import/Export presets in a host independent format.
Any sample rate supported.