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Is this a familiar picture? Cables lead from a microphone input into a small digital effect. More cables connect the effect to a mixer. Elsewhere, a MIDI cable links a MIDI input to a synthesizer, which is in turn connected to a mixer. Old hat, right? Now, imagine this: the same single output socket sprouting no less than eight different cables connecting eight different effects.

It gets better: A sound is broken down into 256 individual bands, then each is tweaked one at a time in a unique way. As he performs, a musician decides to add an LFO to a synth's filter cutoff knob, where no LFO existed before. Sound crazy? Not anymore. The new paradigm of computer audio can be summed up in two words: "real-time" and "modular" ? both of which are embodied by one application...

Plogue Bidule application was designed by the Plogue audio/DSP programmers and is intented to be an audio mixer/syntesizer

Some features:

· Realtime Audio/MIDI/Spectral processing
· Completely modular architecture
· Runs as VST/AU plugin or standalone
· Runs as ReWire mixer or device
· Runs as OSC client and server
· VST/AU instruments and effects hosting
· Building blocks for FX/inst creation
· More than a 100 ready-to-use modules
· Supports multiple tempos at once
· Inter-module parameter linking
· Zoomable OpenGL-based canvas
· Multi-channel audio file streaming
· ASIO/CoreAudio low-latency support
· Offline mode (rendering) available
· Uses 32-bit precision throughout
· Online catalog of ready-made groups