Blue Cat Audio MB-5 Dynamix

Blue Cat Audio has released its new MB-5 Dynamix multiband dynamics processor with five independent processors, cross-band side chaining capabilities, and more.

MB-5 Dynamix is the company’s first plugin to support the 64-bit VST format on Mac.

MB-5 Dynamix can be used as a multiband compressor, limiter, gate, expander, waveshaper, or all of the above at the same time on any part of the spectrum, Blue Cat says. According to the manufacturer, the dynamics processing section of the new plugin has been streamlined and integrated to process each one of the five bands separately.

MB-5 Dynamix features at a glance:

Multiband dynamics processor with compressor, gate, limiter, expander, waveshaper
Up to 5 bands, with crossover filters from 6 to 60 dB / Oct for separation
Envelope routing capability for crossband dynamics effects (one band may trigger another)
Dry / Wet control for parallel processing (“New York Compression”)
Stereo or mid-side processing with multiple channels linking options
Post brickwall limiter or waveshaper
Complete Visual feedback with real-time response curves and levels display
Copy / paste settings between bands
Side chaining made easy: a different way to perform multi-band side chain compression, ducking, gating, and more
Plugin window transparency management
No latency

The new release is available as a single plugin, as part of Blue Cat Audio’s Master Pack and All Plugins Pack bundles, or as part of the Energy Pack dynamics plugins package.

Pricing & Availability

On its own, MB-5 Dynamix is available at the introductory price of $239. The bundles that include it are also on sale (up to 20 percent off) until the end of September, 2010. For more details, please visit bluecataudio.com.