Blue Cats Connector v1.0 VST2 VST3 AAX x64-Articstorm-bobdule

The first thing I thought of was "does this mean I can finally use the Vocoder V plugin in Studio One?" because there is no MIDI out. I guess you're answering the question by saying I'd need to use the standalone app.

Hopefully version 6 finally supports midi out, so I don't have to route things like this.

I tried only the APP and the localhost variant (no second PC here :( ), both were quite stable. Localhost of course had dropouts, when CPU was under load, but otherwise it just works and opens so many cool creative doors now. I like this concept so much more then the rewire one? (But i guess rewire was maybe more stable? Idk ...) I am wondering why nobody else has thought of this before?

So yeah if you find it useful, maybe support BC. But you know that already.

I've used it between windows and mac machines, it works, but requires some very convoluted setups to get around limitations of how it's seen by hosts (they don't provide a version that is seen as VSTi, and the AU midi FX version simply doesn't work at all), if I set buffer size to about 2000-4000 then it works moderately well depending on other network traffic (running over 1000baseT)

by moderately well I mean that it'll tend to work, buffers will keep green, as long as I play fairly conservatively and with small note counts, as the complexity increases then it will tend to start to drop out at about 6-note chords or fast playing. From a theoretical point of view there's no real reason why this should happen, the major bottleneck is audio, and audio of 1 note in a single mono stream is the same amount of data as the audio of 4 notes in a single mono stream.

If it encounters any network lag though, it seems to have a 50:50 chance of disconnecting the hosts, and requiring that the plugins be reloaded at each end.

I did find that using rtpMidi outside of Connector, and ignoring the midi functionality in Connector and just using it for audio, worked a little more reliably, but not a lot, and again that's adding extra complexity into the way the plugins have to be setup on each host

Maybe Windows Firewall is blocking it? Make an exception for your DAW... hmmm, then again some plugins need to be blocked from Internet access, but you can do that via hosts file editing. My hosts file has gotten rather hefty since I don't use Windows Firewall, just one in the router, properly configured.

Why would i want to do that? Lets say you want to connect Logic and Ableton, bcs logic has something Ableton doesnt have, How useful would be Reason in this whole play?

Of course. You need a Windows/Mac version on a PC and a Mac/Windows version on the Mac PC, so all depending on the systems you're using.