New Miaow Wah Plug-In, Axiom Guitar Processor Update & Guitar Month Deals

Dear Gear Addicts,

We are happy to announce Blue Cat's Miaow Wah 1.0, a new "augmented" Wah pedal simulation plug-in, as well as Axiom 2.2, a free update for our flagship multi-effects processor for guitar and bass.

Originally available only as a built-in plug-in inside the Axiom guitar software, Miaow Wah has grown up and is now available as an independent plug-in, with a new LFO mode, new presets and customization features. It is now capable of a wide range of filtering and modulation effects in addition to traditional Wah pedals simulations.

The plug-in includes a wide variety of predefined Wah models inspired by legendary pedals, which can be controlled manually with an expression pedal, or can be triggered automatically with a built-in envelope follower (auto Wah) or an LFO that can be synced to your DAW. The plug-in makes it easy to create your own Wah pedals or filtering effects from factory presets with the built-in Tone Maps browser or the Wah editor.

At this occasion, the Axiom guitar effects processor and amp simulation software has been updated. The new release not only includes the new Miaow Wah plug-in as a built-in effect with new presets to get the best out of it, but also many improvements and fixes to enhance the overall Axiom experience (full changelist below).

To celebrate the release, the "Guitar Month" has been launched on our website, with special offers on our guitar-related software and plug-ins, with up to 25% discount, until July 31st. Existing customers will receive an even more attractive offer via email. Demo versions in most common plug-in formats for Mac and PC are available for download on www.bluecataudio.com.

Miaow Wah Plug-In Main Features:

- Augmented Wah pedal simulator.

- Use one of the 29 predefined classic Wah models or build your own.

- Control the filter with an expression pedal, the signal envelope (auto) or an LFO.

- Built-in Wah editor to create custom filters.

- Capable of flangy tones, univibes, phasing effects, filtered tremolos and more.

- Find new tones easily with the Tone Maps explorer.

- Sync the LFO with the host application.

- Includes more than 200 presets with many types of effects.

What's New in Axiom 2.2:

- Updated Miaow Wah built-in plug-in: new LFO to modulate the Wah's filter (with host sync option), new presets with modulation effects, custom colors support.

- New factory presets illustrating the new Wah plug-in modes.

- Select which plug-ins appear in the EZ view pedalboard and streamline your pedalboard when using many effects.

- New built-in phase flip plug-in.

- Synchronize application transport & bpm with other devices/software with MIDI Clock and/or MIDI Timecode (MTC). Both Send and Receive supported.

- Synchronize recording and backing track playback.

- Both plug-ins and application now support SysEx MIDI events.

- Reported latency is now displayed in the status bar (bottom right).

- New MIDI Loopback port to route MIDI events from hosted plug-ins back to Axiom's input.

- New "learn once" mode for both MIDI and macro controls.

- App can now receive and send MIDI even when no audio interface is selected.

- Plug-in and App can now send Bank Select and Program Change messages upon changes in the user interface to keep in sync with external controller.

- Find currently selected preset easily in the menu (folders containing the preset now display a check mark).

- Show current preset in Finder/Windows Explorer.

- Added an option to cycle next/previous preset in current bank.

- Application: it is now possible to adjust compression settings and activate UpnP for the Connector Slave network Audio Device.

- Application now reports plug-ins latency when running in network mode.

- Plug-in bypass now follows plug-in upon drag and drop.

- Improved performance of VST3 plug-in and VST3 host when receiving program change messages.

- Minor knobs graphics changes.

- Fixed Audio Player not properly syncing its playback position when resampling.

- Fixed plug-in slot bypass reset upon plug-in removal.

- Fixed a crash in the params map editor upon GUI load in some rare cases.

- Fixed plug-in slots display issue on MacOS 10.10.

- Fixed crash in app when showing MIDI devices with names using unicode characters.

- Fixed CPU meter display sometimes off by one pixel.

- Fixed Audio Unit registration issues in Logic and GarageBand after using the demo version.

System requirements:

- Apple Silicon or Intel Mac running Mac OS 10.9 or newer.

- PC running Windows Vista or newer.

Introduction Price until July 31st:

- Blue Cat's Miaow Wah: 23 USD/EUR (instead of 29)

- Blue Cat's Axiom: 199 USD/EUR (instead of 249)

- Guitar Month Deals: check them out!

Enjoy!:rockout: