Blue Cat Audio has introduced PatchWork, a new plug-in that they describe as a ‘universal plug-ins patchbay’.

With this plug-in, you can build your own channel strips and effect chains, save them as presets and share them between your DAWs.

Here’s what they have to say about PatchWork:

It is possible to chain effects in series or create up to 8 parallel chains that can be activated independently. This lets you create your favorite effects or instruments configurations within the plug-in, without the need for multiple busses. These configurations can be saved as presets and recalled instantly, or shared with multiple DAWs, using any plug-in format.

Available as: Mac-AAX, Mac-AU, Mac-RTAS, Mac-VST, Win-AAX, Win-DX, Win-RTAS, Win-VST, Win x64-AAX, Win x64-DX, Win x64-VST.

Features:

• Configurable VST plug-ins rack: host up to 64 third party plug-ins or instruments in series or parallel.
• Available as an effect or virtual instrument.
• Build your own effects chains: up to 8 “pre” and “post” plug-ins slots to chain plug-ins in series.
• Parallel processing made easy: up to 8 parallel plug-ins chains.
• Host up to 8 virtual instruments in parallel and mix them within the plug-in.
• Global Dry/Wet control (“Mix”).
• Copy and paste plug-ins with their settings between slots.
• Recall complex processing setups and plug-ins layouts with one click and share them between your DAWs.
• Input and output levels monitoring.
• Plug-ins Latency compensation.
• Integrated undo/redo.
• Fully configurable user interface, with multiple sizes.

PatchWork is priced at US 79/59 Euro. A special introduction offer (20% off) is available until December 31st. Also, existing Blue Cat Audio customers are granted a larger discount (40% off). See the site for details.