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Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual
"One guitar, an infinite number of tones"
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Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual
Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio

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  • Page 1 Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual "One guitar, an infinite number of tones" Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Description Features System Requirements Installation First Launch Using Blue Cat's Re- Guitar The User Interface Operation Blue Cat Audio Plug- ins Basics User Interface Basics Controls Keyboard Mouse Presets Management MIDI & Automation Control More Blue Cat's Re- Guitar Parameters...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    This plug- in is also available as a built- in effect inside Blue Cat's Axiom, the multi effects processor for guitar and bass. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 4: Features

    For more information about supported platforms, see our FAQ. Demo Limitations One single instance of the plug- in per session. The plug- in is regularly bypassed for a few seconds. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 5: Installation

    ~/ Library/ Preferences/ Blue Cat Audio/ [Plug- in name]: license information ~/ Documents/ Blue Cat Audio/ [Plug- in name]: user data, such as presets, additional skins and user- created plug- in data. Please be aware that these directories may contain user data that you have created. Remove these directories only if you do not want to reuse this data later.

  • Page 6: Using Blue Cat's Re- Guitar

    Using Blue Cat's Re- Guitar The User Interface Note: The main toolbar, menus and basic features available with all our plug- ins are detailed in the Blue Cat Audio Plug- ins Basics section. Main Components The main toolbar, for bypass, general plug- in functions and presets management (described later in the manual).
  • Page 7 Right click on the background to unzoom. Locks Several locks are available to prevent changes while loading presets: when the lock is active, loading presets will not change Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...
  • Page 8 The various elements of the user interface (knobs, sliders, buttons...) are simple and intuitive to operate, but more information about how to interact with them is available in the "Plug- ins Basics" chapter of this manual. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 9: Operation

    Select the virtual pickup that corresponds to the pickup in use on your guitar (the closest model). Adjust gain and brightness until your guitar sounds similar with or without the plug- in (turn the plug- in on and off using the bypass button). Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...
  • Page 10 AC Small: tiny acoustic guitar. Tip: you can place an EQ after the acoustic simulation to adjust the tone, like you would do with a real acoustic instrument. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...
  • Page 11 DAW to follow the performance, or controlled with a foot controller in live situations, in order to keep the fingers on the strings. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 12: Blue Cat Audio Plug- Ins Basics

    User Interface Basics About Skins Like all Blue Cat Audio plug- ins, Blue Cat's Re- Guitar uses a skinnable user interface. It means that the appearance and behavior of the user interface can be entirely customized. Especially with third party skins, the experience may be quite different from the one offered by the default skins that we provide.

  • Page 13: Controls

    In the default skins delivered with the plug- in, the cursor changes to a small hand or an arrow to tell you when your mouse is over an active control. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 14: Mouse

    Our plug- ins propose a full- featured preset manager to let you save, browse, organize and recall its presets. The Presets Menu Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...
  • Page 15 The user presets are stored in a subdirectory of the documents folders of your profile ("Documents" on Mac, and "My Documents" on Windows): Blue Cat Audio/ [Plug- in Name]/ Presets. Each preset is stored as an individual file. You can create folders and subfolders in the Presets directory to classify your presets, as shown in the example below: If you save a preset named "Default"...

  • Page 16: Midi & Automation Control

    Most skins also provide the ability to change MIDI and automation settings for each parameter directly in the main user interface. When this feature is activated using the corresponding toolbarbutton, dropdown menu buttons appears next to main controls: Clicking on this button shows the MIDI/ Automation settings menu: Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 17: More

    Note: if you double click on the parameter text control boxes for the max and min values, a “fine tuning” edit box will appear and let you change the min and max values with more precision: More Check our online tutorial for more screenshots and more examples of our plug- ins user interfaces. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 18: Blue Cat's Re- Guitar Parameters

    Adjust the gain to compensate potential volume loss or increase depending on your pickups and the selected simulation. Virtual Pots Volume Guitar volume pot simulation. Tone Guitar tone pot simulation. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 19: Plug- In Settings

    Learn: click on this button to activate the MIDI learn functionality. When it is activated, you can move your MIDI controller, and the plug- in will automatically set the MIDI Channel and CC Number. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 20: The Preset Settings Window

    You can choose to use the global skin setting or to change the skin for the current preset. This way you can have different skins for different instances of the plug- in in the same session in order to differentiate them. Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...
  • Page 21 Use the global settings or override them for the current preset. The parameters are the same as for the global input settings. (generic screen shot, does not correspond to the actual plug- in parameters) Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

  • Page 22: About Skins

    To select user skins directly from the skins menu, install them in the "Skins" directory available in the plug- in's documents folder: [Your Documents Folder]/ Blue Cat Audio/ [Plugin Name]/ Skins/ The skin engine will scan this folder for new skins (xml files) and display them in the menu. The skin files should be in the root skins folder or in a subdirectory inside this folder: subdirectories are not scanned recursively.

  • Page 23: More

    YouTube channel watch the latest videos about our software. Versions History V1.0 (2019/03/15) First version Thanks again for choosing our solutions! See you soon on www.bluecataudio.com! Blue Cat's Re- Guitar User Manual Copyright (c) 2019 Blue Cat Audio...

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