I made a BLDS plugin

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I’m a playback tech using DirectOut interfaces, and I got bored of choosing between doing the dance with separate BLDS WAV tracks for A and B machines, or using a sine wave and having milliseconds of failover time, so I built a plugin for it.

It currently runs on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) as a VST3, AU, or standalone app.

Using it is simple - just send it to your tone track and that’s it. All you have to do is run the DAW session on the Main machine first, and that’s it.

It runs constantly, in any sample rate/bit depth without any settings or intervention, and takes almost no processing power. The only time it fails over is if there is a glitch.

I thought it’d be useful for some of you out there, as it has been for me. I’ve been using it for a month or so out on the road and it’s been great (Our MD was very excited).

I also have a Windows version, as well as an AAX version in the pipeline coming as upgrades in the future.

You can find it on my website (if this is not ok Mods, please let me know and I’ll edit this post)

Hope this makes someone’s day a little easier.

DISCLAIMER - BLDS, EARS, and DirectOut are trademarks or product names of DirectOut GmbH. This plugin is an independent product developed by a third party and is neither affiliated with, endorsed by, nor supported by DirectOut GmbH. These names are used solely to describe technical compatibility.

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Hey, thanks so much — it looks great!

By the way, have you checked how looping individual sections works within AbleSet? I was having issues with dropouts whenever playback looped back to the beginning of the section while using a standard BLDS file.

Thanks in advance!

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Thank you!

Yeah, the plugin works in looped sections (we have a few in the set), unless you’re getting high CPU spikes (above 100%), which makes sense as that means you’ve dropped some samples.

The WAV file will never work properly in a loop (it might sometimes by accident) because of the way the tone works - it will disrupt the order of the tone and cause the DirectOut to think the signal has dropped.

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Hey @neo_nmik, that looks like a cool product, thanks for sharing! I’m sure that many DirectOut users will find it helpful :slight_smile:

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Tester it at the concert and everything works great. Thanks a lot once again!

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Great to hear! Glad you like it. Appreciate you purchasing it!

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