Blue Cat Hot Tuna

Blue Cat Hot Tuna - v1.21 | The Essential Precision Tuning Tool for Live Performances and Studio

Flawless Pitch Accuracy, Stable and Reliable from Now On

Blue Cat's Hot Tuna is a high-precision chromatic tuner plugin designed for musicians who demand extreme pitch accuracy. Whether you're on a noisy live stage or in a demanding studio environment, Hot Tuna provides a fast, accurate, and visually clear tuning experience. It's not just a simple tool, but a reliable partner that ensures you stay in optimal condition for every performance. The core advantage of this guitar tuner plugin lies in its unique "Dim" and "Mute" functions, allowing you to instantly lower or mute the volume during tuning, preventing unpleasant tuning sounds from being output to the audience. Additionally, its adjustable reference frequency enables it to handle various non-standard tunings, making it an indispensable effects plugin in modern music production workflows.

Hot Tuna's design philosophy is simple and efficient, with most computations running in the background to ensure minimal impact on your DAW host's real-time audio engine performance when enabled. For users seeking workflow integration, this plugin is also built into Blue Cat's Axiom multi-effects processor. With its excellent stability, extremely low CPU usage, and support for all major plugin formats, Hot Tuna has become a trusted precision tuning solution for countless guitarists, bassists, and producers.

Product Features

• High-Precision Chromatic Tuning: Provides fast and extremely accurate pitch detection, displaying the deviation from perfect pitch in "Cents" for professional-grade fine-tuning.
• Live Performance Optimization: Features unique signal attenuation (Dim) or mute functions, allowing one-click volume control during tuning to prevent tuning sounds from being sent to the PA system.
• Adjustable Reference Frequency: Supports reference pitch adjustment from 430 Hz to 450 Hz, perfectly adapting to various special tunings or ensemble needs with non-standard pitched instruments.
• Extreme CPU Efficiency: When no audio input is detected, the processing automatically shuts down, achieving true zero CPU load and being extremely friendly to your system resources.
• Full MIDI Control: All parameters support full MIDI control and automation, including MIDI Learn functionality for easy integration with your hardware controllers.
• Customizable User Interface: Supports interface scaling and transparency adjustment, ensuring a clear and comfortable visual experience on screens of any resolution.
• Smooth Bypass: No pops or noise when enabling or disabling the plugin, ensuring seamless audio switching.
• Built-in Preset Manager: A full-featured preset management system allows you to easily save, load, and copy/paste plugin states between different instances.
• Extensive Format Support: Available in multiple plugin formats such as VST, VST3, AU, AAX, compatible with all major Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) on the market.

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