Blue Cat's Connector: Audio and MIDI Routing Plugin by Blue Cat Audio Free Download

Connector is built around routing. Insert it on a track in one application and a matching instance on another track or machine, and the signal travels between them in real time. Each connection can carry audio and MIDI, and a single instance can send audio and MIDI out and receive them back.

This makes it useful for splitting a session across machines, sending a sound from one plugin host into another, or building a chain that loops back on itself. Feedback loops are allowed inside your DAW, which most hosts do not permit with ordinary plugins.

Because the plugin works across different sample rates and unsynchronized master clocks, you can connect locations that were not designed to talk to each other without manually matching their settings.

Connector gives you direct control over buffering, so you can trade latency against stability for each connection. Lower buffer settings reduce delay, and the developer notes that a single-application setup can reach 0 samples of latency.

Built-in resampling lets one connection carry multiple sampling rates, and drift compensation keeps streams aligned when the clocks of two machines run at slightly different speeds. These features matter most when you stream between separate computers, where clock drift and rate differences are otherwise hard to avoid.

Connector suits producers and engineers who run several applications or computers in one setup, and anyone who wants feedback routing that a standard DAW does not allow. Each machine needs a compatible host that accepts VST, Audio Unit or AAX plugins.

On Windows, the requirements listed are an SSE2-enabled processor, Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10, and a VST or AAX compatible host in 32 or 64 bit. On macOS, an Intel or Apple Silicon processor and Mac OS 10.9 or newer are required, along with a 64-bit VST, Audio Unit or AAX compatible application.