Meet Blue Cat's Axiom: your versatile and open multi effects and amp simulation software for guitar and bass. Derived from the acclaimed Destructor plug-in for amp simulations, Axiom offers an infinite number of exceptional tones to enhance your musical expression with your axe.

In essence, Axiom caters to a wide range of musical scenarios, from recording and performance to sound design and experimentation. It empowers musicians, producers, and sound enthusiasts to achieve their sonic aspirations by combining realistic amp simulations, a wide array of effects, and the freedom to integrate their preferred plug-ins in any format. Whether you are in the studio crafting a masterpiece or on stage delivering a captivating live performance, Axiom is your go-to solution for pushing the boundaries of guitar and bass sound.

Axiom indeed offers a world of sonic possibilities thanks to its distinctive structure and signal flow:

• Two versatile amp simulation channels, each with pre and post effects, blend seamlessly for a lifelike amp experience.
• Discover unique amp simulation, offering exceptional tone, an authentic playing feel, and unrivaled tweaking capabilities for full control over your sound.
• Customize your tone with hundreds of presets or dive into the amp editor for complete control.
• Fine-tune your sound with additional input and master sections, boasting 4 effect slots each, and a built-in high-precision tuner.
• Safeguard your output with a brickwall limiter to prevent overshoot.

But that's merely the starting point. Axiom extends further, offering boundless potential for effects and creativity:

• Over 100 built-in effects, including creative delays, reverbs, distortion & fuzz pedals, modulation fx, wah and more.
• Unleash your inner pedal wizard and create your own: dive into creative delays and reverbs with the built-in version of Late Replies, sculpt your signature distortions, filters, and compressors with Destructor, and transform your pickups on the fly or refine acoustic guitar tones effortlessly with Re-Guitar!
• Seamless integration with third-party Audio Unit, VST, and VST3 plug-ins, expanding your sonic arsenal indefinitely.
• Enhance your performance with virtual instruments in the tools section, like metronomes, drum machines, sequencers, synthesizers, or the built-in audio player.

Axiom stands as your all-in-one solution, featuring an extensive library of hundreds of full-rig presets for both electric and acoustic guitar and bass. When used as an application, you can effortlessly play over backing tracks and record your performance with a single click.

If you are in search of amp simulation software without the effects, check out our Destructor plug-in. For a plug-in host & multi-effects processor without amp simulation, explore Blue Cat's PatchWork.

Blue Cat Audio Standards:

• Available as a standalone application and in most plug-in formats for Mac and Windows.
• Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn.
• No CPU load on idle: processing shuts down when fed with silence (optimal CPU usage).
• Customizable user interface with transparency & zoom.
• Smooth Bypass: noiseless plug-in activation / deactivation.
• Undo/Redo.
• Full featured integrated presets manager.
• Copy/paste the state of the plug-in between instances.
• Any sample rate supported.

Version 2.2

• Updated Miaow Wah built-in plug-in: new LFO to modulate the Wah's filter (with host sync option), new presets with modulation effects, custom colors support.
• New factory presets illustrating the new Wah plug-in modes.
• Select which plug-ins appear in the EZ view pedalboard and streamline your pedalboard when using many effects.
• New built-in phase flip plug-in.
• Synchronize application transport & bpm with other devices/software with MIDI Clock and/or MIDI Timecode (MTC). Both Send and Receive supported.
• Synchronize recording and backing track playback.
• Both plug-ins and application now support SysEx MIDI events.
• Reported latency is now displayed in the status bar (bottom right).
• New MIDI Loopback port to route MIDI events from hosted plug-ins back to Axiom's input.
• New "learn once" mode for both MIDI and macro controls.
• App can now receive and send MIDI even when no audio interface is selected.
• Plug-in and App can now send Bank Select and Program Change messages upon changes in the user interface to keep in sync with external controller.
• Find currently selected preset easily in the menu (folders containing the preset now display a check mark).
• Show current preset in Finder/Windows Explorer.
• Added an option to cycle next/previous preset in current bank.
• Application: it is now possible to adjust compression settings and activate UpnP for the Connector Slave network Audio Device.
• Application now reports plug-ins latency when running in network mode.
• Plug-in bypass now follows plug-in upon drag and drop.
• Improved performance of VST3 plug-in and VST3 host when receiving program change messages.
• Minor knobs graphics changes.
• Fixed Audio Player not properly syncing its playback position when resampling.
• Fixed plug-in slot bypass reset upon plug-in removal.
• Fixed a crash in the params map editor upon GUI load in some rare cases.
• Fixed plug-in slots display issue on MacOS 10.10.
• Fixed crash in app when showing MIDI devices with names using unicode characters.
• Fixed CPU meter display sometimes off by one pixel.
• Fixed Audio Unit registration issues in Logic and GarageBand after using the demo version.