Darwin's Cat

Orbit Bass Cab Builder and Orbit Guitar Cab Builder releases: the version history

This page lists the versions only: what each one added, fixed and changed, newest first. The guitar and bass plugins share one release. What the plugins themselves do is on the Orbit Bass Cab Builder and Orbit Guitar Cab Builder pages.

  1. v0.4.0

    A new TOP 12 for the guitar

    • TOP 12 in Orbit Guitar Cab Builder is different now: twelve new cabinets, nine 4x12s, as well as a 2x12, a 1x12 and a 1x10. TITAN LAKES in it is the former VENOM from Metal; the other eleven are new. The forty presets by style and the bass builder have not changed.
    macOSOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.4.0-macOS.pkg23 MB
    WindowsOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.4.0-Windows-arm64.exe8.9 MB
    OrbitBassCabBuilder-0.4.0-Windows-x64.exe8.9 MB
    LinuxOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.4.0-Linux-arm64.tar.gz11 MB
    OrbitBassCabBuilder-0.4.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz13 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS1 kB

  2. v0.3.1

    EQ right in the IR, FRED, and forty presets for each builder

    • EQ over the frequency response: a switch in the corner of the graph, HPF and LPF at the bottom with a slope of 6, 12, 24 or 48 dB per octave, and three bands. The EQ is baked into the IR itself, so DOWNLOAD IR saves exactly what you hear. The preset and the link remember it, and all older links open as before.
    • SPECTRUM under the curves: in grey what goes into the cabinet, in purple what comes out of it. It is switched on in the right-click menu.
    • FRED on the guitar, under FIND BEST POSITION: the Fredman pair in one press, two SM57s capsule to capsule at the edge of the dust cap, 2 cm from the cone, A straight on, B turned 45°. The cabinet, the speaker and the EQ stay as they were.
    • Forty presets for each builder, four styles of 10: Rock, Metal, Punk and Blues. On the guitar, Rock brings together Classic Rock and Hard Rock, Metal brings together Metal and Modern Metal, and Clean and Indie are gone. 32 of the 40 presets have the paper cone (PAPER); eight are built as Fredman pairs. TOP 12 has been put together again: the brightest and tightest from Rock, Metal and Punk. On the bass, Funk, Jazz, Modern, Motown and Reggae are gone, and Blues is new: old blues setups, a 1x15 flip-top, a 2x15, a tweed 4x10 with an open back, small combos, no tweeter, vintage mics.
    • The guitar cabinets have been checked against 27 sets of real ones: the dust cap and the coil still sound where the paper has let go, the top keeps ringing for a short while after breakup, a closed box rings in the mids and sends the rear sound back out through the cone, an open back sounds in the lows the way real open combos do. On the guitar, the frequency response line turns red at a dip of 7 dB. The typical cabinets have been set up anew, and none of them has a comb that turns red.
    • WALL with its full low end: the wall returns the whole rear sound, which is 0.2–0.8 dB at 65–120 Hz with an open and a half-closed (HALF) back. In 0.2.0 it was 1–2 dB, but there the low end of the open back sounded different too.
    • The apps no longer have the player and the riffs: the app plays the input chosen in AUDIO through the cabinet right away, and the INPUT field shows that input and opens AUDIO. The bass installer is 22 MB lighter, the guitar one 10. And the instrument is heard even if another input is still ticked next to its own: all open inputs add up.
    • On macOS the apps now install into /Applications/Darwin's Cat/, next to the amps, and the installer removes the copy of the previous release from /Applications. On Windows the shortcut has moved to the Darwin's Cat group in the Start menu. The plugins stay where they were.
    macOSOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.3.1-macOS.pkg23 MB
    WindowsOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.3.1-Windows-arm64.exe8.9 MB
    OrbitBassCabBuilder-0.3.1-Windows-x64.exe8.9 MB
    LinuxOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.3.1-Linux-arm64.tar.gz11 MB
    OrbitBassCabBuilder-0.3.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz13 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS1 kB

  3. v0.2.0

    Two plugins: Orbit Bass Cab Builder and the new Orbit Guitar Cab Builder

    • Cab IR Generator has become a plugin and is now called Orbit Bass Cab Builder. VST3, AU and CLAP: in a DAW the plugin sounds like a cabinet on its own, with no latency, in mono or stereo. The DAW project remembers registers A/B/C/D with their history and the window size, and the cabinet plays even if the window has never been opened. The app is still there, and now it comes with the plugin.
    • The new Orbit Guitar Cab Builder, for guitar: seven cabinets, six speakers by character (MID, BRIGHT, DARK, SCOOP, FLAT, SNAP) and a paper cone for each of them (PAPER), the HALF back and a wall behind an open cabinet (WALL), six mics, the E906 among them. 172 factory presets: eight styles of 20 each and TOP 12, the twelve brightest and tightest cabinets from rock, metal and punk. And 17 typical cabinets.
    • A 16:9 window: the cabinets on the left, the speaker and the mics on the right, the frequency response across the full width below them. Hovering over CAP, EDGE or OFF shows where the mic will go.
    • On the guitar, a comb above 2 kHz turns red only once it reaches 6 dB: up there it is a technique, not a fault. FIND BEST POSITION judges the same way. On the bass, everything is as it was. The “?” on the frequency response explains what a comb is and how this tool handles it.
    • BYPASS A, B, A+B: one mic or both can be switched off.
    • INPUT in the apps: a bass or a guitar plugged into an audio interface plays through the cabinet live, with no DAW.
    • The first launch under the new name carries over the settings and your own presets by itself and deletes nothing. Old links in WAVs already downloaded still open their cabinets.
    • Two files per platform, one for each plugin: an installer for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), installers for Windows x64 and ARM64, archives for Linux x86_64 and ARM64.
    macOSOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.2.0-macOS.pkg44 MB
    WindowsOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.2.0-Windows-arm64.exe20 MB
    OrbitBassCabBuilder-0.2.0-Windows-x64.exe20 MB
    LinuxOrbitBassCabBuilder-0.2.0-Linux-arm64.tar.gz21 MB
    OrbitBassCabBuilder-0.2.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz23 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS1 kB

  4. v0.1.5

    DOWNLOAD IR in the format the device accepts

    • The arrow next to DOWNLOAD IR opens a choice of formats: 44.1, 48 or 96 kHz, 24 or 16 bit, the full IR or 2048, 1024, 512 samples. This is for pedals and processors that don't convert the sample rate and don't take a long IR. The cabinet is calculated again at the chosen rate, not resampled. A shortened IR fades out smoothly at its end, the line under the button says what will be downloaded, and the choice is remembered. The usual file, 48 kHz and 24 bit at full length, stays the same, byte for byte. The generator's page has the same choice.
    • The IR packs' pictures now say “BASS CABINETS from Darwin's Cat”, and what they were made with is one line below.
    • The WAVs in the packs no longer carry the app's version, so a release in which the sound did not change leaves every file the same.
    macOSCabIrGenerator-0.1.5-macOS.dmg28 MB
    WindowsCabIrGenerator-0.1.5-Windows-arm64.zip14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.5-Windows-x64.zip14 MB
    LinuxCabIrGenerator-0.1.5-Linux-arm64.tar.gz14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz15 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS518 B

  5. v0.1.4

    Every cabinet's frequency response in the packs, packs by size, cabinets named by size

    • Each IR pack has its cabinets drawn in it. Every cabinet's frequency response is the same as on the panel: green where everything is fine and red in a dip, and with two mics there are stripes under it that show where they add up and where they cancel each other out. Above each curve are the cabinet's name and what it is: size, back, tweeter, the mics and how much of each. A click on a cabinet opens it in the generator.
    • Packs by size: next to the pack of each style there is a pack for each cabinet size, from 1x15 to 4x6, with all cabinets of that size from all styles and the typical ones. Someone with one 8x10 takes all the 8x10s at once.
    • In the pack of typical cabinets the mics are placed the same way as in the presets: first A moves off its dip, then B goes to where the pair meets without deep comb filtering. 28 of the 30 cabinets stay green; before, 17 did.
    • The cabinets are named by size and family (4x10-classic, 8x8-round), not after manufacturers' models. The sound is the same, sample for sample. A cabinet saved by the previous version under an old name is replaced by the default cabinet.
    macOSCabIrGenerator-0.1.4-macOS.dmg28 MB
    WindowsCabIrGenerator-0.1.4-Windows-arm64.zip14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.4-Windows-x64.zip14 MB
    LinuxCabIrGenerator-0.1.4-Linux-arm64.tar.gz14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.4-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz15 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS518 B

  6. v0.1.2

    A cabinet as a link, and every WAV knows where it comes from

    • A cabinet as a link. The page address with the cabinet after the # sign opens the live panel on exactly that cabinet: size, back, tweeter, both mics with their positions, BLEND, ALIGN, Ø and TIME. As the panel changes, the address changes with it, so copying the address is enough to share a cabinet.
    • Every WAV knows where it comes from. DOWNLOAD IR, the download from the page and all the files of the IR packs carry, after the audio, the cabinet's name, Darwin's Cat, the app and its version, a link that opens this cabinet on the page, and the whole cabinet as a preset, so it can be opened again straight from the file. The sound is the same, sample for sample, and a loader that does not know the rest simply skips it.
    macOSCabIrGenerator-0.1.2-macOS.dmg28 MB
    WindowsCabIrGenerator-0.1.2-Windows-arm64.zip14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.2-Windows-x64.zip14 MB
    LinuxCabIrGenerator-0.1.2-Linux-arm64.tar.gz14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz15 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS518 B

  7. v0.1.1

    Presets whose frequency response stays green

    • All 160 factory presets have new mic positions. The frequency response line turns red at a dip of 3 dB, and on many presets it did. Now a single mic stands roughly where it stood, but where the response has no dip: 69 of 80 are clean, and none dips deeper than 6 dB.
    • In a pair, first A moves off its dip, then B goes to where the mics meet without deep comb filtering: 76 of 80 pairs are clean, the other four nearly.
    macOSCabIrGenerator-0.1.1-macOS.dmg28 MB
    WindowsCabIrGenerator-0.1.1-Windows-arm64.zip14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.1-Windows-x64.zip14 MB
    LinuxCabIrGenerator-0.1.1-Linux-arm64.tar.gz14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz15 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS518 B

  8. v0.1.0

    First release: a bass cabinet IR while the mics are being placed

    • Ten cabinets from 1x15 to 8x8, drawn to scale and stacked the way a backline stands. The back is closed, ported or open, the tweeter OFF, −12, −6 or 0.
    • Two mics out of seven models (MD421, SM57, RE20, D112, U87, U47 and a ribbon mic) go anywhere in front of the speaker, or to CAP, EDGE, OFF and ROOM with one click, distance from 1 to 30 cm, angle up to 60°. BLEND, ALIGN, Ø and TIME for the pair.
    • The frequency response from 30 Hz to 12 kHz follows the hand: green where everything is fine, red where there is a dip or the mics cancel each other out, and the previous curve stays as a pale gray shadow.
    • FIND: with two mics, B moves to where there is the least comb filtering; with one, the mic moves by itself to where the response has no dip. Every spot it tries is drawn on the speaker.
    • 160 presets in eight styles, and in the pairs the mics stand apart and meet without deep comb filtering. A player with bass loops or your own sample, HEAR (A+B, A, B or BYPASS), undo, redo and four registers A/B/C/D.
    • DOWNLOAD IR: mono WAV, 24 bit, 48 kHz. Builds for macOS (signed and notarized, Apple silicon and Intel), Windows x64 and arm64, Linux x86_64 and arm64.
    macOSCabIrGenerator-0.1.0-macOS.dmg28 MB
    WindowsCabIrGenerator-0.1.0-Windows-arm64.zip14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.0-Windows-x64.zip14 MB
    LinuxCabIrGenerator-0.1.0-Linux-arm64.tar.gz14 MB
    CabIrGenerator-0.1.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz15 MB
    ChecksumsSHA256SUMS518 B