ShaperBox

Overview

ShaperBox 3 is your go-to tool for rhythmic inspiration, musical motion, and mixing magic. 10 powerful Cableguys Shaper effects come together in one easy, modern interface: ReverbShaper, VolumeShaper, TimeShaper, NoiseShaper, LiquidShaper, DriveShaper, CrushShaper, FilterShaper Core, PanShaper & WidthShaper.

Break out of the loop

No more waiting for inspiration to strike. Create endless variations on any sound with a browser that makes it easy to find the presets you need. Chop, glitch, stutter, warp, enhance and much more.

Make your music move

Bring out the emotion in your songs with easy drawable LFO waveforms, reactive envelope followers and new audio triggering. Create rhythmic effects that react to your music – or stamp a whole new groove on it.

Solve complex mix problems

Sculpt your sound in incredible detail with 3-band multiband for every effect. Apply focused enhancement – or erase problem elements of your mix. It's complex mixing made easy.

Uses:

• Get louder, tighter mixes: Gain impact and clarity, and add 'bounce' with easy multiband sidechaining in VolumeShaper.
• Expand your stereo range: Inject stereo movement just where it's needed – animate hi-hats, shuffle synths, and more.
• Make drums punch harder: Edit transients and trim flabby hits with VolumeShaper.
• Make synths sparkle: From subtle movement to glitchy ear-candy, combine Shapers to make your synth lines dance.
• Design motion-packed riffs: Get creative. Turn single notes into crazy TimeShaper melodies, add pumping filter patterns, and more.
• Generate addictive hooks: Stuck for a hook? Feed your loops into ShaperBox for wild variations you'd never have thought of.
• Isolate drum hits: Extract kicks and other percussive hits with precision filtering. Then use them in your own tracks.
• Creatively twist vocals: Add time-bending stutters, pitch-warping scratches & tape-stops, real-time reverses, and more.

Features

10 Cableguys effects

Reverb, Time, Drive, Noise, Liquid, Filter, Crush, Volume, Pan and Width Shapers come together in ShaperBox 3. Experience analogue-like filters, timewarped stutters, multiband distortion, future phaser/flanger FX, super-tight sidechain ducking, mid-side expansion, dynamic noise layering, lo-fi bitcrushing, and much more. All in one CPU-efficient plugin.

Easier waveform editing (New)

Animate any effect over time with Cableguys' easiest ever waveform-editing tools. Create curved, stepped, or ramped FX patterns in seconds, and bring rhythmic life to your music.

Locks to the beat

Sync your waveforms to beats and bars so they're always locked to your music. Go from 1/4-note pumping FX to evolving multi-bar patterns and beyond. All with sample-tight accuracy.

Follows any rhythm (New)

Now you can trigger all 9 ShaperBox effects with any sound, for reactive time-twists, distortion envelopes, filter plucks, transient design, and any other triggered FX you can imagine.

Triggers from any track (New)

Want to duck your bass with VolumeShaper, but the kick isn't 4x4? No problem. Just turn on the External Sidechain Input and Audio Triggering follows any kick rhythm. And it's not only for ducking basslines. Want to trigger a bitcrushing pattern on your synth every time the snare hits? Now you can.

External sidechain view (New)

See your kick drum overlaid on the bassline with VolumeShaper's new Show External Sidechain feature. Draw the perfect ducking curve to match the contour of your kick, and lock your lows together like never before.

Multiband power

Every Shaper can be split into 3 bands, for tightly focused processing. Drive the bass. Stutter the mids. Reverse the highs. All 3 bands get their own LFO and Envelope Follower.

LiquidShaper (New)

Dive deep into sound design. LiquidShaper gives you wild jet-plane flanging and deep, lush phasing in one Shaper. Create gentle stereo modulations... or monstrous robotic comb filter FX.

Multiband made easy

Every Shaper can be split into 3 bands, for tightly focused processing. Compress the bass. Stutter the mids. Reverse the highs. New for ShaperBox 2, steep 24dB crossovers join the classic 6 and 12dB models, for even greater precision.

Enhanced browser (New)

Find your sound in a few clicks with more than 600 cleverly categorised presets. Filter by Shaper, save your faves, and find your custom presets.

Oscilloscope Tool (New)

Visualise the dynamics of your music and pinpoint mix problems. A high-res waveform display locks to beats and bars, audio or MIDI. External sidechain overlay allows you to easily compare any two tracks in your project, in real time.

Try it out – download the demo and use ShaperBox 3 in your own tracks.

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