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The Ultimate Distortion Toolkit

Dynamic • Rhythmic • Multiband

From laser-focused harmonic warmth and sizzle to massively modulated mayhem that reacts and breathes in synergy with your music, DriveShaper does it all – and more. Animate any of 10 exciting shaping algorithms using easy, drawable LFOs and simple 1-slider Envelope Followers.

Create magical distorted rhythms, pulsing analogue warmth and hard-edged patterns. And for mixing, target specific hits with the LFO and Envelope Follower, and home in on precise frequency ranges with multiband control. Quickly dial in reactive heat and subtle harmonic motion.

Running inside Cableguys’ ShaperBox 2 effects plugin, use DriveShaper on its own or with other Shapers — they all work in exactly the same way, stacking up to create elaborate, multilayered effects that’ll make your productions stand out.

Do all this with DriveShaper

• Make 808s punch harder
• Enhance kick attack
• Make your treble sizzle
• Energise melodies
• Design monster basslines
• Distort hits in a loop
• Rhythmise pads

10 distortion Styles

Choose from 10 diverse Styles of distortion:

• Soft/Hard Clip for classic analogue-style clipping.
• Soft/Hard Square for fizzy, distorted zero crossings.
• Soft/Hard Rectify for octave-up FX.
• Skew/Sine/Triangle/Extreme Fold for wild wavefolding transformations.

Grip. Push. Accent. Tone.
Take total control with four specialised distortion parameters. Grip prevents quiet elements like reverb ambience dominating the distortion. Push generates asymmetric drive. Accent and Tone level and EQ the distorted parts only, slotting them into the mix – or making them punch even harder.

Amazing Visual Feedback
You always see exactly what is happening in DriveShaper. The unique animated distortion transfer curve shows just how your waveforms are being shaped. And the built-in spectrum view, large oscilloscope, visual LFO and Envelope modulation trace give instant audio insights.

LFOs that you design
Animate distortion over time with Cableguys’ famous LFO drawing system. Create throbbing, stepped, ramped drive patterns in seconds – use easy-to-grasp Pen tools or classic node-based editing. Shift patterns in time, double them up, even randomize them. Any shape you can imagine, just clicks away.

Cableguys Quality
Like all Cableguys plugins, DriveShaper uses top-quality DSP, for seriously good sound that professionals rely on. Oversampled algorithms reduce harsh digital aliasing. Sample-accurate LFOs give perfect timing. And carefully calibrated internal gain compensation keep your levels under control.

Flexible Envelope Followers
Wouldn’t it be great if the distortion could also react to the flow of your music? That’s where the Envelope Follower comes in. Using one easy slider, create dynamic distortion that responds to beats, loops, melodies – anything. A pop-out control panel gives full access to attack/release and more.

Multiband Distortion
Split your audio into up to three frequency bands. Enhance the bass, mids and treble with a different Style, LFO and Envelope for each. Just drag in the Bands area to set up – it’s fast, easy and powerful.

Runs in ShaperBox 3
DriveShaper runs in Cableguys’ ShaperBox 2 effects plugin. Use it on its own, or combine it with Time, Crush, Filter, Volume, Pan and Width Shapers for multilayered effects

More Features

• Retina/HiDPI interface, resizable from 75% to 200%
• Built-in help — hover over any control for description
• Expandable LFO for detailed editing
• Set LFO loop length in beats and bars, or Hertz
• LFO loop length from 1/128 to 32 bars, with sample-accurate sync
• Audio-rate modulation up to 5.24kHz for extreme sound design
• Trigger LFO in any rhythm via MIDI
• MIDI Trigger activity LED to aid setup
• Trigger Smoothing to reduce clicks when switching/triggering Waves
• LFO Smoothing parameter to remove clicks/pops, or for creative effect
• 1-click Quick Presets
• Dedicated selection tool for multinode editing
• 2x/3x button — double or triple patterns with a click
• Selection skewing, for easily increasing intensity over time
• Snap a single point, a selection, or each point within a selection
• Flip/resize/move/randomize wave or selection
• Draggable parameters to shift the entire wave up/down
• Copy/paste waves between any Shapers
• Unlimited undo/redo for LFO wave edits
• Dozens of Wave Presets covering all common uses
• 9 slots to store User Waves, saved with the patch
• Switch User Waves via MIDI
• Dry/wet mix for each band
• Solo bands for easy setup
• Large, precise oscilloscope view with Freeze option
• Magnitude oscilloscope graph
• Easy 1-slider editing of Envelope Follower
• Input/Output Gain controls for gain staging and manual levelling

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

MULTIBAND SIDECHAIN – COMPRESS – GATE – ENVELOPE – STUTTER

Shape audio signals in pinpoint detail with VolumeShaper 7’s unique level manipulation toolset. It’s fast and easy to use but packed with power, with a drawable volume LFO and visual compressor on every band. Work at the speed of inspiration with intuitive editing, pro presets, 1-click sidechain and much more.

Running inside Cableguys’ ShaperBox 2 effects plugin, use VolumeShaper 7 on its own or with other Shapers — they all work in exactly the same way, stacking up to create elaborate, multilayered effects that’ll make your productions stand out.

DO ALL THIS WITH VOLUME SHAPER 7

• Sidechain kick and Bass – Make space for your kick drum — gain punch, low-end clarity, and rhythmic “bounce”
• Get loud, tight mixes – Sidechain just the bass frequencies for huge mixdowns that “go loud” effortlessly
• Compress for Flavor – Squeeze energy and attitude into flat drums, loops, vocals and more with punchy bus-style compression
• Control dynamic details – Combine compression with gain curve editing for incredibly precise dynamic adjustments
• Remove hi-hats in a loop – Adjust, remove or isolate elements in a mixed loop using frequency-targeted volume LFOs
• Get perfect punch – Redraw transients at the stroke of a Pen. Tighten decay tails. Make basses, drums, and synths hit hard
• Create pumping fx – Turn plain white noise and ambience loops into pumping rhythmic FX to energise your tracks

Ducking AKA sidechain compression effect Essential for a well-defined kick and bass, the well-known ducking effect of sidechain compression creates extra rhythmic drive and provides space and definition. VolumeShaper gives you this same effect with absolute control — just draw the curve you want. Simpler, faster, and more precise than using a compressor. You can also trigger the LFO via MIDI notes — choose one of the ‘MIDI Triggered’ LFO types, then route MIDI notes to the plugin via your DAW.

Multiband shaping Use different curves for bass, mids and highs for added precision. The multiband split lets you duck out the bass when the kick hits, or duck the mids to provide space for the snare. Or gate the kick in a drum loop by editing the low band and leaving the mids/highs untouched. VolumeShaper makes it easy to apply this essential technique precisely, for accurate and dynamic mixes.

Define your audio loops VolumeShaper’s oscilloscope displays the incoming audio, helping you to precisely define audio levels. In a drum loop, regulate levels for snare, hi-hat, or anything else with just a few clicks, or edit unwanted notes out of a loop. From smooth bezier curves to hard cuts, you decide. Sync the effect to your DAW from 1/128 note up to 32 bars, sync to the frequency of the played note, or let it run freely at ranges from 0.02 Hz up to 5.24 kHz.

Shape drums Go in deep and use VolumeShaper as a precise volume curve for your synth or drum sounds. Set it to trigger whenever a specific MIDI note is played, and simply draw the shape you need. You can even shape different frequency ranges independently — shorten only the high frequencies of a kick, for example. It’s effectively a gate, but you have total control over the length and shape of the volume tail.

Audio destruction For punishing bit-crusher effects, run VolumeShaper’s LFO fast — right up to the limits of the audible range (Tip: set the LFO to ‘Hertz (Retrig.)’). For a less drastic effect, limit the modulation to specific frequencies — try a medium-width mid band — by moving the band sliders. And for ring modulation effects, set the LFO to the frequency of the MIDI notes that you play.

Stutter and tremolo Simple but effective — VolumeShaper breathes new life into this classic effect. Detailed control options let you create stutter and tremolo with a twist — try applying envelopes to specific frequency ranges, or using a custom curve tailored to fit a specific loop or MIDI note.

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

MULTIBAND STUTTER – HALF-TIME – REVERSE – SCRATCH – TAPE-STOP

Just like a DJ working vinyl, TimeShaper 3 lets you freely manipulate the flow of time, slowing down or accelerating your music. Simply draw the exact LFO shapes you need – our unique curve-editing tools make it fast and easy. Warp pitch and time to create everything from essential everyday FX to extreme multiband transformations.

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH IT?

• Rearrange the beat
• Scratch like a DJ
• Drop in a tape-stop
• Scratch on time
• Add retro vinyl ‘wow’
• Get that half-time effect
• Reverse in real time
• Get crazy with combos
• Go multiband!
• Custom chorus/flange FX

Running inside Cableguys’ ShaperBox 2 effects plugin, use TimeShaper 3 on its own or with other Shapers — they all work in exactly the same way, stacking up to create elaborate, multilayered effects that’ll make your productions stand out.

MAIN FEATURES:

• New! Interface resizable from 75% to 200%
• New! Redesigned interface with larger editing areas
• New! Retina/HiDPI support for crisper, clearer graphics
• Built-in help — hover over any control for description
• Expandable LFO for detailed editing
• Set LFO loop length in beats and bars, or Hertz
• LFO loop length from 1/128 to 32 bars, with sample-accurate sync
• Audio-rate modulation up to 5.24kHz for extreme sound design
• New! Even better Smooth Step Mode, to avoid clicks in stepped patterns
• Trigger LFO in any rhythm via MIDI
• New! Trigger Smoothing to reduce clicks when MIDI Triggering
• New! Fine Mode with 2.5/10/20ms options, for subtle pitch ‘wow’ effects
• Dry/wet mix for each band
• New! Blend dry and Fine Mode for flanger and chorus effects
• Solo bands for easy setup
• New! 1-click Quick Presets for Stutter, Scratch and Half-time
• New! Dedicated selection tool for multinode editing
• New! 2x/3x button — double or triple patterns with a click
• Flip/resize/move/randomize wave or selection
• Copy/paste waves between any Shapers
• Unlimited undo/redo for LFO wave edits
• 72 Wave Presets covering all common uses
• 9 slots to store User Waves, saved with the patch
• Switch User Waves via MIDI
• New! Increased band-split range, now from 20Hz-20kHz
• New! Improved multiband crossover filters
• New! Smoother, more accurate spectrum view
• Large, precise oscilloscope view with Freeze option
• New! Magnitude oscilloscope graph
• New! Clearer oscilloscope waveforms and smoother LFO editing

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

The ultimate plugin for modern mixes and infinite inspiration

With power-packed upgrades like Audio Triggering, Sidechain View in VolumeShaper, and the new LiquidShaper flanger/phaser, ShaperBox 3 is the go-to plugin for inspiration, musical motion and mixing magic.

Each of ShaperBox’s nine powerful multiband effects – Volume, Time, Drive, Filter, Crush Noise, Pan, Width and the new Liquid – is a blank canvas for your creativity. Just add a Shaper and draw any wave shape you can imagine to control the effect, all with a simple visual interface that makes producing fast and fun.

With Cableguys’ easiest ever LFO editing, you can intuitively design fluid sweeps, angled lines, or stepped patterns. Unlock a world of rhythmic exploration and precision production in just a few clicks. Make your music move with effects patterns that sync to your song – or trigger them in any rhythm with MIDI and new Audio Triggering.

Use ShaperBox to turn bland melodies into unique variations. Cook up fresh ear candy from even the most basic samples. Warp the fabric of time with half-speed slooow-downs, glitches, stutters and scratches. Sidechain with total flexibility across three frequency bands. Warp, distort, bitcrush, filter, pan, flange, widen, add noise… And so much more. It’s the ultimate plugin for modern mixes and infinite inspiration.

With all-new versions of NINE powerful Cableguys effects:

• TimeShaper 3
• VolumeShaper 7
• FilterShaper Core 3
• PanShaper 4
• WidthShaper 3
• Crushshaper 2
• DriveShaper 2
• NoiseShaper 2
• LiquidShaper

The full ShaperBox 3 contains all 9 Shaper effects (worth $301 separately) and is on sale now for just $89!

NEW for ShaperBox 3

Audio Triggering

Just switch on the new Audio mode and the LFO restarts with each transient. Now ShaperBox is a powerful transient editor and rhythm-tracking creative effect! Redraw the envelope of any sound to shape dynamics, saturate attack, filter the sustain, and more. Or get creative: trigger tape-stops, filter patterns, noise sequences and more from the natural rhythm of drums, melodies, basslines, real instruments – even full mixes! Go deep with full access to triggering parameters and 3 unique algorithms: Drums, General and Complex.

External Sidechain Input

Want to duck your bass with VolumeShaper, but the kick isn’t 4×4? No problem! Audio Triggering follows any kick rhythm – just turn on the External Sidechain Input. And it’s not only for kicks and sidechain ducking. How about triggering a bitcrushing pattern on your synth every time the snare hits? ShaperBox 3 makes it all possible.

Sidechain View

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.

LiquidShaper

Dive deep into sound design! LiquidShaper gives you wild jet-plane flanging and deep, lush phasing in one Shaper. Custom LFO shapes take you far beyond the traditional. Modulate Centre and Feedback independently across 3 frequency bands. Create gentle stereo modulations… or monstrous robotic comb filter FX!

Easiest Ever Editing

Cableguys’ best-in-class waveform drawing is now even easier, with a more powerful pointer tool that puts all key functions under simple left-click operation. Add angled breakpoints, bend any section into an endlessly flexible curve, make selections and manipulate them, and more. It’s easy, fast and fun.

New Browser

No more waiting for inspiration to strike! ShaperBox 3’s slick new browser makes it easy to find the presets you need, with clear categorisation and fast filtering. Amazing variations for any sound are just clicks away – discover rhythmic chops, groovy fills, motion-packed sweeps, and more.

Compressor Unchained

The multiband Compressor in ShaperBox is now a separate tool that you can insert anywhere in the Shaper chain. Bring even the most complex Shaper chains under dynamic control – or blow them apart with extreme pumping compression.

Improved Mix / Bypass

An improved Master Mix algorithm now gives powerful FX blends that morph smoothly from dry to wet, with no multiband phasing artefacts. And a new master Bypass button gives click-free switching to the original dry signal.

Analogue-like Envelopes

Envelope Followers feature improved Adaptive Release mode, for an even juicier analogue-like response. Get filtering, distortion, noise and more that tightly hug the dynamic contours of beats, basslines – anything – for kinetic, magnetic FX.

PLUS:

• VolumeShaper: Lookahead pre-smoothing for click-free MIDI/Audio sidechaining
• LiquidShaper: Positive/negative feedback mode for rich and hollow timbres
• LiquidShaper: 4, 8, 12 or 16 stages of phasing for lush resonance
• CrushShaper: Dynamic Treble control for compensating harshness
• TimeShaper: Time offset display for easier visualization
• Redesigned interface with larger editing areas

For wild jet-plane flanging and deep, lush phasing.

What is LiquidShaper?

Dive deep into sound design! LiquidShaper gives you wild jet-plane flanging and deep, lush phasing in one multiband Shaper effect.

With easily editable LFOs, design any movement you can imagine — from soothing stereo sweeps to monstrous robotic comb filter FX.

Running inside Cableguys’ ShaperBox 3 effects plugin, use LiquidShaper on its own or with other Shapers — they all work in exactly the same way, stacking up to create elaborate, multilayered effects that’ll make your productions stand out.

Future Flanger

Based on ultra-short delays, Flanger mode gives you everything from awesome jet-plane swooshes to gritty robotic comb-filtering.

Fluid Phaser

With up to 16 stages, for fluid, bubbling phasing. From soft and gentle to thick, lush and resonant.

Waveforms that you design

Get amazing modulations and design wild patterns in seconds with a drawable LFO for the Centre and Feedback parameters. Sync it to your song, trigger with MIDI, or even with audio transients.

Follows Any Rhythm

Trigger your flanging and phasing patterns in any rhythm at all using MIDI. Or use powerful new audio triggering that tightly tracks the rhythm of drums, loops, instruments – even full mixes.

Reacts to dynamics

Analogue-like Envelope Followers give you funky talking phasers and gritty reactive flanging that tightly tracks the dynamics of any signal.

Multiband Power

Put a phaser on the bass and a flanger on the tops! All 3 bands get their own LFOs and Envelope Followers.

Mighty Modes

Get more sonic options! Flip the feedback polarity for rich or hollow flanging, peaked or notched phasing.

Go Wide!

Expand your stereo field with a funky Stereo parameter that offsets the Centre frequency in each speaker.

Runs in Shaperbox 3!

LiquidShaper runs in Cableguys’ acclaimed ShaperBox 3 effects plugin. Use it on its own, or combine it with up to 8 more Shapers for multilayered effects. Buy LiquidShaper on its own — or save 70% and get all 9 Shapers with ShaperBox 3 Bundle.

28 Filter Modes – Warm Sweeps – Rich Wobbles – Easy LFO Editing

Experience all the richness, warmth and intricacy of a high-quality analogue filter with FilterShaper Core 3. Choose from warm Sallen-Key filters based on classic hardware designs, and Clean zero-delay feedback (ZDF) modes. Create amazing modulations and wild patterns in seconds with a drawable LFO and dynamic envelope follower on every band.

FilterShaper Core combines the great-sounding filter technology of the full FilterShaper 4 with a streamlined modulation system. Using the same acclaimed Sallen-Key filters as FilterShaper 4, you can expect all the richness, warmth and intricacy of a high-quality analogue filter.

Apply subtle nuances or giant wobbles. From filter sweeps to surgically-precise frequency control. Simply draw the exact LFO shape you need – our unique curve-editing tools make it fast and easy.

Running inside Cableguys’ exclusive new ShaperBox creative effects rack, you can stack up FilterShaper Core with other Cableguys Shapers to create elaborate, multilayered effects for your productions.

Key Features:

• 28 Filter Modes
• LFOS that you design
• Warm Sweeps
• Introducing Pens
• Rich Wobbles
• Easy LFO Editing
• Flexible Envelope Followers
• Multiband Filtering

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

Lo-Fi • Vinyl • Excitement • Ambience • Groove

NoiseShaper gives you the secret sauce for lo-fi beats and exciting mixes: noise! Imagine trap melodies crackling like vintage vinyl. EDM synths that fill the speakers with high-end electricity. Drums sizzling with classic console hiss. Pianos submerged in bubbling water. Cassette house grooves, retro gear hum, broken digital textures, organic field recordings… and so much more.

Explore an expansive world of noise with mix-ready noise sources by BT, Cyclick, and InsideInfo. Layer them onto any sound in just one click – with built-in dynamic control, NoiseShaper reacts to your music, for noise that breathes with every beat. Running inside Cableguys’ ShaperBox 2 plugin, use NoiseShaper on its own or combine with other Shapers for elaborate, multilayered effects.

MAIN FEATURES

An expansive world of noise

Explore an exciting world of noise with a production-ready library crafted by BT, Cyclick and InsideInfo. Get classic synth noise, vinyl crackles, tape hiss, broken textures, organic recordings, and more.

Dynamic and alive

Forget boring static noise with no dynamics – in NoiseShaper, the noise breathes with every beat. Follow mode adds rhythmically synced sizzle. Duck mode fills the gaps with lo-fi textures.

LFO’s that you design

With Cableguys’ famous LFO drawing tools, it’s easy to target specific mix elements – for instance, add noise to just the snare in a loop. You can even design your own rhythmic noise patterns.

Runs in ShaperBox 2

NoiseShaper runs inside Cableguys’ acclaimed ShaperBox 2 effects plugin. Use it on its own, or combine with Drive, Time, Crush, Filter, Volume, Pan and Width Shapers.

Easy multiband control

Trigger the noise from up to three frequency bands. Add sizzle to just the hats in a loop, or enhance the kick drum by reacting only to bass frequencies, for example. Or go further: combine up to 3 separate noises with fully independent settings per band.

See your sound

Modulation can be hard to understand – but not with NoiseShaper. You always see exactly what’s happening with the big modulation trace, LFO graph, and spectrum view. All expandable, if needed.

Cableguys quality

Every noise is carefully mastered to balance perceived volume, dynamics, and frequency response across the entire library, so you can seek out the perfect noise without constantly tweaking the volume up and down.

MAIN FEATURES

• Trim, Mono and dual High/Low-Pass Filters to slot the noise into your mix.
• Noise Only mode for sound design or separate mixing of noise elements.
• Retina/HiDPI interface, resizable from 75% to 200%.
• Built-in help — hover over any control for description.
• Expandable LFO for detailed editing.
• Set LFO loop length in beats and bars, or Hertz.
• LFO loop length from 1/128 to 32 bars, with sample-accurate sync.
• Audio-rate modulation up to 5.24kHz for extreme sound design.
• Trigger LFO in any rhythm via MIDI.
• MIDI Trigger activity LED to aid setup.
• Trigger Smoothing to reduce clicks when switching/triggering Waves.
• LFO Smoothing parameter to remove clicks/pops, or for creative effect.
• 1-click Quick Presets for Vinyl, Cassette, and Beat Spice.
• Dedicated selection tool for multinode editing.
• 2x/3x button — double or triple patterns with a click.
• Selection skewing, for easily increasing intensity over time.
• Snap a single point, a selection, or each point within a selection.
• Flip/resize/move/randomize wave or selection.
• Draggable parameters to shift the entire wave up/down.
• Copy/paste waves between any Shapers.
• Unlimited undo/redo for LFO wave edits.
• Dozens of Wave Presets covering all common uses.
• 9 slots to store User Waves, saved with the patch.
• Switch User Waves via MIDI.
• Dry/wet mix for each band.
• Solo bands for easy setup.
• Large, precise oscilloscope view with Freeze option.
• Magnitude oscilloscope graph.
• Easy 1-slider editing of Envelope Follower.

Curve is a software synthesizer with an irresistible waveform editor, huge sound library and slick interface. Version 2.5 adds new Sallen-Key filter types, beat-synced envelopes, an overhauled UI and many tweaked sounds.

Feed Curve’s oscillators, LFOs and envelopes with custom waveforms. For anything rhythmic from wobbles to FX loops and evolving pads. For broad oscillator timbres from deep basses to shrill, aggressive snarls.

A huge library will get you started, with quality presets by renowned sound designers such as Michael Kastrup, Pluginguru, Myagi, Xenos Soundworks, Soundsdivine, and hidden pearls from the Curve community.

Curve provides completely new possibilities for experimentation and detailed tweaking, with a simple to use, immediate, slick interface.

Sound Features
Curve features aliasing-free oscillators with custom waveforms, noise generation and broad FM options. Waveform crossfades provide for changing timbres; a comprehensive unison mode delivers fat lead sounds, wide pads and massive sound. Drawable LFOs deliver everything from melodic and rhythmic patterns to dubstep wobbles and punishing bit-crushing effects. Flexible filter routing, a feature-rich mono mode plus legato and glide, are all designed for great depth of control.

Preset Library
Curve’s preset library is a shared online database, providing a constant source of inspirational sound. Public preset sharing allows an ever-increasing number of great presets, public preset voting will help you manage the vast number of sounds, all from within the plugin. Curve ships with an excerpt of this ever-growing sound library. Macro knobs let you explore vast sound variations quickly, for quick access to those parameters that define the core of a sound.

Elegant Interface
Curve shows you everything important at a glance, featuring high contrasts and a fresh color scheme. Inbuilt MIDI assignment allows you to set up external MIDI controllers quickly.

Multiband Panner – HASS Imager – Stereo Rhythm Generator

PanShaper 4 takes stereo control to a new level. With a drawable panning LFO and envelope follower on every band, you can design evolving, fluid pan patterns and make precise stereo edits in seconds. Blend regular panning with psychoacoustic Haas panning and make your mixes fill the speakers like never before.

Running inside Cableguys’ ShaperBox 2 effects plugin, use PanShaper 4 on its own or with other Shapers — they all work in exactly the same way, stacking up to create elaborate, multilayered effects that’ll make your productions stand out.

DO ALL THIS WITH PANSHAPER 4:

• Stereoise mono drums – Got a beat that’s strictly mono? Bring stereo groove to just the top-end elements like hi-hats
• Bring basslines to life – Keep those all-important low frequencies centred and solid while you pan the mids and tops
• Fill the speakers – Go beyond regular panning with psychoacoustic Haas placement – the pros’ secret stereo weapon
• Surgically pan sounds – Want to pan just that one shaker hit in a loop? With drawable LFOs and multiband control, it’s possible
• Make percussion dance – Do the conga – bring the party to your tops! You simply have to try PanShaper on percs
• Animate electric pianos – Easily create classic tremolo-style warbling pan effects – perfect for tines, vibes, and organs
• Make synths groove – Add stunning left-to-right motion to melodies, pads and arps – and free up the centre of your stereo field

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

Enter a world of spaced-out, slowed-down sound with HalfTime, the only plugin 100% dedicated to half-speed effects, in use by Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, members of 808 Mafia, The Chemical Brothers and more.

HalfTime transforms any audio into a dark, downtempo version of itself, giving your tracks huge mood and atmosphere. Lead synths mutate into heavyweight EDM bass monsters. Plinky piano lines become haunting trap melodies. Percussion thickens, expanding to reveal new rhythmic possibilities.

Just add the plugin for an instant half-speed effect with zero setup. Or go in deep with powerful creative controls. HalfTime works on loops, virtual instruments or even live audio input, inspiring you in seconds.

The hands-on Power button makes it easy to fit HalfTime into your tracks — create a rapid switch or sink in slowly with smooth fades up to 16 bars.

Three speed Modes give you classic half-speed, tight harmonies and shuffling swing rhythms, and drugged-out quad-time playback. Adjustable Loop length allows multi-bar slow-downs, funky syncopations and totally new grooves.

Slow only the lows, mids or highs with the Band split — generate deep bass movement, fatten midrange percussion, or flip your top-end on its head.

Key Features

• Instant setup : Add the plugin – get an instant half-speed effect with no setup.
• Power button : Punch the large central button to activate the effect – automate in your DAW.
• Fade In/Out : Introduce the effect instantly, or fade in across up to 16 bars.
• 3 speed Modes : 2x for the classic “half-speed” effect. 1.5x for perfect fifth harmonies and triplet rhythms. 4x speed for drugged-out quad-time playback.
• Band Split : Half-speed just the bass, treble or midrange for trippy effects.
• Band Solo : Hear just the slowed frequency range – use it to hone the effect, as a filter, or to blend using the Mix control.
• Dry/Wet Mix : Blend the original and slowed audio.
• Loop Length : Set the Loop from 1/16 up to 8 bars – keep the original timing, stretch it to half speed, or create catchy new rhythms.
• Smooth : Preserve transient punch with Percussive mode, and avoid clicks and pops on sustained material with Sustain mode. Or push it to extremes with creative FX and Swell options.

What’s new in 1.1?

• Cableguys quality: Best-in-class downpitching DSP algorithms. Great sound, low CPU, minimal aliasing.
• Window Scaling: From 75% to 200%, the crisp Retina-ready interface fits your screen size and workflow.

Designed to inspire you in ways no ordinary bitcrusher can, CrushShaper is powered by Cableguys’ easy drawable LFOs and flexible envelope followers. Now you can crush specific hits and frequency ranges.

Discover inspirational distortion patterns. Deploy tasteful mix tricks. Go 8-bit and beyond! It’s the ultimate creative bitcrusher.

Main Features:

• Get rhythmic inspiration – Turn even the plainest loops into track‑starting grooves using pro presets and drawable LFOs
• Make melodies lo-fi – Take your tracks back in time! From dark and fuzzy vintage digital to bright and spiky videogame vibes
• Fatten your treble – Crush just the highs for modern, in‑your‑face sizzle. Try it on drums, loops, synths – anything
• Give drums attitude – From phat old‑school downsampling to cutting‑edge crunch and bite
• Design gnarly bass – Drop the sample rate down low for sub‑rumbling vowel movements and gritty bass textures.
• Crush hits in a loop – Take aim! Target snares in a beat, notes in a riff, and more, with multiband LFOs and envelopes
• Make vocals pop – Add focused top‑end clarity for that modern, upfront vocal sound that pops through the mix

Crunch. Bits. Resample

Combine 3 distinct bitcrushing styles: Crunch for fuzz, grind and grit. Bits to reduce audio resolution, going 8-bit and beyond. Resample for digital overtones and lo-fi retro sound. Animate each with its own custom LFO and envelope follower, then filter and layer with the dry signal using the handy FX Mix section.

LFOs that you design

From smoothly gliding sample rate reduction to intense stepped distortion patterns, any pattern or wave shape you can imagine is just clicks away with Cableguys’ famous wave-editing tools. Lock your LFOs to host tempo with sample accuracy, or trigger in any rhythm with MIDI notes.

Powerful Pens

Designing the perfect bitcrushing LFO is fast and simple with three powerful, easy-to-grasp Pens. Draw crisp lines, smooth arcs and flowing S-curves. Easily pick out single hits in a loop, and rapidly sketch wild rhythmic sequences. Switch back to classic single-node editing anytime.

Flexible envelope followers

Discover dynamic bitcrushing that reacts to your beats, loops, melodies – anything. Use CrushShaper’s flexible envelope followers to reduce the sample rate with the transient of each note. Lower the bit-depth as synths grow louder. Trigger from other tracks in your project using sidechain routing.

Multiband bitcrushing

With up to three bands of highly targeted bitcrushing, CrushShaper becomes an incredible mix tool and an even crazier creative playground. Add sizzling top-end air for ultra-modern sounds that leap from the mix. Rhythmise midrange with percolating bit patterns. Grind the bass with gnarly resampling.

Inspiring presets

Get inspired with dozens of LFO wave presets, and share patches with others via the syncable Cableguys Preset Cloud. Up your workflow with 1-click Quick Presets for production essentials like snare enhancement, rhythmic stutters, and more. Just add the plugin, click and create.

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

Multiband Stereo Expander – M/S Modulator – Bass Tightener

Define your stereo image in ultimate detail with WidthShaper 3. Take control with three bands of mid/side stereo adjustment, each driven by its own drawable LFO and envelope follower. Use it on single tracks and buses, for sound design, mixing and mastering.

Running inside Cableguys’ ShaperBox 3 effects plugin, use WidthShaper 3 on its own or with other Shapers — they all work in exactly the same way, stacking up to create elaborate, multilayered effects that’ll make your productions stand out.

DO ALL THIS WITH WIDTHSHAPER 3

• Get tight mono bass – Lock in your low end by narrowing bass frequencies to mono – keep it tight, centred and solid
• Widen your top end – Shimmering synths, sizzling hi-hats, glossy FX… Spread them across the treble with multiband widening
• Expand your drums – Widen specific hits in mixed material using LFOs, envelope followers, and multiband targeting
• Create super-stereo risers – Make your risers expand until they fill up the entire stereo field, for an exciting build-up to any drop.

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

This Bundle Contains These Plugins:

• Shaperbox 3
• Curve 2
• FilterShaper 3
• Halftime
• MidiShaper

Including Shaperbox3, with all-new versions of NINE powerful Cableguys effects:

• TimeShaper 3
• VolumeShaper 7
• FilterShaper Core 3
• PanShaper 4
• WidthShaper 3
• Crushshaper 2
• DriveShaper 2
• NoiseShaper 2
• LiquidShaper

Curve 2

For Experimentation & Detailed Tweaking

Curve 2 is a software synthesizer with an irresistible waveform editor, huge sound library and slick interface. Ideal for both experimentation and detailed tweaking at an excellent sound quality.

Feed Curve’s oscillators, LFOs and envelopes with custom waveforms. For anything rhythmic from wobbles to FX loops and evolving pads. For broad oscillator timbres from deep basses to shrill, aggressive snarls.

A huge library will get you started, with quality presets by well-known preset designers such as Michael Kastrup, Pluginguru, Myagi, Xenos Soundworks, Soundsdivine, and hidden pearls from the Curve community.

Curve 2 provides completely new possibilities for experimentation and detailed tweaking, with a simple to use, immediate, slick interface.

Sound Features – Curve features aliasing-free oscillators with custom waveforms, noise generation and broad FM options. Waveform crossfades provide for changing timbres; a comprehensive unison mode delivers fat lead sounds, wide pads and massive sound. Drawable LFOs deliver everything from melodic and rhythmic patterns to dubstep wobbles and punishing bit-crushing effects. Flexible filter routing, a feature-rich mono mode plus legato and glide, are all designed for great depth of control.

Preset Library – Curve’s preset library is a shared online database, providing a constant source of inspirational sound. Public preset sharing allows an ever-increasing number of great presets, public preset voting will help you manage the vast number of sounds, all from within the plugin. Curve ships with an excerpt of this ever-growing sound library. Macro knobs let you explore vast sound variations quickly, for quick access to those parameters that define the core of a sound.

Elegant Interface – Curve shows you everything important at a glance, featuring high contrasts and a fresh colour scheme. Inbuilt MIDI assignment allows you to set up external MIDI controllers quickly.

The Curve Community – Since the first beta of Curve 1.0, the Curve community has steered the synthesizer’s future by submitting feature requests, comments and bug reports, and by sharing presets. Curve 2 is the result of our users submitting wishes and uploading great sounds.

FilterShaper 3

A Detailed, Interconnected Toolbox for Shaping Your Sound

FilterShaper 3 takes a giant leap into unconventional sound design with two powerful filters, freely editable modulation curves, and an immensely flexible modulation framework.

The new Sallen-Key type filters deliver a rich, warm, intricate sound. Create complex, shifting, interweaving effects. Apply subtle nuances or giant wobbles. From filter sweeps and stereo tremolo to surgically-precise filter control and multiband sidechain effects.

Experiment and Explore – Start with two filters, running in serial or in parallel, plus a set of simple controls. Then set things in motion: All main controls have their own modulation section with two flexible LFOs and one envelope follower each. For advanced effects editing, each LFO in turn has its own speed and intensity control — each with its own LFO and envelope follower. And all LFOs can be MIDI triggered. Visual feedback on each control and oscilloscope views on each LFO keep you focused. And a community-powered, ever-growing library of presets provides starting points and inspiration for your own sounds.

Total Precision Control – FilterShaper 3 excels at surgically precise control. For pinpoint tweaking of the modulation curve and a close-up oscilloscope view, open up the detail panel. Filter out a specific beat in a loop. Tame a booming kick. Or shape a tired sample into something lively and vibrant. You have two filters, 60 LFOs, and 50 envelope followers at your fingertips — a detailed, interconnected toolbox for shaping your sound.

Advanced Multiband Sidechain Effects – As well as pinpoint editing, pulsing rhythmic effects, and left-field, alien craziness, FilterShaper 3 can deliver flexible, precisely timed sidechain compression effects. For multiband sidechain, set up filter one to manage the lows and assign filter two to the highs. Duck out the bass when the kick hits, take out the highs to emphasize a snare — simply draw the curve for each as required. 

FilterShaper Core 2

28 Filter Types • Warm Sweeps • Rich Wobbles • Flexible LFOs

Experience all the richness, warmth and intricacy of a high-quality analogue filter with FilterShaper Core 2. Choose from warm Sallen-Key filters based on classic hardware designs, and Clean zero-delay feedback (ZDF) modes. Create amazing modulations and wild patterns in seconds with a drawable LFO and dynamic envelope follower on every band.

Features

• Redesigned interface with larger editing areas
• Retina/HiDPI support for crisper, clearer graphics
• Trigger Smoothing to reduce clicks when MIDI Triggering
• 1-click Quick Presets for Rhythm, Env. Follow and Build-up
• Dedicated selection tool for multinode editing
• 2x/3x button — double or triple patterns with a click
• Clean filters use zero-delay feedback design for more analogue-like response
• 8 Peak/Notch Phasers for giant swooshes
• Smoother, more accurate spectrum view
• Magnitude oscilloscope graph
• Clearer oscilloscope waveforms and smoother LFO editing

HalfTime

Instant Creative Half-Speed Effect

For Trap • EDM • Hip-Hop • Techno • House • And More

Enter a world of spaced-out, slowed-down sound with HalfTime, the only plugin 100% dedicated to half-speed effects, in use by Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, members of 808 Mafia, The Chemical Brothers and more.

HalfTime transforms any audio into a dark, downtempo version of itself, giving your tracks huge mood and atmosphere. Lead synths mutate into heavyweight EDM bass monsters. Plinky piano lines become haunting trap melodies. Percussion thickens, expanding to reveal new rhythmic possibilities.

Just add the plugin for an instant half-speed effect with zero set-up, or go in deep with powerful creative controls. HalfTime works on loops, virtual instruments or even live audio input, inspiring you in seconds.

The hands-on ‘Power’ button makes it easy to fit HalfTime into your tracks – create a rapid switch or sink in slowly with smooth fades up to 16 bars.

Three-speed ‘Modes’ give you classic half-speed, tight harmonies and shuffling swing rhythms, and drugged-out quad-time playback. Adjustable ‘Loop’ length allows multi-bar slow-downs, funky syncopations and totally new grooves.

Slow only the lows, mids or highs with the ‘Band’ split – generate deep bass movement, fatten midrange percussion, or flip your top-end on its head.

Features

• Instant setup: Add the plugin – get an instant half-speed effect with no further setup.
• Power button: Punch the large central button to activate the effect – automate in your DAW.
• Fade In/Out: Introduce the effect instantly, or fade in gradually, across up to 16 bars.
• 3-speed Modes: 2x for the classic “half-speed” effect. 1.5x for perfect fifth harmonies and triplet rhythms. 4x speed for drugged-out quad-time playback.
• Band Split: Half-speed just the bass, treble or midrange for trippy effects.
• Band Solo: Hear just the slowed frequency range – use it to hone the effect, as a filter, or to blend using the Mix control.
• Dry/Wet Mix: Blend the original and slowed audio.
• Loop Length: Set the Loop from 1/16 up to 8 bars – keep the original timing, stretch it to half speed, or create catchy new rhythms.
• Smooth: Preserve transient punch with ‘Percussive’ mode, and avoid clicks and pops on sustained material with ‘Sustain’ mode. Or push it to extremes with creative FX and Swell options.

MidiShaper

Bring The Flexibility Of Curve To Your Plugins & Hardware Synths

Powered by Curve’s unique modulations engine, MidiShaper brings Curve’s flexible yet powerful LFOs and envelopes to all your favourite synthesizers and effects.

Four LFOs and four envelope generators work together in a sophisticated modulations matrix that can be set up to output modulated pitch, mod-wheel, channel aftertouch or any MIDI control messages.

MidiShaper’s LFOs can run infinitely or be retriggered, synced to your DAW from a buzzy 1/128 to an expansive 32 bars, set to the played note, or run from 0.02 Hz up to the audible range and brain frequency. Like Curve, MidiShaper features completely editable waveforms for its LFOs.

If your plugin or DAW allows for MIDI control, you have a great tool at hand to create vivid, inspiring sounds and bring the flexibility of Curve to your favourite software plugins, hardware synthesizers, MIDI VJ tools, lighting consoles and 1980’s MIDI keyboards.

Routing MidiShaper – MidiShaper outputs MIDI data. Routing MidiShaper to external outboard equipment is simple to do via external MIDI ports.

Using MidiShaper to control software instruments and effects can be relatively simple as in Reaper and Ableton Live, can be complex with pitfalls as in Apple Logic, or might require some special tricks as in Sonar. It all depends on how well the DAW of your choice handles internal MIDI routings and automation. Also please note that not all plugins support automation of their parameters.

If you succeed, you’ll get super-flexible LFOs and envelopes added to your favourite hardware devices, to your sequencer’s controls and to your software synthesizers and effects.

Features

• Enhance Synths and Effects
• Powerful LFOs and Envelopes
• Breathe Life into Static Sound

PanShaper 3

Multiband Panner • Haas Imager • Stereo Rhythm Generator

PanShaper 3 takes stereo control to a new level. With a drawable panning LFO and envelope follower on every band, you can design evolving, fluid pan patterns and make precise stereo edits in seconds. Blend regular panning with psychoacoustic Haas panning and make your mixes fill the speakers like never before.

New Features

• Redesigned interface with larger editing areas
• Retina/HiDPI support for crisper, clearer graphics
• Trigger Smoothing to reduce clicks when MIDI Triggering
• Dedicated selection tool for multinode editing
• 2x/3x button — double or triple patterns with a click
• 1-click Quick Presets for Basic, Haas and Build-up
• Adjustable Haas range, from 0-40ms, from subtle to extreme
• Smoother, more accurate spectrum view
• Magnitude oscilloscope graph
• Clearer oscilloscope waveforms and smoother LFO editing

Additional Features

• Built-in help — hover over any control for description
• Expandable LFO for detailed editing
• Set LFO loop length in beats and bars, or Hertz
• LFO loop length from 1/128 to 32 bars, with sample-accurate sync
• Audio-rate modulation up to 5.24kHz for extreme sound design
• Trigger LFO in any rhythm via MIDI
• Flip/resize/move/randomize wave or selection
• Copy/paste waves between any Shapers
• Unlimited undo/redo for LFO wave edits
• 42 Wave Presets covering all common uses
• 9 slots to store User Waves, saved with the patch
• Switch User Waves via MIDI
• Multiple panning modes (Balance 0/3/4.5/6dB and Stereo Combined) for deep control.
• Dry/wet mix for each band
• Solo bands for easy setup
• Large, precise oscilloscope view with Freeze option