Shake and Bake

Shaker Stack Engine

Shakers are deceptively hard to place. Move one a few milliseconds forward or back and the whole groove can suddenly feel better, worse, lazier, tighter, or more expressive. And when you layer multiple shaker performances, tiny misalignments between their peaks create a subtle flammy blur – the kind you don’t notice until it’s fixed.

Shake and Bake fixes it in one click.

Load up to four real shaker performances – eggs, maracas, caxixi, textures & more – from a library recorded by Jeroen de Rijk, a percussionist with over forty years behind the instrument and credits with Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, David Guetta, and many more. These aren’t your average recordings, they were played by hands that have shaped some of the biggest records ever made. You can also drop in your own.

The plugin automatically detects the rhythmic crests in each layer and locks them together. Then fine-tune the whole stack against the grid with the controls until it sits exactly where the track wants it.

Instead of zooming in, nudging audio by hand, and guessing why the percussion feels off, you’re auditioning pockets in seconds: per-lane level, pan, and filters, built-in reverb and delay, stereo spread, and tempo-synced playback that follows your session. When the stack starts working with the groove, drag it straight into your timeline – a single lane or the full stack renders to a WAV exactly as you hear it.

Features

• 117 shaker loops
• Eggs, maracas, caxixi, tubes & more
• Instantly stack up to four real shaker loops
• Automatically align shaker crests for a tighter groove
• Fine-tune the shaker pocket forward or back in milliseconds
• Find the sweet spot with Smart, Grid, and Feel alignment modes
• Layer multiple shakers without flammy timing blur
• Trim each loop with draggable loop braces

Performed by Jeroen de Rijk

The library is built on performances by Jeroen de Rijk, a percussionist with forty years of credits including Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, David Guetta, and ANOTR.

One-click Groove Alignment

Shake n Bake aligns your layered shakers automatically. Choose which lane takes the lead and the rest of the stack gets perfectly aligned to it. Fine tune with tightness and nudge controls.

Four-Layer Stacking

Load up to four shaker performances at once: eggs, maracas, caxixi, tubes, or any combination. Build dense, textured percussion beds. Use the carefully thought out controls to make them sit together perfectly.

Fine-Tune Controls

Auto-align, tightness, nudge, glue. Adjust each layer’s timing and balance until the stack sits exactly where the track wants it.

Export Audio Samples

Bounce the entire aligned stack or individual lanes straight to WAV and drag them into your DAW for further processing. Chop, resample, or print the groove permanently.

Import Your Own Samples

Drag in your own loops, build your own preset banks and make use of the auto-alignment and fine tuning controls Shake and Bake has to offer.