CrushShaper 2

Rhythmic Bitcrushing. Vintage Lo-fi. Multiband Enhancement.

What Is CrushShaper?

Designed to inspire you in ways no ordinary bitcrusher can, CrushShaper 2 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.

Running inside Cableguys' ShaperBox 3 effects plugin, use CrushShaper 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 CrushShaper

• Design exciting bitcrushed patterns and rhythms
• Make melodies lo-fi
• Get that 8-bit videogame sound
• Give drums vintage sampler attitude
• Design gnarly bass textures
• Crush specific hits inside a loop
• Make vocal high-end pop and sizzle

Dual Lo-fi Controls

Tweak Bits to reduce audio resolution, going 8-bit and beyond. Then adjust Resample for digital overtones and lo-fi retro sound. All with smart zero-latency anti-aliasing, for a sound that's closer to vintage digital hardware.

Waveforms That You Design

Cableguys' easiest ever waveform-editing tools make it simple to draw the exact movements you want to hear. Design separate waveforms for Bits and Resample – get any shape you can imagine in just a few clicks.

Locks To The Beat

Sync your waveforms to beats and bars so they're always locked to your track. Go from 1/4-note crushed pumping to 8-bar risers and beyond, all with sample accuracy.

Follows Any Rhythm

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

Dynamic Bitcrushing

Use Envelope Followers to dynamically bitcrush beats, loops, melodies – anything. Increase the Bits as synths get louder – or reduce Resample rate as volume decays. Now with analogue-like Adaptive Release.

Multiband Creativity

With up to three bands of highly targeted bitcrushing, CrushShaper is an incredible mix tool and an even crazier creative playground. Add sizzling top-end air for ultra-modern sounds – or grind the bass with gnarly resampling.

Features

• New! Redesigned interface with larger editing areas
• Interface resizable from 75% to 200%
• Retina/HiDPI support for crisp, clear graphics
• Built-in help — hover over any control for description
• Wave Presets covering all common uses
• 9 slots to store Custom Waves, saved with the patch
• Switch User Waves via MIDI
• Dry/wet mix for each band
• New! Master Mix with improved algorithm, for artifact-free creative blends
• New! Smoothed Bypass for click-free switching to the dry signal
• Solo bands for easy setup
• Smooth, accurate spectrum view
• Large, precise oscilloscope view with Magnitude mode and Freeze option
• Trigger Smoothing to reduce clicks when switching/triggering Waves
• Expandable LFO for detailed editing
• Draggable Bits and Resample parameters to shift the entire LFO wave up/down
• Set LFO loop length in beats and bars, or Hertz/ms
• LFO loop length from 1/128 to 32 bars, with sample-accurate sync
• Audio-rate modulation up to 5.24kHz for extreme sound design
• 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
• Selection skewing, for easily increasing intensity over time
• Advanced bitcrushing controls:
• Push: preserve low-level dynamics and reverb tails
• Dither: increase dynamic range and reduce quantisation distortion
• Jitter: mimic the random fluctuations of real hardware
• Pre Filter: reduce aliasing for more harmonious results
• New! Adaptive Treble control for reducing harshness

System Requirements

Mac

• Mac OS X 10.13 or later (64-bit only)
• Intel or Apple Silicon processor
• VST 2, VST 3, AU or AAX host DAW

Windows

• Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 (64-bit only)
• VST 2, VST 3 or AAX host DAW