About
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.
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.
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.
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:
Technical Specs
- Platforms
- macOS
- Formats
- AU
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