Sometimes I come across stuff that actually does amaze me. That's the point, pure luck really so I thought I'd start a thread for the unusual one-off effects.
I recently bought a thing called shaperbox. It's 10 x 3 band effects in one VST, usually the kind of thing I run a mile from, but the makers managed to cross Dan Worralls palm with enough silver to make a YouTube video about it.
So, why is it good.
It uses virtually no resources, no noticeable lag so you can track with it.
You can draw volume envelopes set off by the audio so for example you can use these like a compressor for say a kick drum, and draw 3 envelopes for different frequency bands. This is great because you can let the deep frequencies bloom a bit while hacking into the higher frequencies more quickly to cut out stray cymbals. That's just one of hundreds of uses. It works so very well for that example. Better than a compressor ever could, it never seems to make clicks.
That's just one simple use of one simple part of it. It's very intuitive and has many presets to demonstrate it's capabilities. It seems to do everything very well.
Here's a link to the shaperbox site.
https://www.cableguys.com/shaperbox.html
I have no connection with them though they now have nearly £100 of mine! The most I ever spend on software.
Dan Worralls video
[youtube]FNdsl4q17Sk[/youtube]
I recently bought a thing called shaperbox. It's 10 x 3 band effects in one VST, usually the kind of thing I run a mile from, but the makers managed to cross Dan Worralls palm with enough silver to make a YouTube video about it.
So, why is it good.
It uses virtually no resources, no noticeable lag so you can track with it.
You can draw volume envelopes set off by the audio so for example you can use these like a compressor for say a kick drum, and draw 3 envelopes for different frequency bands. This is great because you can let the deep frequencies bloom a bit while hacking into the higher frequencies more quickly to cut out stray cymbals. That's just one of hundreds of uses. It works so very well for that example. Better than a compressor ever could, it never seems to make clicks.
That's just one simple use of one simple part of it. It's very intuitive and has many presets to demonstrate it's capabilities. It seems to do everything very well.
Here's a link to the shaperbox site.
https://www.cableguys.com/shaperbox.html
I have no connection with them though they now have nearly £100 of mine! The most I ever spend on software.
Dan Worralls video
[youtube]FNdsl4q17Sk[/youtube]
