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.
Running inside Cableguys' ShaperBox 2 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.
Try it now — download the ShaperBox 2 demo and use CrushShaper in your tracks today.
“Realizing the crushing doesn’t have to be static is a game-changer! Like just crushing a snare or clap, or leaving those alone and crushing the hats a little crisper.
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“CrushShaper is so sick! Being able to build rhythmic effects with bitcrushing is just nuts! WOW!
John Nathaniel, Producer/Mixer/Songwriter (OneRepublic, Switchfoot, Kygo)
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“When making hardstyle/tonal kicks, you can use CrushShaper to shape the growl on the end without having to spend hours messing with layers, EQs and phasing. It's a GAME-changer. Love your plugins!
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“I distorted everything on Doom all the time, so I got very familiar with DriveShaper and CrushShaper. I love those a lot.
David Levy - read his Cableguys interview
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Hear rhythmic bitcrushing in action with the official CrushShaper video
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Discover how easy it is to draw your own CrushShaper LFOs in ShaperBox 2
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“CrushShaper gives you maximum control over your lo-fi crunch. We came up with a variety of useful effects, from glitched, crunchy drums and screaming, distorted basslines, to subtle noise sweeps and gated patterns on pads.
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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
Cableguys quality
Like all Cableguys plugins, CrushShaper uses top-quality DSP, for seriously good sound that professionals rely on. All 3 bitcrushing sections use smart zero-latency anti-aliasing, minimising unwanted artifacts for a sound closer to vintage digital hardware. In other words, it's hi-fi lo-fi!
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.
Runs in ShaperBox 2
CrushShaper runs in Cableguys' ShaperBox 2 effects plugin. Use it on its own, or combine it with Time, Filter, Volume, Pan and Width Shapers for multilayered effects. Buy CrushShaper on its own — or save 69% and get all 8 Shapers with ShaperBox 2 Bundle.
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.
“ShaperBox’s customisation tools make CrushShaper a more powerful and nuanced bitcrusher than any rival. Apply extreme distortion to certain beats in a drum loop, or have things fade in and out for a drifting, Boards Of Canada-like lo-fi effect.
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NoiseShaper
Reactive noise
Sounds by BT, Cyclick, InsideInfo
Lo-fi vinyl and tape
Modern hi-fi enhancement
Dynamic and alive
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FilterShaper Core 2
Full-Fat Filter
28 filter types
Warm sweeps & rich wobbles
Zero-delay feedback algorithms
New! Multiband mode + 8 Phasers
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CrushShaper
Rhythmic Bitcrusher
Vintage lo-fi fx
Multiband enhancement
Sample rate reduction
8-bit and beyond
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VolumeShaper 6
Precision Dynamics
Sample-accurate sidechain
Rhythmic stutter
MIDI triggering
New! Punchy compression
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PanShaper 3
Deluxe autopanner
Stereo sweeps
Creative patterns
Psychoacoustic FX
New! Haas mode
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WidthShaper 2
Stereo expander
Wider risers
Super-stereo tops
Tight mono bass
New! Envelope follower
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The demo is fully functional and has no time limit, but you can only use one instance per song and you can't save your settings.
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The demo is fully functional and has no time limit, but you can only use one instance per song and you can't save your settings.
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