
Changelog for ShaperBox 3 (inc. ReverbShaper, TimeShaper 3, DriveShaper 2, NoiseShaper 2, FilterShaper Core 3, LiquidShaper, CrushShaper 2, VolumeShaper 7, PanShaper 4, WidthShaper 3)


3.5 - December 18, 2023
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- New: Smooth Clip distortion style in DriveShaper.

- New: Dist slider to adjust internal resonance distortion in FilterShaper Core's Warm filters.

- New: Hard internal resonance clipping option for FilterShaper Core's Warm filters.

- New: Safe Res option for FilterShaper Core's Warm filters. When disabled, these filters can self-oscillate.

- New: Animated filter response visualisation in FilterShaper Core.

- Improved: Smoother slider response when adjusting ReverbShaper's Decay and Size.


3.4.2 - November 23, 2023
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- Fixed: Oscilloscope was not shown in ReverbShaper in ShaperBox 3.4.1.


3.4.1 - November 20, 2023
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- Improved: Reduced memory usage.

- Improved: Adjustments to the Bands filter are now heard immediately, with no latency, and potential LFO clicks are further reduced according to your filter settings.

- Improved: Selections are restored when using undo/redo.

- Improved: The impulse response waveform display now updates in real time when adjusting Size.


3.4 - November 7, 2023
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- New: ReverbShaper. If you own it, then please download and apply your updated license file from your Cableguys user account: https://www.cableguys.com/login

- New: Pro Tools Automation Menu support. In any DAW, hold Cmd-Ctrl-Option on Mac or Start-Ctrl-Alt on Windows to highlight all automatable parameters with a coloured dot. In Pro Tools, users can continue holding the modifiers and click a parameter to access the Pro Tools Automation Menu.

- Fixed: Oscilloscope could get out of sync at fast LFO speeds.

- Fixed: Oscilloscope setting was lost when turning the Envelope Follower on or off.

- Fixed: Logic crashed when double-clicking L or R in Dual Mono mode.

- Fixed: DriveShaper latency was reported incorrectly at sample rates of 176.4kHz and above.


3.3.1 - June 28, 2023
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- Improved: Reduced CPU usage for General and Complex Audio Trigger algorithms.

- Improved: Loaded presets are selected in the Browser when a project is reopened.

- Improved: Better visual feedback for the Pan/Haas slider in PanShaper.

- Improved: When a 1-shot LFO finishes playing, the oscilloscope's waveform remains on screen until the LFO is triggered again, unless the Envelope Follower is also active.

- Improved: Triplet grid is now a single menu option. Main beats/bars are always highlighted for Straight timings. Dotted timings always highlight the three main subdivisions, and true musical triplets are now possible in these timings.

- Fixed: MIDI/Audio Triggering could cause unnecessary popping sounds in certain cases.

- Fixed: The angle of the background diagonal line in TimeShaper did not always reflect Time Range.

- Fixed: In Logic Pro X on Apple Silicon, a rose-colored border appeared around menus.

- Fixed: In Logic Pro X on Apple Silicon, moving a point or Pen on the border of the LFO Wave Editor did not behave smoothly.

- Fixed: When loading a song with a preset the user had edited, the asterisk indicating preset modification was missing.

- Fixed: In NoiseShaper's noise Type menu, User folders containing a period character were truncated before the final period.

- Fixed: After loading a preset, the "No MIDI triggers detected" message would not be shown unless MIDI triggering was turned off and on again.


3.3 - April 5, 2023
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- New: LFO and Envelope Follower for NoiseShaper's Pitch control. Useful for adding pitch drift to drum noises, building risers, and designing wild FX.

- New: Native Apple Silicon support for AAX on Pro Tools 2023.3 or later.


3.2.3 - March 6, 2023
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- New: Shift-click a Wave Preset or Custom Wave to scale it to the same vertical range as the current wave. Useful when you have (for example) a Filter Cutoff wave covering a narrow range, and want to try different wave shapes spanning the same range. Also works when Shift-clicking "Paste wave" in the Wave Menu.

- New: "Show Legacy Presets" option added to the Main Menu. When enabled, presets from ShaperBox 1/2 will appear in the All section of the Browser. Please Sync once to download them.

- Improved: "Auto" added to background Oscilloscope options in the Wave Menu. On by default, this option selects the most appropriate mode (Stereo, Combined or Magnitude) for every Shaper.

- Improved: "Auto" added to Grid options in the Wave Menu. On by default, this option switches between Straight and Triplet grids depending on LFO Length.

- Improved: "Snap on by default" option in the Wave Menu, enabling snap whenever the plugin is loaded.

- Improved: Randomize function can now be applied to a selection.

- Improved: Sidechain detector signal is shown temporarily while hovering/adjusting the Filter Band in the Envelope Follower or Compressor.

- Improved: LFO Timing Mode (Beat / Hertz / Pitch) is now a DAW-automatable parameter.

- Fixed: Global Audio Trigger setup screen partially covered the expanded Wave Editor.

- Fixed: Mouse wheel adjustment did not work for the LFO Length menu.

- Fixed: The waveform display is now updated while editing via the Cubase Direct Offline Processing dialog.


3.2.2 - February 20, 2023
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- Fixed: ShaperBox crashed when clicking the colored Shaper dots next to preset names.

- Fixed: Under certain conditions, ShaperBox could crash directly after loading on Windows.


3.2.1 - January 2, 2023
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- New: Octave offset for LFO's MIDI Pitch mode. Useful for zooming in/out horizontally in the Oscilloscope Tool, and for creating AM/FM-type effects in Shapers.

- Improved: Multiselection and exclusion in the Preset Library's Shaper filter. Click to show presets containing selected Shapers. Right-click (or use any modifier) to exclude Shapers. Drag to quickly select multiple Shapers.


3.2 - December 15, 2022
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- New: 41 additional Cymbal and Percussion noise types for NoiseShaper.

- New: Pitch control for NoiseShaper, up to +/- 24 semitones.

- Fixed: ShaperBox could crash after expanding the LFO wave in TimeShaper.

- Fixed: The vectorscope in Pan and Width Shapers was missing the right-hand side of the graph when displaying a 100% sides signal.


3.1.1 - November 25, 2022
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- New: Vectorscope stereo analyzer for PanShaper and WidthShaper.

- Improved: Your ShaperBox 1/2 custom presets can now be synced to ShaperBox 3. To use the feature, open ShaperBox 1 or 2 and select Sync from the Main Menu (three lines icon). Next open ShaperBox 3 and click the Sync button in the top bar (or via Main Menu). Your synced presets will appear in the My Presets area, prefixed "SB1" or "SB2". If you delete/alter/rename them in ShaperBox 3, they remain visible and unchanged in ShaperBox 1/2.

- Improved: NoiseShaper's noise download dialog will not be shown again once cancelled.

- Fixed: Oscilloscope Tool was not resized when the Global Audio Trigger panel was open.

- Fixed: If the plugin was loaded while a selected MIDI device port was unavailable, the plugin internally defaulted to DAW MIDI, causing unexpected results.


3.1 - November 18, 2022
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- New: Oscilloscope Tool.

- Fixed: The correct Wave Preset category is now opened when loading Quick Presets (Sidechain, Trim, Half-time).

- Fixed: "MIDI Out" was disabled in the Global Audio Trigger panel for AU plugins. Note: Logic Pro X does not support MIDI output for AU plugins, but some other DAWs do, such as Bitwig Studio and Ableton Live.

- Fixed: "Monitor Input" in Envelope Followers and Compressor was not latency compensated in certain situations when using an external sidechain input.


3.0 - October 24, 2022
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- Initial release
