PanShaper 4

The Most Flexible Multiband Autopanner and Stereo Rhythm Designer

What is PanShaper?

PanShaper 4 takes stereo control to a new level. With a drawable panning LFO and envelope follower on every band, you can design evolving, fluid pan patterns and make precise stereo edits in seconds. Blend regular panning with psychoacoustic Haas panning and make your mixes fill the speakers like never before.

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

• Stereoise mono drums
• Add top-end movement to basslines
• Autopan real instruments
• Surgically pan sounds within a loop
• Make percs dance left and right
• Animate electric pianos
• Make drums bounce across the treble

Powerful Panning

PanShaper lets you blend standard left/right panning with psychoacoustic Haas panning. Create everything from classic autopanning and funky patterns to extreme pitchbending Doppler effects.

Waveforms That You Design

Our easiest ever waveform-editing tools make it simple to draw the exact movements you want to hear. Get any panning modulation you can imagine in just a few clicks.

Locks To The Beat

Sync your panning patterns to beats and bars so they're always locked to your track. Go from 16th-note stereo tremolo to 8-bar autopanning patterns and beyond, all with sample accuracy.

Follows Any Rhythm

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

Pans Dynamically

Use Envelope Followers to dynamically pan beats, loops, melodies – anything. Pan harder as volume increases. Now with analogue-like Adaptive Release.

Multiband Precision

Get panning where you need it most with a separate panning waveform and Envelope Follower for the lows, mids and highs. Stereoize top-end, move the mids, and keep bass centred and solid.

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
• Adjustable Haas range, from 0-40ms, from subtle to extreme
• Multiple panning modes (Balance 0/3/4.5/6dB and Stereo Combined) for deep control.
• Expandable LFO for detailed editing
• Draggable Pan parameter 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
• Trigger Smoothing to reduce clicks when switching/triggering Waves
• 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

System Requirements

Mac

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

Windows

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