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CABLEGUYS ShaperBox 2 €89

We first reviewed ShaperBox around three years ago, and since then it’s become an absolutely essential plug-in that gets used multiple times in every track. From simple sidechain ducking, through to creating crazy glitch drum edits, it’s proven itself as an incredibly useful tool for a range of tasks. It is with great excitement, then, that we now have version 2, which features a slicker GUI and a range of new features for warping audio in creative ways, but can it live up to the legacy of its predecessor?

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I’ll save you from skipping to the end of the review for the answer… Yes. Yes, it can. And it’s excellent. ShaperBox 2 features new versions of the same five effects (VolumeShaper 6, FilterShaper Core 2, PanShaper 3, WidthShaper 2 and TimeShaper 2), and as before, each is loaded into

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