We released the first version of FilterShaper (http://www.cableguys.de/filter-shaper.html) about 1 year ago, and it has gotten some outstanding reviews. But now it is time for version 2 with the most requested features implemented, time for..:
- Filter routings: You can choose between parallel and serial routing of the two filters.
- Filter panning: In parallel mode, each filter has individual controls for panning and volume. Two examples what that is useful for: To provide some subtle changes to the stereo image, you might want to pan one filter to the left and the other one to the right with using the same filter type on both of them, but with little different cutoff frequencies. Or lets say you have a mix playing a bass as well as shakers. Now use a low pass filter, panned to the center for providing the low ends, and use a high pass filter and modulate its pan to provide some movement in the highs.
- Free running LFOs: FilterShaper 1 only allowed you to set the loop length in rhythmic units synced to your host software. Version 2 adds the possibility to set the speed of the loop in hertz, independently from the host tempo.
- Master pan: The plugin got a master pan control which can be modulated just as all the other controls. Even leaving the filters aside, this is a rich feature for providing some movement to your sounds.
- GUI overhaul: People thought of FilterShaper's GUI being too reduced and academical. So we hope you like the new look.
- Improved wave editing: Some further tweaks done.
- Smoother wave editing: On modern graphics card, the CPU consumption of drawing the wave is drastically reduced. (Note: Due to the variety of systems, we cannot test this for all configurations. We are very much interested if the wave drawing uses lots of CPU on your machine, if the wave does not look as nice as on our screenshot and if the system does not react smoothly on your machine.)
We are happy if lots of people test our baby. Please throw any requests on us, feature wishes, bugs and any feedback, as we gain for a high-quality and stable plugin. If you do not want to post to this forum thread, you can also write us via contact@cableguys.de or http://www.cableguys.de/contact.html.
Here is the latest Beta installer, currently Windows only:
http://www.cableguys.de/downloads/Cable ... aper_2.zip
An OS X version will be in beta some time later, too, so if you care, it is best if you check this thread again soon.
The beta works in demo mode, which gives you full functionality, but you can only run one plugin instance at a time. Furthermore, you can open the presets, test-drive the plugin and do any edits, but you cannot save your changes (to be more precise: you can save your edits in the demo version, but you can only open them as soon as you got a license for the full version).
Open issues:
- Fine-tuning of the GUI.
- The manual needs to be finished and proofread (the manual is in beta, too, so any feedback here is very much appreciated).
- There are different pan laws used in the wild, which determine the volume changes used for the left and right channels for a given panning. Every sequencer, plugin and mixing console uses one of these pan laws, but there is no standard for that. We consider to make it an option to choose the pan law, but we are not sure if we do that, as most people might just not care. If we do not add that option, we still need to decide if we stay with the current pan law.
- Check with a variety of hosts (done: Ableton Live 7 and Live 8, Steinberg Cubase 4).
- Check with an Asian installation of Windows.
- Finish and upload the Mac OS X port.
FilterShaper 2 will be more expensive than the first version, but we think the new features and the effort that we have put into the update compensate for that. The final price is not set, though.
who bought FilterShaper1 will have a LESS important upgrade discount than someone who buy it NOW 
