When I found Shaperbox1, it was an interesting multi effect sequencer plugin with an ok amount of effects. The sequencing of effects together in chains is a nice method of building motion into your tracks.
Then, Cableguys sent me an ad for Shaperbox2 fairly soon after Shaperbox1 was released. They claimed to be giving me Timeshaper2 as an incentive to get Shaperbox2. Ok. This felt a little too soon, but the features of Shapebox2 seemed better and the incentive was ok, so I jumped into it.
Then, Cableguys sent me an ad for Shapebox3, less than a year after Shaperbox2, and its basically the same thing?
I cant tell, but Im tired of this sort of cash-grabbing nonsense. Shaperbox2 was an ok effect sequencer with an ok list of stock presets and sound shaping abilities, but the difference between Shaperbox1 and 3 is far too minimal for all this and this motivated my review.
Note: I see the dev replied and disputes the dates their software was released. In my email inbox, I have 3 tiers of offers from Cableguys for Shaperbox 1, 2, and 3. Shaperbox 1 was new TO ME in 2020, offered to me via PluginBoutque and sent via Cableguys to my registered email - registered since 2020. Then in 2021, I received the update offer for Shaperbox 2, and then in 2023 Shaperbox 3 -- all sent to my registered email. My point stands, and all 3 of these are still too similar to be 3 entirely separate products.
Response from Jakob / Cableguys from Cableguys on October 31st, 2024
We released ShaperBox 1 in December 2016, ShaperBox 2 in September 2019 and ShaperBox 3 in October 22. That's 3 years, not 1 year between major version upgrades.

I love the multiband compressor.
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