SHAPR
Shape every hit.
More smack in the attack. More room in the tail.
Kick, Snare and Bus. One plugin.
Free for Mac · AU · VST3 · Standalone
More smack in the attack. More room in the tail.
Kick, Snare and Bus. One plugin.
A buried kick. A snare that rings too long. A loop with no punch.
SHAPR moves the hit and the tail on their own.
Same loop, same spot, same volume. Switch while it plays.
For a kick on its own. Huge and roomy, or tight and thumpy.
Sharp and raw, with the pump of the old shapers.
For a snare on its own. A big ringing crack, or dry and punchy.
Clean, even when you push it hard. Good on anything.
For a whole kit, a drum bus or a loop.
A long, soft release. Like parallel compression.
Each mode listens for its own drum. The setting decides how the change sounds.
Hold Shift while you drag for fine steps. The graph shows every hit, and how many decibels you moved.
100 presets, filed by what they are for: kicks, 808s, snares, hats, toms, loops, drum buses, room mics. Every one says why you would load it. Press play on one of forty built-in drum clips and hear it before you commit. Save your own, too.
Download it. Keep it. Make music.
Want more? Unlock the full version.
Or $4.99 a month for 12 months.
After the twelfth payment it is yours and the payments stop.
Both: no sign up. No log in. Works offline. Your licence is a file.
SHAPR looks one millisecond ahead.
So the change starts with the hit, never after it.
A drum shaper for Mac. It turns the hit of a drum up or down, and the ring after it. Three modes: Kick, Snare and Bus.
No. It is yours. Bus mode and the Natural setting work fully, with every control and 36 presets. Nothing runs out. The full version adds Kick, Snare, Classic, Smooth and all 100 presets.
Yes. Pushing the attack adds level. Turn on AUTO and SHAPR keeps the volume where it started, so you hear the shape and not the loudness. Or use GAIN.
Your music app's bypass can make a small jump in timing when it switches. SHAPR's bypass keeps the timing the same, so on and off line up.
No. Your licence is a file. No sign up, no log in. SHAPR does send anonymous usage numbers — which modes and controls get used, which music apps, never any audio, names or file names — so we can see what to improve. A paid copy can switch that off in the plug-in, under Privacy. Exactly what is sent.
A Mac on macOS 11 or newer. Apple silicon or Intel. It loads as AU or VST3, or runs on its own.
