You can now snap up Softube’s Transient Shaper for just $10, down from $89, in an 89% off deal at Audio Deluxe.
The sale ends on April 2, 2025, and you can check the remaining time by looking at the countdown on the product page. The deal is exclusively available on the Audio Deluxe website.
Transient Shaper is a dual-band transient processing plugin that can add or cut Sustain and/or Punch from any source.
The main controls are the Sustain and Punch dials, which each have individual switches for Wide, Low, and High modes.
When you run the Sustain and Punch dials in Wide mode, you can apply the effects across the whole frequency spectrum, or you can selectively apply the effects to the low and high registers by switching to Low or High mode.
You can further change how the Low and High modes interact with the signal by modifying the Crossover point, which is set at 700 Hz by default.
The Low, High, and Crossover controls effectively combine to allow you to interact with different parts of the signal at will. This can be handy for focusing the effect on a specific part of a drum bus, for example.
You can further modify the Punch control with the Slow and Fast switches, which make the plugin shape the transient over a shorter or longer period. This produces either a phatter or a sharper, more aggressive sound, respectively.
The Sustain and Punch dials are both additive and subtractive, so you can pull the source in either direction for these two effects, leading to a wide range of tonal choices from just these two parameters.
I think Softube’s Transient Shaper YouTube demo does a great job of demonstrating how this works in practice. You can hear the drum loop becoming much wider and bombastic when the main dials are pushed, or more subtle and less obtrusive when they are cut.
In addition to just getting the right base sound, I think the plugin would be a natural fit for some creative applications in bringing a different sound, energy, or ambiance to different sections of a song.
Softube dropped Transient Shaper back in February 2015. The plugin has been around the block a few times by this point, but if you’re looking for a transient shaper with a well-designed and simple feature set that opens up lots of possibilities, then this could be the deal for you.
If you’d like to try the Transient Shaper before you buy, you could check out the free trial available on the Softube product page.
Check out the deal: Transient Shaper (89% off @ Audio Deluxe until April 2nd- $10)
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