Hey Patrons!

Alpha 010 takes things deeper. In previous versions, you could enhance upper harmonics—now, you can blend in a new fundamental one octave down. Perfect for recovering overly high-passed material or sculpting your low-end just the way you like it.

What’s new in Alpha 010?

🔹 Fundamental – Bring back what’s missing! This control lets you blend in a “copy” of your audio an octave down. Whether you’re restoring lost low-end from excessive high-pass filtering or just beefing up your sound, this gives you more control than before.

🔹 Loudness Match – Now featuring the same loudness compensation algorithm found in Fräs! It continuously measures short-term loudness and automatically adjusts perceived volume for a more consistent listening experience.

🔹 Bug fixes & tweaks – Various minor bug fixes and tweaks

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What is Shape2 Advanced?
Shape2 Advanced is an extreme low-end shaper/compressor that gives you 100% control of the lowest part of the spectrum. It’s based around a waveshaper that reshapes your low-end to use all available headroom without causing issues, maximizing your bass without affecting the upper frequencies.

The first stage in Shape2 Advanced mirrors the Shape2 module in SubBB, running the low-end through a waveshaper for a compressed effect. Next, an algorithm removes any distortion created. Up to this point, it’s similar to SubBB. But Shape2 Advanced takes it further: you can reintroduce some of the original envelope to the processed signal with the Envelope controls, set the allowed max peaks with the “Low Peaks” control, add a burst of sub noise at he transients for a greater impact, and blend in a synthesized first harmonic to the signal.

Complete walkthrough:

If you’re new to the plugin, you may need this complete walkthrough using Alpha 005. It lacks the bits and pieces added in Alpha 010 but overall it works the same: https://youtu.be/EUjTphHMz2E?si=WeAhyzlBMqtFdE4W

 I’m still holding back with AU builds, there’s just VST3 for now.

Download for Patrons:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/download-hub-74683988

The demo is still at Alpha009.

If you’re reading this on Patreon, you’re already seeing the full post.. If you found this post elsewhere, click here for the full post!

New in v2.53: Shortcut Toggle Feature

This update introduces the SHORT button from the FOCUS script! You can now assign a shortcut that closes the script when pressed. The idea is to use the same key you assigned to open the script in Reaper’s Action List, allowing you to toggle it on and off seamlessly—no matter what’s in focus. Simply put, the script now behaves like a proper toggle function with your shortcut.

About the Script

This script lets you set a virtual zero position in your Reaper project and displays the time at your cursor relative to that position. I originally created it for situations where clients reference specific times in a song, but the song doesn’t start at Reaper’s default zero position (e.g., when mastering an album). Since then, I’ve received messages from users who have found all kinds of creative uses for it—and I’ve started using it for more tasks myself!

With this script, you can place a new virtual zero at the start of a track and use the built-in timer to quickly locate the desired position.

Core Features

✅ Time at Cursor – Displays the time at your cursor relative to a custom zero point.
✅ Dynamic Timer – Tracks playback time relative to the zero point in real-time.
✅ Easy Reset & Navigation – Quickly reset the zero point, navigate to it, or play from it.
✅ NEW: Shortcut Toggle – Assign a key that both opens and closes the script for faster workflow.

How to Use

• Download the script (attached).

• Load it into Reaper:

  • Go to Actions > Show Action List > ReaScript > Load and select the script.

• Set a shortcut (a single letter, symbol, or number. More than one symbol won’t work. for example; SHIFT + t will equal T, not a key combination).

• Run the script – Launch it to display the timer and new controls.

• Learn the shortcut toggle:

  • Press SHORT followed by your shortcut to link it to the toggle function.

Download for Patrons

🔗 Download here

Do you have feedback or suggestions? Let me know—I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Enjoy!

Hey everyone! I’ve been getting some questions about why the phase looks so unusual when measuring the Shape2 Advanced plugin in Plugin Doctor. To help explain what’s going on, I’m sharing a tool that I use in the video. It’s a special filter plugin I built for myself over a year ago—a unique linear-phase filter called SPLITT (it’s actually the same filter used in Shape2 Advanced).

And here’s the best part: I’m giving it away as a freebie for you all! 🎉 Even though it’s quite specialized, I hope some of you will find it useful. It’s not your everyday filter, but if you’re into sound design and need some creative control over your frequency bands, this might come in handy.

What SPLITT Does

SPLITT is a linear-phase filter designed for splitting a signal into two bands—upper and lower—so you can process each separately. It’s also great for combining two different masters in a weird and fun way: use the low-band from one and the upper band from another, for example. As you probably understand by now, this is not meant for typical filtering tasks, but it offers a lot of flexibility for unique use cases!

Quick Start Guide

Here’s a rundown of the controls to get you started:

• Crossover: Set the frequency where the split will happen. Lower frequencies can be tricky to set with the knob, but you can type the exact value by clicking on the number below the knob.

• Taps: This adjusts the steepness of the filter. Higher values make the filter steeper, but they can also be taxing on your CPU. For most tasks, staying between 200-900 should work well, though you might need higher values (up to around 8000) if you’re working with very low frequencies (0–60 Hz). Pro tip: The maximum value (20000) is extremely CPU-intensive—use with caution!

• Matrix Controls: These options let you route the low and high bands individually:

  • In LP (Low-Passed): Choose whether the low-band audio comes from the main stereo input (1-2) or the sidechain (3-4 input).

  • In HP (High-Passed): Choose whether the high-band audio comes from the main stereo input (1-2) or the sidechain (3-4 input).

  • LP Out: Set whether the low-band output goes to the main stereo output (1-2) or the 3-4 output channels.

  • HP Out: Set whether the high-band output goes to the main stereo output (1-2) or the 3-4 output channels.

Splitt has been moved to its own post:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/127200822

The final update for today is for Nick’s Search and Bus script.

Updates v4.03:

• Added a loop that checks if a track (or tracks) are selected

• Added an error message if no track or all tracks are selected

• The selected track/tracks are not shown in the search results

• Made a blinking cursor to make it clear that it’s a search box

We all want Nick to use Reaper for mixing, don’t we? To make him do that he needs the script ‘Search and Bus’ that I just made (instead of watching Netflix during lunch).

This script is handy in large projects where you have 100+ tracks and want to create a send to one of your trillion FX buses.

Here’s how you use it:

• Select the track where you need to add a send.

• Run the script, preferably with a key shortcut that you created. You will now see a list of all available tracks.

• If you type a part of the receiving track’s name, such as ‘Reverb,’ the list will be updated to show only tracks with ‘Reverb’ in their name.

• Click the track that you want to create a ‘send’ to from the list.

• Done!

How to Use

• Download the attached Script 

• Load it into Reaper: Actions > Show Action List > ReaScript > Load.

• Add a short command to the script (optional)

• Run the Script: Start it to display the timers and new controls.

Download for Patreons: 
https://www.patreon.com/posts/121395463