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WusikSoundMagazine tested FilterShaper 2, and allowed us to upload the full pdf article for you.

"FilterShaper2's vast modulation capabilities and user-friendly workflow make it a great tool for adding movement to static sounds, but it can also be used as a glitch effect, capable of completely mangling the audio on the input."
Wusiksoundmagazine.com, March 2010

Our free pan modulation VST plugin PanCake got 6 of 6 points in German Beat magazine. They had been very kind and provided the full article.

"Man merkt, dass bei der Entwicklung von PanCake ein enormes Know-how eingeflossen ist: So überzeugt das Plug-in mit einer durchdachten, intuitiv bedienbaren Oberfläche, einer sehr guten Klangqualität sowie einer beeindruckenden Flexibilität."
Beat, 02/2010

We fixed two bugs and addressed some complaints that Computer Music had in their recent review of FilterShaper 2.

Fixes: On Sonar (PC) the waveform area was sometimes not shown correctly, and on Nuendo (Mac) our plugins could not be closed (.. but really, you should anyway never ever close our plugins).

Improvements: For all plugins, we added a new button to change the displayed grid of the waveform, and we labeled FilterShaper's LFOs numerically (hurray!).

Current issues: Our plugins do not work in all 64 bit hosts. In Nuendo (Mac) the mouse pointer is sometimes offset within the waveform area. We are currently looking into both issues.

"So it seems that Cableguys' FilterShaper 2 has arrived right on time." — Computer Music did a detailed article with great sound examples. There is some critics in there, so we are just right now improving grid lines and, ehm, we are labelling the LFOs numerically (dumb, we just had forgotten this). So watch out for the upcoming 2.0.3 release.
FilterShaper 2 review on MusicRadar

Two users have sent us some presets they did for Curve 0.5b. Get some basic, but powerful sounds by Vlad and some very different, detuned sounds by Nay-Seven with our Windows VST Package.

Have a listen to Vlad's presets:

We've added a free-running option to VolumeShaper's LFO and refined the user interface. And it is available for Mac too. Customers of version 1 get the upgrade for free. Read more...

"... In fact, it appears every criticism levelled at v1 has been addressed and resolved."
SoundOnSound

PanCake allows you to create flexible pan modulations, similarly to how you would modulate your signal in FilterShaper or VolumeShaper. Read more...

Yet another update—FilterShaper 2.0.2 fixes a bug on Mac OS X. It could happen that FilterShaper's controls had been disabled when certain other VST plugins had been opened at the same time.

We just updated FilterShaper to version 2.0.1, fixing issues with drawing in Cockos Reaper and in various hosts on Mac OS X.

We added parallel filter routing, pan modulation, free-running LFOs and several tweaks. And it is available for Mac too. Read more...