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With some settings, the latest Curve beta had very broken sound, which is fixed now. Please update to the latest beta version.

During Curve 2's public beta testing phase, we're running a contest to find the best, most mind-blowing preset sounds.

We're looking for unusual sounds—the ones that push Curve to its limits—but we're also looking for clever, useful sounds and just about anything that sounds amazing. There are a lot of prizes in the pot for the top-50 presets. And we'll pick our absolute favorite preset: Its creator gets all plugins we ever do, now and in the future, for free!

Prizes:

Top 1: All plugins we'll ever do
Top 2: Cableguys Bundle
Top 3: Curve 2
Top 4—50: EUR 20/USD 28 discount on a Curve 2 license

So download the Curve 2 beta and get started as soon as possible—the contest closes at the end of the beta testing phase. For some useful hints on creating presets, have a look at Curve's preset tutorial.

For a public discussion on Curve 2 or the preset contest, see Curve's forum thread.

Legals:

- If you win a product that you already own, we'll refund your previous payments.
- Prizes cannot be sold.
- Multiple discounts can be added together.
- Presets done by Cableguys' staff are excluded from the competition.

VolumeShaper 3 got 6 of 6 points in German Beat magazine.

"For tempo-synced stutter, ducking or gating, for distortion, bit-crushing and ring modulation or for complex rhythmic patterns: VolumeShaper 3 shows its strength in a multitude of applications."
Beat, 05/2012

We've just updated Curve 2 to Beta 3, adding the long requested modulation of LFO amount. We've also reduced memory usage from 170 MB per instance to around 30 MB. Massive changes had been necessary to make this happen and we might well have introduced some bugs here—let us know if you stumble across anything!

Among minors bugfixes, this update fixes a crash when an OSC used noise for both waveforms. Furthermore, velocity mapping changed slightly. Find out more.

"This is a godsend for anyone producing four-to-the-floor music.. the curves you can create are much more flexible and musical than what can be done with a sidechained gate or compressor alone."
MusicTech, April 2012

In order to meet the increasing demand for our products, we are extending our team. If you are living in or near Berlin, check our job offer (German only).

Curve 2 takes its preset sharing steps further and adds more creative sound features. All this while keeping its ease of use, at an excellent sound quality.

Version 2 is now available for public beta testing (PC+Mac, VST+RTAS+AU, 32- and 64-bit).

So download the public beta, try Curve, share your sounds and report as many bugs as you can. Find out more.

"... The thing which makes VolumeShaper so special is the amount of control you have over the modulation process. A great plugin which got even better..."

We should add that the review mentions a great idea on our new oscilloscope: "Having such control over the zoom settings means that VolumeShaper 3 can actually serve as a rather flexible oscilloscope plugin, if you leave all amplitude modulation settings at zero!"

Read the full review on bedroomproducersblog.com

Sometimes VolumeShaper crashed when being triggered via MIDI notes. This is fixed now.

VolumeShaper is a plugin for shaping and automating the levels of any audio signal. From signature pumping effects to extreme gating, from tempo-synced stutter to precise sample-shaping, VolumeShaper provides a wealth of creative musical effects with a visual approach to volume. For Mac and Windows, as VST, AU or RTAS plugin.

New in version 3: A precise oscilloscope for helpful visual control, plus an option to trigger the LFO via MIDI notes.

Find out more.

All our products can now also be purchased via Sound Sonic, a brand new website that brings you a diverse range of audio plugins from other big names in music software.

Sound Sonic was created by the same great team that bought you Prime Loops — well established and doing wonderful in providing sound libraries. We are curious to see their new site evolve!

This is just a quick review and a very big thank you to all our users for your support in 2011!

Thanks to you, the early adopters, the ones who are curious to test and install new software, the ones who provided precious feedback with bug reports, feature wishes or just short happy emails, we can look back at a successful year 2011. It has set our course for the future.

In order to meet the increasing demand for our products, we are going to extend our team for sound design and email support in 2012. Thus, we can further push Curve's shared preset library and keep email answering times short while concentrating on new developments.

2012 will come up with a great Curve 2 release, fine new versions of our whole product line, and we plan to launch a small fun product. Stay tuned with Cableguys in 2012 and join our newsletter on the right-hand side if you want to stay updated — we are starting in an exciting year which you do not want to miss!