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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!

Sometimes an LFO stopped playing after changing its sync mode, and produced spikes directly after playing a note. Both issues are fixed now.

Curve 2 is in the making, taking its preset sharing steps further and adding more creative sound features. All this while keeping its ease of use, at an excellent sound quality. Find out more.

This update fixes a bug with Curve's glide mode: In many cases, gliding down made the target note a semitone higher than how it was played.

Leviation is best known for their appearance on several Café del Mar compilations and for their two songs "More Than Ever People" and "Out of Time" which have been extensively featured on TV and radio throughout the globe.

With the new album being released in February 2012 both digitally and physically, our friends at Whirlpool Records want to give you the opportunity to create a remix of the upcoming single "How wonderful" and win prizes by Ohmforce, Soundcloud and us. On top of that, the winning remix will be featured on the single "How Wonderful", released February 2012. Submission ends December 23rd.

Be creative and inspired, check their prices and find out more on their contest page.

"... With FilterShaper, Cableguys succeeded in building an exciting tool to manipulate sound. Be it soft and tender filter sweeps, vibrant sound variations, wobble basses or tremolo effects, the plugin has enormous creative potential and allows for experimentation thanks to its user-friendly interface. Also, the low price is praiseworthy..."
Beat, November 2011

"... For creating more advanced effects, the waveform drawing features in MidiShaper are hard to beat. Much like all other Cableguys plugins I have used MidiShaper is easy to use, intuitive, and extremely flexible..."
Read the full review on rekkerd.org

For over a decade Tom Beaufoy and Pat Pardy, comprising the acclaimed DJ/Producer duo Evil Nine from Brighton, have distinguished themselves as innovators who refuse to blend into the scene, deriving their musical flavour from an enviable array of influences. Our products turned out to be a fixture with the two:

"We're big fans of all the Cableguys plugins, but MidiShaper is our favourite. Being able to output MIDI CC's from your envelopes and LFOs to any other plugin in your DAW creates so many new possibilities, it's such a great sound design tool!" — Pat Party (Evil Nine)

Working together in the music biz since the late nineties, Syke'n'Sugarstarr are one of today's in demand House-DJs and Producers. Their impressive list of production and remix credits gathered over the past eight years includes such renowned artists as Armand van Helden, Barbara Tucker, David Vendetta, Mousse T, Incognito, Michael Gray and Axwell, etc.

The guys have also been behind the best selling Dance-Tune in Germany within the last 10 years — "For You" (Disco Boys), for what they recently received a Gold & Platinum Award.

Serhat Sakin aka SESA was also the producer-head-honcho for the worldwide smash-hit "So Many Times" (Gadjo feat. Alexandra Prince). And not to forget his own scorcher "Like This Like That" (ft. Sharon Phillips) which was also #1 in numerous Dance-Charts in the UK.

"I really love the idea behind Curve! This unlimited growing plugin provides always for new surprise. ...Tweet it! Save it! Sync it! ;)" — Serhat Sakin (Syke'n'Sugarstarr aka. SESA)

Dutch Interface magazine have their hands on all Cableguys plugins in their current November issue. They especially like them for their vast amount of possibilites and innovation. Curve's integrated online preset browser also receives kudos. The free PanCake is a must, they add. Some excerpts from their roundup:

Curve: "The many routing options and extensive waveform editor allow for easy programming of the most complex sequences. ... Curve's sound is perfectly rounded and high fidelity. But you can give the entire plugin a different sound character by switching the mode of Quality. If set to 'Rough', the instrument changes to a gritty variant of itself, reminiscent of the Casio CZ series."

FilterShaper 2: "Loading the waveforms into its four LFOs is FilterShaper's secret weapon. The complex filter movements you can achieve are endless and go way beyond the functionality of a normal filter."

MidiShaper: "With MidiShaper you can change the simplest synthesizers to complex instruments."
Interface, November 2011

These updates fix graphic issues with older host sequencers on Mac OS X and reduce both memory and CPU consumption on Mac OS X and Windows.

Curve, FilterShaper, VolumeShaper and PanCake are now fully RTAS compatible (for Pro Tools 8 and higher).

These updates fix graphic issues with the waveform area, which could happen with some graphic cards and especially with OS X Lion.

In some cases, MidiShaper might have stopped sending MIDI signal in Ableton Live. We fixed that as well.

MidiShaper 1.1 includes the much requested support for AudioUnits and can output MIDI not only to a host sequencer directly, but also to physical and virtual MIDI ports. With some hosts and plugins this makes setting up MidiShaper much easier.

You might have experienced Internet connection errors when you synced presets with Curve's online database. With this update, syncing presets becomes much more stable.

Powered by Curve's unique modulations engine, MidiShaper brings Curve's flexible yet powerful LFOs and envelopes to all your favorite software synthesizers and effects, to your hardware synthesizers, MIDI VJ tools, lighting consoles and 1980's MIDI keyboards.

You can try before you buy—just download the demo. The demo is fully-functional and has no time limit, but you can only use one instance of MidiShaper per song, and you can't save presets. And if you like what you see, you can purchase MidiShaper in our shop.

Watch an informative MidiShaper movie and get all the details here.

Switching play modes could lead to hanging notes in Curve 1.4. This is fixed now. Also, we fixed a drawing bug in the waveform area for all plugins.

Tobias Lützenkirchen is Munich's foremost electro-techno exponent, producer of 2008's German Top 10 chart hit "3 Tage Wach" and remixer for the likes of John Digweed and Coburn. When you listen to his new tracks, chances are good that you'll hear our plugins at work. As he points out:

"VolumeShaper and FilterShaper are for me the go-to bread-n-butter tools that I've used in every production every day since I've had 'em. Period."

Curve 1.4 has a feature-rich mono mode, plus legato and glide, and we've designed it all to allow you great depth of control. Not only can glide times be set in mono and legato modes, but also when playing in polyphonic mode. And glide times can be set to be constant or proportional.

But there's even more. Individual glide times can be set for each oscillator, yielding tonally rich transitions when gliding between notes, from drones and other weird effects to slick, snappy attacks.