XLN Audio DS-10 Drum Shaper

Awesome mixes. Fast.

Enhance your drums, beats, and loops with the twist of a knob. Get more smack in the attack. More gain in the sustain. Tight and punchy or huge and mighty: DS-10 improves your mixes in any direction. Fast.

Punch with precision
Get custom treatment for your tracks and mixes. DS-10 Drum Shaper has three modes (Kick, Snare, and Bus) individually tuned and optimized to give you the best sound for the source you want to enhance.

Great, natural sound
Say goodbye to grainy and unnatural sounding mixes. DS-10's three different settings give you creative options and provide great sounding results, regardless of what style of mix you're aiming for.

Add mojo to your mix
The powerful MOJO knob adds flavor and color just where you need it. It lets you shape the attack and punch in curated frequency bands while leaving others unaffected, opening a world of sonic awesomeness and sound design possibilities.

Get to know DS-10 Drum Shaper

• Kick mode
  The KICK mode is optimized for processing an isolated kick drum track or sample. Make your kick sound huge, fat and roomy, or dial in the perfect tight and thumpy kick to punch through your mix.

• Snare mode
  The SNARE mode is optimized for processing an isolated snare drum track or sample. Bring out that huge, ringy shotgun sound, or dial in the perfect dry, punchy snare to cut through in your mix.

• BUS mode
  The BUS mode is optimized for processing an entire drum mix. Use it when you want to enhance your drum bus or a drum loop.

• Waveform window
  The Waveform window gives you visual feedback in real-time. See how and where you shape your transients for ultimate control.

• Classic setting
  The Classic setting gives you that sharp, raw sound known from classic legacy transient shapers. This algorithm provides the popular "pumping" effect in your tracks. Great for isolated tracks and samples.

• Natural setting
  The Natural setting provides natural, artifact-free mixes, even when pushing your sound into extreme territories. Sounds great on most sources, even complex sources like full kits and drum loops.

• Smooth setting
  The Smooth setting has an extra-long release time, giving you buttery smooth, parallel compression-like results. Sounds great on most sources, even complex sources like full kits and drum loops.

• Attack
  Increase or reduce the volume of the attack portion of the sound.

• Sustain
  Increase or reduce the volume of the sustain (post-attack) portion of the sound.

• MOJO
  MOJO lets you shape the attack and punch in curated frequency bands while leaving others unaffected. Control the low-end Tightness of a kick drum, add or remove midrange Body from a snare, or tune the high-frequency Presence of a drum mix.

• Gain
  Transient shaping can add a lot of volume to your signal. Use the Output Gain to counter this, so you can better compare processed and unprocessed with the Bypass button. You can also use Gain to drive the Soft Clip circuit for some extra "crack"!

• Soft clip
  This "speaker protection" circuit both clips the output level at "0" (unity gain) and adds mild coloration/distortion - even on lower signals.

• Bypass
  Great for on/off testing. Bypass is also available in your host, but using that may cause audible glitches due to latency compensation kicking in and out. DS-10’s Bypass syncs both on and off.

FEATURES

• Make your drums, beats, and loops sound huge or tight & punchy

• Shape the attack and sustain of your drums, beats, and loops

• Fast and easy workflow - intuitive and clean interface

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MAC
macOS 10.10 or later
Plugins: VST-2, AU, AAX

WINDOWS
Windows 7-11
Plugins: VST-2, AAX