Your Favorite Plugins. No Fixed Effects Rack.
ShaperBox modulates the effects built into ShaperBox. Stride puts the knobs on your own synths and effects in motion. Choose the tools you love, map what you want to move, and hear new variations across the chain.
| Comparison | The engineStride | The alternativeShaperBox |
|---|---|---|
| Which effects you use | Your choice of supported synths and effects, hosted together in Stride. | The Shaper effects built into ShaperBox. |
| Where modulation reaches | Inside your synth and across the FX you've mapped. | Inside ShaperBox's own processing modules. |
| Changing the source | Move a synth's mapped wavetable, warp, filter or macro controls. | Shape the audio arriving from the synth. |
| Expanding your sound | Load another favorite effect and add its controls to the canvas. | Combine the Shapers in the ShaperBox effects suite. |
| Trying another take | Roll new movements across unlocked lanes. Keep the curves you like. | Draw and combine movement in its Shaper effects. |
| The reason to choose Stride | Build moving sounds with the tools that already define your setup. | Choose ShaperBox for its own shaping engines and multiband processing. |
You're not choosing a new set of effects. You're getting more from yours.
Good to know
- Stride hosts VST3 plugins on Windows and macOS, and AU plugins on macOS.
- Map the controls you want to move before creating motion.
- Third-party instruments and effects are sold separately.
ShaperBox is a trademark of its owner. Stride is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Details are based on publicly available product information, checked October 2026.
Your favorite synths. Your favorite effects. More sounds hiding inside them.
Somewhere in your setup
is a sound you haven't met.
24 hours, fully unlocked, on your own tracks. Then one purchase: $99.