The most common way altering the dynamics of your sounds would be to use a compressor, but this can sometimes be cumbersome. A transient shaper gives you direct control over the attack and sustain of your sound souces in a simple and precise way.

Let us uncover a bunch of free transient shaper plugins so you can shape your sounds just as you’d like them!

Flux:: Bitter Sweet

If you’re looking for a transient shaper with a super simple and easy to use user interface, this is the one for you! Trun the knob to the sweet side to reduce transients, and turn it to the left to magnify transients… simples!

Kilohearts Transient Shaper

Another straight forward one here – but has all the necessary controls to perfectly shape your sounds – the addition of a sidechain, pump and clip parameters here are a nice touch!

Surreal Machines Crack

Crack from Surreal Machines is a relatively bare bones plugin with a custom limiter for peak reduction, softs analog-modeled clipping, and a maximiser tuned for use with transient materials.

Auburn Sounds Couture Free

Couture Free has all the features of the full Couture plugin except from the saturation module – it gives you exquisite control over your dynamics, and particularly attacks.

Wavesfactory Flash

Flash is a high quality transient shaper with M/S capabilities, a clipping function to never exceed 0dB, and handy mix/output volume controls.

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