8008 - 808 Sub Bass Shaper: Bass Processing Plugin by Thenatan Audio

The transient shaper works inside a frequency band you choose, so you can add click above the fundamental without smearing the sub underneath. The developer says the band split is done by subtraction, which keeps the two halves recombining cleanly.

A cut on sustain turns a long 808 into a tighter, kick-like hit in one move. The Monitor button solos the band being shaped, which makes it quick to set by ear.

The bell filter is locked to 30-150Hz, the range where sub fundamentals sit, with variable Q from narrow to broad and up to +18dB of lift.

The plugin includes eight saturation characters, ordered from gentle to extreme so one Drive control moves through a continuous range. Drive is gain-compensated, so more drive adds harmonics rather than volume.

The compressor uses a single Punch knob that moves threshold, ratio, attack and release together. Thenatan Audio says the attack timing is limited so it does not distort a single waveform cycle at 40-60Hz. Mix control allows parallel compression.

The mono stage uses one filter, with a variable crossover from 20-500Hz and a continuous amount control. At zero amount it is bit-transparent.