SHAPER
a new way to make music
with short introduction
with short introduction
with continuous explanation
with continuous explanation
What is a Shaper?
At first glance, the Shaper’s fretboard may look familiar to a guitar player.
But that familiarity ends there!
The Shaper is a synthesiser controller which has strings instead of a keyboard.
The Shaper brings human expression to synth voices, creating spontaneous bends, slides, vibrato, glissando and portamento effects familiar to players of non-keyboard instruments such as the saxophone, slide guitar, trombone, fretless bass, violin, pedal-steel, clarinet, electric guitar etc…
Also, each string on the Shaper can have its own MIDI channel. Which means that each string on the Shaper can have it's own, individual synth voice and, unlike a keyboard with a single, global pitch wheel, each string on the Shaper has its own, independent MIDI pitch bender.
But the Shaper doesn't just shape the pitch of each string as you play. With the Shaper's unique bend & sustain feature (if you bend the pitch of a note, you can take your hand off the string, and leave the note sustaining at the pitch to which you bent it), new possibilities in counterpoint, harmony and chord structure can be shaped, string by string, during live performance - in ways that are impossible on a keyboard or a guitar.
Whether you are a performer, a producer, a DJ who mixes things up, or you create fusions of music and sound F/X for stage or screen, imagine what the Shaper - a new way to make music - will do for you.
What will you sound like in the future?
Links:
• GUITARISTS – PLEASE READ THIS
• licensors / licensees / manufacturers
Owner:
The Shaper is designed and manufactured by Rush Systems Ltd in Oxford, UK.
Website:
www.rushsystemsltd.com
To contact us:
click here for the Contact Page
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The Shaper is a synthesiser controller which has strings instead of a keyboard.
The Shaper brings human expression to synth voices, creating spontaneous bends, slides, vibrato, glissando and portamento effects familiar to players of non-keyboard instruments such as the saxophone, slide guitar, trombone, fretless bass, violin, pedal-steel, clarinet, electric guitar etc…
Also, each string on the Shaper can have its own MIDI channel. Which means that each string on the Shaper can have it's own, individual synth voice and, unlike a keyboard with a single, global pitch wheel, each string on the Shaper has its own, independent MIDI pitch bender.
But the Shaper doesn't just shape the pitch of each string as you play.
With the Shaper's unique bend & sustain feature (if you bend the pitch of a note, you can take your hand off the string, and leave the note sustaining at the pitch to which you bent it), new possibilities in counterpoint, harmony and chord structure can be shaped, string by string, during live performance - in ways that are impossible on a keyboard or a guitar.
Whether you are a performer, a producer, a DJ who mixes things up, or you create fusions of music and sound F/X for stage or screen, imagine what the Shaper - a new way to make music - will do for you.
What will you sound like in the future?
Links:
• GUITARISTS – PLEASE READ THIS
• licensors / licensees / manufacturers
Owner:
The Shaper is designed and manufactured by Rush Systems Ltd in Oxford, UK.
Website:
www.rushsystemsltd.com
To contact us:
click here for the Contact Page
or
Email us on:
The Shaper is a synthesiser controller which has strings instead of a keyboard.
The Shaper brings human expression to synth voices, creating spontaneous bends, slides, vibrato, glissando and portamento effects familiar to players of non-keyboard instruments such as the saxophone, slide guitar, trombone, fretless bass, violin, pedal-steel, clarinet, electric guitar etc…
Also, each string on the Shaper can have its own MIDI channel. Which means that each string on the Shaper can have it's own, individual synth voice and, unlike a keyboard with a single, global pitch wheel, each string on the Shaper has its own, independent MIDI pitch bender.
But the Shaper doesn't just shape the pitch of each string as you play. With the Shaper's unique bend & sustain feature (if you bend the pitch of a note, you can take your hand off the string, and leave the note sustaining at the pitch to which you bent it), new possibilities in counterpoint, harmony and chord structure can be shaped, string by string, during live performance - in ways that are impossible on a keyboard or a guitar.
Whether you are a performer, a producer, a DJ who mixes things up, or you create fusions of music and sound F/X for stage or screen, imagine what the Shaper - a new way to make music - will do for you.
What will you sound like in the future?
Links:
• GUITARISTS – PLEASE READ THIS
• licensors / licensees / manufacturers
Owner:
The Shaper is designed and manufactured by Rush Systems Ltd in Oxford, UK.
Website:
www.rushsystemsltd.com
To contact us:
click here for the Contact Page
or
Email us on:
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© 2026 Rush Systems Ltd – All Rights Reserved – Patent Pending