Protected: Shake and Bake

Shakers are deceptively hard to place. Move one a few milliseconds forward or back and the whole groove can suddenly feel better, worse, lazier, tighter, or more expressive. And when you layer multiple shaker performances, tiny misalignments between their peaks create a subtle flammy blur – the kind you don’t notice until it’s fixed.

Shake and Bake fixes it in one click.

Load up to four real shaker performances – eggs, maracas, caxixi, tambourines, textures – from a library recorded by Jeroen de Rijk, a percussionist with over forty years behind the instrument and credits with Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, David Guetta, and many more. These aren’t your average recordings, they were played by hands that have shaped some of the biggest records ever made. You can also drop in your own.

The plugin automatically detects the rhythmic crests in each layer and locks them together. Then fine-tune the whole stack against the grid with the controls until it sits exactly where the track wants it.

Instead of zooming in, nudging audio by hand, and guessing why the percussion feels off, you’re auditioning pockets in seconds: per-lane level, pan, and filters, built-in reverb and delay, stereo spread, and tempo-synced playback that follows your session. When the stack starts working with the groove, drag it straight into your timeline – a single lane or the full stack renders to a WAV exactly as you hear it.