“I use almost all of the Krotos Audio software for many of my projects. Krotos make such great tools for building sonic gestures quickly. I love the UI’s and the built in libraries are wonderful. Its perfect for people like me who need tools to give them results very quickly that is of high quality.”
RICHARD DEVINE
Sound Designer
Google, Valhalla, 120 days
“I must say that Weaponiser is my favourite tool in the bundle. It has so many great features and uses but for me it is most useful for getting things done quickly without giving up creativity and quality. If you ever find yourself struggling over a tedious and repetitive sound editing task….. just Weaponise It!”
STEVEN AVILA
Sound Designer
Frozen Ground, Feast, Stuck in Love, White Bird in a Blizard
DAVIDE PENSATO
Audio Director and Sound Designer
dpstudios
“Igniter is a game changer! I’ve been waiting for something like this for years!”
JOSEPH FRAIOLI
Sound Designer/Supervisor, Foley artist, Field Recordist, Music Producer
Kin, Dirty Lies, The Storming and Refuge
“You can put your mics away – this is a one stop motor shop for all your engine needs! Finally, I can drive like a lunatic and not need a seatbelt. Krotos does it again… bye bye library, hello Igniter! Thank you, Krotos!”
BENEDICT GREEN
Echo VR
“Igniter is magical. Cutting revs and piecing together vehicle content to fit a scene can be very time consuming and there are always compromises. Driving the vehicle with a MIDI controller, performing to picture, is a much faster and more intuitive approach to building scenes like this. I’ll be using this a lot!”
MARK KILBORN
Sound Designer
Call of Duty, Black Ops3, Call of Duty WWII
“Instant awesome! Forever in my toolbox. Dehumaniser helped me to generate sounds for the latest Hedgehog game, Sonic Boom, and is an inspiration for future projects. Tools like this come out about once every decade. So much fun!”
LEVON LOUIS
Audio Designer, Director
Silent Hill & Assassin’s Creed
“Really impressed with Reformer Pro. Looks fun to play with!”
ROSS TONES
Music Producer
Throwing Snow, Snow Ghosts, Heathen Rites, Alight, Everything Falls Apart, Houndstooth, Fabric
“Reformer Pro perfectly meshes the worlds of musicians and sound designers into an incredibly powerful, user friendly and inspiration tool that lets me explore avenues of programming that would have been too laborious to ever consider. It’s a radical and exciting development for music programmers and is becoming a regular part of my workflow.”
EMRE RAMAZONGLU
Musician, Engineer, Producer
Mark Ronson, Noel Gallagher, Paloma Faith, Lily Allen, Pulp, The Prodigy, Jack Savoretti
“Weaponiser is an amazing tool for designing both sci-fi and terrestrial weaponary. Another Krotos plugin I use a lot is Reformer Pro, but again I came to a process of using it that may not be its original intention. I like to use it to add layers and sweeteners to sounds, using the source as the basis of the amplitude envelope and then automating the position between custom libraries to create a variety of textural overtones that’s great for a variety of purposes.”
JOSEPH FRAIOLI
Sound Designer/Supervisor, Foley artist, Field Recordist, Music Producer
Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Kin, The Storming, Refuge and Planet Mu
“OMG!!! Finally got a day to play with Reformer Pro!! IT’S UNBELIEVABLE!!! I think it’s extraordinarily amazing!!”
BEARDYMAN
UK Beatbox Champion, Music Technologist, Musician, Engineer, Producer
“Dehumaniser is a really nice “everything in a box” tool that is perfect for creating grunts and screams for those pesky aliens, and comes with a cool set of presets that are an ideal starting point to create your own nightmares.”
DAMJAN MRAVUNAC
Sound designer, Actor and Composer
Serious Sam series, The Talos Principle
“It’s going to sound cliché, but the thing I like most about Krotos software is how innovative it is. I love how much room for experimentation it allows and how fast I can get the results I want.”
GEORGE VLAD
Sound designer, Recordist and Composer
Mindful Audio, Door Kickers Action Squad, Wordscapes, game-sounds.com
“My favorite aspect about Weaponiser is the interface. I find it facilitates creativity and makes me want to play with sound design more so than many of my other tools.”
STEPHAN SCHUTZE
Sound Designer
Barnyard, The Polar Express, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy
“WOW this is incredible.”
RICHARD DEVINE
Sound Designer
Google and Jaguar
“There is so much that can be done in Weaponiser, I had to keep re-centering myself because I kept discovering features that made me rethink what I just did.”
JIM STOUT
Sound Designer, Music Producer, Sample and Synth Programmer
Hollywood Edge, Sounds Ideas, Megasonics
“Weaponiser is an amazing tool for designing both sci-fi and terrestrial weaponry.”
JOSEPH FRAIOLI
Sound Designer
Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Kin, Dirty Lies, The Storming and Refuge
“Reformer gives any audio designer the ability to be a one-person Foley team.”
WILL MORTON
Director at Solid Audioworks
Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption
“Weaponiser is an extremely cool plugin!”
MARK KILBORN
Sound designer
Call of Duty, Black Ops3, Call of Duty WWII
“Reformer could just as easily be called “Revelation” for me – something that really stands out and is not another mundane tool or passing fad. I was excited to demo Reformer with the Krotos team at Develop, and I can’t wait to dig into all the sonic possibilities. A brilliant first step into a new workflow – I’m excited!”
PAUL LIPSON
Senior Vice President at Formosa Group/Interactive
Halo Franchise, Forza Motorsport 5, Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, Sunset Overdrive
“Reformer is insanely awesome.
PAULA FAIRFIELD
Sound Designer
Game of Thrones
“Instantly, Reformer is a brand new approach and a very creatively inspired tool. I love that I can try out a bunch of new things without having to manually dig up and place sweetener material. Now, THAT’s new! Cool and useful results are easy and fast to come by. It’s an inspiration maker! Way to go Krotos!”
DAVID FARMER
Supervising Sound Editor /
Sound Designer
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – The Hobbit Trilogy – King Kong – Ant-man – Valerian
“Dehumaniser is an incredible tool for creating unique and varied vocal sound design treatments. From animal to alien effects, it is simple to use and easily tailored. The batch function is a real timesaver for processing an entire performance efficiently. I couldn’t have created the voice of Ultron without it!”
LORA HIRSCHBERG
Oscar Winner / Re-Recording Mixer
Avengers – Inception – Lord of The Rings
“From the second I first spoke into the mic and heard the output from Reformer, I was very excited. It’s an awesome way to control the sound libraries! Very Cool!!“
BRYAN CELANO
Supervising Sound Designer
Dead Space –
‘Final Fantasy XIV – Gears of War 3 – Metal Gear Solid
“Were always aware of new software and tools out there its part of the job I guess. I downloaded Dehumaniser prototype last year and had a play with it. It’s got great potential. Your settings are pretty cool, David Farmer and I had a laugh looking through them.”
DAVE WHITEHEAD
Sound Designer / Sound Supervisor
Lord of the Rings – The Hobbit – District 9
“Reformer is an entirely new way of approaching sound design – incredibly advanced technology that allows you to instantly focus on the sound you want to create, rather than spending most of your time worrying about the practicalities of sourcing and editing individual assets.
The technology behind Reformer is a real breakthrough – but it’s the simplicity and approachability that really makes it something special. As with Dehumaniser before it, Krotos have taken something complex and made it almost invisible to the user – you simply start creating the sounds you want, and it does all the hard work for you.
Reformer completely transforms sound libraries from a static set of assets, into a dynamic living instrument that you can immediately put to almost any use you can imagine. It was amazing when I first heard it, and the finished product is just mind-blowing – a real breakthrough in how sound designers work with raw assets.”
MATTHEW SMITH
Former Audio Director
of Rockstar North
GTA V – Max Payne 3 – L.A. Noire – Red Dead Redemption
“Krotos brought their pre-production plugin, to Canongate Studios May 17 for evaluation and wow!
I’ve been in audio studios for 35 years, witnessing the exciting cross over from analogue to digital, seeing many reinvention’s of the wheel by way of reverb, delay, compressions etc. Now at last something here’s a plug in that’s really innovative, that has excited me more then anything since the arrival of AMS or the Lexicon in the 80’s.
When the director asks for a sound a bit like this or a bit like that, you search, hopefully find, measure, fit in, then often end up with something that will do, rather than what’s in their minds eye.
Reformer is helping to unshackle the restrictions of conventional SFX libraries, by literally breathing life into individual sound effects via the mic, like one would do with a vocoder, but much more versatile than that. Enabling unique creations every time, using the director or foley artistes own voice as a trigger to dynamically produce, direct and deliver their own emotion in real time on a specific sound effect.
Roar with the ferociousness of a demon or purr like a pussy cat. ADR your sound effects for animation in real time with ease. Plug in the library that is Black Leopard or Tiger. Robotic or Body sound – suddenly the subtleties, the detail, control and believe-ability are all there at your fingertips or should I say tonsil tips.
Truly something new for Post in audio.”
ALISTAIR GEORGE
Canongate Studios Edinburgh / ADR
Star Wars Rogue 1 – Trainspotting 2 – Doctor Who – Guardians of the Galaxy
“I’ve had some time to get to know Dehumaniser Pro, and if it wasn’t so scary I’d consider it my new best friend. This takes voice-changing to an entirely new level. It’s a Hollywood creature-factory on your computer. I love how Dehumaniser can be as deep as you want it to be. The ‘simple’ mode is great fun and gives you quick results – select six voice types and morph between them creating some unique otherworldly creature sounds from anyone’s voice, and of course the presets make things really quick. My first thought was that the presets will make everyone’s monsters sound the same, but in fact they sound different each time depending on the voice you feed into the software. The ‘advanced’ mode though… the fact that you can tweak how the voice changes based on the amplitude of the input is insane. You want to have a monster that is hissy and raspy when it is quiet but erupts into a boomy fire-breathing beast when it is angry? You got it. I bought the Lite version of Dehumaniser and after a few days took the plunge and upgraded to the Pro version. It might all sound a little kiss-ass, but I’m really blown away by the amount of features. Previously I would have had to use a ton of different plugins to try to come close to what Dehumaniser can do, but Dehumaniser contains everything you need in one place and it is fine-tuned to transforming normal human voices (or animals, or anything else) into incredible sounding beasts. It’s really in a league of its own, there is nothing else like it.”
WILL MORTON
Sound Designer / Dialogue Editor
GTA – L.A. Noire – Red Dead Redemption
“Dehumaniser has been such a treat for me. I love to experiment and play with new sounds and Dehumaniser not only let me throw my own material into it, but it made me laugh out loud with joy at the variation of what I got out of it. Dark and rich, complicated and wonderful, it let me keep the character of my original sounds or jump into totally new directions. The next time you have to create vocal designs, tweak something dark and un-ruly, or just go off on a tangent, Dehumaniser is a fantastic place to start!”
COLL ANDERSON
Sound Supervisor / Sound Designer
Black Swan – Resident Evil – Noah
“Reformer is a very inspiring and fun way to use sound libraries. It easily and smoothly blends into audio material, producing more detail or creating interesting sounds with a strong character on a theme the user choses.”
AXEL ROHRBACH
Founder, BOOM Library
“Krotos’ “Reformer” lets you manipulate, play or better “reform” sound effects libraries in a very fresh and intuitive way. No matter if you use it with pre-recorded sounds or in real-time with your voice as manipulator, the results are always great!”
SARO SAHIHI
Sound Designer & Founder of SoundBits