N13 users have a 50% discount voucher off the Krotos Studio custom sound effects plug-in. As far as I understand, Krotos Studio is a subscription based product. So, what do I get if I use this voucher? 50% off for a month, a year, from time to eternity?
Thanks!
i couldn’t find it as well… does anybody know if it is even good? worth the money?
I’m also waiting on this cause I tried to use the voucher for a month or a year but it didn’t work the voucher itself don’t now if Im the only one with a non-usable voucher
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I could not get my voucher to work either, I have a message out to the folks at Krotos, they’re very responsive but it is the weekend there.
As for Krotos Studio, if you are working with sound effects/design (esp to picture) this is an excellent tool. I’ve been using it for over a year and love it, it allows me to quickly create fill, digital Foley and hard SFX.
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Another plug for Krotos. I purchased one of their everything bundles at the end of last year and it’s been a life saver for quick turnarounds/low budget indie mixes!
I am considering buying Krotos Studio, but am not really sure if/how I could use it without midi keyboard.
What is the workflow with it in Nuendo? You insert it as an instrument on a MIDI track that’s routed to another audio track to which you record or is it done differently?
Hi Dante_V: JJ here from the Krotos Team, hope you had a great weekend!
You can use KS with or without a MIDI keyboard;
Without MIDI: you can use a mouse, trackpad or graphics tablet to interact with the XY pads and buttons throughout the collection of sounds. Clicking and dragging to create and manipulate sounds is a very performative and fun way to layer sounds up.
With MIDI: You can assign parameters to your MIDI keys, knobs and sliders.
For example, Note On and Off messages can used to trigger sounds with MIDI keys. You can also map the Macro dials & X and Y axes of the XY pads to sliders or knobs and other parameters. It’s all also fully automatable.
Regarding routing:
There is a drag and drop feature within Krotos Studio. any sound you create is captured and recorded automatically. You can then drag from the ’ drag recording’ button and release your click onto the timeline. This is the quickest and easiest way to get your sound effects into your project.
You can also indeed use it as a VSTi and route the audio out. This can be done to a single audio track, or you can send each corner of the XY pads out to their own audio track using the Multi-output version of the VSTi.
You could even launch the standalone version of the application and drag and drop your sounds from this too, so it is very flexible.
Hope this answers your queries, let me know if you have any more questions!
JJ Lyon,
Krotos Team
Hi All: The 50% discount voucher for Krotos Studio is for the annual subscription for your first year.
For any coupon issues, please make sure it was the annual you tried to purchase. if there are still issues let me know.
JJ Lyon
Krotos Team
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Hello JJ,
Thank you for your thorough answer.
Since I would be using KS for syncing with picture (mostly footsteps), I think the best way for me would be recording inside the DAW along with playback of the video. If I record it outside of it and just drag it on timeline, I would need to edit it then, wouldn’t I? Of course, even inside the DAW a few frames here and there would need to be nudged a little bit, but it’s there, very near the event in picture that I need to recreate.
I’ve tried the free version and am quite impressed with the idea. I used mouse for footsteps, but it wouldn’t record scuffs when I click on the corresponding GUI button. Should that one be routed differently than the other four axes?
Also, great idea for use of trackpad or graphic tablet, I’ll look into it! If it has a good workflow for what I need (in this case - footsteps are main thing for me), I’d definitely go all in.
Hey Dante!
Yes - for footsteps this is arguably the best way; personally, I set a loop of the walking footage, clicking in the XY pad until I know i have the rhythm down, then I drag the audio in when Im confident i caught it. A few little edits here and there are needed sometimes though of course!
Another way is to record the MIDI notes in, then set the note on MIDI note to match in KS ; this way you can switch presets and keep the same performance. For other things such as cloth Foley, I tend to make a handful of gestures, and chop them up, or I mimic the action that I see in the footage with the XY pad, which often feels like im actually doing the Foley which is quite rewarding!
Weve tried to make the options as versatile as possible to cover all bases, and sometimes a combination of approaches is just the ticket for a project!
JJ