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Soundtheory Kraftur v1.0.7-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 17 Oct 2024 | 9.4MB
Kraftur has been carefully engineered to enrich your mix, allowing you to increase power while preserving the original integrity of its dynamics. Using new, proprietary DSP methods, Kraftur relies on innovative algorithms to avoid artifacts that come with more traditional approaches to soft clipping. Kraftur can also add clarity, punch or pleasant warmth to almost any audio material.

Shape your power
Used on the mix bus, Kraftur helps increase the power of the signal while containing the signal peaks. It can excite the top end to introduce more detail, depth and crispness.

On individual mix elements such as vocals, drums or strings Kraftur is very effective for adding frequency-specific saturation while maintaining the quality and dynamics of the original material. You can add extra punch to your drums, add more presence to your vocals and add clarity to your strings.

When driven harder, Kraftur can also sculpt your sound by inducing pleasant distortion to create some unique colors, warmth and space.

Kraftur makes your audio sound fuller and denser.

As expected from Soundtheory, Kraftur has some unique features:
Minimized aliasing and intermodulation distortion due to unique oversampling and DSP algorithms.
An innovative triangular blend control that allows the user to mix seamlessly between single and multi-band processing.
Fine tuning of the distortion curve, which allows the sound to be more punchy or more dense.
A state-of-the-art MATCH mode that dynamically compensates for loudness, so you can hear what Kraftur is adding to your sound without fooling your ears.
Three frequency bands, with control over their individual distortion curves and their frequency ranges.
Soundtheory's new VisionTone color rendering pipeline based on human perception.

A witch says,

* No iLok Driver installation is required to run.

* Our release loads faster and uses less memory than legit version.




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comments

  Resident 20.09.2012 5 436
+338
That one has recently started living on my 2 bus. I will definitely buy it if it ever get on sale.

Changelog:
v1.0.7 (2024-10-01)
• Improved accuracy for the band split.
• Improved accuracy for match.
• New preference for linking gain and ceil.
• New preference for refresh rate.
• Soloing a band is now level-matched when match is engaged
  Member 14.12.2020 1 223
+421
Soundtheory Kraftur Changelog
v1.0.7 (2024-10-01)
• Improved accuracy for the band split.
• Improved accuracy for match.
• New preference for linking gain and ceil.
• New preference for refresh rate.
• Soloing a band is now level-matched when match is engaged.
  Member 4.05.2021 467
+228
thanks to R2R I am testing this plugin very deeply and I think it is very good. Not yet convinced 100% but on blackfriday should be among what I will buy

DECIBELLE
  Member 19.12.2022 2 214
+114
Last time I tried this there was massive phase shift due to the multiband operation without a way to fix it. Has this been addressed by the "Improved accuracy for the band split." change note?
  Member 14.12.2020 1 223
+421
I hope they did, i liked it once using it on the mix bus then i started using it in "Single" Mode, not even blending between the dry and processed, anyway the change log doesn't specify which has been changed in details...

[EDIT] i installed this one, checked plugin doctor, still the phase issue, checked in the DAW and it's zero latency, means they not using linear phase or whatsoever for the crossovers , will be risky to use in a mix bus / mastering situation.
  Member 4.05.2021 467
+228
yeah I confirm that it's phasey AF but I wouldnt use a tool like with the mix knob on the stereo buss. Never ever. And I have to say that I didnt test it that much like that. Also, the multiband saturation has not the same mojo of the full band, at least for me. I have the same feeling with Kclip in multiband mode, which is not phasey but doesnt sound as good as mono band

that said I think that the saturation it can achive sounds unique, and the clipper is also very interesting
  Resident 14.05.2017 650
+189
Does this version works for you? I get that black gui glitch back again on Reaper and Reason.
  Member 21.09.2023 2 655
+370
i could not get into this plugin for the life of me.. sounded thin, brittle and harsh, plasticy and flat. Fake if you will. Ill give it another go based on some of the comments here, maybe my ears were broken that day
  Resident 15.11.2020 1 756
+202
I'll wait for your review.
  Resident 29.11.2020 29 2990
+3026
wouldn't say it's plasticky or flat but it's unpleasant yes, a little harsh and brittle if pushed. It's a clipper btw, I don't expect it to be pleasant or sweet, just transparent if possible but couldn't achieve that with this. This plugin makes all the transient goes super sharp and bright, will undo all the fine tuning you've done prior to it just like that.
  Resident 15.11.2020 1 756
+202
So, can we call it as "work destructor"?, what if applyed before further eq & general mix polishing?
  Member 4.05.2021 467
+228
I have to say that I am using it in certain situations with good results, but I "mixed into it" after I had set up a couple of presets, put on my ST BUSS and mixed into it.

-no mix knob
-no multiband saturation

thats my experience
  Member 18.03.2020 145
+27
Like I said to my friends... its nice for drums. Or something with some spikes... for the rest I prefer any other compressor on the market.

"Its not a compressor blablabla" I said it is? lol
  Member 15.10.2017 1427
+540
It claims to preserve the integrity of the dynamics.
Well, what is the "integrity" of the dynamics?

Isn't it like saying "I will fuck your daughter, but she will remain a virgin"?
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  Resident 15.02.2019 331
+178
it's more like bragging about f-in' someone's daughter but actually doin' jack s@#t.
  Resident 22.08.2013 55 286
+1644
Didn't find any useful cases for this. I really spent over an hour on different material. A good clipper like StandardCLIP works better (sounds better).
Weird choices on the settings you can do (or not do!).
  Member 29.11.2014 44
+60
This release unfortunately doesn't seem to work properly. VST3 freezes Bitwig.
  Resident 20.09.2012 5 436
+338
It's ironic that people look at a character tool and think to themself,''Humm, it should be transparent.''
It would be like putting aside my EQP1A, my Vari-Mu and my Tape machine because they introduce phase shifting.
Sometime I'm wondering if people are actually into music engineering or if they are building themself a Audio circuit engineering second life. WTF was those comments about phase shifting and transparency in a saturator
I couldn't make this up even if I wanted. That was epic !!!
It almost felt like visiting Audio Science Review to join a group of spreadsheet warriors to talk trash against ATC's monitors or the Mytek Brooklyne DAC because you don't know any better and you're looking to be part of the group....
  Resident 29.11.2020 29 2990
+3026
because they advertised it :

preserving the original integrity of its dynamics


and it's wrong to expect it to be transparent ? read about the product a bit maybe. to dumb it down as saturator and think it should do what distortion should is just weird. it can act like saturator (every plugin is) but it's mainly a multiband clipper that can preserve dynamics, at least what they advertised it to be. Preserving dynamics suppose to be transparent.

oh that phase shifting in question is the multiband crossover phase shifting which aint no "character" bs, that's just error in DSP filter design. a mb crossover phase shift will cause smearing thus will make the clipping stage not accurate and introduced unwanted phase cancelation. impossible to preserve the dynamics that way. if there's one topic to discuss about this plugin, that one should be top priority.
  Resident 20.09.2012 5 436
+338
Palmface.
  Resident 14.05.2017 650
+189
The "graphical glitch that would slowly render the entire GUI
black." issue that was fixed on the previous version is back again, making the plugin basically unusable.
At this point i don't know if it's something protection related, 'cause i can't find anyone talking about this issue around the internet.
  Resident 15.02.2019 331
+178
Yes, black screen for me too, but I had it in 1.0.6 also so which one was OK, 1.0.5?
  Resident 14.09.2013 9 671
+440
I confirm not only the VST3 is buggey on first use but then when ever you recall your session it stop playing until it's bypassed
No go " (
  Moderator 4.06.2022 6 2622
+1864
Which DAW/ OS?
  Moderator 4.06.2022 6 2622
+1864
Is it working without any issues for anybody?
  Resident 15.11.2020 1 756
+202
Here is working fine, at least I've tried it twice, no major issues, just a very little blured at gui level. Anyway I use to work in UI mode (Reaper).

Edit; Win 10 22H2, Phenom II 1100T, ATI RD980/RD990 PCI Express (...very outdated to run some plugins, as Ampbox v1.4.2, MLC Sub_Zero, etc. ). VC++ runtimes x86/x64; 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015-2022. EdgeView2.
  Resident 14.05.2017 650
+189
Not for me, a previous "glirch" that they said it was fixed appararently is not, gui becomes slowly black, happens on every daw i have, Reaper, Reason and Live. Win 10 here.
  Resident 15.11.2020 1 756
+202
...just in case, there's a command which helps in several ways after major OS updates;

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

If you run it, restart your system, run CCleaner & check the plugin again. I've made a .bat for it given that I've found it pretty useful.
  Resident 14.05.2017 650
+189
That is not the problem, my OS runs perfectly fine, i have a ton of plugins and 99% of that work, i have a problem only with this and in the previous version it was listed as a bug from the developer itself so they probably didn't solve this situation complòetely, we'll see in the next version. I don't need to run DISM, plus i don't recommend ccleaner AT ALL, if you wanna unistall plugin correctly and leftovers just use BCUninstaller and then use Everything app to search for leftovers plus some RegSeeker for registry keys, CCleaner has been already hacked in the past, again, i won't recommend it at all https://thehackernews.com/2018/04/ccleaner-malware-attack.html
  Resident 15.11.2020 1 756
+202
Never experimented nothing like that about CCleaner, perhaps altered installers (as in millons of cases) has turning around the www. Beyond that I patiently study everything that I install & recommend through Netscan, Nmap & DNSQuerySniffer. Anyway, thx for the advice.

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