Another saturation plugin? Soundtheory KRAFTUR
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2024
- Kraftur is the second by Soundtheory and it is a multiband saturation plugin - but does it offer anything new?
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''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.'' 
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I just bought it 3 hours ago and I can say that it is fantastically versatile and incredibly accurate! I am impressed with this plugin!🥰
How much?
@@TropicIslandMusic 68 euro
Wow! This is a video I've been waiting and waiting for since, well, OK, last Thursday...😃
Another great and to the point video in your typical no BS fashion and I learned a lot.
Thanks, Marlon!
I always wondered if Soundtheory was going to release another plugin or not. I'm happy to see that they have. Intro price of $70 is tempting me to make the purchase this week.
Ultimately it`s all about the sound. This sounds good. I have plenty of valve gear for saturation, and plenty of plugins, but this still interests me.
It looks great and the approach in the user interface is interesting, but I'm not sure if I can't achieve all that with saturn 2 which has a more open approach.
its kind of like inflator with more user controls? about to try it out.
Thanks for the demo, Marlon.
It looks and sounds good, I'm going to hold off as I'm still enjoying my Schwabe Gold and Orange Clip plugins with Softube or SSL X-Saturation, Vintage Drive for saturation.
Oh I absolutely love this. Glad to see you doing a video on it. It's basically on all my drum tracks now. I just wish Andreas would add a GR meter to it. Well, that's my personal wishlist. Though, even in it absence, Kraftur works great and the ability to create such depth and layers to your sound is immensely helpful.
Yeh GR meter does go along way 👏🏾
What’s the song name/artist used for this example? It’s great! Intro song w vocals and the first instrumental.
Thanks for the great review also!
I really wanna grab this & gullfoss, but their licensing only last for 25 years each plugin
Excellent review, as usual. Would you use this for mastering instead of a clipper?
You could, but i would rather use it in the mix
@@whitenoisestudioI tried it on the master instead of the usual clipper. It was very gooey and warm. Color me impressed.
So if I have Saturn 2 I do not need Kraftur?
That's what I'm wondering too. 🤔
could potentially achieve same ends with Saturn + a clipper. though with this built specifically for main purpose of boosting overall loudness of the mix and doing it rather well, might take alot more trial-and-error to tweak all the different options with Saturn.
could test & compare. though given Soundtheory's track record and detail they've put into the algorithms with the focused intention for this, wouldn't be surprised if this still proved its value quickly. would also probably depend on the quality of the other clipper you used - something like Gold Clip coming out on top of cheaper options.
@@RokSivante I never put Saturn 2 onto master chain at least for the loudness per say. Just got handy with Standard Clip, used IK one usually. 2 in 1 sounds lLike good option.
Idk about internal oversampling, but I've tested it for aliasing and it does alias a lot. Also I did oversample it thrue a metaplugin and it did solve the problem, so i guess where is no automatic oversampling inside, since it would automaticly change when I use oversampling in metaplugin, and it didn't.
So I would rather oversample it externally, or lower the HF drive, turn off the clip selling and use your own clipper at the end.
or maybe it's just a bug? did anyone test it too?
I have to recall from memory since my trial has expired. I can't remember having lots of aliasing with normal amounts - and using higher sample rates did push that aliasing way above Nyquist for sure. Make sure to test with different test frequencies as well.
But if you compare it with a saturation plugin that doesn't oversample at default settings you will see a big difference in aliasing amounts - I found Kraftur to be pretty aliasing-free from the get go.
@@whitenoisestudio 48k it's audible with a test tone, on 96k it's almost clean. It maybe a bug tho
I WANT IT =)))
Need that song 1:22
Potentially the best plug-in ever
Agree. Together with PRO-Q3😊
5:46 Apparently the plugin uses minimum phase crossovers rather than linear phase to get this zero latency - as a result you're going to get phasing issues around each band
The bands are fine... non-linear phase crossovers exist... but you cannot use it as a send effect or in parallel processing naively (you could make it work with a second instance of Kraftur though that's simply set 100% dry)
No GR metering makes this useless to me for mastering
Hmmm... Is probably really, very good.... But being Sound Theory it's going to be very expensive..... This seems very flexible and intuitive to use.... But It's probably a bit of a luxury item.... If you already have good, flexible saturation that you know how to use.
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Could be improved by having mid side saturation
I consider this a design desaster. Basically the 2/3 of the plugin to the right are mostly useless eye candy. Trying to compare the input (x-axis) to the output (y-axis) spectrum drove me crazy. The whole flickering mess discourages or even hinders just hearing what's going on with the sound. It might sound great, but this to me is a big failure.