Kraftur is the long-awaited second plugin from our friends at Soundtheory - the developer behind the popular Gullfoss intelligent EQ plugin. We have the details…

Designed to ‘enrich your mix’, Kraftur offers a unique approach to loudness enhancement and saturation. 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. 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, Soundtheory claim that 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 colours, warmth and space.

As expected from Soundtheory, Kraftur has some unique features:

• Minimised 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 colour rendering pipeline based on human perception.

Pricing & Availability

Kraftur is available in AU, VST, VST3 and AAX Native formats for macOS 10.13 or greater and Windows 10 or higher. There is an introductory price of $69 until 1st September when it returns to its usual $99. A two week free trial period with full functionality is available.