Drive your sound

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.

http://soundtheory.com/kraftur

 

This video sold it for me. Sounds great.
It's a CPU hog and it's quite glitchy for me so far. Hopefully updates fix that.

 

Die Kraftuhr vom Arbeitsamt .

 

i tried it, was severely unimpressed.

 

Clippers are boring tools IMO. I just find one or two that works for me and follow my life. Youtube is popping out videos about this one, but i don't even tried because of the same amount of comments saying it's a CPU hog. I'm ok...

 

Even Sir Audio Standard Clip can be a CPU hog if you enable 32X oversampling. (or whatever oversampling it takes to lag your system). I am not going to buy this, or the 2 Schwabe clippers I demo'd. But I would certainly use them for free, or if money was no object. People are hyping this one certainly, but the developer does have Gulfoss to point at, backing up that they are *probably* not selling Snake Oil. I almost always render a bounce of any clipped channels offline. So really, CPU hog may be true; but that just means it bounces slower.

 

You just found out the reason i'm not excited about clippers. Probably the best cost benefit on a piece of software is StandardClip for it's category.

The idea of 'boutique' clippers doesn't appeal me very much, even if it's a solid dev. C'mon, it's just distortion that 99% of the time is bounced offline to avoid aliasing...

 

sometimes the people hyping stuff just want you to buy it. they are ok with the 90 day NFR because they will not be using it after they are done recording their youtube "unboxing video". And then there are some people who will say something is not good; because they either don't know how to adjust it yet, or they really like it and hope you won't buy it.

I don't think you can really learn a plugin in a month. You know right away if it is great, or really bad. But in that grey area, you have to actually try it on more than just a few tracks to see if you like it enough to buy it.

 

thats why the only 2 channels smeone must know for this sort is worral's and https://www.youtube.com/@mixingwithmike/videos

 

The multi-band mode on Kraftur can produce some really nice results, mainly referring to what I have heard off of YouTube. The price is your project CPU.

 

Do you ever automate the parameters of a clipper plugin? I can't remember ever doing that. I almost always use the highest oversampling multiple I can and then print the effect directly to the audio. Then I mute and hide it. If I really want to use a clipper and do not want to bounce it yet, for whatever reason; I will use a lighter clipper plugin until I am ready to print that stem. The Black Salt BSA Clipper is nice for that, as it has very few options it's fast and light. The new version of bx_clipper has lots more features and it is still pretty light. I would compare this one with Gold Clip or Orange Clip, which are both on the heavy side. I'm going to withhold judgement on this one, and then I probably still won't buy it anyway.

 

I'll copy and paste what I posted on the sister site:

Windows 11 pro PC, 32 GB ram, i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz, 2TB SSD, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Legit Studio One 6.5: Works, all functions work. Severe CPU spikes, especially when pushing hard into the distortion/clipping heavily. To be expected.
Accessing the Studio One plugin dropdown menu (the menu that has the option to save the plugin thumbnail) of this plugin makes S1 freeze up for about 20 seconds or so. It also seems to spread this glitch to other plugin windows as well, not just the Kraftur window. It works fine as long as I don't try to access this dropdown menu at all.

I think this is an issue with S1. The last update seemed to mess with it's graphics compatibility a little for me. Worth noting that this only seems to happen with this plugin.

Legit Reason 13: Works. Opens to a black window. Window stays black until I resize the window, then the picture pops in and I can use the plugin. Not as many random CPU spikes, but heavy CPU when pushing the distortion heavy.

Legit FL Studio 2024: No issues. Flawless.

A CPU hog, but when I got it to work I got great results. The multiband features are great.
It uses too much cpu to make heavy distortion practical. But it does subtle hi-fi sheen/enhancement very well.

 

Do you really think it is fair to call something a "cpu hog" when you are running it on a machine with this CPU? Any of the better clippers are somewhat resource heavy if you try to use them as realtime effects. Especially at higher oversampling rates.

 

SIR Audio Standard Clip doesn't perform this badly for me. That's my go-to clipper.
But I agree, this machine that I purchased two years ago for $1500 is already feeling ancient, especially now that more efficient ARM chips are becoming popular.
I promise I did the best I could with my lil' $1500. You would think that would buy me a capable machine that remains capable for years to come.
Yet here we are.
I suppose I should learn from this. I'll write a song about it.