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Sci-Fi Sound Design Contest Winners

You’ve shown us your best Sci-Fi Explosions sounds, and we’ve chosen the winners! A huge thanks to everyone who took part in our Explosions Sound Design Contest! We had an amazing 121 entries and were incredibly impressed with all the creative work submitted. Our contest judge Paul Stoughton has gone through every one of them, and we’re pleased to announce the winners!

1st Prize Winner – Toma Andre

Prize: Weaponiser Fully Loaded & Explosive Energy Sound Effects Library.

What Toma said about the entry:

“For this contest, I started by creating new recordings of my home items with my MixPre 3 ver.2 in 96Khz 32bit float. I used two small-diaphragm condenser microphones in Mid-Side and a large-diaphragm condenser microphone.

I recorded some fluffy bed covers for Foley and impacts, and I also used a newspaper, a pillow to hit things and a cardboard box that slid on the wooden floor, and some extra things in the kitchen. Quickly, I realized that I will have to ditch my Mid-Side recordings because they weren’t impressive enough for my purpose. I relied only on the JZ Vintage11 microphone that really has a larger than life sound.

After sorting, cleaning, and levelling my recordings, I started to experiment with everything. First, I used 4 tracks divided into different frequency ranges to create the initial hit. Then I used 4 more tracks to design the rising smoke, in this case, I used the bed cover and cardboard box foley.

Two tracks at the bottom of the session were created using a sticky tape source, which helped to add a bit of roughness to the sound for the explosive. The last part of video (short electric charge) was designed using 4 tracks mixing my voice, scratching the cardboard and a small kitchen tool. After some trial and error, I pitched, stretched, slow-downed until I could get the right timing and sound colour.

The final step was refining EQ, adding Reverb and I used a multi-effect plugin named CamelPhat (not available anymore) that is originally intended to heavy lift the drums, bass, and guitar. In this specific case, it was useful to put some spice in the recordings and also adding distortion, bass, flange, and more to each layer. Once everything was done on the plug-in side, I adjusted the timings a bit more carefully and volume automation of the different layers and did simple mastering in order to keep some nice dynamic range.“

Watch Toma’s Sound Design Process: What Paul Stoughton said:

“This entry stood out in how well it sold the visual. The transient and body of the explosion had a clean, natural aesthetic that created a solid foundation of believability. I loved the slow flange on the tail to sell the plume and the tastefully understated accent on the lightning energy flash.”

2nd Prize Winner Kevin Gillen

Prize: Explosive Energy Sound Effects Library.

What Kevin said about the entry:

“First off I broke the sound down into categories: Impact, Build, Lightning, and Rumble. I knew it would be a challenge to create something so massive and dense sounding, so I was constantly thinking about how to make the sound dynamic.

I started with impacts, so I recorded my freezer door and oven. I recorded Henry the hoover and water spraying for the rest of the SFX, and I was good to go! I layered and EQ’d my best picks and combined them with a very sharp kick and sub. The recorded freezer and oven hits were sent to a bus for some heavy compression and dirt processing.

I reversed the hoover turning off to get a ramp up and build throughout the explosion using Manipulator to mangle and Logic’s Phase Distortion for electrical nastiness. I also time-stretched the grill hit SFX to add more sonic madness.

I had made recordings of my garden hose, so I took one of them and heavily filtered and compressed it to get that building intensity of the blast rumble and cloud rising. I then filtered some nasty noise I made in Pigments to beef it up, and used a high pass version of the same noise for the lightning strike.

I bounced all sections out, and when I listened back I decided I needed a more snappy attack, so I created some white noise and ran them through a lot of distortion to get that magic attack sound. Finally, I gave everything a quick polish, and it was done.“

Watch Kevin’s Sound Design Process: What Paul Stoughton said:

“I loved the aggression of this one. From the long lead-in to the sharp initial transient and vocal undertones of the body, this explosion created a sense of intensity that carried me through the entire sound.”

3rd Prize Winner Juuso Tolonen

Prize: Explosive Energy Sound Effects Library.

What Juuso said about the entry:

My original recordings were all made in the kitchen. I recorded frying food, hitting a drinking flask, grating, and kicking random stuff in the kitchen. My recorded sounds from around the house mixed with synthesised sounds, and a lot of processing!

Watch Juuso’s Sound Design Process: What Paul Stoughton said:

“This was my favorite “impressionistic” explosion. Though it deviated a bit from selling the visual, the originality of the design stood out in a big way. Very impressive use of tonality and envelope.”

Honorable Mentions: The Best Behind the Scenes Entries!

We’ve selected three additional winners, who deserve a bonus prize for their best ‘Behind the Scenes’ video entries. We’ve given these three entries a bonus prize: A copy of Simple Concept!

1: Britni Rausch: 2: Alex Ice: 3: Lewis MacDonald:

Thanks to everyone who took part and all the work you’ve put into this. A big shout-out to Paul Stoughton for helping us make this contest happen.

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Krotos in Conversation at Mix Presents Sound for Film & TV

Krotos are pleased to support this year’s Mix Presents Sound for Film & TV: Awards Season – an event that took place virtually to celebrate the year’s best creative talent in film and television sound.

While 2020 has been a challenging year, there’s been so much support and resilience from all sides of the industry, and we’ve seen incredible achievements in film and TV! We’re excited to have had a chance to celebrate all this amazing work at the event.

If you missed it, you can catch up and watch our video from the event agenda again now!

Krotos interview with James David Redding III, Steven Avila, Branko Neskov & Tony Gibson.

Krotos’ founder & CEO Orfeas Boteas is joined by Steven Avila (Warner Brothers), Tony Gibson (Molinare), Branko Neskov (Loudness Films), and James David Redding III (JDR3 Productions), who share their experiences of how their Krotos products helped them complete their projects during a time of restrictions and limitations.

Speaking in the video:

James David Redding III, Sound Designer / Re-Recording Mixer, (JDR3 Productions)

Steven Avila, Sound Designer, (Warner Brothers / Sony Pictures)

Branko Neskov, c.a.s., Sound Designer / Re-Recording Mixer, (Loudness Films)

Tony Gibson, Sound Designer (Molinare)

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Sci-Fi Explosion Sound Design Contest Have your sound design judged by Paul Stoughton

To celebrate the new Explosive Energy Library by Paul Stoughton, Krotos & Penguin Grenade are running a sound design contest.

Take part in the contest by submitting your best sound design for a sci-fi explosion clip. Be as creative as you like, but limit yourself to using only your own recordings from around the house, which is how Paul Stoughton designed the Explosive Energy Library.

“Explosive Energy started as a challenge to myself. Sometimes I like to impose strict limitations on what I can use to design something, finding that it can be more inspiring to be backed into a corner than having every tool at your disposal. I wanted to make explosions only from processed source recordings from inside my apartment. Slapping cushions, stomping on the floor, swinging pillowcases, blowing on microphones, anything I could think of was fair game.” – Paul Stoughton Read Interview What are the rules?

• Create your own sound design for the video
• Use only your own recordings from around your home (or studio)
• You can use synths and instruments
• No real explosions, obviously!!! Stay safe!
• Process the sounds in any way you like
• You can use any Krotos software or demo, but you don’t have to!
• You cannot use the sound libraries from your Krotos software (or any other libraries)
• We encourage you to save footage and recordings of your process, and winners will be asked to detail their process on the Krotos blog
• Music is not required, but you’re welcome to include it
• Submit one entry per person

What can you win?

• Entries will be judged by Paul Stoughton & the Krotos team
• 1st prize: Explosive Energy Library & Weaponiser Fully Loaded
• 2nd & 3rd Prizes: Explosive Energy Library

How to take part:

Download the footage and design your own sound. Once you’re ready, sign up through the form below to upload your video!

Your video can be uploaded to Youtube, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Entries will be judged by Paul Stoughton & Krotos, and it does not matter which platform you choose to upload your video to from the list below!

Entries close 1st February 2021 When will the winners be announced?

Thanks for all your amazing entries to the contest! It’s been fantastic seeing your creativity with the contest. The entries are now with Paul Stoughton for judgement, which may take a few days to go through.

Once we’ve gone through the entries and picked our winners, we’ll send everyone who took part an email, so keep an eye out! Good luck!

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Sci-Fi Explosion Sound Design at Home Contest with Krotos & Penguin Grenade

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New: Next-Gen Sci-Fi Explosion Sound Design by Paul Stoughton

We’re excited to introduce The Explosive Energy sound effects library by Penguin Grenade – a specialised sound design toolkit built for creating next-gen sci-fi explosion sounds, with full creativity.

Recorded and designed by award-winning sound designer Paul Stoughton (Skywalker Sound / Star Wars VR), this must-own collection has now been adapted as a straight out-of-the-box Weaponiser library, offering you enhanced explosive power for your next Sci-Fi project.

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After working as Audio Lead in Immersive Audio at Skywalker Sound, Paul embarked on a journey to bring his Sci-Fi sound design explorations to the market. Read our interview with Paul to hear about his backrgound, his process for creating sound libaries, and what it was like working on Star Wars VR.

Read The Interview » Sci-Fi Explosions Sound Design Contest

To celebrate the new Explosive Energy Sound Library release, we’re running a special sound design contest with Paul Stoughton! Download the explosion video and create your best sound design for it for a chance to win a number of prizes. Enter now!

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Designing Sound Libraries for Hyperspace

Krotos are excited to introduce the new Explosive Energy Sound Library: a game-changing Sci-Fi Explosions Sound Effects Library by award-winning sound designer Paul Stoughton (Skywalker Sound / Star Wars VR). After working as Audio Lead in Immersive Audio at Skywalker Sound, Paul embarked on a journey to bring his Sci-Fi sound design explorations to the market. Read the interview below to hear all about it!

1. Hi Paul, thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. Is it a busy time for you at the moment? What have you been working on recently?

Hey! I’m fortunate to be pretty busy at the moment. I’ve officially launched Penguin Grenade as an audio outsourcing business as well as a sound library provider. I’ve been working with the amazing audio team over at Gearbox for the last few months, and then will be moving on to new exciting projects starting in March.

2. We’re curious to find out a bit more about your background. How did you get into your field, and what made you start Penguin Grenade, and releasing your own libraries?

I went to a small digital arts college in Emeryville, CA called Ex’pression. I had been a musician most of my life and was planning on getting into music recording/production. A while into school, when I found out what sound design was and got my first opportunities to create sound for picture, I was hooked. The last class I took before graduating was game audio. I knew right away that it was what I wanted to do. I loved the process of switching between the creative and the technical, allowing each to inform the other. Right before graduation a friend got me an opportunity to take over his contract as an Audio Support Engineer at EA, helping their interactive teams who at the time were working on games like Dead Space II and Dante’s Inferno. That was the start of the last 11 years, which spanned many studios and teams that I had the great privilege of learning from.

I started making libraries last year partly as a way to get better at specific areas of sound design but mostly to release sound into the wild and unleash its full potential through the creativity of others. An unexpected benefit has been all the sound people that I’ve gotten to talk to who I otherwise wouldn’t have met. I enjoyed that so much that I started a policy where if you purchase a library I’ll jump on a video chat and answer any questions you have about how the content was recorded or designed. Just get in touch after you purchase the library through Krotos!

3. We’d like to hear more about your work on Star Wars VR! What’s it like stepping into the Star Wars Universe as a sound designer?

I learned so much about sound by working on Star Wars VR titles. Doing it as an employee of Skywalker Sound added an extra dimension, since the sonic legacy was all around me. The biggest challenge was maintaining the integrity of the legacy content while giving it the depth and believability needed for something that you can interact within virtual reality. A great example is the light saber. Cutting saber swings to picture is a whole different ball game than designing content for and tuning a dynamic system that responds to your slightest inputs and still “feels” like the user would expect. It takes a while, but you tend to get a sixth sense for what does and doesn’t fit into the universe.

4. Has your work in Immersive Audio and Game Audio influenced your process for creating sound libraries?

My process for library creation is inseparable from my game audio background. The whole idea of making a modular library of interchangeable parts was what started the first library (Pulse Energy Weapons), which was similar to how I’ve designed layered weapon systems in video games. This fit perfectly into the Weaponiser workflow, which to me was similar to what I’d do in game audio middleware. Even in linear design, the speed at which I can generate unique content is greatly improved when I have these kits of modular sonic parts.

About This Library » 5. You’ve just released the Explosive Energy Library for Weaponiser. How did this library come together, and what was your inspiration for it?

Explosive Energy started as a challenge to myself. Sometimes I like to impose strict limitations on what I can use to design something, finding that it can be more inspiring to be backed into a corner than having every tool at your disposal. I wanted to make explosions only from processed source recordings from inside my apartment. Slapping cushions, stomping on the floor, swinging pillowcases, blowing on microphones, anything I could think of was fair game. The design relied heavily on processing since these raw recordings were far from where they needed to end up. For the more synthetic results, wavetables were created from source and used in Serum. At the end of the process I feel like I discovered many more interesting techniques than I would have given no limitations on what I could record.

6. Are there any productions that influenced your approach to Sci-Fi and weapon sound, or anything you’ve seen recently that stood out to you?

I’m a huge fan of the work Travis Naas did on the weapons in COD Advanced Warfare. He was nice enough to share some insight on his process when I reached out, so much of my approach is inspired by him. As for film/tv inspiration, there are too many to name. While I was making the Pulse Energy Weapons Library, I was watching the first season of Altered Carbon on Netflix, and was really impressed by the weapon design in that.

7. As a Weaponiser user, how do you incorporate your Krotos software into your work? Any cool tricks or techniques you could share?

Weaponiser has become an integral part of my workflow for interactive weapon design. You can’t really preview how automatic weapon layers will stack at the proper fire rate without tedious editing in a DAW. With Weaponiser I’m able to drop in the layers and tweak as if I was in a game audio middleware program like Wwise, greatly tightening the iteration loop. As far as cool tricks, I think my approach is pretty straight forward. The most useful instinct I’ve been working on recently is knowing when to add a layer vs. remove one from a sound. More often than not you’ll make the sound better by stripping out something that doesn’t need to be there, rather than adding something that isn’t.

8. And finally, do you have any advice to pass on to those interested in getting into sound library design?

My advice for getting into sound library design is that you should do it for any reason other than making money. Find a subject you’re excited about recording/designing and enjoy the experience of creation. You’ll end up with the best result that way. Maybe pick a category of sound that you’d like to get better at, something you may not currently have a chance to design at work if sound design is your profession.

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Krotos in 2020: A Look back at this year’s highlights

As the longest year in recent history comes to an end, we wanted to take a look back at what we did at Krotos in 2020.

2020 started with a bang for us! In January, our team set off from Scotland to LA for NAMM, the world’s biggest audio trade-show. Here we announced the release of our first soft-synth, Concept!

In February, we played a big part in the second Edinburgh Festival of Sound, where we hosted talks and masterclasses, and got to meet lots of great folks from all over the world too.

As for everyone, everywhere, things took an unexpected turn in March, so we left our office space in central Edinburgh to continue our work remotely. (Shoutout to our office plant, Barbara. We hope you’re hanging in there.)

Despite the turn of events and a little re-shuffle of a few plans, we’ve achieved a lot in 2020, so here’s a look back at what happened:

2 New Plugins & 3 Software Updates

In 2020 we released our first soft-synth, Concept! Concept picked up SonicState’s ‘Best Plugin of NAMM 2020’ and was featured at the top of the MusicTech Best Software at NAMM list.

Later in the year, we also shipped another new plugin, Simple Concept, a simplified version with an incredibly easy-to-use interface. Simple Concept is also the first that was worked on from start to finish by a completely remote team.

This year, our development team also completed and released three major software updates for Dehumaniser 2 v1.3.1, Weaponiser 1.3.0 and Concept 1.2.0 to improve our plugins.

We also released our biggest bundle yet, the Krotos Everything Bundle – which will be going through another big update for 2021, stay tuned!

Concept Simple Concept 12 New Sound Libraries

In 2020 we’ve released more libraries in a year than ever before! Our in-house team recorded and designed Futurism, Ammo & Reloads and the User Interface Library, with lots in the works for 2021.

From our partners this year, we’ve released Paul Staughton’s popular Pulse Energy Weapons Library, as well as a whole bunch of library content from Soundmorph and Soundbits.

Sound Libraries 10 Live Streams

This year we introduced a new Live Stream Series, to help everyone stay connected while we can’t travel to events and see you in person. These streams now happen regularly on our Youtube channel, where we’ve covered sound design tutorials, project walkthroughs, pro tips and tricks, and special guest episodes.

Live Streams will continue to be a regular project for Krotos in 2021, so we look forward to seeing you again virtually next year.

Live Streams 8 Free Sound Libraries and a special Holiday Gift!

2020 also saw the introduction of our monthly free sound library campaign. Since May, we’ve sent out 8 new mini sound libraries to our subscribers.

As a special holiday gift, we’re offering our subscribers all the free sounds from 2020 this December. So if you’ve not subscribed so far, or are missing the full collection, you can complete your collection by signing up this month.

Free Sounds Happy holidays, and see you in 2021!

Thanks to all our customers, subscribers and friends for helping us get to where we are this year. It’s been fantastic hearing how our products have helped you complete your projects under challenging circumstances, seeing the work you’ve done, and being able to connect virtually this year.

2021 will no doubt bring you further news from Krotos, so we’ll see you again soon!

Happy holidays from the Krotos Team!

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Weaponiser is an inspiring audio layering solution that allows you to design, customise, and perform a huge range of sound effects in real-time – all from within one plugin.

Navigate a comprehensive range of built-in factory assets to layer, sequence and design unique sounds with ease. Customise and create endless variations to your sound effects instantly, and use MIDI and automation to programme or perform your variations with speed and precision.

This Holiday Season, we’re giving one lucky winner a chance to win Weaponiser Basic. Find out how to enter below, and download a free demo to gain more points to increase your chances!

*Please note the Krotos team will be out-of-office and unavailable to answer any competition related questions until the 4th of January. Best of luck to all and Happy Holidays!

Secret Holiday Discount

Exclusive to our Christmas give-away entrants, we are offering a one-time discount on any product of your choice between now and January 3rd 2021.

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To claim 20% Off site wide

Enter to Win Weaponiser Basic

Sign up for the Krotos Newsletter & through Twitter below for your chance at winning. If you’re already subscribed, you can still enter the same way, so just fill in the form below.

There are multiple ways to enter to increase your chances of winning. Plus, get extra entry points when you download a free 10 day demo.

Good luck!

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Vocal Layering, Foley Performance and Library Blending with Reformer Pro

Tzvi Sherman is a sound designer and re-recording mixer who has worked on films and television shows for Netflix, Warner Bros, Paramount, ABC, and more. (Find him online everywhere.)

Tzvi has taken some time to record three quick demonstrations of his favourite sound design processes with Reformer Pro, which cover vocal layering, Foley performance and library blending. Watch the videos below to learn new tips for making the most out of Reformer Pro!

1. Vocal Layering

“Reformer Pro is a great way to quickly replace or layer in random permutations from your sound effect libraries to create new sounds and vocalisations based on live-input or pre-recorded files.”

Watch how Tzvi layers dog recordings with a black leopard to give this chomper enemy character an alien feel.

2. Foley Performance

“Besides vocal layering, Reformer Pro is a great way to quickly perform Foley layers with just your voice, and replace them with any material to create believable and detailed coverage.”

Here’s a quick Witcher 3 re-design, using a microphone input to instantly perform the character’s movements.

3. Sound Library Blending

“One of the biggest strengths of Reformer Pro is its ability to seamlessly blend up to four sound libraries simultaneously, allowing you to mix random permutations of effects until you arrive at exactly the sound you want.”

In the final video, we’re experimenting with blending libraries to design a nasty aggressive robot sound.

Ready to try this yourself? Download a free 10 day demo to test out Reformer Pro!

Reformer Pro €394.80inc. VAT

Reformer Pro is a unique ‘sound design instrument’, that transforms pre-recorded audio files into performable sound effect libraries in real-time.

Interact with sound like never before and perform your Foley, Animal, SciFi or Impact SFX instantly and intuitively within your DAW, saving you hours of editing and easily capturing subtle movement and nuance that elevate your project to another level.

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