How to use the ambience generator in Pro Tools

February 10, 2025
JJ Lyon

Importing images into the ambience generator

Image to sound makes the creation of ambiences a breeze.  First, source an image. this could be a photo you’ve taken, or a image from the internet, or a frame from a project you are working on.Then in Krotos Studio, click the ambience generator button, and then the image import buttonNext, browse for your image and click to import itKrotos Studio will take a look at your image. Using state of the art Machine Learning, it will write a prompt based on the image you imported.Hit generate, and your ambience will be generated! the AI within Krotos Studio pulls from our enormous collection of ambience recordings, building a custom Krotos Studio preset that is tailored to the image

What images work best

Any image with a wide range of subjects should work nicely. Cars, Traffic, Trees, Mountains, Hills - anything environmental will deliver accurate results. Maybe you could pull a still frame from an establishing shot in your project, to help establish the sound alongside it.Images of individual items - a cup, or a box, or a ball - may not deliver the results you with. Think less cup more kitchen; less box, more garage; less ball, more park.

Tweaking prompts afterwards

Just because the image to sound gives you a prompt, that doesnt mean it is set in stone. Maybe you want a certain kind of hills from an imagery, but you dont want the birds from the sky. you can simply delete this part of the prompt, or replace it with something else!

Record the results

You don’t need to…Krotos Studio has been recording from the moment you hit generate. simply stop the recording when it is long enough for your project, then drag the sound out using the ‘drag recording’ button, directly into your timeline.Of course, you can also record directly to your DAW or DaVinci Resolve timeline too. Simply route the outputs of Krotos Studio to 4 audio tracks and hit the record button. Each of the assets in the preset will record out to their own track. This is more flexible when you want to remove certain elements from parts of a project, without affecting others.

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