Performable Human Sound Design, Now in Krotos Studio

Introducing the Human Soundboard: Performable Human Sound Design, Now in Krotos Studio

Human sounds are everywhere — breathing between lines, subtle efforts during movement, reactions that sell a moment, or emotional beats that make a character feel real. They’re also some of the most time-consuming and frustrating sounds to place convincingly.

That’s exactly why we’re excited to introduce the Human Soundboard, the latest content release now available in Krotos Studio.

With 70+ new performance-ready presets, the Human Soundboard expands Krotos Studio’s everyday sound design capabilities, giving you fast, believable, performable human sounds — all designed to be shaped in real time, directly to picture.

Why Human Sounds Matter More Than You Think

Breaths, efforts, reactions, and vocalisations often sit quietly in a mix, but they do a huge amount of storytelling work. They sell physicality. They support dialogue. They make animation feel grounded. They turn movement into performance.

The problem? These sounds are notoriously tedious to build with static samples. Finding the right variation, lining it up perfectly, and avoiding repetition can slow an edit to a crawl.

The Human Soundboard tackles that head-on.

A Practical, Wide-Ranging Human Sound Library

This is one of the most practical content drops we’ve released for Krotos Studio to date. The Human Soundboard covers a broad range of everyday human actions and emotional responses for both male and female characters, including:

• Breath & air movement – breathing variations, sniffing, blowing
• Mouth & body sounds – burps, spits, vomit
• Respiratory actions – coughs, sneezes, snores
• Affection & subtle interaction – kisses
• Physical effort – light, medium, and heavy exertions
• Emotional & social responses – laughter, surprise, discomfort, relief
• Extreme emotion – screams and crying, from subtle to distressed

Each category includes multiple variations, carefully designed for natural repetition and expressive control.

What Makes This Pack Different (and Why It Only Works in Krotos Studio)

Here’s where things really change.

These aren’t just sounds you drag onto a timeline. Every preset in the Human Soundboard is designed for real-time performance inside Krotos Studio.

That means you can:

• Perform breaths, efforts, and reactions to picture
• Shape timing, intensity, and variation in a single pass
• Avoid repetitive, “sample-y” results
• Respond instinctively to what’s happening on screen

We are now one of the few — if not the only — providers of interactive human sounds. These can be used to build ambiences, interactions, and even monsters and cartoons

That level of interaction is what sets this pack apart. Because everything is performable, you’re not just placing sound — you’re acting with it. While the Human Soundboard is built for realism, it’s just as powerful creatively. With pitch control and expressive performance, these sounds can easily become:

• Creature layers
• Cartoon characters
• Stylised reactions
• Background human ambiences

It’s a flexible toolkit that adapts to drama, documentary, comedy, animation, and games, without changing your workflow.

Built for Speed, Designed for Character

The Human Soundboard is ideal for:

• Post-production sound designers working on character-led content
• Dialogue editors adding consistent human detail
• Animation and game audio teams building expressive performances
• Content creators producing narrative-driven video
• Students and educators learning character sound design fundamentals

And because it’s built specifically for Krotos Studio workflows, it slots straight into your existing setup.

Load a preset. Hit record. Perform the human layer your scene needs.

Available Now in Krotos Studio

The Human Soundboard is available now for all Krotos Studio and Krotos Studio Pro subscribers, directly in the Library view.

This has been one of our biggest content releases since CC Factory — and one of the most requested. We can’t wait to hear what you create with it.

Open Krotos Studio, head to the Library, and start performing human sound design the way it was meant to be done.

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