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Krotos Studio is a powerful desktop app & plugin that lets you create, edit and customise high quality sound effects & music in real time.
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Easily drag & drop sounds into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools and more — or use it inside your DAW for full creative control.

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"Sound design really doesn't get much easier
than Krotos Studio"

Excellence in a Post-Production
Hardware or Software Audio Product

Stop searching, start creating

Incredible new sounds every month

Create and perform any sound effect

All sound effects are 100% royalty free

Create the perfect sound for what
you see on screen

Sync sound to picture in real time
Design quality cinematic sound in seconds
Control and adjust with simple controls
Drag & drop to your timeline and sync

Design any sound without friction

Unique sounds, without the learning curve
Create your own sound effects in real-time with your mouse—no expertise needed
Get professional sound without spending hours with complicated tools

Ditch your sound library

Skip the tedious search & sync process—get exactly the sound you need, when you need it
300+ presets included for design under pressure
More presets added monthly (100+ in the last 12 months alone)

Type it, hear it, shape it

Describe your scene in a few words, or import an image to get a unique ambience with the AI Ambience Generator
No Generative AI
- 100% real, high-quality recordings, stored on your local system
All ethically trained on our own library
- Recorded by our sound designers and industry partners

Works with any video and audio editing software

What people are saying

Krotos Studio is a fast, intuitive tool for creating superb sounds. Its vast library makes it one of my go-to plugins.

Tony Gibson

Sound Designer, BBC, Disney, Amazon

I can now very easily create the perfect sound effects for my video footage using Krotos Studio.

Sebastian Friedrich

Freelance Video Editor

I wish I had Krotos Studio ambiences for my last project, it would have saved me a lot of time.

Ben Jacquier

Sound Designer

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Unlock full control with Pro

Take your workflow to the next level with Krotos Studio Pro. Add your own sounds, build custom presets, and perform SFX with MIDI or mouse. Design ambiences, foley, whooshes, vehicles, and more—all with multichannel output and advanced features.

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Technical Specification

You can use both versions of Krotos Studio as a standalone application (Windows and Mac) and asw a VST/AU/AAX plugin in your favourite DAW.

To use Krotos Studio in a Non-Linear Editor such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, you can use the standalone app and drag and drop your performances/recordings directly into the timeline.

In DaVinci Resolve, you can use Krotos Studio as a plugin directly in the Fairlight tab. We have thoroughly tested on the following hosts, and can guarantee full performance: Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Reaper.

The following hosts have been tested, but you may experience some issues: Logic Pro, Cubase, Nuendo, Studio One and DaVinci Resolve.

Any other DAWs or host software are not supported at this time. You may find that the plugin workds as expected, but igf you have issues, please contact support. We will expand full support for other hosts in due course.

Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) and Intel Macs are fully supported
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Krotos Studio/Krotos Studio Pro are available a VST/AU/AAX plugin and a standalone application
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Krotos Studio software requires:

A Mac Intel computer with a minimum of 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor, 4 GB of RAM and the operating system OS X 11 or later.
If you are on an operating system below macOS 11, the latest version available that is supported is Krotos Studio 1.8.0
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‍Note: The above version (1.8.0) does NOT contain the edit mode that is available with a Krotos Studio Pro subscription. Please ensure that your operating system is updated to macOS 11 before starting your Krotos Studio Pro subscription
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Windows computer with a minimum of 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor, 4 GB of RAM, and the operating system Windows 10 or above 10.5GB disk space (can also be installed on an external drive).

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