Krotos Audio updates Reformer Pro - "Transform Your Input. Perform Your Sound Design"

Krotos Audio, the company behind the Dehumaniser, Reformer and Weaponiser product range, has announced a new and improved Reformer Pro – allowing audio professionals to design, automate and perform any sound effect in real-time, "like never before".

In addition to a variety of significant new features and improvements, Reformer Pro now utilises what Krotos say is "the world's first Dynamic Input technology, taking procedural, sample-based audio processing to new heights and into previously un-explored territory".

After launching in October 2017, the first version of Reformer Pro offered users up to four sound libraries, an intuitive, tactile X/Y pad and customized response times for each source, tweaking playback speed and volumes to taste.

Krotos founder Orfeas Boteas comments: "Reformer Pro uses artificial intelligence and advanced signal analysis to allow you to perform sound effects with your voice or any other audio input. The software profiles the input sound in real-time, and then drawing from a palette of user-selected library sounds, uses that profile to sculpt a new sound effect. With this latest update, we are very excited to be unveiling the world's first Dynamic Input technology, offering users a whole new way of interacting with their libraries, enabling them to perform them like instruments using the UI, automation, or MIDI."

New in Reformer Pro:

• Dynamic Input – create dynamic sound design without an audio input, use automation or MIDI to control your libraries, trigger transients directly, based on frequency via velocity-sensitive MIDI input, switch between an audio input and Dynamic Input for different ways of interacting with your own libraries, add variation quickly and easily, create constantly evolving sounds using 'continuous mode' (perfect for environmental effects or electronic textures) and combine with Extended Library View for a comprehensive range of results from a single library.
• Extended Library View - refinement of the results you hear from any library, precise control over each voice's selection, and sample previewing and muting.
• Transient Engine - perform impacts and drum hits with a live audio input in real-time or any audio file in your DAW, add extra definition, layer multiple transients using two or more voices, trigger based on amplitude threshold and response, mix between transient and 'classic' Reformer Pro engines, tightly control transient playback using attack and release, and use the Extended Library View to select/deselect transient material from a library.
• Library Expansion – new 'Electronics Bundle' and 'Water Bundle' available to purchase via the Reformer Library Bundles page.
• Significant improvements in workflow and audio processing quality.

Trials, Downloads and Purchasing

A free 10-day trial license (iLok-based) for Reformer Pro can be obtained here along with links to purchase full licenses (iLok-based), online manuals, demos and tutorial videos.

Recommended Retail Price (RRP) of Reformer Pro perpetual license (plus the Krotos Bundle for free):

• $399 for North America.
• £279 (ex VAT) for UK and the rest of the world.
• €329 (ex VAT) for Europe.

Videos here.