I just bought it 3 hours ago and I can say that it is fantastically versatile and incredibly accurate! I am impressed with this plugin!🥰

Wow! This is a video I've been waiting and waiting for since, well, OK, last Thursday...😃 Another great and to the point video in your typical no BS fashion and I learned a lot. Thanks, Marlon!

Ultimately it`s all about the sound. This sounds good. I have plenty of valve gear for saturation, and plenty of plugins, but this still interests me.

I always wondered if Soundtheory was going to release another plugin or not. I'm happy to see that they have. Intro price of $70 is tempting me to make the purchase this week.

It looks great and the approach in the user interface is interesting, but I'm not sure if I can't achieve all that with saturn 2 which has a more open approach.

Thanks for the demo, Marlon. It looks and sounds good, I'm going to hold off as I'm still enjoying my Schwabe Gold and Orange Clip plugins with Softube or SSL X-Saturation, Vintage Drive for saturation.

I have a MacBook i9 8 cores and if you want to use those plugins you need a very strong hardware. If you use some others plugins which have a lot of cpu usage then you hit the limit very fast! I like those plugins but the cpu usage is crazy... you can bounce every track but you really need to manage your cpu usage! ;) that's the only disadvantage! :) Maybe I should upgrade to an MacMini M2. Don't know if this helps....

its kind of like inflator with more user controls? about to try it out.

Oh I absolutely love this. Glad to see you doing a video on it. It's basically on all my drum tracks now. I just wish Andreas would add a GR meter to it. Well, that's my personal wishlist. Though, even in it absence, Kraftur works great and the ability to create such depth and layers to your sound is immensely helpful.

Could be improved by having mid side saturation

What’s the song name/artist used for this example? It’s great! Intro song w vocals and the first instrumental. Thanks for the great review also!

I noticed you used a high amount of Drive until 8 minutes in, whereas I immediately gravitated to just slightly more subtle use. (If I pushed Drive it was only a bit above center. ) I used the Shift controls with less Drive and found it worked better to dial something in. I'm not thinking of Kraftur as strictly a saturation plugin, although it excels at it. But it also seems to fill out the dynamics in a way different from compression and limiting - maybe I'm giving Soundtheory too much credit. I could be very, very wrong, but I'm thinking of it as going from a loudness enhancement (sort of a blend between upward compression and clipping - controlling peaks and saturating material in multiband when rising up to the vicinity of the 3 Shift values. If one uses more than a small amount of Drive, or if the shift values are aggressive it results in saturation or distortion. But I wouldn't be thinking of the very gentle work in increasing power of the signal as being only or even primarily a saturation effect, as in a plugin like Saturn. Maybe this is just semantics but I want to understand what's happening with it. "The Drive parameter should be adjusted so that some of the input signal is entering the saturation region. How much of the signal should be in this region depends on whether Kraftur is being used as a loudness enhancer or as a saturation/distortion tool." Nor do I think it's purely doing a soft clipper function. The reason I say this is because of these parts of the manual (above and below), and also from listening. The first thing I notice is that the increase in loudness density is achieved as adjustments are made - rather than noticeable saturation that starts low and grows. So, for example the Spectre plugin is very different in results. Here's what I'm looking at: "While initially designed as a mastering tool, Kraftur is equally effective in adding frequency-specific saturation to individual mix elements such as vocals and drums. Kraftur is not implemented using standard DSP methods. Instead, it relies on innovative algorithms to avoid artifacts that come with more traditional approaches to soft clipping. However, Kraftur shares the same goal: increasing the power of the signal while containing signal peaks."

So if I have Saturn 2 I do not need Kraftur?

Potentially the best plug-in ever

Idk about internal oversampling, but I've tested it for aliasing and it does alias a lot. Also I did oversample it thrue a metaplugin and it did solve the problem, so i guess where is no automatic oversampling inside, since it would automaticly change when I use oversampling in metaplugin, and it didn't. So I would rather oversample it externally, or lower the HF drive, turn off the clip selling and use your own clipper at the end.

Excellent review, as usual. Would you use this for mastering instead of a clipper?

I consider this a design desaster. Basically the 2/3 of the plugin to the right are mostly useless eye candy. Trying to compare the input (x-axis) to the output (y-axis) spectrum drove me crazy. The whole flickering mess discourages or even hinders just hearing what's going on with the sound. It might sound great, but this to me is a big failure.

I really wanna grab this & gullfoss, but their licensing only last for 25 years each plugin

I WANT IT =)))

5:46 Apparently the plugin uses minimum phase crossovers rather than linear phase to get this zero latency - as a result you're going to get phasing issues around each band

Need that song 1:22

No GR metering makes this useless to me for mastering

Hmmm... Is probably really, very good.... But being Sound Theory it's going to be very expensive..... This seems very flexible and intuitive to use.... But It's probably a bit of a luxury item.... If you already have good, flexible saturation that you know how to use.