Krotos Audio Concept £119

Edinburgh-based developers Krotos Audio are among the first ports of call for movie and videogame audio producers looking to create dynamic, ‘playable’ sound design elements. Thus far, however, their plugins – including Reformer Pro (Foley effects, animal noises, etc; 8/10, 258), Weaponiser (gunfire and associated noises; 9/10, 256) and Igniter (real and sci-fi vehicles and engines; 9/10, 269) – have been largely irrelevant to musicians, so it’s with no small degree of excitement that we fire up Krotos’ first ever softsynth: a two-oscillator virtual analogue going by the name Concept (VST/AU/AAX).

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Concept’s interface makes it immediately apparent that this