Krotos Studio
Ive been creating some presets for my use in Krotos Studio…my word its fun!
Urbanscape 1
Urbanscape 1 is a layered environmental preset created for Krotos, designed to generate believable urban atmosphere with a subtle cinematic edge.
The preset blends distant traffic, diffuse city movement, interior spill, urban woodland textures and soft crowd detail into a single evolving soundscape. A triggered bird layer introduces small moments of life and unpredictability, helping the environment feel more natural and less loop-based or static.
Urbanscape 1 was designed as a flexible environmental bed, something that can sit underneath dialogue, cinematic scenes, documentary work, games audio or transitional sequences without becoming distracting. The goal was to create a space that feels lived-in and emotionally familiar, sitting somewhere between city infrastructure and reclaimed urban nature.
The preset reflects my wider interest in hybrid environmental sound design, where realism, perception and subtle musicality begin to overlap.
Designed using a combination of field recording, environmental layering and procedural variation techniques.
Deepoids
Deepoids is an experimental drone and texture preset created for Krotos, designed to generate evolving low-frequency atmospheres, unstable tonal movement and abstract triggered events.
At its core, the preset functions as a living drone machine, blending deep tonal beds with strange mechanical textures, fragmented impacts and unusual transient details that can be performed and triggered in real time. Multiple layers of subtle modulation are tied into the performance engine, allowing the sound to constantly shift and evolve without becoming chaotic or overly animated.
The intention behind Deepoids was to create something that feels alive beneath the surface, a system that rewards long listening and performance interaction rather than obvious movement or aggressive complexity. Small fluctuations in tone, texture and spatial character help maintain tension and depth while preserving usability within larger cinematic or musical contexts.
The preset sits somewhere between sound design tool, instrument and atmosphere generator. It can function as a background tension layer, an experimental musical texture, a sci-fi ambience source or a reactive performance element for cinematic and multimedia work.
Deepoids reflects my ongoing interest in procedural sound behaviour, restrained modulation and the blurred line between synthesis, environmental sound and musical composition.