Krotos began with a simple frustration experienced by founder Orfeas Boteas while studying sound design: creating expressive, believable sound effects was slow, repetitive, and often disconnected from creative flow.
While completing an MSc in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh, Orfeas was working on a project that required complex creature and character vocals. Traditional workflows meant layering countless recordings and plugins, repeatedly auditioning sounds, and constantly breaking creative momentum.
Instead, he asked a different question: what if sound designers could shape and perform sound in real time, using their voice and movement as the source?
That idea became the first prototype of Dehumaniser, originally built in Max/MSP as a student project.
After sharing it with other sound designers and seeing it quickly adopted in professional workflows, Dehumaniser was released commercially in 2013 — and Krotos was born.
Today, that same philosophy sits at the heart of Krotos Studio: intelligent, performance-driven tools that help creators design sound faster, with more control and expression. From independent creators to major studios, Krotos exists to remove friction from sound design, without removing the human behind it.
Krotos builds real-time sound-design tools that allow creators to perform, shape, and generate sound dynamically — rather than relying solely on static sound files. At the centre of this ecosystem is Krotos Studio, a performance-based sound-design environment.
Krotos Studio brings together many of the ideas that defined our earlier tools — performance, procedural variation, and creative speed — into a single, evolving platform.
Alongside Krotos Studio, Krotos also develops industry-standard tools used across film, TV, and games, including Dehumaniser, Weaponiser, Reformer Pro, and Igniter. These tools continue to be widely used in professional pipelines and directly inform the ongoing development of Krotos Studio.
Krotos Studio is designed to support creators across a wide range of disciplines and experience levels:
Game sound designers
Use Krotos Studio to create responsive, varied sound effects for characters, environments, weapons, and systems — with speed and consistency.
Film and TV sound designers
Use it to design creature vocals, Foley, textures, and cinematic effects
directly to picture.
Trailer and cinematic audio creators
Rely on real-time performance to build impact quickly under tight deadlines.
Indie developers and solo creators
Use Krotos Studio to replace placeholder audio and prototype sound without massive libraries or complex setups.
Whether you’re exploring sound design for the first time, or refining a professional workflow, Krotos Studio scales with you — from simple experimentation to advanced, production-ready sound.
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Krotos is a team of sound designers, audio engineers, developers, and creatives who actively use the tools they help build. Our products are shaped by real production experience and constant feedback from the community.
Many workflows inside Krotos Studio exist because working sound designers asked for faster, more expressive ways to create sound — and we listened.
We believe the best creative tools are built in collaboration with the people who rely on them every day.
Krotos is a team of sound designers, audio engineers, developers, and creatives who actively use the tools they help build. Our products are shaped by real production experience and constant feedback from the community.
Many workflows inside Krotos Studio exist because working sound designers asked for faster, more expressive ways to create sound — and we listened.
We believe the best creative tools are built in collaboration with the people who rely on them every day.
At Krotos, we build tools for creative professionals and approach our work with the same curiosity and experimentation we encourage in our users. We’re a small, collaborative team that values clear thinking, ownership, and creativity.
If you’re passionate about audio, technology, and building tools that genuinely help people make better work, we’d love to hear from you.
Krotos and its products have been featured in industry publications, interviews, and events focused on sound design, audio technology, and creative workflows.
From Dehumaniser’s early adoption in film and games to the continued evolution of Krotos Studio, our tools have been recognised for pushing sound design toward faster, more expressive ways of working.