Krotos Audio - Dehumaniser 2 v1.4.3 VST, VST3, AAX for Windows

• Interactive Node-Based Modular Canvas: Visual patch bay workspace providing complete clarity and drag-and-drop freedom over serial, parallel, and multi-split signal paths.
• Dual-Instance Module Architecture: Deploy up to two instances of any DSP module concurrently (dual pitch-shifters, multiple granular processors, spectral filters, or convolution engines) within a single instance.
• Real-Time Dynamic Vocal Tracking: Modulates synthesis parameters, sample layers, and effect envelopes dynamically based on incoming voice characteristics:
  • Amplitude envelope following
  • Real-time pitch tracking
  • RMS level tracking
  • Spectral energy difference
• Integrated 133-Sample Organic Animal Library: Includes high-resolution studio recordings of tigers, leopards, boars, pigs, exotic parrots, and other animals, ready to layer directly onto live voice inputs.
• Sample Playback Dynamic Triggers: Fire animal and organic foley samples dynamically based on spoken pitch peaks, vocal transients, or spectral noise density.
• Over 100 Production-Ready Presets: Instant access to film-ready creature voices, alien lifeforms, demonic entities, cyborgs, and aggressive robotic dialogues.
• Per-Node Dynamics & Tone Control: Every processing module features its own dedicated gate, equalizer, and limiter stages, in addition to global master input/output dynamics.
• Custom Macro "Drawer" System: Slide-out parameter drawers for every node, allowing quick parameter mapping, envelope modulation assignment, and external MIDI control.
• Cured Team R2R Release: Pre-activated release requiring no cloud log-in, background licensing daemons, or machine authorization dongles.

Bringing Creatures to Life in Real Time
Traditional creature vocal design for blockbuster films and games typically involves hours of laborious track stacking: pitching dialogue down two octaves, layering animal growls, editing transients, and setting up complex sidechain vocoders. Krotos Audio Dehumaniser 2 eliminates that tedious workflow by functioning as a live, playable vocal transformation instrument.

Whether tracking an actor live in the vocal booth or processing recorded ADR dialogue, Dehumaniser 2 reacts organically to vocal delivery. Whispers can trigger eerie spectral rasps, mid-chest resonance activates pitch-shifted throat layers, and full screams trigger vicious, snarling leopard roars.

Node-Based Modular Freedom
At the heart of Dehumaniser 2 is an open modular grid. Users connect diverse processing modules—granular synthesis, convolution reverbs, spectral processing, pitch shifting, frequency shifting, ring modulation, flanging, and delays—using virtual patch cables. Because every node can be automated and modulated by pitch or amplitude, the resulting creatures feel alive, dynamic, and physically grounded.

Core Processing Nodes:

• Pitch Shifting:
  • Independent control over pitch and formant shift.
  • Retains intelligibility while altering perceived throat and skull size.
• Granular Synthesis:
  • Deconstructs vocal input into tiny grains, scattering and rearranging them to create demonic textures and multi-layered choruses.
• Spectral Processing:
  • Analyzes audio in the frequency domain, isolating or transforming specific harmonic bands for alien vocal timbres.
• Convolution Engine & Impulse Resonator:
  • Convolves live vocals with animal vocal tracts, metallic pipes, and resonant acoustic cavities.
• Ring Modulation & Frequency Shifter:
  • Injects metallic ring tones, robotic buzzes, and Dalek-style sci-fi timbres.
• Dynamic Sample Triggering:
  • Analyzes incoming voice energy and triggers internal animal samples or user audio files when specified thresholds (amplitude, pitch, or spectral flux) are met.
• Delay, Flanger & Chorus:
  • Spatial and temporal widening tools tailored for otherworldly stereo imaging.

Modulation & Signal Flow Controls:

• Envelope Tracking: Assign envelopes driven by pitch, noise content, or amplitude to any parameter across any module.
• Slide-Out Drawers: Quickly access routing, MIDI CC mapping, and internal modulation curves for each node.
• Global & Local Dynamics: Built-in noise gates, multi-band EQ, and brickwall limiters prevent sudden clipping during loud screams.

Organic Animal Sound Vault (133 Broadcast WAV Samples):

• Big Cats: Tigers, leopards, cougars, and lions (snarls, roars, breaths, grunts).
• Mammals: Wild boars, farm pigs, dogs, and primates.
• Birds & Reptiles: Macaws, parrots, and exotic avian screeches.

Factory Presets (Over 100 Patches):

• Monsters & Beasts: Gargantuan brutes, subterranean trolls, swamp beasts, zombie infecteds.
• Demons & Entities: Possessed souls, ethereal phantoms, hellish barons.
• Aliens & Extra-Terrestrials: Insectoid swarms, reptilian warlords, crystalline lifeforms.
• Robots & Droids: Heavily mechanized vocoders, synthetic drones, AI interfaces.
• Dialogue & Foley: Radio distortion, astronaut comms, subtle throat thickening.

Plugin Specifications:

• Supported Formats: VST2 (64-bit), VST3 (64-bit), AAX Native (64-bit)
• Audio Processing: 64-bit internal floating-point engine
• Channel Routing: Mono In / Stereo Out, Stereo In / Stereo Out
• Sample Rate Support: 44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz
• Latency: Low-latency architecture suitable for real-time live monitoring during vocal recording

Compatible Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs):

• Avid Pro Tools (AAX Native 64-bit)
• Steinberg Cubase / Nuendo
• PreSonus Studio One
• Cockos REAPER
• Ableton Live (All 64-bit versions)
• Image-Line FL Studio
• Bitwig Studio

Installation Steps:

1. Close all running DAW sessions and audio applications.
2. Run the main installer (Krotos_Audio_Dehumaniser_2_Setup.exe) as Administrator (Right-click -> Run as administrator).
3. Select your desired plugin formats (VST, VST3, AAX) and installation directories.
4. Ensure the factory sample content (animal recordings) is extracted to the default data folder so the internal sample-triggering modules can locate audio assets automatically.
5. Complete the installation wizard.
6. Launch your DAW, perform a plugin rescan, and load Dehumaniser 2 onto an audio or auxiliary track.
7. The release is pre-cured by TEAM R2R; no serial input, keygen, or online activation is required.

Studio Production Tips:

• Live Actor Monitoring: Route a clean XLR studio microphone to an input track in your DAW, insert Dehumaniser 2, and set your audio buffer to 64 or 128 samples. The actor will hear the fully rendered creature voice in real time with imperceptible monitoring latency.
• Dynamic Screaming Tiger: Insert a Sample Trigger node loaded with a tiger roar. Assign the trigger threshold to incoming peak amplitude at -12 dB so that regular speech sounds like a husky mutant, while shouting triggers the animal roar in parallel.