Kraftur

Plugin of the week is Kraftur by Soundtheoryltd (Makers of Gullfoss).
Kraftur is offering soft clip saturation over 3 bands, it uses new algorithms under the hood enabling efficient oversampling as well as precise automatic gain matching while staying latency free!
Also comes with a clever interface for representing peak decibel values using input & output loudness histograms!
Afaik this is new to the plugin world.
Same counts for the red triangle in the top left allowing for a mix between the dry signal, the signal processed by the multiband audio path and the signal processed by another single band soft clipping curve.
There are 2 controls to shape the curve, offset & knee, which you can use after adjusting the drive level for each one to shape the exact onset where the saturation hits the individual frequency bands.
The amount of saturation and peak control next to the unique histograms is represented by visually saturated colors in the bottom horizontal input meter.
No numbers yet, which is a feature request of mine and other users so far.
Same goes for optional linear phase crossovers for the bands, not available yet.
The developer for now refers to a non standard filter design for the crossovers.
But loaded into Plugin Doctor, I see the usual IIR type of full phase rotation on the crossover points.
Personally I would love to see the option for FIR filtering, making Kraftur usable on sources where shifting phase positions would be unaccetable.
Which seems to be another topic of conflict next to oversampling police where imho the "conflict" results in ignoring the context and nature of the processed signal.
Yes FIR filtering would introduce pre ringing, but in psytrance you dont randomly shift the phase of your snare for example which is precisely married to the kick, or vice versa.
On this I really dont know if I am the ignorant, questioning the developers decision there - or the developer is the ignorant, ignoring the existance of music where you really really cant just introduce random crossovers ruining all the presicely crafted waveforms and their interaction.
Lets see what the future of Kraftur will be <3
Also feel free to disuss and correct me.