Krotos Audio are a company who have been making waves in the field of sound design over the last few years with their innovative range of performance based plug-ins. By allowing you to perform sounds in real-time, they save a lot time and hassle and greatly reduce the amount of editing required for a typical post production job.

If you need to create vehicle sounds, which has traditionally been quite a labour intensive job, Krotos provide a solution in the form of Igniter. Igniter is essentially a vehicle sound design system which aims to eliminate the time consuming elements of vehicle sound design. It does this by providing a range of different vehicle effects, both real-world and sci-fi, and allowing you to perform and automate them in real-time.

We’ve previously explored how to use Igniter for creating sounds for a high speed car chase but in this video I demonstrate how the plug-in can be used to create more everyday vehicle driving sounds. From engine startup sounds to passby effects and car horns, Igniter allows you to easily customise, perform and tweak a performance very quickly and create something perfectly tailored to the video footage you’re working with.

Check out the video to see how the included presets along with the Granular and One Shot controls in Igniter make the workflow of creating car sounds extremely fast and efficient.

The standard version of Igniter demonstrated in the video comes with 630 samples, 24 performable vehicles and 284 presets. If you want even more, Krotos offer Igniter Full Tank which increases the number of included samples to 2689, opening up even more possibilities for creating vehicle sounds. You can try Igniter for free from the Krotos website.