Next week will be the 1 year anniversary of the first release of Crystal.
That first version was pretty popular, but there have been 9 major
updates in the past 12 months, so it's come a long way since then.

To celebrate this birthday, I'd like to sponsor a patch contest.
I'll give a copy of something I think would be an excellent complement
to Crystal in anyone's rig: a copy of Spectrasonics Stylus or Trilogy (your
choice), worth somewhere around US$300, to the winner.

To enter, mail me a .fxp or .fxb file with your submission(s). Send me
as many entries as you like, but if you want to send a bunch at once,
send them as a .fxb file.

I'll be the final judge, but I may post submissions for comments from Crystal users to help me judge the best patch. The deadline for submissions is May 10.

If you're looking for information about how to create Crystal patches,
see the tutorials and the user guide at
http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/userguide.html

If you have questions about creating Crystal patches, join the
Crystal users group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crystal-users
Post your questions there and I'd be glad to answer them.

Good luck, and I hope to see some great patches!

- Glenn
glenn@greenoak.com

damn and I was doing them for free and fun!



very nice prizes and VERY nice of you sir Glenn

i just made a few patches for Crystal... on the OSX AU in logic..

they don't save as .fxp but .pst

is that format ok to send to you

great idea for a comp

Glenn : You give us the chance to use one of the best VSTi's ever for free and now we can also win a Spectrasonics product because we're using it? This sounds CRAZY to me but also tres generous!

Thanks Glenn and Spectrum.

Wowee!!! This is one contest that I am going to enter.

Scot Solida should be banned


prog

super idea, glenn! ..and in the end we´ll have a crystal "anniversary-bank"
because I guess there will be alot of very good participations..

and yeah, Scott Solida should be banned!

Just one more proof that Glenn is a saint!

Heck I won't enter but Glenn is one amazing guy who understands that making music should above all be FUN! Thanks Glenn, you de Bomb or summat

No katos perkele

This is just too good to be true... Trilogy would shurely be nice!

Thanks KvR for not sending your patches to Mighty's sticky - I was the one who did, but now things got just a bit better

sweeeet! I love contests!

so there is only a 1st place winner?

Yes, you Logical folks can send me the patches as a .pst file.

- Glenn

fitch wrote:

i just made a few patches for Crystal... on the OSX AU in logic.. they don't save as .fxp but .pst is that format ok to send to you great idea for a comp

Spectrum has generously offered to donate the first place prize which
I had intended to purchase. That means I can offer a second
place prize. It should be more modest than Trilogy or Stylus,
and, like Trilogy and Stylus, it should be something which
complements Crystal. Any suggestions?

VitaminD wrote:

so there is only a 1st place winner?

Glenn,

I've decided that your totally insane. You have made a really great synth for free, and now you want to spend your own money to get people to use it? This is just crazy!

Any of the LinPlug stuff might make for a cool combo though...

for better or for worse i just submitted my crystal patches..



glenn they are all .pst/logic format... and i could see no way to make a bank of them.. so they are separate..

26 of them.. a little fitchy alphabet patch soup

Sounds like a good comp!! I've been hangin' out to get Stylus for a while but am too poor. I've never used Crystal but I'll start learning today. BTW, I've heard patches in the past made with copyrighted samples (eg EMU ones)... Is that breaking the rules?? Should it all be synthesis or can you use waves? I think I'll stick to straight synthesis..

Nice competition!! Glenn - you are da man!!

Definitely a motivation for me to start tweaking crystal, which i admit i have not done very much.

How about 2nd place gets a copy of Rhino . . . hehehe

is that it only 1 vsti from spectrasonics? Seems the decent thing to do would be offer all three

Only one year old? Unbelievable. Happy birthday.

Reminder - one week left in the contest, so send your patches right away!

Glenn
glenn@greenoak.com

GlennO wrote:

Spectrum has generously offered to donate the first place prize which I had intended to purchase. That means I can offer a second place prize. It should be more modest than Trilogy or Stylus, and, like Trilogy and Stylus, it should be something which complements Crystal. Any suggestions?

Atmosphere


hmm.. how about a copy of Battery, Attack, or something ?

Thanks Glenn, and Happy Birthday Crystal.

Now you're really forcing me to programme this fantastic synth (one of my favorite). I recommend to all my DAW students, They love it so I'll try get them to join efforts for the competition.

I was wondering, If I'm not totaly wrong, Crystal can load soundfont's can't it (as ocsilators). Why don't you have a second prize that has something to do with that (a sound font maker, or something, oh I don't really know )
And can we use different soundfonts for our patch making


Otherwise Linplugs or Rhino, anything. Nothing is already great. And that's the price of Crystal.
Why can't the second place be a special edition Crystal with his photo all over it. That would be scary

Well done anyway, and Thanks again!
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Reminder - only 4 days left in the contest.

If you've been putting it off, be sure to send in your patches this weekend.

I'm no good at making patches so I won't be entering but I just wanted to say this is the coolest thing I've seen here at this site. Not only have you created a really wonderful synth but now you offer to give another really excellent plugin away at your expense. you rock man...I wish you the best. Kudos to Spectrasonics for donating it too, they certainly didn't have to...

Last call. I'll accept patches on Sunday, but then it's over. So send me your Crystal patches. I'm looking for patches that are distinctive and inspiring and the winner will get Trilogy or Stylus.

Glenn
glenn@greenoak.com

Just to let you know, I'm still deliberating. There were some great entries, so I want to listen carefully to all of them. I should have a winner in the next day or so.

- Glenn

Thanks to everybody who submitted entries to the Crystal
first birthday patch contest. I was looking for patches
which were both distinctive and inspiring. I can honestly
say that every entry sounded fresh and made me want to start
working on a new song. However, you all made it very difficult
to choose a winner!

Congratulations to Jose Luis Iguarbe, the first place winner
for his patch "Titanic". Second place honors go to Jon Shapiro
for his entry, "Zendrone". You can download these two patches on
the patches page at http://www.greenoak.com/crystal

Thanks again to everybody who participated.

- Glenn

congrats gentlemen!

Great patches folks.

Any chance of a contest bank of submitted patches?

Keep up the good work Glenn

completely missed this until it was too late

but can we get hold of the patches that were sent in

congrats to the winners btw

are we going to unsticky this now?