One Synth Challenge #114: Crystal by Green Oak (mehum wins!)

[bjporter]

Welcome to the One Synth Challenge #114! It's a friendly music competition where you can win cool prizes but most importantly, meet amazing musicians, and learn a lot about mixing, sound design, and more!

Submissions will show up here once voting starts:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... llenge-114

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Crystal is a semi-modular software synthesizer featuring both subtractive synthesis and frequency modulation (FM) synthesis. It offers abundant modulation control with over 90 parameters which may be modulated, multi-stage envelopes with graphical editors, extensive tempo sync of envelopes/lforates/delay times, built-in effects for chorus/flanging/comb filtering/echoes, and a band splitter for effects processing by frequency band. (Idea credit goes to L-Ectrobit).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCk0Fn_sLTY


Prizes:
(Would you like to be a sponsor / prize donor? Contact me via PM or go ahead and post your intended donation here! Get a cool mention on our donator wall of honor)


Special Note:
Soundemote and Ridan is offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize): If you would like your winning track on spotify, please specify so as well, or you will be contacted by rghvdberg.


Wusik : 1 bundle of Wusik Station V9, Wusik 8008, Wusik SQ200 and Wusik P2000
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Synthmorph: Any 1 soundset


Sonimus : Any one Plugin


Tritik : Echorus (effect plugin)


Soundemote : PrettyScope (beautiful analog oscilloscope), you may choose this as a secondary prize on top of your regular prize.


Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)


NUSofting : 1 Copy of Modelonia v2 Synthesizer


JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)


Dmitry Sches : Tantra Multi-Effect + 3 Expansions


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


Touch The Universe Productions: LuSH-101 Cloud Layers soundset


The FXB Project by alvfaria : Any 3 commercial sound banks. See the main site here


Guda Audio : Euterpe XL


Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster


satYatunes : One of any commercial product


Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product


Ghostwave Audio : Any two soundsets of Choice


Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset


The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice


Rob Lee Music or here : A soundset for either: Sylenth1, Predator, Largo, Blofeld, PPGV3 or Dune


Luftrum : One soundset free of choice.


Ridan: Any one soundset as a secondary prize, on top of the regular prize.
haunting soundscapes, atmospheric chords, layered pads, anamorphic guitars,
brass and woodwind-esque, rhythmic/melodic sequences, and macabre sound effects.


Kreativ Sound: RAW Bundle
(RAW Bass, RAW Drums, RAW TranSID, RAW Textures)


Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)


Studio 13.37: Pro audio studio on a USB stick


Pooya Payvar (Stonail) : 1 custom made Max for [Ableton] Live: controller, midi or audio effect


Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice


Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)


Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²


LeapIntoTheVoid : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy


Bluff Munkey - 2 soundsets of choice


Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice


Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated.


Questions? Comments? Concerns? You want some love? Just post here in this thread


Want to try out your skills in other contests / competitions /challenges?

• DiHalt Demoscene competitions
• Open Source Music FM Synthesizer Challenge
• Indaba - Has a mix of popular and indie artists with various contests like remixing and song writing. Some people from OSC have had success here.
• KVR Mix Challenge (see stickies) - Who can mix a song the best (Without adding extra recordings /musical additions)? Each person starts out with the same stems.
• Music Cafe (KVR, see stickies) - A thematic monthly competition. Use recording, real instruments, synths and samples.
• Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.
• Soundevotion (SDCOMPO) Competition - Even longer running than the OSC, the SDCOMPO is even more niche in that you must use a tracker, and set of specific effects. Great community.

[rockingricky]

Oh, Crystal!
Cool choice
But: Hundreds of parameters to control
Even modulated modulations can be modulated
Maybe there are some nice presets in the world wide web

[functionform]

Another one I've wanted to learn, very excited about this selection, hopefully time eases up for me.

[teilo]

Well this is an odd duck.

[L-EctroBit]

Cool . Time to make some noise

[WilliamK]

Guys, you can update the freebie from us to: Wusik Station V9, Wusik 8008, Wusik SQ200 and Wusik P2000.

Cheers, WilliamK

[tatanka]

Maybe there are some nice presets in the world wide web

On the download site go to "patches" in the upper menue, hundreds (if not thousands...) of patches, there are some great ones (dont remember exactly which ones), even some legendary Tim Conrady ones. This is a great choice, maybe I join this time.....seems I come back to this synth regularly evry some years, it is just out of time .

[ontrackp]

Great choice. This should be fun!

[trancemaster1339]

Nice synth/sampler/rompler! (I guess?)

Have never heard of it or used it, but just downloaded and will participate in this OSC.

Everybody good luck and have fun

[zarf]

Just be careful with soundbanks with respect to BJs note:

Note: To keep things simple and within the spirit of the challenge, please use synthesized oscillator types only. No sound fonts / samples.

e.g. The Tim Conrardy patches use the sample ROM which is not permitted We have to work harder than that There is plenty to explore in this synth with just the synth oscillators, imho

[tatanka]

The Tim Conrardy patches use the sample ROM which is not permitted

You are sure ? For me these presets and the included soundfont bank is part of the synth.

bjporter please comment, for me this would tear out the heart of this synth.....

little addon: if this is really the case I am glad you did not choose one of the H.G. Fortune synths (for example...) to use WITHOUT the included soundfonts....sorry, for me this just sounds ridiculous...

[zarf]

Pretty sure, it says this on the Crystal website:

Tim Conrardy Patch Banks
These banks contain patches created by Tim Conrardy. These patches use the Crystal 20Mb Sample ROM. If you haven't already installed the sample ROM, see the download instructions on the Download page and follow the "optional additional steps" to install the sample ROM.

...Which seems pretty clear with Brian already saying what he said ("please use synthesized oscillator types only. No sound fonts / samples.")

..But I could be wrong It happens everyday

I'm loving this synth with just the synthesized oscillator types already myself

[løkken]

If you, like me, got troubles with the size of the plugin window and can barely see a thing, here's a solution I use: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... -magnifier

[The Chase]

Now that's a blast from the past! I used to be obsessed with Crystal back in the day when I went legit and lost Absynth.

I've always liked synths where you adjust modulation by min and max values rather than setting the base and then the amount.

edit: And the voice copy/paste function under the utility drop-down is super useful.

[generaldiomedes]

If you, like me, got troubles with the size of the plugin window and can barely see a thing, here's a solution I use: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... -magnifier

Sweet - the shortcut keys are useful. I just got progressives, and the UI is still way too small.