One Synth Challenge #111: Crust by Eugene Yakshin (Jasinski Wins!)

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Taron wrote:This thing is unbelievably beautiful for percussion again.
Isn't it? Even cymbals can sound organic with Crust.
Just a touch of EQ and a tickle of compression

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Hello,

My entry this time is another piece of... Techno (a bit slow at 113 bpm? Dunno what this really is). After getting that "Oh Yea" sound out of crust I was doomed to stick with simple booming kick bass and boringly repeating beat. Formant filters were heavily abused in making of this song. Huge round bass was forced trough a square hole to fill all the low end and to disturb your neighbors (I know mine were).

Hopefully you guys don't get bored too fast while listening. I could have ended the track much sooner but I just had to make it up to 6 minutes as a formality. I had a blast making this because the kick sounded so damn good and I couldn't stop laughing at the "Oh Yea" "Uuu Aaa" "Haloo" sounds.

https://soundcloud.com/too86/oh-yea

Made with Ableton Live 10
14 instances of Crust was used
~15x EQ8
~15x Compressors
1x Gate
1x Simple delay
1x Auto Pan
1x Reverb
Master channel EQ8, glue compressor, utility(to make low end mono), limiter

VST plugins:
2x TAL Reverb 4
1x TAL Dub

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Snazzy, Too86! :tu:
...haven't yet gotten to that part of goofing around with the synth, but it sounds really fun! :D
It's been again some days since I've played with Crust and it seems like every time I get back to it, it amazes me even more. I've just created a really unusual kick drum. What puzzles me most is the peculiar dimensional sensation sounds get, as if a kind of high-end effect was on them. Really strange and fantastic! Very unique!
I do wish it had some more control over the envelope "curves", but rather than bickering because of needy old habits, I know that I should explore more. Feels like there's a tremendous depth to its possibilities that requires plenty of experimentation. An adventure!!! YES! :hyper:

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Just twist the knobs and press some buttons and listen it all go horribly wrong.

Then after an hour realize that you still need a plan and create a sound in 5 minutes with one! Happens every time for me.

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Yeah I just gave up on trying to get the envelopes just right and went with host automation.

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Nah, there is a certain magic, trying to use the filters to help with certain decay tightening and such. I'm trying to keep it inside the synth. My first kick I made with a triggered sequence and glide, which works quite nicely, too, but only later I figured out the O2 ENV on OSC1 and, of course, the filter resonance + env (Kind of a "Duh" moment).
Outside of this kind of "ordinary" there is such curious magic beneath it, begging to be explored. I hope, I'll have enough time to really dig in!

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Well a bit of both actually .. mostly went with crust but for pads and drums went with host.
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Hey guys,

just wanted to share some news
1.) Grab yourself a free copy of Meldaproduction MSpectralDelay: It is available completely free of charge for the first two weeks - May 19th to June 3rd! https://www.meldaproduction.com/
2.) There's another free plugin, called Wider from Polyverse...go get it for free...okay, not "free", you have to "pay" with an email address for it...but we all know these temp address providers ;-) https://polyversemusic.com/products/wider/. It's one of those ultra width plugins to get the sound I'm after since "It's"...https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/its
3.) I managed to get over 10.000 listens on my soundcloud...actually I have to admit, that me listening to myself must be at least more than 500 of those... ;-) Anyway thanks to all you guys at OSC for listening, sharing feedback, insights tipps and tricks and just for being a great community!
It's great to be part of it.

See ya next month...still occupied by Transistow and Bitwig ;-)

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I maybe thought you had decided that Crust was interesting enough after all to participate :)

Downloading MSpectralDelay, will give it a spin, and congrats on the 10,000 listens!
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Wow! Just looked at my Soundcloud stats! 24,758 listens - I am astounded! :dog:

I'll look at those plugins ... thanks for the headsup Peter :tu: … and congrats at the 10k!

Cheers,

dB

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So I decided to try and whip up a little thing for this. Decided to do it like last time, effects free, but this time as there's no sound generator to keep within limits for me I decided to go all out with stereo and more. My CPU didn't really like that tho :A

https://soundcloud.com/mm1_alt/moviemovies1-lost-sea

DAW: FL Studio 12.5.1 [Build 5]
27 instances of Crust used
No external effects.

Was a lot of fun making this.
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I might try to squeeze something in quickly by end of month :( Been so busy at work lately.

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functionform wrote:I might try to squeeze something in quickly by end of month :( Been so busy at work lately.
Do it! You won't be disappointed!
Just a touch of EQ and a tickle of compression

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Hilarious...Bitwig is my new love. Just fiddled together a short demo with about 6 Crusts and Bitwig. Crust might be a aweful capable synth but the gui ... and lack of a manual does not really convince me to go for a full submission.
However the absolutely amazing thing about the track is - what your listening to is only about 60 midi notes all together (the horrible bdr not included), no chords. A clever combination of some awesome bitwig plugins with only tiny number of bitwig modulators and bluearp...wow...this combo is going to be much fun for coming OSCs ;-) The track is just my demo playground, no serious mixing, just heavy automation of chord generation, automatic diatonic in-key transposition and some stupid arps. I love bitwigs "the daw is a modular" approach, this is just amazing...What you see in the picture is about it in terms of music content.
https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/ther ... rs/s-Bh4wQ
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Great stuff Peter. :tu: Sounds like you are lining up to shoot a real epic! :party: Maybe not with Crust, but soon! :)

Cheers,

dB

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