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

[Eauson]

See below

[kvotchin]

I would've loved to give this a go... but the interface is tiny!

Looks like a great synth other than that. Best of luck to all competitors.

[moviemovies1]

I didn't think I'd make something, but I ended up doing so anyway. What an interesting synth, a lot of possibilities here.

https://soundcloud.com/moviemovies1/mov ... 1-infinite

DAW used: FL Studio 20.0.3 [build 532]
12 instances of Crystal used.

Effect plugins used:
- NastyDLAmkII (2 instances)
- Ambience (6 instances)
- Fruity Parametric EQ 2 (2 instances)
- Fruity Limiter (1 instance)
- Maximus (2 instances)

[Timecrawler 82]

Hi all. Long time lurker, first time poster (and first time taking part in OSCs!)
This was really a challenge, as I don't dig too much Crystal's interface, but it is a very good and capable synth indeed.

https://soundcloud.com/timecrawler82/he ... -114-remix

DAW used: Ableton Live 9
16 instances of Crystal used.

Effect plugins used for mixing:
- 15x Ableton EQ Eight
- 1x 5orcery
- 1x OTT
- 1x ComBear
- 1x Beatskillz Max1
- 1x Ableton Glue Compressor

Effect plugins used for mastering:
- 1x Dead Duck Compressor
- 1x Ableton Glue Compressor
- 1x 5orcery
- 1x OTT
- 1x MQ57
- 1x Unlimited

[zarf]

Hi all. Long time lurker, first time poster (and first time taking part in OSCs!

Welcome to the OSC
Your track sounds good on a first quick listen

[Leonard Bowman]

I think I've learned a lesson from last time. I decided to take this in a different direction, improv-ing my music instead of composing it. This was so much fun; I hope I can make time during school to do more of these.

https://soundcloud.com/anotherbenjamin/ ... nish-dance

Made in Ableton Live Lite Using:
10 Crystals, A slew of ableton MIDI plugins (1xChord, 1xArpeggiator, 2xVelocity, 1xScale, 1xPitch), 1xIL minihost modular, 1xPiz MIDIStrum, 4xMEqualizer, 2xMSaturation, 1xMStereoExpander, 6xAbleton Compressor, 8xAbleton Reverb, and love.

[Eauson]

Hello and welcome to the new OSC'ers,

Got some advice and have added some bits and pieces and dropped the bass a touch, so this is my new submission and possibly/maybe my last update, new DRM of 10 , will leave the other one up for a while, just for laughs

https://soundcloud.com/eauson/this-is-d ... y-style101

Hopefully this one is a bit better than my previous effort

[H-man]

Quick question, does anyone experience total sound decimation with high poly and longer release times?

I am finding the my chord patches play for a short while and then start to degrade as if there were some internal bitcrusher at work in this thing. It's a cool effect and I might try to use it but was curious if others had found this.

For some reason, altering the sample rate of the project can remove/alleviate this

[Eauson]

Quick question, does anyone experience total sound decimation with high poly and longer release times?

I am finding the my chord patches play for a short while and then start to degrade as if there were some internal bitcrusher at work in this thing. It's a cool effect and I might try to use it but was curious if others had found this.

For some reason, altering the sample rate of the project can remove/alleviate this

I don't know if you have figured this out yet?
There is a granularity setting in modulations, could this be a cause, haven't really gone for long release in crystal! and I would as you say, see it as a quirk to get weird stuff from

[d34dmeat]

my contribution to osc #114
reaper daw
13 instances of crystal
tdr nova
tdr koletnikov
a1stereocontrol
reacomp
TAL reverb II

https://soundcloud.com/mikael-edlund/d3 ... tal-palace

[doctorbob]

Hi Folks - so ... to keep 'em coming - here's my submission for this month's challenge. Made for the NASA trip to the Sun

DAW Reaper

Track details
25 * Crystal
26 * ReaEQ
12 * LFX-1310 (autopan)
6 * Oril River
4 * Bass Professor Mark II
2 * TAL Reverb 4
2 * TDR Feedback Compressor
1 * Twin Delay

Master
TDR VOS SlickEQ
Ferric TDS
MSED
Limiter No.6

Metering
SPAN

DR: 8

Please enjoy

https://soundcloud.com/doctorbob/crystallinesun-1

[Darksynth FX]

My submission:

https://soundcloud.com/darksynth-fx/dar ... range-days

DAW: Ableton Live 10 Suite
9x Crystal
11x Ableton EQ8
9x Ableton Utility
2x Xfer OTT
2x Voxengo Stereo Touch
1x Ableton Compressor
1x Ableton Glue Compressor
1x Voxengo Tube Amp
1x Ableton Limiter
1x Ableton Reverb (Send)
1x Ableton Simple Delay (Send)

[mehum]

Time to stop neglecting my kids and make the decision to be done with this...

A simpler four-on-the-floor type of track this time around, focused a lot on mixing and trying out some plugins I hadn't used or seen before. I've gone pretty easy on compression and limiting of the master to keep the dynamics up so you might have to push that volume knob up

Crystal is a great synth in many ways but strangely lacked some options for both modulation and automation. Frequency for the FM/Ring mod being the most obvious one for me. Would have also like to be able to adjust envelopes from automation. Noticed that the LFO also didn't recall the correct speeds on load but luckily the envelopes make for great LFO:s with their loop function!

Well, anyway, enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/neophile/mehum-t ... -conundrum

The Curiously Quarrelsome Corundum Conundrum

DAW: Reaper 5
Featuring 24 Green Oak Crystals

Other pluggies:
airwindows - Density
airwindows - Drumslam
airwindows - PDBuss x 5
airwindows - PDChannel x 22
airwindows - Pressure4
airwindows - StereoFX
tesselode - Cocoa Delay x2
Auburn - Couture Free
Auburn - Panagement Free x9
Bill Davies - Windchimes (MIDI)
BlueCat - BC Free Amp
Cockos - ReaComp
Cockos - ReaEQ x4
Denis Tihanov - OrilRiver
Klanghelm - IVGI2 x2
Pecheneg - Tremolo
Signaldust - Abstract Chamber
Sonimus - SonEQ x4
Thomas Mundt - LoudMax
Tokyo Dawn - Kotelnikov x2
Tokyo Dawn - Nova x10
Venn Audio - Utility x2

Utilities:
Youlean Loudness Meter 2
Voxengo SPAN
airwindows Righteous4

[new kids on the block]

Hello,

why is the challenge 104 the latest challenge to have a directly playable sound archive on sites.google.com?

after challenge 104, we can not listen to competitors' proposals:
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/osc-105-thorn

it was much more convenient to see the scores, ranking and listen to the proposals directly on the google site

[doctorbob]

Click on "Submissions and Chat" to find the later challenge tracks. Maybe Brian hasn't added them to the archive yet?

HTH

dB