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Gam456 · Post by **Gam456** » Fri May 22, 2026 10:29 pm

IvyBirds wrote: Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:43 pm The original precursor to Omnisphere was called atmosphere which came out in 2002.

Indeed probably based on MatchFive

GlennO · Post by **GlennO** » Fri May 22, 2026 11:21 pm

Gam456 wrote: Fri May 22, 2026 10:29 pm
IvyBirds wrote: Wed Nov 12, 2025 8:43 pm The original precursor to Omnisphere was called atmosphere which came out in 2002.
Indeed probably based on MatchFive

Oh my, no.

As some of you may know, I'm intimately familiar with the answer to the OP's question.

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Fri May 22, 2026 11:49 pm

Lol. Hi Glenn
rsp

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sat May 23, 2026 3:30 am

I discovered that Crystal still works in Cubase 15. In fact, it's solid as a rock and still sounds great.

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Sat May 23, 2026 8:50 am

From hardware point it is a lot like JD-800 IMHO

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sat May 23, 2026 8:54 am

Crystal also will work in many linux-wine combos, and the import of soundfonts for oscillators is a nice plus. Lots of synths that import .wav files of some format stay alive, Absynth 5 is a good example, people saying it was dead, without using it's import capability.

GlennO · Post by **GlennO** » Sat May 23, 2026 9:33 pm

It's very cool to see some familiar names after being away for a long time

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Which synth was considered the precursor to Omnisphere?