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What’s Crystal like?
There’s this synth with an ugly icon that I’ve been background-aware of since the beginning of my iPaddery called Crystal, or Crystal XT, and have never been tempted toward it. What am I missing? Is it good, bad, or just yet another superfluous synth to add to the pile of soon to be unused ones.
I ask because I was on a usual information trail last night and something or other in Korg synth architecture (which is what I’m reading up on lately) begat something else, which begat another, which led to Wavestation, at which I paused and recoiled in memory of the time I very nearly bought a Wavestation to add to my existing SY77 (I even had the carton in my hand and had taken it to the shop counter, heavy thing that it is, before having a change of mind on the spot) (had I had fore-knowledge of the financial misfortune that was about to befall on me a few months later, necessitating getting rid of everything I had back then, it would have been maximally disastrous had I went ahead and brought home a new Wavestation).
The Wavestation reading-up somehow let me to Crystal and Crystal XT. Somehow. Any thoughts on it?
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A non-technical answer: I like it alot. Odd to look at. Sometimes very playable, sometimes (depending what you want to do with it) not as simple as I would like, but the sounds are excellent.
OK. Let's sit here on this bench and wait for someone more technical to come by.
Never heard of this one, but a Wavestation is something that is sorely missing in my collection - either as hardware or software (Korg, if you're reading this: after the great iM1, I know you can do a stellar iWS too!).
So, is there any similarity between Crystal and a Wavestation?
I think there's a free VST available. Doug did a nice demo of it..
I like it, although I don't have it installed currently. It is part of the rotation though.
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/14023/crystal-synth-xt-sale/p1
I'm a big fan of Crystal SynthXT on iPad. It's a bit different than other synths on iOS, and It can produce some really great sounds. There is a VST and it's free:
http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/about.html
Just say no
Sorry Nancy, can't agree.
This was the page: http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/blast-from-the-past-korg-wavestation-604114
Capable of rich, lush pads
Works great on iPad
Can glitch like hell (not the good kind) on iPhone (even the latest)
It used to chug on older Gen 1 iPads but newer ones handle it better, but lo, the patch saving is a real pain, it creates backups of backups of backups, that confuses itself, never mind the user. Eventually it got my back up! If you can cope with the crazy file system then it's a good very capable synth.
Ugly. But I say that under my breath so as not to offend.
Just my silly joke in response to 'what's crystal like?'. But maybe you got that.
Crystal goes waaaay back. I used to use it when I first got into music production on the PC. It was (and still is) free in the VST version, and was a default for pad sounds. I got it for the iPad for nostalgic reasons more than anything else. I don't use it much though.
The main cool thing about Crystal is all the modulation possibilities. There are six envelopes with up to 9 points and lots of ways to connect them. There are six LFOs with seven wave forms. There are 12 modulation matrix slots where you can assign source and target for each. You have three voices to work with, and these can be simple waveforms or samples. You can import your own. In short, it's a tweaker / modulator playground.
The interface is definitely dated, making no great effort to adapt to the times or the platform. Nobody needs it. Many people would enjoy the hell out of it. A few might actually make practical use of it. If you can try out the VST, it will tell you for free if it's for you.
Crystal synth XT is ok. Just ok.
As others have said it's an oldie from the PC. It's been on and off my iPad, but just too many issues and things I dislike even though it sounds good.
The interface just does not seem iPad friendly - could be improved a lot!
Really bad power use spikes.
Crashes now and again.
The saving routine is just bloomin awkward.
Feels laggy at times.
Can sound really good!
Is good. Can sound great. Has reports of losing user-saved patches.
If i remember correctly the developer of Crystal synth is the chief software engineer for Spectrasonics (Omnisphere, Trillian and Stylus RMX). I used to beta test these products many years ago.
Would iProphet cover that sound
Worry not, I sensed your method...
The breeding feature can be useful when looking for ideas. I only use the VST version, though.
Yup & it seemed oh so futuristic back then !!!
the sound of Crystal Synth ? most likely not, it's a different approach to synthesis.
Crystal can be setup to operate similiar via it's envelopes, but lacks the immediate mixture of the waveforms (controlled by the joystick)
As mentioned the interface is quite cumbersome, but the sound engine is fairly good considering the time of it's release.
I liked the trigger pad as keyboard alternative, but it CPU constantly ran out of juice iirc.
Just tried it on a mini-2... no such problems anymore
Kept me up for 3 days but I had great sex the whole time.
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