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Crystal

Semi-Modular Synth Plugin by Green Oak
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Crystal has an average user rating of 4.42 from 26 reviews

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Crystal

Reviewed By facingdoubt [all]
June 24th, 2003
Version reviewed: 2.3 on Windows

Crystal by far is the best free vst available today. You can use it for numerous types of music/sound. Crystal can produce anything from a piano to abstract noises. It really is up to the user on what crystal can do.

If you added reverb, flanger, or whatever your type of sound efecct to crystal you make the sounds brighter, darker, to your preference.

Creating sounds is simple enough that even a novice can figure it out with some trial and error.

In closing, you can read all the reviews you want on Crystal, but the best thing to do is to download it, try it out, and like everyone else, you'll agree that Crystal is hands down the best free VST on the market.
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Mmmr
Mmmr
27 August 2021 at 9:32am

Can't import Crystal's effects banks or contact the developer (Grrr at Facebook).

Hi. Bit of a story. Back in the day, I got Crystal from a ComputerMusic CD and messed around with it a bit. Time has moved on and last year sometime I bought Jbridge to use a different VST. Recently, I went through the old discs from ComputerMusic and started bridging the old 32-bit plugins (God this was fun). I made a project in Ableton Live yesterday where a spreadsheet I have that lists all installed VSTs and VSTis throws up random plugins for me to use in whatever project I'm working in. It threw up the bridged version of Crystal. I was totally confused on how to use it (as it's been a lot of years since I did use it) but got it working. After the project was finished, mixed and exported I thought I'd see if there were any tutorials. There were so I spent some time last night watching videos. It then occurred to me that there may be a current version. And, Hey Presto, there was. I downloaded and installed this and it seems to work fine apart from one thing. From the Greenoaks website for Crystal there are a load of banks to download and so, download them I did. I followed the instructions on the site to install them but they appear to be uninstallable. I've googled this and it seems to be something to do with Windows 10 security features (I'm not a hundred percent sure though). Anyway, I thought "Hey, I'll contact the developers and tell them about this". The only contact is via Facebook. As an old man of 53 I seriously don't ever want a Facebook account. I've had friends promote it to me on so many occasions not realizing that all the points they're making about how good it is are all the points that make me NEVER to want to have it. So, as a last resort, I thought I'd post on here and see if anyone has any ideas about working around the problem of importing the preset banks as the drop in the application doesn't work at all.

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