Sin ser tan complejo como el Absynth permite a un común mortal aprender a usarlo más allá de tocar los presets que ya vienen. A mí tras un estudio de la ayuda que hay en su web y las pistas de Llunaisol en su reseña me permite hacer presets que si no son un tema en sí se acercan a ello...Me fascina el wave sequencing
Me alegra ver que alguien por estos lares lo valora, pues todo lo que me dicen por aquí es que chupa CPU por un tubo, sin entrar a ver qué se puede hacer con él. Si me las apaño yo con mi pobre ordenata para componer con él que podreis hacer los demás con maquinones...
En cambio en el foro de kvr-vst propuse crear una lista de usuarios de Crystal, Glenn Olander [el padre de la criatura] la creó y en solo unos días hay casi 500 usuarios ya miembros de ella.
Bueno, para quien sí valore este VST gratuito informo que el grupo está en:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crystal-users/
Si os gusta hacer patches es lugar de intercambio, Glenn va publicando trucos para hacer patches
y para miembros ya está disponible la v2.2. [también para Mac] con novedades interesantes:
Here's what's new in version 2.2:
1) Hard sync
The oscillator section of each voice now has a Mogrify control. This
parameter will eventually control different things depending on the
context, but for this release it controls a hard sync when the wave
form type is set to SawSquare or WarmSaw. Hard sync gives the sound
a gritty edge. As examples, check out the "Full House" preset in the
Vintage section and "Mushroom" in the "Trance Motifs" section.
2) Wave shaper
The filter section of each voice now has a Shaper control which
imposes
a soft wave shaping function on the voice before the filter is
applied.
3) Reverb
The delays on the mix page can now be used as a Reverb. To use a delay
as a reverb, set its filter type to "Reverb". When in this mode the
Feedback parameter will control the room size for the reverb. The
Presets menu in the Delays section of the Mixer page has options to
set each of the 4 delays to reverb. For example, to use reverb
choose "Delay 1 Reverb" from the Delay Presets menu, then send one
or more voices to Delay 1 using the Delay Send controls at the top of
the Mixer page.
4) Master Limiter
There is now a master limiter on Crystal's output. This is useful if
you get carried away with feedback or resonance parameters and want
to avoid blowing out your monitors.
5) Resonant high pass filter.
The places in Crystal where you can add a filter (the voices and the
delays) now have an option for a resonant high pass filter.
6) More soundfonts permitted.
You can now have up to 1024 soundfonts in the CrystalSoundFonts
folder.
7) Miscellaneous enhancements
The utility menu under each envelope editor has new choices. These
are useful for arpeggios, wave sequences, or gating.
Version 2.2 has various performance enhancements, including
automatically shutting off the delays when they are not in use.
ctrl-drag (cmd-drag on mac) of an envelope point to simultaneously
drag all the points now shows the value for the selected point in
parameter display instead of the last point.
right-click on slider shows value in the parameter display. This is
an alternative to alt-click.
Inverse pulse shape added to envelopes. This is a new shape which you
can use for envelopes. With this shape, the line from the pointstarts
towards the next point with the value of the first point. Then, half
way to the next point, the value drops to zero before rising again
when the next point is reached. This is very useful for arpeggios.
See "Phased to Meet You" preset for an example.
The envelope shape menus have a clue appended to the "curve positive"
and "curve negative" menu items to help you remember which direction
each of those choices goes. Curve positive has a "--" to remind you that curve negative
starts out curving upward or downward (depending on whether the next
point is above or below the first point) then finishes flat.
Richer sawtooth waveform. The The SawSquare and WarmSaw have an
improved oscillator to give them a more analog-type sound.