Changing sine, saw/squareĪnd noise waves to voice and breath and substantially changing filters and Rhythmic ideas that started developing in my head. The modulation envelope was changed to fit the At some point I heard a bell-like pad I likedĪnd started redeveloping it. I auditioned several Crystal pads and atmospheres figuring I would develop a simple This track, Riding the Tail of the Comet, is by Bruce Satinover (AKA x_bruce):.I ran it through Ozone when I was done and this was the result. I wrote it rather quickly (maybe an hour?) using 4 instances of Crystal, and some of my own (heavily compressed)drums. Up stuff with this synth it's incredible. A lot of the presets are really using the synthsĬapabilities and I wanted to start from scratch and these are the sounds I got. I just started with an empty Crystal, and then went from there. You can get all kinds of great sounds out of it with a few tweaks. You can find more of Brian's music at his web site.Ĭrystal really is incredible. This Crystal demo track is by Brian Desmond.I assigned the Modulation Wheel to the Filter Cutoff and Resonance on most of the presets.Īfter 6 Crystal instances I must bounce to 32bit Cubase wav files and the track uses 12 instances in The sounds in an easy way and give the sounds a character while you play. The modulation matrix is brilliant to mutate Just browsing the presets inspired me to record all tracks. Long Journey, Who´s in there and the Pennzoil preset finished the intro and built nice tensionsĪdding external effects (Reverb,EQ,Delay and Comps), a quick mastering and the "Crystaline" song was The Trouble Bells were a great surprise and I simply had to use them.īrowsing through the presets again inspired me to move all tracks 17 bars away from the start and play a Both sounds fitted together perfectly.įinally I realised that I needed some high tones or FX and went over to the Bell sounds. Swell 10 was the right one and I used it in the same Now I went over to the next category, the Swells. Play this sound that I began to move the pitch wheel and I played this pad like a solo instrument. Once the Pads were done, I needed a melody. This pad works every 16 bars as an introduction for the AuntyEM pad. The sequence was done and I began to structure the track and added the SwirlyQ pad. I began by browsing the presets and started with a sequence, the Rave Master preset.Īfter that I searched for a preset to enhance the sequence and used the PotomacToms. I tried to find the "language" and spirit of Crystal, to see and hear what it can do. "Crystalline" is the result of my first contact with the synth. The basis for writing this song was to explore Crystal. You can reach Christian at are Christian's comments on the track: This track, Crystaline, is by Christian Werner.
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