Baby Audio Crystalline

Baby Audio Crystalline

A perfect algorithmic reverb is often considered the holy grail of digital audio effects. In fact, the idea can be traced all the way back to research papers from the 1960s. Throughout the 20th century, algorithmic reverbs evolved thanks to companies like EMT and Lexicon. But limited computing power at the time forced manufacturers to work within narrow constraints. Baby Audio Crystalline is a new state-of-the-art reverb plugin with a pristine and modern sound.

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Next-Generation Algorithmic Reverb

Fast forward, and we now have the resources to do things that couldn’t be done during the golden age of studio reverbs. Both in terms of sheer sound quality. But also in terms of adding creative features that weren’t possible in the hardware days.

Make Space For Lushness

• BABY AUDIO Crystalline is a new state-of-the-art reverb plugin with a pristine and modern sound.
• Gives you unprecedented creative control to shape your reflections.
• Lets you sync reverb start and decay times to your song’s tempo.
• An evolution of classic 20th century studio reverbs – fully upgraded for today.

About Baby Audio Crystalline

Crystalline stands on the shoulders of 60 years of chasing ‘the holy grail of DSP’. We’ve asked ourselves what the pioneers of the legendary digital reverb would have done if they had the resources we have today and then we’ve made exactly that plugin. With all the bells and whistles a modern engineer would need.

Unrealistic Expectations Allowed

When we’re talking reverbs, there are two fundamental philosophies: Algorithmic and Convolution reverbs. Convolution tries to mimic the sound of a real physical space using impulse responses, while an algorithmic reverb seeks to create an artificial space from mathematical algorithms, free from the constraints of the natural world.

The Tradition Of The Classic Algorithmic Reverbs

Crystalline follows in the tradition of the classic algorithmic reverbs, but adds new features and higher fidelity thanks to modern computing power. It is meant to sound unreal – in the most positive sense of the word. Its rooms and halls won’t sound anything like those in your house – but closer to those of your dreams!

Preset Creators

Crystalline comes loaded with more than 300 presets created by BABY Audio and friends of the house including:

• Damian Taylor (Bjork, The Prodigy, The Killers, Arcade Fire)
• Michele Canova (John Legend, Alicia Keys, Olly Murs)
• Eric J Dubowsky (Flume, St. Vincent, Chet Faker, Kygo)
• Matt Sim (Nicki Minaj, Big Sean, Gucci Mane)
• M-Phazes (Eminem, Madonna, Demi Lovato)

Award-winning creative tools for music-makers.

Baby Audio Crystalline Features

• BPM-Synced Start And End Times – Crystalline lets you hard-sync the reverb attack and decay time to your DAW’s tempo. This will generally result in cleaner mixes where the reflections are naturally in sync with the music.
• Reflections Section ”Size” lets you set the room size from tiny to large. This control is detached from the “Length” control, meaning you can get any size/length combination you want, including esoteric settings like huge spaces with very short tails or tiny spaces with very long tails.
• Depth Section – “Resolution” sets the complexity of the algorithm from ‘basic’ to ‘pristine’. More complex settings will give you an ultra-clean reverb response, free of metallic artifacts while the ‘Basic’ setting will give you an efficient CPU performance at a normal fidelity.

Key Features

• Clean-Up Section – “Damping” is a dual filter control that lets you remove high and low frequency content from the reverb reflections. This control offers a fast way to get rid of clutter and muddiness in your mixes.
• Shape Section – “Tone” is a tilt EQ that lets you quickly shift the frequency balance of the reverb to brighter or darker. “Smoothing” gradually applies an EQ-curve custom-designed to address the frequency areas that tend to get resonant and sharp.
• Output Section – “Ducker” lowers the reverb signal when the dry/incoming track is playing. This gives you a cleaner mix, where you can turn up the reverb more without compromising the dry track.
• Top Panel – “Color” lets you change between light and dark background colors. “Eco Mode” lets you run Crystalline in a low-CPU mode by setting the resolution to “Basic” and disabling the shimmer effect.

Baby Audio Crystalline Tech Specs

MAC

OS X Mac OS 10.7 and up (including Native M1 Compatibility)

Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX

WINDOWS

Windows PC Windows 7 and up

Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX

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