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Creative reverb design
Crystalline is a modern reverb that can be flexibly bended to your tracks' needs while always sounding clean and luscious. The plugin features 15 creative parameters to shape and mold the reverb character.
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Crystalline
Build the perfect space
Get cleaner reflections with DAW-sync'ed pre-delay and decay times, the onboard ducker, flexible filters, targeted low-end taming, harsh frequency smoothing and imaging controls.
And if a clean reverb space doesn't cut it alone, get creative with a freeze function, modulation, shimmer and reverse reverb options.
Crystalline is highly flexible and unlike a natural room or hall, it is not limited by the laws of physics. You can dial in huge spaces with ultra short tails or tiny spaces with epic decay times. This makes Crystalline perhaps the most flexible reverb yet.
Next-gen algorithmic reverb
Algorithmic reverbs create a sense of space through a complex network of delays, feedback and filtering. The sound was popularized in the 70s and 80s and is desired not for sounding natural but thanks to its lush and synthetic character.
Crystalline brings you everything you love about the algorithmic reverb sound but in a modern package with more control and radical sound design options. It is based on an allpass loop algorithm, which is a unique approach that offers its own distinctive sonic fingerprint.
300+ curated presets
Crystalline comes loaded with more than 300 presets created by Baby Audio and friends of the house - including:
✱ Damian Taylor (Bjork, The Prodigy, Arcade Fire, The Killers)
✱ Michele Canova (John Legend, Alicia Keys, Olly Murs)
✱ Eric J Dubowsky (Flume, St. Vincent, Chet Faker, Kygo)
✱ Matt Sim (Frank Ocean, Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Rolling Stones, Gucci Mane)
✱ M-Phazes (Eminem, Lil Yachty, Remi Wolf, Kehlani)
“Crystalline is an amazing reverb for creating interesting environments and the ducking option is a game changer”
Zedd
Artist and Producer
“Crystalline does things none of my other reverbs do. It’s a brand new, creative approach to reverb. Like all of Baby Audio’s plugins, it’s fun, simple, and immensely useful.”
Dean Reid
Producer and Mixer - Lana Del Rey, FKA Twigs, Lykke Li
“This is one of the few plugin reverbs I own, and I own many - maybe all of them, lol - which rivals some of the great, highly sought after hardware units! Crystalline has an amazing tonal texture and unbelievable depth and width. It doesn’t sound artificial or metallic like some other reverbs.”
Steve Dickey
Grammy Award-Winning Mixer and Engineer - Machine Gun Kelly, French Montana, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne
“With Crystalline I can dial in the perfect reverb with a few clicks of the mouse and the built-in clean up tools save me so much time. This will probably become my go-to verb plugin!”
M-Phazes
Grammy Award-Winning Producer - Eminem, Lil Yachty, Remi Wolf, Kehlani
“I adore your innovative slant on traditional ideas. On my first experiments, I liked how different this approach is to the concept of reverberation - especially the ducking parameter and some of the other unusual approaches (reverse and freeze - amazing!)”
Stephen W Tayler
Mixer, Engineer, and Producer - Kate Bush, Underworld, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner, Queen
“Truly one of the best sounding reverbs. My favorite part of the plug-in is the start and end time sliders. No need to do math to calculate reverb times, now you just sync the plug-in to your DAW and grab a slider.”
David Nakaji
Grammy-Nominated Mix Engineer - Kendrick Lamar, Gesaffelstein, Post Malone, Doja Cat, Glass Animals
“Honestly, on first impression, this is one of the best sounding plugin reverbs I have ever used! It’s the first plugin verb that can hold its ground with my bricasti m7 in terms of space, clarity, depth and texture. I am majorly impressed! Not sure what on earth you did, but this plugin is a home run!”
Keith Ross
Grammy-Nominated Producer, Songwriter, and Mixer - The Roots, Wyclef Jean, Boyz II Men, Missy Elliott
“Crystalline’s unique interface encourages you to think about reverb in a completely different way. As a result, I’ve found myself creating sounds and textures I’ve never encountered before. You’ll get sounds out of Crystalline you can’t find anywhere else.”
Damian Taylor
Grammy-Nominated Producer, Mixer, and Songwriter - Bjork, The Prodigy, Arcade Fire, The Killers
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What are the tech specs?
✱ Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX (64-bit).
✱ Platforms supported: Mac OS 10.11 and up (including Native Apple Silicon M-Chip Compatibility). PC Windows 10 and newer.
✱ DAWs supported: All major DAWs, including Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper, Reason etc.
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Features
✱ BPM-Synced Start And End Times:
Crystalline lets you sync the reverb pre-delay and decay time to your DAW’s tempo. This results in cleaner mixes where the envelope of the reflections is naturally in sync with the music. Prefer the classic way? Just hit the “Sync/MS” switch to set pre-delay and decay times in miliseconds instead.
✱ 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. “Sparkle” emphasizes high frequencies inside the reverb algorithm. This generates reflections that are naturally brighter, which will help you achieve that extra shine on vocals or snares. ”Width” lets you set the stereo image of the reverb from mono to wide – and even further to extra wide.
✱ 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 lower fidelity. Modulation creates pitch variations inside the reverb algorithm. This results in a richer sound that works especially well to fatten up synths, guitars and vocals. Shimmer makes the high frequencies of the reverb tail decay slower than the rest of the spectrum, giving the reflections an ‘angelic halo’ effect. You can set the frequency cutoff point as well as the multiplier effect, which controls how much longer it takes for the higher frequencies to decay. Please note that if Shimmer is active, the high frequencies will decay later than your specified reverb “End Time” (either at 2x, 4x or 6x the length).
✱ 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. “Sides” is a high-pass filter that removes stereo information from the low end of the reverb, while keeping the mono-information intact. This is especially helpful for creating wide vocal or lead instrument reflections without muddying-up your low end. “Gate” lets you instantly recreate the classic 1980s gated reverb sound. It offers threshold and release controls.
✱ 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 in the algorithm. It mellows out harshness and gives Crystalline a more subtle feel, allowing you to add a little more reverb without drenching your mix. “Warp” helps you shape the reverb’s dynamic profile by warping the transient response. This feature is mostly useful on percussive material where it lets you shift the emphasis toward the attack or sustain part.
✱ 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. “Ducker Gentle” mode offers a slow and natural ducker setting, while the standard ducker mode has a more pumpy feel. ”Reverse” reverses the reverb playback, giving you some radical sound design possibilities. “Freeze” is another creative effect that takes a granular snapshot of the reverb when clicked and holds this snapshot continuously until the button is un-clicked again. It can be a powerful effect for creating interesting transitions in a mix. “Dry/Wet” sets the global mix balance between the dry/incoming signal and the reverb signal. Clicking the “Wet Lock” button lets you browse presets while keeping your preferred wet/dry balance.
✱ 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. “Save As Default” lets you save your own default preset. “Reset” resets the plugin’s state to the default. “Tool Tips” gives you help texts explaining each plugin parameter.
Awards and accolades
✱ Plugin Boutique ‘Reverb Plugin Of The Year’
✱ Future Music Magazine ‘Gear Of The Year’ Pick
✱ Music Radar ‘2022 Gear Awards’ pick
✱ Nominated for the 2023 SOS Awards
Crystalline
Next-Gen Reverb Plugin
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