Crio VST free from Solcito Musica
Today I want to let you know about Crio 2.0, an interesting VST instrument for Windows, released last year by Solcito Musica for free.
Here is the instrument description quoted from the author’s website:
Crio is a virtual monophonic analog/FM/Ring Modulation synthesizer to make arpeggios, bass, solos, leads, FX-style sounds, to be used at studio or live. Minimal controls, maximum functionality. It brings facilities to drastically modify the sounds on the fly, while playing. The LFO has special functions for rhythmic uses, such as quantization of waveforms synchronized with tempo. The user must use the Modulation Wheel to check the importance of the modifications that can be done at live.
In this latest release the author have added ring modulation, cpu echo and have improved the instrument on many other aspects.
The original version of Crio was sporting an unusual oscillator and filter sections and a simple workflow optimized for live performance situations. The new version of the instrument introduces a number of new features and bug fixes, making this freeware hybrid synthesizer even more worthy of your attention.
As said we have now a new ring modulation mode in the oscillator module and the “Eco CPU” mode which reduces the strain on the CPU without making any obvious trade-offs in terms of sound quality.
Crio is great to make raw and aggressive sounds, noises and gritty sounds.
With this little beast you can create aggressive leads and bass sounds, however trance sequences and arpeggios could be also created with ease using the LFO section.
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Here is a test video from BPB:
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