Rainbow Circuit Crush is a new free M4L chaos 2-operator percussive FM Synthesizer from the developer of the Whistle synth.
Almost two weeks ago, Takuma Matsui from Rainbow Circuit released Whistle. A fascinating M4L synthesizer that combines granular synthesis with physical modeling.
Just before the Christmas holidays, Rainbow Circuit released another M4L Synthesizer device. This time, it’s a free device with a donation option.
Rainbow Circuit Crush
Crush is just as wild as Whistle from the concept. While Whistle can sound very ear-candy, the new M4L goes way more in crazy, chaotic sonic domains.
It’s a two-operator drum FM Synthesizer supported by a plate resonator. The device is very minimal and only offers a handful of parameters.
The material parameter sets the stiffness of the plate resonator in seven different intensities. Then, you can set the ratio and the frequency modulation (FM) amount. Wild, the FM operators are by design untunable, also not with the ratio parameter. It only pinches the timbres.
Next, you have a decay envelope for short or longer sounds and an output parameter. Crush can generate very chaotic digital percussive sounds from harsh digital noise, glitchy bleeps, and bloops to weird overtone-rich percussive sounds.
First Impression
Crush is unusual and funny. It’s not an instrument that generates your familiar sound. It makes bright percussive sounds that you can incorporate nicely into drum patterns to add more spice. Beautifully experimental and different. I like
Rainbow Circuit Crush is available now as a free download from the developer’s Gumroad shop. You can also donate something for the development. It requires Ableton Live Suite or Live Standard with an M4L license.
More information here: Rainbow Circuit
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