Vitling Crypt is a new free Synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows, featuring a 64-oscillator “super engine” designed for massive unison sounds.
Every music producer on a small budget has access to a vast number of free virtual instruments, especially synths. Here is a list of the best ones you should know. Many use virtual analog synthesis, joining the ranks of many others.
There are, however, exceptions where VA synthesis is under the hood but offers a more focused feature set. The new Crypt Synthesizer from artist Vitling is one of these.
I kept building all these stacks of synths to make the kind of thick, detuned textures that I enjoy working with in my Bow Church project, but the complexity of those stacks made it hard to easily play with the sounds, and the CPU would take a serious hammering. As a programmer as well as a musician, I knew what I had to do.
Vitling Crypt
Crypt is a new free Synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows, developed by artist Vitling. The plugin is born from a desire for massive unison voices.
The core is a virtual analog Synthesizer that uses a CPU-efficient 64-oscillator super engine, featuring supersaw and supersquare waves. Unlike traditional subtractive synths, the oscillator section is significantly reduced to three main parameters.
You can adjust the unison to 64 voices and spread and shape it from a supersaw to a supersquare waveform. Indeed, it’s very focused on a single main feature.
A built-in lowpass filter with cutoff and resonance controls lets you shape the super waves classically. Then, for modulation, it has two dedicated fixed ADSR envelopes (filter, amp) and no LFO, which is a shame. So, you can’t animate the waveforms.
To refine your sounds, it also hosts a multi-FX section with three-parameter phaser and delay, one-knob distortion, and reverb. There is also a pitch-bend range knob and a master volume.
Further, it has a built-in browser with various factory presets to explore right away.
While its core sound is described as “opinionated,” with roots in dark goth and trance music, Vitling notes it remains surprisingly versatile for different musical contexts. The plugin was born from the developer’s own needs while working on their Bow Church project.
First Impression
At first glance, it is a very solid-sounding, free Synthesizer plugin with a very streamlined concept. Something different from the usual more-is-more feature concept. Often, less is more inspires the musicians more than the other way around.
Vitling Crypt is available for free download now. It runs as a VST3 and AU plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows. You can support the developer by donating via its Ko-Fi page, or buy its latest album on Bandcamp
More information here: Vitling
Sounds cool, thanks for the heads up!