Crystal
Crystal is an audio unit plugin from Oak Software. It functions as an audio processing component embedded within Digital Audio Workstations and other host applications that support AU format plugins on macOS. Like other AU plugins, Crystal does not run standalone but instead operates as a tool within a larger audio production environment, processing audio signals according to user settings.
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1 suggestionCrystal is a component plugin, not a standalone app, and cannot be updated or installed independently. To get a native Apple Silicon version of Crystal (if one exists), you must update the host application — the DAW or audio software in which Crystal operates as a plugin. The update channel depends on your host: if you use Logic Pro, update through the Mac App Store or via Apple's Software Update; if you use Ableton Live, Reaper, Studio One or another DAW, use that vendor's updater or download page. Contact Oak Software directly to confirm whether a native Apple Silicon build of Crystal is available for your host application, and whether your host's latest native version includes it. Since Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), this is worth verifying sooner rather than later — an Intel-only plugin will stop functioning entirely on that release, even if the host app itself is native.
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