Xils-Lab DEES : The Transparent DeEsser

[Lotuzia]

XILS DeeS : The Transparent Deesser

...... has just been released ( 07/21/2014 )



Your voice, her voice, his voice. Every voice is a treasure

With the help of the XILS DeeS you can get rid of all the Voice recordings faults and problems in a flash, while preserving its unique, precious character.

Getting clean, professional vocals, dubbing recordings, restoring voices in all their beauty has never been so easy.

XILS DeeS in short:

•Easy to use : Find the sweet spot in a flash and remove all unwanted signals. Just move the Frequency Knob and apply Reduction. No more sibilance.
•Easy to understand : Clear Dual Signal path. Solo buttons for each channel ( Voice, Sibilants )
•Visualize what you do : Instant Correlation between ears, eye and brain in a glance with the fast, precise 4 signals real time Frequency Graph ( Bottom of unit )
•Easy to tweak : Go further and adapt the character of a voice to your project. Or make special effects and creative use of the DeeS

Only with the XILS DeeS :

•Entirely Transparent : No filter sweep effect like with traditional similar tools.
•Fast : The detection can be applied as fast as it should be, resulting in lively, natural voices ( No more lifeless voices ).
•Input independent detection : Retains the whole dynamic range of the incoming audio.
•Simple : Sibilant and Voice Channels are clearly identified on each UI part : Knobs, Graphs share common color code.
•Exclusive : Plosive detection for better recognition
•Then go even further : Endless possibilities to change, adapt, or polish the character of voices with two independent EQing audio paths ( Analog like 0-delay-feedback filters ).

Wether you want to restore the quality of these emotional vocals that you’ll never be able to record again, clean your own voice recordings for a blog, an institutional movie, or Video material, ensure your customers that your dubbing material will be totally flawless, turn an amateur announcer into a Veteran Speaker, adapt a voice to a project sonic or musical context, XILS DeeS will provide you the most professional results.

Quickly. And in an intuitive way.

Intro Price : Until September 1st: Introductory offer : Only 59€ instead of 89€

Info and demo version : Xils DeeS

Note : Xils DeeS is only protected by a serial number

[valerian_777]

Congrats to another great release!
One little complain: I don't understand why so much GUI space is wasted with elements nobody need (like to the left and right with the rack bolts).

[Lotuzia]

Congrats to another great release!
One little complain: I don't understand why so much GUI space is wasted with elements nobody need (like to the left and right with the rack bolts).

Thanks Valerian

For the width : Yes, We also needed this precise width for the preset mangement/options/? bar.Well, its an HW oriented GUI/UI, somewhat intended to please Pro Sound Engineers, who are used to work with HW units, so that they can find their points of reference very quickly. Then, from an aesthetic POV, just like the wooden sides on a virtual analog synthesizer, some people will adore it. While some other people will like it less Its normal, a GUI can't *totally* please everybody.

[uselessmind]

I am not interested in an Deesser atm but good to see it is serial protected.
I will surely take a closer look at your other serial protected products later this year, once more money comes in.

[valerian_777]

Thank you for the info about the GUI Lotuzia! One question left: Will there be any Audio/Video Demos during Introperiod?

[Lotuzia]

I am not interested in an Deesser atm but good to see it is serial protected.
I will surely take a closer look at your other serial protected products later this year, once more money comes in.

Thank you UselessMind.

Our other serial protected products atm are :

* Le Masque Delay : Mangling delay with analog 0df filters )
* LX122 : Vintage Leslie Emulation with access to mechanical parameters
* Ramses : Rythmic and synced effects as you have never seen and real time control
* ChorX : 3 types of famous vintade BDD Chorus units
* Oxium : Analog and beyond flagship synthesizer

And appetizer lite versions of some of our analog synths
* Xils 3 LE : Modular analog synthesizer emulating EMS VCS3
* Polykb Player : Player of our exclusive PolyKBII unique morphing analog synthesizer

Hope i did not forgot some

[Lotuzia]

Thank you for the info about the GUI Lotuzia! One question left: Will there be any Audio/Video Demos during Introperiod?

Hi Valerian,

I'm not sure we'll be able to do some in this period.

The DeeS is really very easy to operate, and the site + manual should -hopefully- give enough infos to allow people to demo it quite quickly. ( though I agree one or more video could help also )

Basically you should begin by tweaking the detection frequency knob to find the sweet spot. Then go further -IF required- to fine tune the action of the deesser : Amount of compression ( some deesers dont go further than that), then the EQs, and the plosive module ( an XY square so its very intuitive to use ) to fine tune the detection algorythm.

The graph and solo buttons will help you to decipher, visualize, hear what you're actualling doing to the signal. In real time. These are analysis/correlation Tools only. Hope this helps.

[Frantz]

This is a pretty unusual de-esser. I don't know why I would need two resonant multi-mode filters in a de-esser. Can the filters be disabled? Is there an oversampling option?

[xavier]

This is a pretty unusual de-esser. I don't know why I would need two resonant multi-mode filters in a de-esser. Can the filters be disabled? Is there an oversampling option?

Hi Frantz,

The first reason is that you may want to not only reducing the sss, but also to change their tone a bit. Or to say it differently, instead of reducing the sss, you can keep their level reducing the high end (or just cut one annoying band)
The second reason is that, aside reducing the sss, you may want to equalize the voiced part.

The EQ are disable when the Gain is set to 0 (At the center) and the type is either a bell or a shelf.
In that case, the Level of the sibilants is the only control to reduce their level.

There is no oversampling, the EQ involved in that plug-in is using an algorithm which don't need oversampling although it doesn't show the typical Shannon limitation you can find in usual digital filters. Furthermore, thanks to the plosive detection, which also don't need oversampling, the sibilants are well recognize almost without delay.

I hope this answer to your question.

Best regards
Xavier

[Frantz]

The EQ are disable when the Gain is set to 0 (At the center) and the type is either a bell or a shelf.

You might consider adding this to the manual. I don't recall seeing this mentioned.

I hope this answer to your question.

Yes, it does. Thanks.

[Lotuzia]

This is a pretty unusual de-esser. I don't know why I would need two resonant multi-mode filters in a de-esser. Can the filters be disabled? Is there an oversampling option?

To complete a bit Xavier"s answer and give real world examples :

Each of The 2 filters is independant and tied to one the two signals, *sibilants* and *voice*.

So this means that you can EQ the Voice part WITHOUT affecting the Sibilants part. So for example you can add some air or presence to the *voice* signal and shape it quietly without bothering of the sibilant part. This is especially usefull to process the *voice* signal frequencies that are close to the detection frequency, and no other de-esser can do that afaics. So you can adapt the character of a speaker/singer voice so that it sits well/better on background music for a film/blog/documentary, or on music in case of a singer.

Xils DeeS isnt btw only usefull on *voices* : According to Sound Engeeners, it is also extraordinary to process/shape and get control on ....... a Slap Bass. Or any signal/instrument that needs its upper range to be fixed. Adding control and clarity in the mid- high/hi freqs range is also the whole point of the DeeS, strictly speaking de-essing beeing the most popular task assigned to this kind of Tools. It will work very well and will be usefull on all signals above 1khz, wich are critical signals for the clarity of a mix

Also, and in short ( just c/p from what I wrote in another forum ) : *Basically its topology eradicates some side effects of *classic* similar devices : No more filter sweep effects, no more risks of dead/lifeless voices/signals when heavy processing/restauration is needed ( the voice retains its organic character ), also as its independant from input level, the whole dynamic range of the original signal is preserved ( Again this is very important to preserve livelyness of the original signal and also avoids compressor *pumping* risks when the signal is not loud enough during certain parts of the track )*

Tools like the DeeS allow Sound Engeeneers and Producers to do some signal processing that were nearly impossible to achieve before, even when using very complex routings, and open new ways of mixing. All this in a simple, fast and easy way.

[xavier]

Here some news about the DeeS !

A 1.0.3 beta version is available (full and serial free demo)

_ Project recalling : Issue with the second instance fixed
_ In rare cases, crash when moving the Plosive threshold is fixed
_ De-normal mode issue when moving the Plosive threshold is fixed
_ AAX : Master By-Pass and Effect By-Pass are now working together
_ The Option "Init settings with current settings" is now correctly working
_ The Display scale is now correct

Serial free demo : http://www.xils-lab.com/pages/XILS-DeeS ... -Demo.html

Best regards
Xavier

[Lotuzia]

Well, there are probably quite few people processing voices on Kvr, so here are a few quotes from another forum. ( I changed the name of competitors units/brands to be fair )

It is bloody transparent indeed. More than what I had at least ( A very pricey unit from a world reknown manufacturer, stock DAW stuff). Sounds very good - which is the case with everything from Xils Lab.

Tried it and liked it. The demo sounded really good. It's transparent and even just using the stock presets, it was a noticeable improvement over my other de-essers.

I agree with all of these comments. The EQs are really good, among the best high end EQ I've heard ITB.

On one vocal that really needed de-essing, this plug-in was better than my other favorite deesser (A specialised Famous Deesser or its big brother ). I think of this plug-in as a one-stop vocal presence adjuster. I think that's really what XILS was aiming for.

I haven't tried the one of the kings of deesser, but I think XILS DeeS is clearly superior to the a very pricey famous deesser needing a DSP hw card de-esser. Also, it's a very good one-band high frequency EQ that seems to be optimized for vocals, though I've also had success with it on some guitar, and snare tracks.

Can't comment on Famous deesser needing dsp card, but I'll comment on the one of the kings of deesser. I was underwhelmed by the King of deesser to be honest. It's a great sounding and easy to use plugin, but I can hardly justify putting two hundred bucks into something that does not have a release time option! Sorry Name of the brand, really like your stuff but you missed it here IMHO. For that cash I want a lot more.

All this to say that there are only 5 days to the the mighty DeeS at the introductory price. And who knows, maybe one day you'll need a De-Esser ?

[ObsoleteAcc99]

Hmm so I have been giving this a really good demo.. what i find is, that once i have honed in on the s frequency, and then monitored what is being removed (solo sibilant top right), and set reduction so just s is being removed, that when i listen to whole signal, it doesn't sound like any reduction at all. But THEN i use gain knob on sibilant on top right, and lower that, and it works brilliantly. Is this how this processor is supposed to be used or is it a bug? I mean is the whole point of the way it works to separate the two, and the user control from the sibilant section itself?

[xavier]

Hmm so I have been giving this a really good demo.. what i find is, that once i have honed in on the s frequency, and then monitored what is being removed (solo sibilant top right), and set reduction so just s is being removed, that when i listen to whole signal, it doesn't sound like any reduction at all. But THEN i use gain knob on sibilant on top right, and lower that, and it works brilliantly. Is this how this processor is supposed to be used or is it a bug? I mean is the whole point of the way it works to separate the two, and the user control from the sibilant section itself?

Hi TheoM,

Yes, that's exactly how to use the DeeS.
Side Chain settings for detecting the sibilant and then EQ and level settings to process them (or to process the voiced part of your audio content)

Best regards
Xavier