Interesting prices for xils stuff:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/search.php?s=xils

Except for XILS-lab PolyKB II Player they all require dongles, hopefully Xils releases some new full-featured synths without them soon. I have the CM version of the PolyKB II so I'm not sure I'm in the market for it, is there something more besides the 4 extra user parameter slots? If you don't mind selecting from a drop down you can still edit more than 4 at a time for any patch, but of course not all parameters are there.

AFAIK XILS3 LE doesn't require a dongle?

Sorry, I mean their full-priced synths.

What, am I wrong, bot Blue Oyster Cult? What then, Bank of China, Bureau of Customs, Business Outreach Center?

Hi Braj,

Thanks for your interest in the XILS 3 LE !!

About the sequencer, you will find some clues in the old video I did some years ago. They definitely have to be updated (unfortunately time is always to short), but they should give you some ideas :

http://www.xils-lab.com/pages/XILS3_Videos.html


Best regards
Xavier

@ braj: Maybe you're right!

But I'm guessing he meant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bKe_Zgk4o

BOC Board of Commissioners
BOC Boards of Canada (band)
BOC Blue Oyster Cult (band)
BOC Bureau Of Customs
BOC Breakfast Of Champions
BoC Board of Control (Caltech)
BOC But of Course
BOC Body of Christ
BOC Bureau of the Census
BOC Binary Offset Carrier
BOC Board of Corrections (Alabama prison board, 1952-83)
BOC British Oxygen Company (UK)
BOC Bloc Obrer i Camperol (Catalan: Workers and Peasants Bloc; political group; Spain)
BOC Bloque Obrero y Campesino (Spanish: Workers and Peasants Bloc; political group)
BOC Bone of Contention
BOC Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BoC Bride of Chucky (movie)
BOC Bottom Of Container
BOC Broadcast Operations Center
BOC Bol d'Or Classic (French: Golden Bowl Classic; motorcycle race)
BOC Bugatti Owners' Club (UK)
BOC Brotherhood of Catfishermen (website)
BOC Beginning Of Cycle
BOC Back of Curb (planning and zoning)
BOC Budget Object Classification
BOC Barring of Outgoing Calls
BOC Blinged-Out Cabbage (Woot.com)
BOC Bit-Oriented Code
BoC Blade of Carnage (Everquest gaming)
BOC Brotherhood of Chaos (Counterstrike clan)
BOC Badminton Open Club (France)
BOC Ballin Outta Control (gaming clan)
BOC Brought on Charge
BOC Battalion Operation Center
BOC Box Of Cigars
BOC Business Object Controller
BOC Tertiary-Butyloxycarbonyl Group (biochemistry)
BOC Basic Operational Capability
BOC Best Operational Capability
BOC Body of Christ Gaming (gaming group)
BoC Book of Challenges (roleplaying games, Dungeons & Dragons)
BOC Block of Concrete
BOC Barc Olympique Club (French: Barc Olympic Club; Barc, France)
BOC BAMEX Operations Center
BOC Bilateral Occipital Calcification
BOC Back Order Cancellation
BOC British Ornithologist's Club (est. 1892; UK)
BOC Back Office Coordinator
BOC Breast Oncology Center (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
BOC Baziège Olympique Club (French: Baziège Olympic Club; Baziège, France)
BOC Botswana Orientation Society
BOC BC2A Operations Center
BOC Bayerische-Osterreichisch Correspondenz (German: Bavarian-Austrian Correspondence; postal treaty)
BOC Bishops of Opposite Colour (game of chess)
BOC Bottom Of Clutch
BOC Bomb on Coordinate (US DoD)
BOC Best of Citysearch (resource; various locations)
BOC Basic Oxygen Converter
BOC Beer O'Clock
BOC Back-Office Conversion (payments)
BOC Basic Officer Course (Singapore Civil Defence Service)
BOC Bag of Crap
BOC Book of Concord
BOC Black Out City
BOC Breach of Contract (legal term)
BOC Baghdad Operations Command (Iraq)
BOC Bandolier of Carrots
BOC Bump of Chicken (band)
BOC Ball of Confusion (song)
BOC Bureau of Construction (various locations)
BOC Band of Comrades (gaming clan)
BOC Battery Operations Center
BOC Beverage Of Choice
BOC Bell Operating Company
BOC Berkshire Opera Company (Massachusetts)
BOC Bank of Canada
BOC Bank Of China
BOC Base Of Choice
BOC Bond Oversight Committee (various locations)
BOC Best of Canada (gaming clan)
BOC Branch Office Connectivity
BOC base operations center (US DoD)
BOC Base Operations Contract
BOC Bulgarian Orthodox Church
BoC Bank of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
BOC Bank of California

Aha! I guess you are right there, but not exactly on par with Pink Floyd and Gong in my little part of the universe!

Thanks, I'll try and look at that soon. But actually I think I'm coming to grips with it actually

Nice! see its not my fault for being confused!

I got this in a no brainer deal but I've never used it. Every time I fire it up it just sounds muddy and a bit lifeless to be honest. Not a fan myself. I also find the behavior a bit weird. Some patches don't make sound and some are crazy effects that send the channel way into the red so maybe there are bugs as well (OSX Lion).

If we talk about the original synth i also like to listen to Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook "The Dark Side of the Moog VIII: Careful with the AKS, Peter":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orT83uZokog

I got the whole Dark Side of the Moog collection which is great IMO.
Of course Klaus Schulze used the VCS 3 (or AKS) in several other recordings.


Ingo

well I am seeing similar things, I don't think they are bugs but partly just the patches and partly the archetecture being emulated. It came out in 1969 after all its as old as I am. It doesn't have a conventional lfo, I need to figure that all out, seems the sequencer plays a role in achieving that to a degree. But I'm enamoured, I've been getting all kinds of interesting, familiar tones out of it, I really like the flute-like sou day the best, and it just has a lot of personality. It fits in amongst my other synths well and gives me what I didn't have so I'm happy.