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after reading your positive review i dont understand your 7/10 rating.

Lack of unison and a few pops/clicks while editing is what ruined it. Unison is somewhat easy to get over because I can easily do some stereo work in my DAW but the pops and clicks really do it in. Who honestly likes to hear a random *POP!* right in the middle of their track? Those two brought it down to 7/10. If unison was added I would rate 8/10. Fix the pops and clicks and I would rate 9/10. Fix both and you got 10/10.

If you could identify how to reproduce any clicks or pops and check that they also occur in the alpha version and report them to me, I'd appreciate it a lot. I have never experienced any clicks or pops during normal use of the current release of Xhip. It does produce some pops when changing specific parameters such as waveform, filter mode and others but "random" isn't accurate when describing those.

The latest alpha version has fixed the pops generated when switching oscillator waveforms.

Actually, I am very surprised, it sounds excellent. Great filters :) But it comes at a price, just like Diva it consumes a lot of CPU as soon as you use unison :o.

I was just playing around with the slow brass preset, there are no clicks at all. I guess it depends on certain settings like attack and release velocity, but that applies to almost every synth.

Some of the presets are set way too loud.

Most likely. As I said this is a steal for being a free synth. I got my pops when I was editing the filter cutoff. Then again I was an a different computer. I'll try it out again and see how it goes.

Seems that sometimes there is a click when turning on unison first, then adding supersaw. When you turn the unison knob again, like from 4 to 5 and then back to 4, then the click is gone.

Those sorts of bugs are also things that I'd really appreciate being tested on the latest alpha and reported if they have not yet been fixed.

If you have any issues you should consider trying the alpha version available at http://xhip.net/alpha/ and reporting any issues you also find in that newer version.

Unison in Xhip is a "true" unison - it simply activates a multiple number of voices and applies detune to them. These are complete voices including 100% of the processing such as filters, waveshaper, envelopes, LFOs and so on. The CPU time required is exactly equal to that required for an equal number of voices. The voice counter will display 64 voices when using 16 polyphony and x4 unison, for example.

Oscillator unison is only supported for the ramp waveform but I hope to allow it on every waveform and provide more functionality in future releases.