KVR Audio

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 8:52 pm

Just tried the demo. I got some really weird volume blowups when I was turning on the pulse mode for oscillator 2. Like, some notes were just going through the roof others not, even though velocity to amp was off. Other than that, it's got a great sound. The filters, the oscillators. Especially when you engage cross-PWM and cut some highs with the filter... very powerful. Promising!

klinik · Post by **klinik** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:28 am

breakmixer wrote:
klinik wrote:hmmm.. so no PWM from the others osc output??? Isee the space for the button where it should be in the panel, just between pulse wave and RM... Thats the most used feature when I had my synthex, and for sure something that put the synthex apart from the other polys.
Sad, I was happy to try that odf PWM...
It 'PWM button' appears when you select the pulse wave, dissapears when you don't...Same for both Osc's

Yes?? great!!!!

Dling the demo now!

MillerSam · Post by **MillerSam** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:32 am

Hey KVR users

I created an entire "sound only" review of Xils-Lab miniSyn'X. I divided the audio samples in presets categories
Thanks for listening

https://soundcloud.com/synth-anatomy-au ... b-minisynx

sfd · Post by **sfd** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:16 am

MillerSam wrote:Hey KVR users

I created an entire "sound only" review of Xils-Lab miniSyn'X. I divided the audio samples in presets categories
Thanks for listening

https://soundcloud.com/synth-anatomy-au ... b-minisynx

Great !

sfd · Post by **sfd** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:17 am

Hm...I'm missing the miniSyn'X product page here at KVR.....

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:08 am

MillerSam wrote:Hey KVR users

I created an entire "sound only" review of Xils-Lab miniSyn'X. I divided the audio samples in presets categories
Thanks for listening

These are great man...

The bass is lovely. Actually the whole soundset is cool.

Some nice retro sounds in there as well.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:18 pm

PatchAdamz wrote:
Crackbaby wrote:More sound demos please!
Great one Mr. P Adamz!
Thanks!

I am enjoying working with this synth.
Love those "old school" emulations and Xils-Lab has done it again.

Jean Michel Jarre was an avid user of the Synthex version.
Nice to see a soft synth version available.

JMJ, and also Stevie Wonder, Keith Emmerson etc etc

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:20 pm

sfd wrote:Yea, I would love to buy the hardware for the same price as the miniSyn'X !

There's one Synhtex on sale on Ebay for ..... 7 500 € at the moment

( Plus transport from Italy iirc )

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:24 pm

MillerSam wrote:Hey KVR users

I created an entire "sound only" review of Xils-Lab miniSyn'X. I divided the audio samples in presets categories
Thanks for listening

https://soundcloud.com/synth-anatomy-au ... b-minisynx

Thanks MillerSam

Its always a great moment to hear what music people do with presets, bringing them in totally different directions than what you were thinking while designing them. Great !

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:27 pm

klinik wrote:
breakmixer wrote:
klinik wrote:hmmm.. so no PWM from the others osc output??? Isee the space for the button where it should be in the panel, just between pulse wave and RM... Thats the most used feature when I had my synthex, and for sure something that put the synthex apart from the other polys.
Sad, I was happy to try that odf PWM...
It 'PWM button' appears when you select the pulse wave, dissapears when you don't...Same for both Osc's
Yes?? great!!!!

Dling the demo now!

The UI tries to show you only the controls you need at one moment to operate the synth. Another example are the Layer Solo diodes, that only appear when you are in Double Mode, because you dont need them when you are in Single or Split Mode.

sfd · Post by **sfd** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:30 pm

Lotuzia wrote:
sfd wrote:Yea, I would love to buy the hardware for the same price as the miniSyn'X !
There's one Synhtex on sale on Ebay for ..... 7 500 € at the moment ( Plus transport from Italy iirc )

huh....I could have a pretty nice dinner for that amount !

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:46 pm

Daags wrote:
Sendy wrote:Can someone explain zero delay feedback PWM to me please?

I can understand 0df filters, because filters need feedback to make resonance. But PWM is a change in duty cycle - it's a matter of timing relative to the period of the wave. Seemingly no feedback there to have zero delay of. I may be completely igonrant of something going on under the hood here, as my knowledge is just as an enduser, and a self-taught one at that.

Either way, I'm going to check this out, as I love PWM, and if this can deliver fresher sounding PWM then I'll be all over it!
Isn't 0dfb commonly used to mean topology-preserving ? Perhaps this is a case of that.

Yes. As I see it : In an analog synthesizer, everything happens, and interacts, instantaneously, and simultaneously. While code is sequential. Pulse Width Cross Modulation, Sync, and filters are some examples of these instantaneous/simultaneous interactive process more/less commonly found on analog synthesizers.

From the MiniSyn'X manual : 'PWM: Pulse Width Cross-Modulation (from the other Oscillator) select button. When ON, the width is controlled by the waveform of the other oscillator. This results in a very rapid change in harmonics, close to the ring modulation effect. If no other wave form are selected, when ON, this button let the oscillator to output a width controlled pulse with the same algorithm than the Synthex. '

As an audible result, afaic : On certain presets, and kind of sounds, the new algorithm makes a great difference.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:48 pm

wagtunes wrote:
Lotuzia wrote:One can upgrade from the Mini to the full Syn'X at any time. So it might not be a bad idea to get the mini at promo price if someone want to get the Syn'X after.
Did you say there was going to be a Syn'X 2? If so, is there a time line on that?

I think its a matter of weeks

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:51 pm

Crackbaby wrote:More sound demos please!
Great one Mr. P Adamz!

I think this one be nice to control from the System-1
When I get home I will buy it right away!

I have a certain number of clips of presets in isolation somewhere on a hd made while I was making some presets. I'll try to recover them.

MillerSam

reviewed some of the presets in the Mini ( see a few posts above ) and there are some minitracks on xils site also.

MillerSam · Post by **MillerSam** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:06 pm

Thanks Lotuzia

Personally I must say, it would be nice to see more presets in the plugin.
What you can see also in my later video, the plugin is not very light on CPU. Some patches are quite heavy

Xils-Lab miniSyn'X [A new happy user : Mr Jean-Michel Jarre ]