KVR Audio

jbuonacc · Post by **jbuonacc** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:40 am

Windows demo installer is up now. both that and the Mac links say "version 0.0.9", but "V100" when you download.

is that right? either way, thanks for getting it sorted! will check it out later today.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:16 am

jbuonacc wrote:Windows demo installer is up now. both that and the Mac links say "version 0.0.9", but "V100" when you download.

is that right? either way, thanks for getting it sorted! will check it out later today.

Glad it works now, sorry for the little delay.

Yes it's always the latest version in this place. Actually this one is Beta v 0.95a

Hope you'll like StiX !

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:22 am

I've compiled some of the *Single Drumpad* audio demos in one longer clip.
StiX Single Drumpad Demo A

What you hear in a Single Drumpad demo is just ONE line of StiX sequencer, playing ONE drum sound, and cycling on ONE bar.

(For the record the first example in this clip was created in 7 mouse clicks, including loading the drumsound, and writing the sequence ! That's how fast StiX can be in the workflow.)

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:41 am

Just had a quick play with the demo, tons of features and looks and sounds good. I will keep an eye on its development, but I already have Tremor which seems very similar...anyone outline the differences between these two?

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:36 am

My heart sank when I received a refund this morning and then relief it was for 4 Euros.

What's that about?

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:39 am

SLiC wrote:Just had a quick play with the demo, tons of features and looks and sounds good. I will keep an eye on its development, but I already have Tremor which seems very similar...anyone outline the differences between these two?

Haven't tried StiX yet, bought blind!!!!!

But Tremor was always a huge CPU hog for me, more than I found acceptable for such a plugin, but then so is Etch.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:35 pm

VariKusBrainZ wrote:My heart sank when I received a refund this morning and then relief it was for 4 Euros.

What's that about?

Error on the price set. Stix in Beta is 95€/approx 99$, and not 99€ as you paid.

A few more chocolates for Xmas ? Cheers.

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:37 pm

Until when is the intro price?

And how many computers can be activated?

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:40 pm

VariKusBrainZ wrote:
SLiC wrote:Just had a quick play with the demo, tons of features and looks and sounds good. I will keep an eye on its development, but I already have Tremor which seems very similar...anyone outline the differences between these two?
Haven't tried StiX yet, bought blind!!!!!

But Tremor was always a huge CPU hog for me, more than I found acceptable for such a plugin, but then so is Etch.

I'll let other people elaborate on these differences in the first place, then complete if needed. I just studied Tremor manual for a few minutes, and undoubtly, differences there are. They sound different too ( overall, first impression when I listened to all demos on Fxpansion site )

CPU : StiX is *rather* cpu friendly. If you have a *modern* computer, it should not be a problem I think. On my systems it takes around the same cpu than a comparable Xils-Lab synth with 6/8 voices chord polyphony for *crowded* sequences. I've never tried Tremor, so I cant strictly compare them CPU wise.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 1:03 pm

stardustmedia wrote:Until when is the intro price?

And how many computers can be activated?

Until V1.0 is released (Wich will be announced a few days before in a Xils newsletter)
There's no precise date.

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 2:44 pm

Lotuzia wrote:
stardustmedia wrote:Until when is the intro price?

And how many computers can be activated?
Until V1.0 is released (Wich will be announced a few days before in a Xils newsletter)
There's no precise date.

Thx for the info. I'm away until 16th Jan... don't want to buy stuff from my handy (EDIT: handy = mobile

) or a public computer

If I remember right Xils give you two activations per license, right?

Daags · Post by **Daags** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 4:51 pm

can the steps be de/activated by midi ?
if not - chalk this up as a fail.
if so - you should be sure to highlight this fact when listing features.

so tired of vst drum machines making this mistake. the reasons as to why this should be possible should be obvious, or you shouldn't be designing drum machines.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:24 pm

stardustmedia wrote:
Lotuzia wrote:
stardustmedia wrote:Until when is the intro price?

And how many computers can be activated?
Until V1.0 is released (Wich will be announced a few days before in a Xils newsletter)
There's no precise date.
Thx for the info. I'm away until 16th Jan... don't want to buy stuff from my handy or a public computer

If I remember right Xils give you two activations per license, right?

With Elicencer or Ilok you can insall it on as many computers as you want, provided that you have the hw dongle with you. With Soft Ilok, I think you can transfer the licence from one computer to another one iirc. Xils-Lab follows the genaral rules/guidelines of Ilok and eLicencer for all this afaik.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:41 pm

just tried to install the demo and Avast reported it as a threat fyi

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:45 pm

Daags wrote:can the steps be de/activated by midi ?
if not - chalk this up as a fail.
if so - you should be sure to highlight this fact when listing features.

so tired of vst drum machines making this mistake. the reasons as to why this should be possible should be obvious, or you shouldn't be designing drum machines.

Yes adding variations when looping with a single pattern might be the obvious reason. Or one of them. This feature was present in an old Yamaha unit.( with a complicated way to operate it, and it was only deactivate irrc, and not activating empty steps -not sure of that but ...- )

With Stix you can mute/unmute drumpads ( ie drumsounds) by playing live on octave c3 of your midi keyboard/device. Seems much more handy than deactivating steps, as you can deactivate a step, or the whole sequencer line, or part of it. And build complete intro/outro effortless from a single, admitedly busy, pattern. Just mute/unmute sequencer lines in a progressive way with a few keystrokes, and iyour intro/outro is done. Or your break/fill/whatever.

You can also play the drums live with the sequencer using octave C1. It might be faster than adding a step.

And chain patterns live with octave c2, and therefore record entire arrangements in your daw in a flash. Especially if you can combine this with StiX other live control possibilities.

These are not strictly similar things though, Mute/unmute combined with Play Drums live can do things that de/activating can't do, in a fast and intuitive way, its also -imho- much more powerfull, but the opposite is also true : De/activating steps could give different results -in a few cases-

Well, this is the way/design I choose for StiX. Whatever you will think of it if you try it, a lot of thought have been put into the making of StiX. It's the Drum Machine I have always wanted for myself.

StiX : MultiSynthesis Drum Machine (v1.6 Released + Flash sales)