Xils-Lab PolyKB III -Official Thread- [v3.5]

[JoeCat]

Holy crap this thing sounds good! Opened the demo to the init patch, tweaked a few knobs, in about a minute had a great little lead that sounded perfect and analog at every octave without further mucking, and I didn't want to stop playing it.

Hanging with the demo some more, but honestly - it was a buy with that one patch before I even got to the presets.

Yeah, the GUI could use some minor improvements, and I've noticed some weirdness (for example, the first note not playing after a patch change), but this is version .0.0.

Well done Xils

[ZeePok]

Btw : We hope everyone is happy with the pricing of the Upgrade. I used to refer at it as 'fair and very affordable' when it was discussed in toher threads before it was announced. I hope nobody will have been disapointed.

Yes, absolutely! Everyone in their right mind will upgrade within a month I think.

[JoeCat]

...and I've noticed some weirdness (for example, the first note not playing after a patch change)...

My bad - it's just a little lag before the patch loads. Ain't no thang...

[Dakl]

Why doesn't the order of chorus and phaser buttons correspond to their order in the effect panel?

And would it be too hard to include the double-click-back-to-default feature for knobs?

Other than these things, I'd give anything (or at least the price of the synth) to have even larger gui sizes. If that's in the pipeline, I'm in. This synth sounds wonderful.

[Lotuzia]

Why doesn't the order of chorus and phaser buttons correspond to their order in the effect panel?

And would it be too hard to include the double-click-back-to-default feature for knobs?

Other than these things, I'd give anything (or at least the price of the synth) to have even larger gui sizes. If that's in the pipeline, I'm in. This synth sounds wonderful.

Chorus/Phaser : Aesthetics (FX panel) + Legacy (Main GUI on/off toggles) . I personnaly dont think it's important, but each one has it's own good reasons. It might change.

Size : There are 3 sizes available atm. I recently played the PKB II.5 at a friend's place on a giant display (very impressive btw), and it was OK and thoroughly operatable. Then, unfortunately, no additional size option is schedulled atm.

Reset to default : Control + click. Also, Fine tune : Shift + Click and oscillators exact valuers (per semitone) : Alt + Click

Then, like I often say, at the end of the day, a synth sounding -in your words- wonderful will print wonderful sounds on your tracks. GUI details considered, for some reasons, more or less annoying won't be on your tracks. It's nearly impossible that a GUI please 100% users, and each user at 100%, so that my guess is that, at a moment, one must make the good balance and decision between a wonderful sound, and some GUI details and options.

[Lotuzia]

Holy crap this thing sounds good! Opened the demo to the init patch, tweaked a few knobs, in about a minute had a great little lead that sounded perfect and analog at every octave without further mucking, and I didn't want to stop playing it.

Hanging with the demo some more, but honestly - it was a buy with that one patch before I even got to the presets.

Yeah, the GUI could use some minor improvements, and I've noticed some weirdness (for example, the first note not playing after a patch change), but this is version .0.0.

Well done Xils

Thanks. Yes there can be a little lag before the patch is totally loaded, like you said in your next post. It depends on the patch, and on your system of course, but it's usually very fast. But once the patch is fully loaded, the 1st note will play.

Yes, UI/GUI will continue to be enhanced, it's never over. (it's version III now), but I think the current incarnation brings some delicious new possibilities. And, maybe more important, a lot of things that no other synthesizer can offer.

[Lotuzia]

Btw : We hope everyone is happy with the pricing of the Upgrade. I used to refer at it as 'fair and very affordable' when it was discussed in toher threads before it was announced. I hope nobody will have been disapointed.

This was pretty fair!
Thanks to Xils-Lab for that.
[Joyeuses Fêtes!]

Thanks

Noyeux Joel à toi aussi

[Lotuzia]

Btw : We hope everyone is happy with the pricing of the Upgrade. I used to refer at it as 'fair and very affordable' when it was discussed in toher threads before it was announced. I hope nobody will have been disapointed.

This was pretty fair!
Thanks to Xils-Lab for that.
[Joyeuses Fêtes!]

Any other Dev would have charged double the amount......at least.

Thanks for reassuring us that the price was right & fair , and maybe even 'more than that'

[Lotuzia]

Btw : We hope everyone is happy with the pricing of the Upgrade. I used to refer at it as 'fair and very affordable' when it was discussed in toher threads before it was announced. I hope nobody will have been disapointed.

Yes, absolutely! Everyone in their right mind will upgrade within a month I think.

Thanks. I hope so. Sofar, we have delivered the synthesizer just in time ( minus a few hours ), fixed the bugs quite quickly, and at a price people will remember as fair. Comments, minus a few considerations on some GUIs details, are all very positive regarding the sound, the uniqueness, and possibilities.

So ... Bright seems to be the future.

Thanks to all for your support, comments, even if you disagree on this or that matter, and feedback

[Dillinger]

Eternally impressed

Both sound and design

Evermore

[malachy5]

I really loved this from when I had the PolyKB CM and even then it had so much character (with quite a lot of possibility to affect the sounds with patient mapping), upgraded to full version via NI sale and now to this and it is truly great sounding. I often just play with this synth just for pleasure, so many possibilities now with the great morphing oscillators, stacks of LFO and dual filters! Great upgrade price and policy, thanks to Xils and Co.!

[crystalmsc]

I often just play with this synth just for pleasure, so many possibilities now with the great morphing oscillators, stacks of LFO and dual filters! Great upgrade price and policy, thanks to Xils and Co.!

It's easy to have a great sounding synth these days, but a bit hard to find a synth which is truly a pleasure to play with. PolyKB III is certainly one of them and I'm so glad for having it on Xmas, it's just the right time. Paired with the Pianoteq Grotrian piano model, it's everything I wish from Santa.

[Klinke1]

Xtraordinaire!

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Mini mistake spotted?
Website PolyKB III -> Features: "3 Enveloppes & 2 LFOs :"

[Lotuzia]

The iLOK registration went pretty trouble free for me, I redeemed the licence.

To register the PolyKB III license on my iLOK I needed first to surrender the PolyKB II license I already had on it.

When that was done I registered both PolyKB II and III to the iLOK. Both products works afterwards.

The way it looks in iLOK manager:

PolyKB II & III (2) [Locked group]
-PolyKB III [Product]
-polyKB [Product]

PolyKB III sounds mighty fine, but I wonder if it uses a bit more CPU than PolyKB II ?

PolyKB III will use a similar CPU charge to PolyKB II for identical patches. However, using the second filter for some patches will add a CPU charge similar to using the same patch with unison set to factor 2 ( I'll take the opportunity to remind that PolyKB II & III have True Unison modes, ie real additional voices are generated, and you can thoroughly tweak individually these voices using the various Per Voice modulators, allowing precise and neverseen control over them)

Also, while beeing at least totally on pair with any other analog emulations quality wise, it uses less cpu than some other synths. And finally, to achieve this, the PolyKB always run in Supreme Mode : There are no 'low quality' modes in it.

[exmatproton]

The iLOK registration went pretty trouble free for me, I redeemed the licence.

To register the PolyKB III license on my iLOK I needed first to surrender the PolyKB II license I already had on it.

When that was done I registered both PolyKB II and III to the iLOK. Both products works afterwards.

The way it looks in iLOK manager:

PolyKB II & III (2) [Locked group]
-PolyKB III [Product]
-polyKB [Product]

PolyKB III sounds mighty fine, but I wonder if it uses a bit more CPU than PolyKB II ?

PolyKB III will use a similar CPU charge to PolyKB II for identical patches. However, using the second filter for some patches will add a CPU charge similar to using the same patch with unison set to factor 2 ( I'll take the opportunity to remind that PolyKB II & III have True Unison modes, ie real additional voices are generated, and you can thoroughly tweak individually these voices using the various Per Voice modulators, allowing precise and neverseen control over them)

Also, while beeing at least totally on pair with any other analog emulations quality wise, it uses less cpu than some other synths. And finally, to achieve this, the PolyKB always run in Supreme Mode : There are no 'low quality' modes in it.

16 voices uses about 50% CPU here (core i7 4970K @ 4,8 GHz). That is quite hefty. I am not complaining though. I love the 'almost' no compromise, best quality attitude. I wish more synth dev's would do this. This thing sounds amazing!