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wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:00 pm

FapFilter wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:56 pm Without knowing for sure which synth it's actually going to be, would yet another Moog synth be any better?

I usually prefer Rolands, Moogs never spoke to me that much. But that's just personal preferences.

My personal opinion on this is, that it doesn't really matter which exact synth(s) you're using, they just have to be sonically, feature- and workflow wise up your alley so i don't need exact replications of some old synths of yore.
What i'd rather like to see if someone loosely approximated the basic sound of let's say a Juno or some other nice sounding stuff (or something completely unique sounding based on nothing in particular, as long as it's sounding nice), give it 3 oscillators, 3 envelopes, two multimode filters, MSEG, maybe patchable in a modular way, or the worfklow of something like Massive or Serum.

And there are plenty of those. This is meant to be an emulation of a particular Roland synth. If that doesn't interest you, there are plenty of synths out there that will.

byllabong · Post by **byllabong** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:10 pm

wagtunes wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:00 pm
FapFilter wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:56 pm Without knowing for sure which synth it's actually going to be, would yet another Moog synth be any better?

I usually prefer Rolands, Moogs never spoke to me that much. But that's just personal preferences.

My personal opinion on this is, that it doesn't really matter which exact synth(s) you're using, they just have to be sonically, feature- and workflow wise up your alley so i don't need exact replications of some old synths of yore.
What i'd rather like to see if someone loosely approximated the basic sound of let's say a Juno or some other nice sounding stuff (or something completely unique sounding based on nothing in particular, as long as it's sounding nice), give it 3 oscillators, 3 envelopes, two multimode filters, MSEG, maybe patchable in a modular way, or the worfklow of something like Massive or Serum.
And there are plenty of those. This is meant to be an emulation of a particular Roland synth. If that doesn't interest you, there are plenty of synths out there that will.

Or if it DOES interest him, then we're all systems go!!!

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:16 pm

Why so much aggressivity in so many posts ?

byllabong · Post by **byllabong** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:18 pm

Not mine, I'm being positive about the synth. Why not?

Chapelle · Post by **Chapelle** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:40 pm

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:44 pm

byllabong wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:18 pm Not mine, I'm being positive about the synth. Why not?

Don't worry, my post was just after yours but didn't at all concern your posts.

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:46 pm

Isn't the RS-505 another string synth? Seems a bit of an odd choice when the only other Roland Xils Labs has modelled is the VP-330.

Lotuzia, hope you saw what I said about the tiny sequencer. I know comparisons with Arturia are a sore point, but they really have you beat on the UI with the hide/show controls screens and their preset manager is way easier to use too.

I have nothing but love for the Xils synth sounds though.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:47 pm

WatchTheGuitar wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:46 pm Isn't the RS-505 another string synth? Seems a bit of an odd choice when the only other Roland Xils Labs has modelled is the VP-330.

Xavier chose the VP-330 not only for its string-synth part... but also for its famous vocoder part.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:07 pm

And the RS-505 is one of my dreams, as all the best string-synths which came in the 70s-80s. It is even with the string-synths that I began my synth passion (I had bought a Farfisa Syntorchestra in 1977, a Moog Opus-3 in 1982, and a Korg Mono/Poly (yes, it was paraphonic few people know that) around 1985, and I have played for a long time a Korg Trident but not owning it myself).

ENV1 · Post by **ENV1** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:21 pm

Lotuzia wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:44 pm
ENV1 wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:04 pm After the conversation in the other thread i think we should clarify whether L is included or excluded.

(The answer given before was a bit ambiguous so lets make it clear this time.)

Is it L-Z or M-Z ?
It was M-Z, sorry if it wasn't clear enough/

It was a bit ambiguous due to the way the question was asked, but thanks for clearing it up.

PS: My money was on something from moog. Would not have guessed Roland.

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:08 pm

String synths are fine, but I must say out of the RS-505 and the MKS-80 I'd far prefer the latter, especially with an emulated MPG-80.

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:10 pm

I voted MKS-80 and didn't get a PM about winning so...

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:08 pm

wagtunes wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:53 pm
Halonmusic wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:45 pm Well at least its not yet another moog emulation.
Well, I've yet to hear a Roland synth that I like the sound of so most likely I'll have zero interest in this emulation.

I still want to know where the "rare" is.

System-700 is VERY rare.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:10 pm

WatchTheGuitar wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:08 pm String synths are fine, but I must say out of the RS-505 and the MKS-80 I'd far prefer the latter, especially with an emulated MPG-80.

As an owner of a real MKS-80, I have to say I would love to have a software version of it, but with some improvements, like, for example, the multimode filter of the Jupiter-6, instead of the Low-Pass only as the MKS-80 has.

sacer · Post by **sacer** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:13 pm

ARP Polaris

Xils-Lab X-505 String Machine 'The Analog Orchestra' : Released + intro price