XILS Lab CS-80!!!!!!

[sqigls]

surely...







https://www.xils-lab.com/store/theeighty/

[pekbro]

[wayford]

Exciting news.

Been quite impressed with PolyKB lately. Only wish the library browser was bigger on the screen.

[seafire]

"THERE ARE THINGS DONE. AND THERE ARE THINGS DONE RIGHT"

Starting a sentence with 'and' isn't one of them.

[sqigls]

[hey212]

#grammariansofkvr

[JO512]

Starting a sentence with 'and' isn't one of them.

Is that really so wrong?


https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar ... ences-with

[sqigls]

ironically, that was literarily hilarious

i'm keen to hear this. The Arturia and Cherry emulations of such dinosaur synths don't really do much for me. BUT (<- comedy gold right there) Xils have a certain "i don't know what" that sounds a bit more like hardware. Might have to source myself a ribbon controller and pretend I'm a real synth player

[seafire]

Starting a sentence with 'and' isn't one of them.

Is that really so wrong?


https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar ... ences-with

Yes, it's a heinous crime.

Firstly, has it ever been wrong to begin a sentence with and or but? No, it has not. We have been breaking this rule all the way from the 9th century

If its not wrong, you're not breaking a rule. They are contradicting themselves. This site cannot be trusted.

Back to the cheesy synth

[Dirtgrain]

Of my English teacher colleagues, I find the ones opposed to starting sentences with coordinating conjunctions tend to be the ones who went to Catholic schools as kids.

But I see so many professional writers start sentences with coordinating conjunctions. It's a thing.

For example, V. S. Naipaul, a writer whom I think is among the best of sentence crafters, wrote the following introductory paragraph in "In the Middle of the Journey":

Coming from a small island–-Trinidad is no bigger than Goa–-I had always been fascinated by size. To see the wide river, the high mountain, to take the twenty-four-hour train journey: these were some of the delights the outside world offered. But now after six months in India my fascination with the big is tinged with disquiet. Dawn comes, night falls; railway stations, undistinguishable one from the other, their name-boards cunningly concealed, are arrived at and departed from, abrupt and puzzling interludes of populousness and noise; and still the journey goes on, until the vastness, ceasing to have a meaning, becomes insupportable, and from this endless repetition of exhaustion and decay one wishes to escape.

Back on topic--I've seen two new VST synth demos in the last few days that both feature Blade Runner sounds. We cannot get away from Blade Runner; it is forever the stick by which synths are measured.

[Gamma-UT]

If its not wrong, you're not breaking a rule.

* it's

Muphry's Law never fails.

[whyterabbyt]

&&(true)

[revvy]

Quite surprised to see him shitting on a XILs synth/thread. And to include a grammar mistake, too. Oh my.

[zerocrossing]

Let’s face it, Americans are generally terrible at grammar. You should see my mom’s internet posts. She’s got a masters in Library Science and she writes like a 2nd grader, but only on internet posts.

[zerocrossing]

If they don’t include some pretty compelling features that other synths have, it’s going to be pretty difficult for them to get me to buy this. I already think Model 77 is excellent for accuracy, and CS-80 V is pretty good and what it lacks in accuracy it makes up for in additional functionality.