XILS Lab CS-80!!!!!!

[Lbdunequest]

i wonder if im alone with this problem, for years i cannot access their website, always writes timed out. Am i alone here?

[Examigan]

It's working for me here.

[JonSolo]

i wonder if im alone with this problem, for years i cannot access their website, always writes timed out. Am i alone here?

What part of the world do you live in? Could be your country.

[Lbdunequest]

i wonder if im alone with this problem, for years i cannot access their website, always writes timed out. Am i alone here?

What part of the world do you live in? Could be your country.

I live in Lithuania (European Union country, part of Nato)

On data it works tho

[Gam456]

i wonder if im alone with this problem, for years i cannot access their website, always writes timed out. Am i alone here?

I have the same issue with Rapid, only a vpn give my access to their website.
i believe it's from my lan provider. i dont' have that with my 5G

[sqigls]

i've had a lot of trouble connecting to xils-lab.com

they're blocking a lot of VPN IPs, and obviously there's a few other issues there.
i've played email tennis for a while but most often i just can't connect at all.
surely they must be missing out on a lot of sales.

[hey212]

Xils V+ was the most difficult thing to purchase I've ever run into. I tried to buy it directly from their website and it was a dead end, I can't remember why now, it just wouldn't work. They sell through Sweetwater where I already had an account so I figured that would be pretty easy, not so much. After I bought it on Sweetwater, I got an email from Sweetwater with a code, and then I think I had to create an account on Plugivery or something, and maybe enter the Sweetwater code and then Plugivery sent me an email with a different code I think, and then at some point I had to create an account with Xils and enter the Plugivery code, and then somehow I got an actual iLok serial number. I don't even remember it all, but it was something like that. Absolute mess, couldn't believe it finally worked. That said, V+ is amazing, nails that analog string sizzle.

[PointOfDeparture]

i wonder if im alone with this problem, for years i cannot access their website, always writes timed out. Am i alone here?

My internet provider is Breezeline in the US and I have to use a VPN set to a European country or Canada to access. I think it's been like this for almost a year.

[Examigan]

Xils V+ was the most difficult thing to purchase I've ever run into. I tried to buy it directly from their website and it was a dead end, I can't remember why now, it just wouldn't work. They sell through Sweetwater where I already had an account so I figured that would be pretty easy, not so much. After I bought it on Sweetwater, I got an email from Sweetwater with a code, and then I think I had to create an account on Plugivery or something, and maybe enter the Sweetwater code and then Plugivery sent me an email with a different code I think, and then at some point I had to create an account with Xils and enter the Plugivery code, and then somehow I got an actual iLok serial number. I don't even remember it all, but it was something like that. Absolute mess, couldn't believe it finally worked. That said, V+ is amazing, nails that analog string sizzle.

I had a very similar experience (Pluglivery, etc.), except it was when I bought BFD3 a few days ago. I bought it through Sweetwater.

[Kypresso]

UX design is key, always.

i always go for sound first ease of use second, so i guess dsp design is key for me.

[Gam456]

UX design is key, always.

i always go for sound first ease of use second, so i guess dsp design is key for me.

Same here. Unless the UI makes the vsti unusable

[teilo]

A number of people have been assuming that oversampling is the only way to prevent aliasing. It's not. Anti-derivative anti-aliasing (ADAA) is a new approach that has been getting a lot of research in recent years. It's more efficient than oversampling, and I wouldn't be surprised if we are starting to see its adoption in VA synth design.

For example: https://dafx2020.mdw.ac.at/proceedings/ ... per_35.pdf

But I don't imagine Xils is going to reveal their special sauce. We'll find out soon enough if whatever they are doing is effective.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Same here. Unless the UI makes the vsti unusable

If I don't enjoy the experience of using a synth because of bad UX design choices [by that I mean, those that don't "click with me" - this things are subjective after all], then I'm just not going to use the product. See Softube Modular as an example.

There are too many products out there that simply do a great job with both the User Experience and the sound quality, to put up with those that fall far short on either.

[Gam456]

Same here. Unless the UI makes the vsti unusable

See Softube Modular as an example.

indeed. Like i said when it's unusable. UI is so small on a 4k monitor.
It's impossible to read anything.

Same issue with Reaktor, FM8

[beely]

Like i said when it's unusable. UI is so small on a 4k monitor.

I never understand why people set their resolutions to native 4K, where everything becomes pretty tiny, then start scaling their system/all their software up individually to make it useable, and then find there are software that doesn't scale well or at all making it unusable, when they could just set a resolution less high, have the same size monitor, don't have to scale anything, and the things that don't scale are also at a perfectly useable size.

I run a 4K 27" inch monitor, but I'm generally running at 2560x1440, and everything is roughly at the size I need it without having to scale anything...

Maybe running at a less than native resolution on Windows looks bad, or something?