KVR Audio

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:23 pm

teilo wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:19 pm
zvenx wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:08 pm Quick question.
The Demo ilok license has one activation.. Does the paid version also only have one or two?
thanks
rsp
Two.

Thanks.
rsp

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Tue Jan 14, 2025 9:33 pm

Brave to have those sound examples up on the website. Not even remotely close any of them but still brave.

UI is exactly as I feared it would be. Way overdone in typical XILS fashion. Sigh.. will still demo this.

hurricaneaudiolab · Post by **hurricaneaudiolab** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:15 am

"Faithful to the original" and the comparisons were way off. Because there are so many CS-80 emulations out there right now, it is those not-even-close demos that are making me stay away from this one. I don't need another synth that can sort of sound like a CS-80. At least that's my initial thought.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:06 am

Aloysius wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:16 pm Listened to some demos. They all sounded like they were made by a bunch of smelly hippies on drugs.

What kind of drugs? There's a lot of range in drugs. I might be into it if they're on acid, but if they're huffing paint, I'm not interested.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:11 am

I always like Nori’s presets and demos.

Raddler1 · Post by **Raddler1** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:39 am

Where'd the blue sides go on the forum? Not liking the white.

hey212 · Post by **hey212** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:28 am

It’s hard to imagine why they'd be proud of the saw/filter/chorus comparisons on their website, they're so far from the hardware it almost stopped me from trying it out, almost.

I got about 10 minutes into demoing before buying. It has that super alive vibe that the PolyKB and V+ have, it’s just more animated and interesting than other emulations I’ve tried. Love the sound.

The preset browser is a disaster. No arrow key navigation is dumb, and why are some words always highlighted in green even when nothing is selected? Makes no sense. Also there are typos and dupes in the preset names and type names, hopefully Xils will clean that up as you can’t overwrite the factory presets to fix them yourself.

Btw, I was able to get it on Thomann for $68, not sure if that's some kind of glitch but it worked.

dayjob · Post by **dayjob** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:38 am

Criminally smol sliders and fonts. My eyes!

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:44 am

nice of them to include some tiny controls in the centre of all those air vents and furniture

dayjob · Post by **dayjob** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:50 am

sqigls wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:44 am nice of them to include some tiny controls in the centre of all those air vents and furniture

Yes. Wtf with the air vents?

plexuss · Post by **plexuss** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:55 am

dayjob wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:50 am
sqigls wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:44 am nice of them to include some tiny controls in the centre of all those air vents and furniture
Yes. Wtf with the air vents?

Without air vents it will overheat!

hey212 · Post by **hey212** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:10 am

The vents do actually get replaced with functional UI, but the scaling is wacky. The default scale is 50%, and I had to bump it to 70% on an Apple Studio Display to get the sliders and fonts to a comfortable size, at which point it takes up most of the screen.

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Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:59 am

plexuss wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:55 am
dayjob wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:50 am
sqigls wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:44 am nice of them to include some tiny controls in the centre of all those air vents and furniture
Yes. Wtf with the air vents?
Without air vents it will overheat!

And without the table beneath, it could fall down. This might be the only virtual instrument that has this extra stability.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:32 pm

Survey: Does anyone use the graphic keyboard on plugins? Are there people clicking on those keys? I can't imagine.

trusampler · Post by **trusampler** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:11 pm

3 or 4 Split presets on a bi-timbral synth ? That's just weird they didn't release more split presets , when the entire point of the CS80 was it's bi-timbral options.

XILS Lab CS-80!!!!!!