Does anybody own a Xils Lab synth? What synth? Have you owned it for a year +? How is t

I've got the synthi - lite, and it works well.  Never had to use customer support in the last couple of years.

Why?  You planning on breaking their product ;-)

Nothing but glowing reviews on kvr for Oxium. So many that there was a backlash resulting in several "enough about Oxium, already!" threads. 

They do have a demo.

I, too, am on a quest for a new synthesizer. Still looking, though. Tried (and liked), but did not buy Oxium. 

Diva would have been my choice but my aged CPU isn't up to it.   

I mostly agree with your assessment of kvr, btw. 

bitflipper
I, too, am on a quest for a new synthesizer. Still looking, though. Tried (and liked), but did not buy Oxium.

Diva would have been my choice

I've demo'd Diva and think its amazing. But.. As amazing as I think it is, it just isn't clicking with me. Its sound quality is awsome though.

I just tried Stein's Retrologue and Padshop Pro...... They are great!! I was just about to buy em, when I saw the Oxium Article on CM or Music Radar.. I was just, "reading the FB newsfeed, and found out about this new Oxium Synth..

SmokeyJ628
Xavier (the main guy at Xils lab) used to work for Arturia. You'll notice that the preset menus are almost identical to those found in Arturia synths.

Wow! Not because I think his synths and arturias are very simalar... "wow," because I think this Oxium is so different. I didn't notice at all. Now I am totally blown away.

A lot of the synths you mentioned..  have the same problem as my synths...  "Age."  

5 years is a long time in the software industry..  I feel like my synths, and plenty of those on your list, are showing age.  and when I play with Oxium...  I totally see, "the age my synths are showing."

I should stay away from these topics. I've got more than enough soft synths to keep me busy to the day I die, but then I read something like this and I want to try out someone else's suggestion.

As for synths getting old linear, they may be old, but still do the business. As long as I get two oscs with the usual range of simple waves, some adsr env gens, filters etc. I'm a happy bunny. So what I sometimes look for is a new way of manipulating everything and how well the GUI is laid out.

So, I'm off to see what Oxium is all about lol

Yes, five years is a long time in the software world. However, it's also more time to root out bugs and refine the user interface. In such a fast-paced environment, far too many products remain in a perpetual state of half-finished-ness. 

It takes a good 18 months or so for a new program just to settle down and stabilize, longer if it's very complex. What distinguishes a world-class vendor is what happens to the product next; is it abandoned, or does it continue to be enhanced and refined? 

I would not reject a 5-year-old synth out of hand. I'd look at its history and the history of the company or individual that created it. Omnisphere is close to 5 years old, and few other products are anywhere close to catching up to it. Kontakt is more than 5 years old and over that time has gone from a minor player to ruling the sampler world.

I like deep synths kinda sorta..  I really like having Rapture; because its deep, albeit not endless like Max.  My music mission statement could actually be something like, "consistent, efficient simplicity."  Synthesizers are not something I am buying all the time..  I much prefer to buy a new EQ, or a new Filter..  (I've got my eye on Cytomic's Drop.  There seems to be a beta out now for Mac.  I think this is going to be a, "must have product," when it is released.)

Synthesizers have a learning curve far beyond most, if not all eq's, verbs, delays, filters, effects and other devices.  For me, what intersests me most in a synthesizer is its sound, and not its infinite ability to generate complex sound-scapes that could quite easily take 10, 20, and no doubt 30 hours of sound design per patch.

So when I say my synths are sounding a little aged, it means that on a personal level, since the release of synth squad, I have noticed several developers pushing current limits not by creating complex modular architectures capable of sound-scape from galaxies far away... Pushing the limits by creating software synths that have a unique and beautiful sound quality to their raw sounds..

Just read that the full version requires an Ilok or eLicenser....

Hey cclarry, Oxium is serial key only, which imo is very, very cool!  :-)


Unfortunately I own one Arturia Product, and I know exactly how eLicenser works, and I will not buy any more products that use this kind of copy protect...  I dislike how long it takes to initialize a plugin for use in a daw, and dislike the syncrosoft update procedures, and I feel like this is, "punishing copy protect."


Cheers

Linear Phase


 How is Customer support?

In my experience, nothing short of superb. They replied to my request submitted on their support site and to subsequent email within hours and speedily resolved my issue.
 
The issue - lost serial number for my XILS 3 LE - 100% my fault.