XILS-lab XILS 3 LE

Take Your Sounds Into a New Dimension

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The XILS-lab XILS 3 will sate your vintage synth appetite. The XILS 3 is based on the classic, semi-modular EMS VCS3 - which Pete Townshend used to modulate the signal of a Lowrey organ for the sequenced intro of Who's Next's closing anthem. With this lofty pedigree, you'd expect the XILS 3 to serve up a banquet of holy-grail vintage analog goodness - and it does, indeed. Unlike it's ancestor, however, the XILS 3 is affordable - and easy to program, thanks to its powerful modularity. Fortify your arsenal with a virtual vintage modular synth: XILS-lab's XILS 3.

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• Modules galore
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The XILS-lab XILS 3 virtual synthesizer ushers modularity and sound design into a new dimension. With more than 450 connections (audio and control signals, trig signals) available on the XILS 3, you can pretty much route anything to anywhere, giving you iron-fisted control over your sound palette. You can also use it - as did Townsend with the VCS3 - as a powerful and versatile effects processor.

The XILS-lab XILS 3 is fitted with three warm-sounding, alias-free analog-style oscillators, analog curve matching, 2-pole and self-oscillating 4-pole dynamic filters, fast envelopes, a noise generator, a ring modulator, and spring reverb. More than enough to whip up intensely original sonic textures.

The XILS-lab XILS 3 boasts an easy-to-program 128-step sequencer that can create standard 8- or 16-step fixed patterns, as well as more complex rhythms to fuel your compositional expeditions.

• Awesome modular synth for music and sound design!
• Three aliasing-free oscillators: sine, ramp, square, triangle.
• One 2/4-pole lowpass filter
• One envelope, based on two different designs, trapezoid and ADSR
• One spring reverb
• One ring modulator
• One 128-step sequencer
• Two output static filters
• One joy stick
• Three connection matrix
• One input gate
• One input envelope follower
• One pitch tracker
• One transient tracker
• Mono/Unison/Polyphonic playing mode; up to 18 voices of polyphony
• All parameters MIDI controllable
• Many presets made by famous sound designers
• Plug-in only; no stand-alone operation