{"id":59085,"date":"2014-10-02T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=59085"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:36:18","slug":"xils-4-synthesizer-inspired-by-rare-ems-vcs4-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2014\/10\/02\/xils-4-synthesizer-inspired-by-rare-ems-vcs4-first-look\/","title":{"rendered":"XILS 4 Synthesizer Inspired By Rare EMS VCS4 (First Look)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"XILS 4 first look - VCS3 soft synth\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKGlOkUfp4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>French soft synth developer <strong>XILS-lab<\/strong>\u00a0recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2014\/05\/19\/the-ultimate-matrix-synthesizer-xils-4-now-available\/\">XILS 4<\/a>, a software emulation of the legendary <strong>EMS VCS4<\/strong>, for Mac &amp; Windows.<\/p>\n<p>In this video,\u00a0author <strong>Jim Aikin<\/strong> takes a look at XILS 4 and offers his firs impressions of the new software synth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The XILS 4 emulates a prototype that was never released, the EMS VCS4, based on two integrated, interlinked and interacting VCS 3 ( Synthi) cores. With XILS 4, they are coupled them the classic 256 analog polysequencer.<\/p>\n<p>Details on XILS 4 are avaialble at the developer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xils-lab.com\/pages\/XILS-4.html\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XKGlOkUfp4k&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\">keyboardmag1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000000\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XKGlOkUfp4k\/0.jpg\"\/><br \/>XILS 4 first look &#8211; VCS3 soft synth was uploaded by: keyboardmag1<br \/>Duration: 352<br \/>Rating: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tubepressnet\/images\/yt_rating_on.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tubepressnet\/images\/yt_rating_on.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tubepressnet\/images\/yt_rating_on.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tubepressnet\/images\/yt_rating_on.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/tubepressnet\/images\/yt_rating_on.gif\" \/>&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2014\/10\/02\/xils-4-synthesizer-inspired-by-rare-ems-vcs4-first-look\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">XILS 4 Synthesizer Inspired By Rare EMS VCS4 (First Look)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13958,20,8],"tags":[29039],"class_list":["post-59085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-ipad","category-software-reviews","category-software-synthesizers-samplers","tag-xils-4"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/xils-4-matrix-synthesizer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}