New CS-80 plugin from Softube (and XILS-lab)

Related
1

Softube released Model 77, their CS-80 emulation plugin.

2 Likes
2

First impression: it certainly seems to sound good, analog.
The choice of factory presets is awful. I mean, on a CS-80 Iā€™d like to find some iconic Vangelis-style sounds. Here, however, they sound a bit trivial to me.
Who the hell programmed all those presets that seem to make little use of filter envelopes? :neutral_face:

2 Likes
3

I demoed this last night, and whilst I have the Cherry Audio GX80 and the Arturia CS80V, I was seriously impressed with it, albeit it does seem to have a high CPU load, but I put that down to the detail of the modelling.

As you might know, Softube do not over endow their VSTs with effects, but I have a Cantabile test song for ambient patches, using Eventide H3000 and Valhalla Super Massive that I quickly drop plugins into to see how they fair with those as treatments. The Model 77, which sounds great without treatment, became cosmic! Instant Vangelis.

So my modest patch librarian income will be blown on this this month.

And I can then boast that I have three CS80s! :slight_smile:

3 Likes
4

After some days programming:

What I donā€™t like about the Model 77 is that I have to work by editing one layer a time. Iā€™ve never been a fan of synths that do things that way.

5

Agreed. Would be a UI improvement. To have both layers visible

6

I really love the Memorymoon ME80 version.

  • Paul
1 Like
7

My word, they are like number 3 buses!

2 Likes
8

Looking forward to the actual release.

9

Sent a mail to xils and got the iLok code to start the full features 15 days trial.
I guess the next 15 days are going to be exciting. But after listening to the audio demos, I think Iā€™ll soon buy this beauty at the intro price (ā‚¬89).

I didnā€™t buy the Softube Model 77 because of the hassle of programming one layer at a time and (most of all) the high CPU load.

1 Like
10

I picked up PluginGuruā€™s ā€œElectric Dreamsā€ lib for Cherryā€™s GX-80 and really like it for ā€œBlade Runnerā€ style:

Nice thing is when I auditioned all of the presets I felt like I got a lot more than what I heard in the demo songs. Definitely worth a look if you have GX-80 and looking for that style, imo.

2 Likes
11

Thanks sekim, Iā€™ll take a look at the library even though I donā€™t use Unify.

12

I bought the Cherry Audio Pick 3 sale primarily to get Wurlybird and Blue3. I chose GX-80 as the third product. Electric Dreams was on sale, so I got that also. Fredā€™s GX-80 patches alone were worth it. The sci-fi samples and Unify tweaks are entertaining.

13

Here is a great video comparing the XILS 80 with a real CS80.

Impressive.

As the presenter says, there are differences, but pretty darn close, and of course we have to remember the differences each individual synth will have due to component tolerance and calibration. I.e. XILS will have modelled against a CS80 that is not the one the presenter has.

The only one that was wildly out was the last one (Jon and Vangelis - I hear you now), but he was getting there

So I have ended up with yet another CS80 Clone! :upside_down_face:

2 Likes