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  • Page 1 Oxium Performance Synthesizer User Manual www.xils-lab.com...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    5.4 A ........................11 DVANCED RESET ANAGER 5.5 A/B ............................12 COMPARISON 6 KEYBOARD ARPEGGIO..........................12 7 OXIUM MODULES DESCRIPTION......................14 7.1 S ..............................14 YNTHESIS 7.1.1 Oscillators............................14 7.1.2 Multimode Filter..........................16 7.1.3 Additional 12db and Formant Filter....................16 7.1.4 Envelope Generators...........................17 7.1.5 LFO1/2/3.............................18 7.1.6 Glide/Portamento Master........................18 7.1.7 The Drop Down Matrix Modulation....................20...
  • Page 3 8.2 D ...............................28 ISPLAY 8.3 M ................................29 9 CREDITS................................29...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    So “like” us on Facebook and join in the conversation Note : We plan to release a lot of tutorial videos to help you to get the most of Oxium. When available, you will be able to see these videos on our YouTube Channel...

  • Page 5: Features

    Windows 7, 8, 10 & 11 (64bits): VST2.4, VST3, AAX (native) Minimum system requirements: 1 Gigabyte of RAM and a 2 GHz processor. Oxium is a plug-in and is not available as a standalone application Notice: The screen resolution must be set at least to 1024 pixels width.

  • Page 6: Installation

    A destination directory is provided as a default (c:/Users/Public/Documents/XILS-lab/Oxium). Presets and various files, like this manual, used by Oxium will be stored in this directory. Please note that this location is different from the VST install directory, which you will need to specify in the next step of the installer.

  • Page 7: Quick Start

    On Oxium, the sound parameters are controlled using faders, knobs or switches To use a mouse to adjust the parameters of Oxium which are controlled by faders, click on the slider of the fader and drag it up to increase the value, or drag it down to decrease it.
  • Page 8 Win+Alt+CTRL + click: opens the MIDI Control panel, with the parameter already selected. • OSX: Apple+left click: resets a parameter to its default value. • Apple+Alt+CTRL + click: opens the MIDI Control panel, with the parameter already selected. • When a parameter is chosen via a drop-down menu, just click on the button or label and select the item.

  • Page 9: Preset Management

    The settings of Oxium are then saved in the currently displayed preset, and the * disappears. Click on the Save As button to save this preset with another name and/or to other sorting groups.

  • Page 10: Sort Menus

    5.3 Sort Menus The sorting menus are a unique and powerful tool allowing you to perform sophisticated tasks, such as displaying the preset list organized in a variety of different ways: All the Basses of your Sound Library • All the Basses tagged with a given musical genre •...

  • Page 11: Sorting Menu: Additional Functions

    (i.e., the bank which contains the currently active preset) will be exported to a user specified location on your hard drive. Import Bank: This Function allows you to browse your hard drives to select a file and import a Oxium bank. These two choices are not available from the second sort menu.

  • Page 12: A/Bcomparison

    When you launch Oxium, the default-activated memory is A. When you load or modify a preset, this memory – A- is also modified in real time according to your edits. You can switch to B memory by clicking on the B button.
  • Page 13 When ON, this module reads the note hold on the keyboard and instead of playing them at the same time, it will play each note after the other, according to the specified clock rate settings. Four easy modes are available thru simple switches: Up, the notes are played from the lower to the higher.

  • Page 14: Oxium Modules Description

    7 Oxium modules description Oxium GUI is divided into logical areas, most of them are always visible, while two areas are switchable and will expose different elements depending on your selection : the first switchable area is located at the top left of the GUI, and will display the LFO/Envelopes block, or Le Masque 2 block, or the Central Modulation page.
  • Page 15 Triangle using Pulse Width Saw using Pulse Width Square Pulse...

  • Page 16: Multimode Filter

    Oxium provides one additional filter: You can select a simple 12db Low-pass, High-pass and band pass filter or a formant like dedicated filter. Like Oxium main filter, the auxiliary filter benefits of its own mixer. You can therefore adjust in a very precise way the levels of the different oscillators feeding the filter input.

  • Page 17: Envelope Generators

    7.1.4 Envelope Generators Oxium features three envelope generators (EG). The first one is hardwired to control the output level stage (VCA) while the second is dedicated to the control of analog Multimode filter’s Cut Off value. The last and third one can be used freely in the modulation matrix (see below).

  • Page 18: Lfo1/2/3

    7.1.5 LFO1/2/3 Oxium proposes three Low Frequency Oscillators, which can be used as modulation sources in the Modulation Matrix, and in the three-hardwired musical gestures knobs ( Vibrato, Tremolo, Auto-Wah ). You can cumulate different waveforms for each LFO Tip: This is especially handy if you wish to add some subtle movements and modulations to an instrument.
  • Page 19 TUNE : set the global tune (including all the keyboard follower) of Oxium. It is not saved within the preset and is used to adapt the tune of the synthesizer to the other instruments. Of course it is saved within your music application project.

  • Page 20: The Drop Down Matrix Modulation

    7.1.7 The Drop Down Matrix Modulation The Modulation Matrix offers six freely assignable sources and modulations pairs. You select the source of modulation in the left field drop down list, and the destination, or the amount knob can specify target, into the right field, while the amount of modulation. So for example if you want to modulate the filter resonance with a LFO, just choose one of the 3 available LFOs in the source drop down menu, and Filter resonance in the destinations dropdown list.
  • Page 21 Available Modulation Destinations: All these target parameters are detailed in the other sections of this manual A few tips and tricks: You can choose to modulate the Decay of the envelopes in arpeggios; this will give similar results as controlling the gate parameter of the Arpeggiator.

  • Page 22: L Emasque

    7.2 Le Masque Oxium provide a new, powerful, easy to use advanced sequencer modulator, brought from Le Masque: Delay Xils-Lab effect, and adapted to the synthesizer specific modulations. On the Grid you can perform the following tasks: create, delete and edit the different Masks, specify the length of the grid, quantize locators, swap between mask and non masked areas, and specify the background quantization of the Grid itself, horizontal wise but also vertical wise.

  • Page 23: Global Mask Controls

    Oxium parameters, like the Filter Cut Off, or the LFO rate, in the Modulation Matrix. (Please, see the Modulation section of the manual for more details about this) To increase, or decrease, the levels of each Mask by click-Drag the white or yellow bar.

  • Page 24: Musical Gestures

    7.3 Musical Gestures We have paid a lot of attention so that Oxium would be very straightforward, fast and easy as possible to use, and we included some common musical gestures, like vibrato, tremolo or auto-wash in a prewired form in the Central Modulation Page, so that you can add Vibrato, Tremolo or Auto-Wah by simply turning a knob.

  • Page 25: Balance, Tune And Modulation Knobs

    7.4 Balance, Tune and Modulation knobs Oxium offers several easy and simples ways of spreading the settings Balance, Tune and modulation amount over the various voices. Getting a fat sound with unison, a wide stereo space pad or slightly various differences between voices are now very easy.

  • Page 26: Virtual Keyboard

    You can use this to solo the other filter 7.6 Virtual keyboard The keyboard lets you play notes, by clicking on its keys that are sent to Oxium. The keyboard also reflects the MIDI note ON information that Oxium receives, triggered by an external keyboard controller, or your DAW.

  • Page 27: Phaser

    SPEED: Sets the rate of the internal low frequency oscillator of the chorus. AMOUNT: Sets the amount of the effect. TYPE: Toggle through the three available types 7.7.3 Phaser DRY/WET: Sets the mix level between the initial signal and the processed signal SPEED: Sets the rate of the internal low frequency oscillator of the phaser.

  • Page 28: Option Menu

    8 Option menu This menu allows to choosing the global settings. These settings are defined for all the instances of Oxium. Each time an option is changed, the related option file is saved. 8.1 Main In the toolbar, the Options button opens a menu for selecting various options for Oxium.
  • Page 29 8.3 Misc Init settings from current settings: initializes the default values of Oxium from the current settings. All the new presets will be created from these settings, when the init settings choice is selected. These parameters will also be used when setting a control to its default value. (Win: CTRL+click, OSX: ALT+Apple+Click).

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