Novation Xio 25 - jas_review007

Novation Xio 25
(JAS_review006)
A review video from justastudio

Novation has always been one of my darlings in the world of synthetic sounds.
This little synthesizer is much more than plastic box with sounds. Its also a soundcard and midi controller. Great for travelling purposes or in the low-budget home recording studio.
The video shows me playing live and running through some of the presets programmed by various top artists such as: Ferry Corsten, Jamiroquai and Roots Manuva. Minor tweaking and pitching.
You need to like the sound of Novation and dont expect any analogish sound from this little beast.
Furthermore its not build like a 70s synth which means the knobs and the case itself is a bit too plastic for my taste.
But I was (still am) impressed. The soundcard is far better than M-audio, EMU 0202 and other low-budget recording gear. It only needs USB power to run and on top of that a 3 osc synthesizer with a decent sound.

Value for money.

EQ, compression and limiter added in the final mix/mastering.
(Some clipping might occur)

Please keep in mind that this track was entirely done for showing what sounds you can get from the Novation Xio synthesizer.

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Video, edit and sound by Kaare unkle:karma Bøje.

Get more information about Novation Xio:
http://www.novationmusic.com/products/midi_control/xio/

Video recorded with Panasonic NV-GS50
Thanks to Martin Craggs for video camera support
www.craggs.dk

Category:

Music

Tags:

• novation
• xio
• synth
• syntesizer
• review
• test
• gear
• studio

[StickManga]

can you hook this thing up to an amp or only a computer?

[unklekarma]

@StickManga

Both ;)

[forstedestruktion]

you should review that that typewriter behind it.

[unklekarma]

@forstedestruktion

Some day we might ;)

[0anorexicsumo0]

I have a yamaha ydp-151 digital piano, would anyone know if this synthesizer would plug into the midi sockets on my yamaha?

[unklekarma]

@0anorexicsumo0

It has midi and can ofcourse use the midi standard.

[cjsinister6]

I don't suppose anyone knows where I could buy the xiosynth 25??? it got discontinued off my music sites and I'm very upset..

[Supersolyman]

why do people always say sorry for my English when the means of communication is text? your English is fine i cant even recognize your accent

[gamblemadman]

@cjsinister6 Thanks dude.

[cjsinister6]

@gamblemadman novation xiosynth 25 is 300 however I can't find it anywhere on legit music stores the same synth with 49 keys is 400$

[V19torrent]

This doesn't have any drum kits, but could you control kits from a computer using MIDI?

[gamblemadman]

How much are these?

[Adicone16040]

@enthusia492 thank you so much....

[enthusia492]

@iAdicone16040 I can see you are from Malaysia and perhaps dont speak very good English so I apologize if am not explaining this clearly enough.

The X-Station and Xiosynth are both considered keyboards. Anything with 25 or more black and white keys is a keyboard.

The only difference between the two is: the Xio is more affordable and easy to use while the X-station is more expensive but has more advanced features.

[Adicone16040]

@enthusia492 thank you wad's is the diff of xiosynth and keyboard?

[enthusia492]

@Adicone16040

novationmusic*dot*com/products­/midi_controller/x_station

novationmusic*dot*com/products­/hardware_synths/xio

You can easily tell the difference between the two.

The Xio is an affordable desktop synthesizer for beginners with MIDI capability.

The X-station is a much more advanced modeling synthesizer. You should really learn your stuff before purchasing one like that.

[Adicone16040]

@enthusia492 please can you tell me wad is it? cuz i've been searching about wad is xiosynth......please...