Bird of Flight

[PatchAdamz]

We are very pleased to release, "Bird of Flight" for Falcon.

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Use the code, "falcon" and save %20 at checkout.

Falcon is one of those few synths that stands out in a saturated market of soft synths.
While some synths stand out in a few categories, Falcon offers so many features it has been called the sound designers dream.
This makes it capable of some very unique sound-sets, depending on the designer.


With "Bird of Flight", we focused on our years of experience producing Electronic and Ambient music globally.
We go deep into Falcons extensive tool set to bring you a broad array of sonic delight.

SONG:
https://soundcloud.com/vintage-synth-pa ... ht-presets

AUDIO:
https://soundcloud.com/vintage-synth-pa ... uvi-falcon


Some top features of "Bird of Flight".

Stunning Atmospheres
Use of our unique Impulse Responses not included with Falcon
170 World class presets
Powerful Pads, both old school and new
Classic hardware emulations
Expert effect design
Controllers and every preset
Macros
Unique and exotic instruments
Unusual hybrid instruments
Lots of killer Arps
Tempo Synced effects and patches
Sounds you wont find any place else
Lots of cool wavetable presets
Analog and digital hybrids

VIDEO: (One single preset - no overdubs)


Save now!
Use the code, "falcon" and save %20 at checkout.

[aMUSEd]

Were you on the beta team or something?

[PatchAdamz]

Here is an Arp designed to emulate the "Discipline" era of a Mr Fripps guitar style:

https://soundcloud.com/vintage-synth-pa ... uvi-falcon

[PatchAdamz]

Were you on the beta team or something?

Hey Steven!

Considerable hard work and long hours went into producing "Bird in Flight".
Many 10-12 hours days literally.
Falcon is also an inspiring tool so it was a labor of love.
It was well worth the time spent.

Thanks for asking.

[PatchAdamz]

Here is an example of creating an Ambient sound-scape using various layers of playable harmonics.
Multiple controllers allow for live manipulation of the sound while the space was created using multiple high end studio effects not included with Falcon.
These effects are imported by way of custom Impulse Responses for a completely unique set of effects and verb.

https://soundcloud.com/vintage-synth-pa ... iful-noise

[quantum7]

Thank you for such detailed and numerous audio demos. I will be purchasing this today for sure! I wish that more developers like you guys and Patchpool would do audio demos that detailed. I will comment further after I spend some time with it later today. Congratulations!!!!

[PatchAdamz]

Thank you for such detailed and numerous audio demos. I will be purchasing this today for sure!....

Thanks Sean,

I appreciate your support.

More demos to come!

[quantum7]

After spending a couple hours with the soundset, I am so sorry to say, but there seems to be some major problems with many of your presets in Bird of Flight. Because the problems both were so many and pronounced, I re-downloaded the patches, re-booted my DAW, made sure nothing was clipping on both my DAW's and Falcon's Mixer audio, and even compared Bird of Flight's patches with both the Factory presets and Simon's Scattered Entity and Ambient Strings soundsets. I did all this because I was flabbergasted at what I was hearing. A great number of the presets are extremely noisy...and not in a good or intended way....at least I hope that wasn't your intention. The biggest culprit seems to be from the "Gain" that you added to most, if not all the presets in the FX section. Also, the EQ boosts in most presets are awfully high with many presets having +12db boosts. Once I would remove either the Gain, EQ, or both, many of the presets sounded SOOOOO much better and not distorted. Again, I did A/B comparisons with the Factory stuff and they sound clean, but so many of your presets sound....well, not so clean. I don't know what happened, but the the programming you did deserves to be heard properly. I hope someone else can verify this because I want to make sure that my DAW is not possessed or something but again, everything else on Falcon, both the Factory and Simon's stuff, doesn't suffer from these problems. I am so sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news, but hope that this will help you rectify the problem as to have your hard work be rewarded with positive reviews.

BTW, I also bought RAIN for Omnisphere 2 and really enjoy it- Great job on that!

[PatchAdamz]

Hello Sean,

Thanks for taking the time to post this information.
The issue you are reporting is definitely not a problem with the presets.
For one thing, no one else has reported any of these issues and we have received several kudos emails for the quality.
Second, all the presets were metered and level tested.

Furthermore, we posted 43 demos so far.
The demos are direct recordings and as you can hear, none of the issues you mentioned are on any of the demos whatsoever.

Emailing me from VSP for support is the way to handle this issue so we can get some info of your settings.
So before jumping to conclusions, please send me a screen shot and make a support request from our site.

I am more then happy to assist you.

Thank you

[Sparky77]

After spending a couple hours with the soundset.....

Hello quantum7,

I am not having any of the issues you reported.

Having spent the day working with the presets, I heard nearly every patch.

No problems whatsoever.
I also did an A/B with the included patches, the levels are fine.
You might want to double check your setup and levels.

[ozmuso67]

A great number of the presets are extremely noisy...and not in a good or intended way....at least I hope that wasn't your intention. ... ... Once I would remove either the Gain, EQ, or both, many of the presets sounded SOOOOO much better and not distorted. :

For what it's worth, I've had a good listen to these presets just now, and in several I could hear either noise, or distortion.. I hadn't read your post until after listening to them, and I just assumed it was intentional.. it wasn't clipping, but the distortion was obvious to me, and I assumed this was by design.. as well the noise was fairly noticeable at times, again I figured this was by design, but in at least one demo preset, the noise was obvious enough that to my ears it would mean that I would probably tweak the preset to then use it.

I know some people like the noisy and/or distortion type sounds, but I don't personally. I spend a lot of time using Izotope RX to get rid of noise and artifacts in some recordings - types of noise and distortions that some of these presets seem to possess.

I'm not trying to be critical, I think many of these presets are very good. Just trying to throw some light on the issue raised.

[PatchAdamz]

.....I just assumed it was intentional.. it wasn't clipping, but the distortion was obvious to me, and I assumed this was by design....

Yes, the distortion effects as mentioned are intentionally used on several presets, this is purposely done.
As you noticed, these dont clip as the limiter and levels do keep things in check.

An example would be the preset, "Beautiful Noise".
https://soundcloud.com/vintage-synth-pa ... iful-noise

This has some layers of harmonics intended to create "purposeful" harmonic distortion and noise.
There are a number of the 170 presets that have this intention.
These techniques are not uncommon in modern Ambient music.
Also, be aware of the macros, keyboard velocity and mod wheel as they can be used to customize every preset.

[PatchAdamz]

I'm not trying to be critical, I think many of these presets are very good. Just trying to throw some light on the issue raised.

No problem, thanks for your detailed feedback, I believe it helps clarify things.

[ozmuso67]

No problem, thanks for your detailed feedback, I believe it helps clarify things.

Cool PatchAdamz..

I actually find a few of my soft synths have presets with a noise/distortion component, (Alchemy and Bazille are one's that spring to mind) - I know it is common in today's music, but maybe I am a purist of some sort, about the only thing I like distortion on is my guitar (and even that is getting less and less, lol) and perhaps on bass, or just a touch on something to add grit..

It's funny, I've recorded soft synth tracks and then later, during mixdown, I'm going: "what's that noise going on there?" and then solo'd out to the synth part and realised it had say a subtle noise component, which had me thinking one of my guitar tracks had too much noise.. I know glitch effects are the rage today, but I try and avoid things that might sound like artifacts

But thanks for your responses, I think your presets do a good job of show-casing UVI falcon (which is why I dropped in here)

Thanks.

PS your beautiful noise preset was awesome, it was my favourite by a mile.. In fact, if you had a lot more like it I might've not only bought falcon today, but your presets as well.. it's funny, even though it had distortion on it, it was to my ear really smooth, whereas some of the other distortions which are common in many synth patches, didn't sound so nice to me..

[quantum7]

Hello Sean,

Thanks for taking the time to post this information.
The issue you are reporting is definitely not a problem with the presets.
For one thing, no one else has reported any of these issues and we have received several kudos emails for the quality.
Second, all the presets were metered and level tested.

Furthermore, we posted 43 demos so far.
The demos are direct recordings and as you can hear, none of the issues you mentioned are on any of the demos whatsoever.

Emailing me from VSP for support is the way to handle this issue so we can get some info of your settings.
So before jumping to conclusions, please send me a screen shot and make a support request from our site.

I am more then happy to assist you.

Thank you

A great number of the presets are extremely noisy...and not in a good or intended way....at least I hope that wasn't your intention. ... ... Once I would remove either the Gain, EQ, or both, many of the presets sounded SOOOOO much better and not distorted. :

For what it's worth, I've had a good listen to these presets just now, and in several I could hear either noise, or distortion.. I hadn't read your post until after listening to them, and I just assumed it was intentional.. it wasn't clipping, but the distortion was obvious to me, and I assumed this was by design.. as well the noise was fairly noticeable at times, again I figured this was by design, but in at least one demo preset, the noise was obvious enough that to my ears it would mean that I would probably tweak the preset to then use it.

I know some people like the noisy and/or distortion type sounds, but I don't personally. I spend a lot of time using Izotope RX to get rid of noise and artifacts in some recordings - types of noise and distortions that some of these presets seem to possess.

I'm not trying to be critical, I think many of these presets are very good. Just trying to throw some light on the issue raised.

Hey, perhaps my DAW is just possessed, but pull up the patch- "KEY - Celestial EP". When I play at a hard velocity it is crackle city. I can put either the program or the Master Falcon faders down all I want and it is still crackling....not that anything was in the red to begin with. I now go into the FX section and turn off the EQ....which has boosts of around 13db in the mids, and viola , everything sounds great and I now save it as a favorite even. Many more presets suffer the same, and when I either remove the high boosted EQ, or the "Gain" insert (that is often set the its 12db max), the problem is gone and the patch sounds great. I've been going over a lot of the Factory presets and Simon's 3rd party presets, and I don't hardly see the Gain plugin used at all, and I don't see the EQ being used to jack up the frequencies so high like what I'm seeing on the Bird of Flight's patches. Perhaps I'm discovering this because I tend to play at harder velocities than some, perhaps...but shouldn't these presets allow for hard velocities without unintended noise? I feel horrible for pointing this out, but the only way to use a lot of these patches will be to manually fix what is making the patches overly hot, hence noisy, in many cases. I would love to know what compelled you guys to use the Gain and EQ in this way. Again, I can turn down the faders with the same results- the problem resides with your use of the Gain at high db and the very high boosts in the EQ. I'm certainly not an expert with this, but I've rarely seen EQ boosts that high. These problems are only with your patches and not on the Factory's.

I hate having to say all of this, so much so that I just bought Blue Diamond for Omni 2 this morning from you guys to further show that I have no ill will and am only trying to figure out why I'm going to have to do a lot of editing in order to use you otherwise great patches.

I've been composing for over 30 years and spend thousands per years on presets and libraries, but have never had an experience like this before with a soundset. Thanks for listening.