UVI Falcon - v4 = 2026 released - rumors, ads, praise, kindergarden, auto-sampling and off-topic inside!

[Echoes in the Attic]

So I've installed the 1.1 update and confirmed that it's 1.1 when opening the plug-in, but I don't see the new presets in the browser anywhere. Is there a separate installer or am I forgetting something? Where are they stored in windows anyways?

You need to install the content again for the new presets, then those are shown with a "1.1" extension.

Cheers,

Tom

Ok so I downloaded the new content, which extracts to a ufs file. But where does this actually go?

Edit: Nevermind found it in Documents.

[ErikH]

Sorry guys for calling MPE a new midi standard. I got the explanation from Roger Linn:

http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/mpe.html

[VariKusBrainZ]

MPE is a new MIDI standard and stands for Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression. The keyboards and other instruments that use this new standard are high-end ones like the Linnstrument etc. These Falcon presets are made especially for these.

And can be used to compose within hosts that support MPE, such as Bitwig

[Cinebient]

Would be nice if MPE could be a standard and more synths would have an on/off switch like the Madrona Labs tools f.e.
Otherwise it helps if tools can run in midi mono mode but it´s not quite the same.
Of course your DAW should handle it well too.... a reason Abelton Live would be my last choice. Not sure if MAX for live can do something here.
But even polyphonic aftertouch and pitchbends/glides are still seldom in many tools.
Falcon does a great job to provide most of these things now and let me route the midi channels too the way i want so that i also can use some iOS multi channel midi tools as controller.
I wish now we would see some awesome great solo instruments like "Emotional Cello" for Falcon.
Kontakt is great and has so many great third party libraries but i would prefer the same tools inside Falcon more. I know they are different tools but i would buy such libraries in a heartbeat.
But maybe they exist already and i´m not aware off?
Would be a shame if Falcon would be mainly used as "synth" because it seems to be also a great sampler.
And i also vote for spark invaders as modulation source And when you master all levels you should get a voucher

[HiEnergy]

Sent a support request regarding Falcon 1.1 crashes

[ErikH]

I find that , for a far as MPE is concerned, the problem is not the vst intruments but the keyboards/instruments that can work with it. If your keyboard cannot produce the midi data, it cannot send it, and that's the end of the road. At this moment, the only ones that really can are all high-end and come with high-end price-tags. Generally speaking, we may need two keyboards (or instruments) in the future: one looking backwards for piano/harpsichord/organ like use, and one looking to the future for the expressivity MPE is adding.

[Sampleconstruct]

Four Falcons, Macro/modwheel/aftertouch modulation, some volume automation and a limiter on the master output in something slightly spooky, darkish, ambient kind of soundtrack whatever thing (Calypso?):

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... con-sounds

[otristan]

BTW: Tristan, can you add a linear curve for gain (I've added to my own copy), for many controllers they will already be adding a curve, so they don't really need any alteration to the gain level.

Done. There is a new Linear option in Gain Map.
Which controller do that ?

[ThomasHelzle]

At this moment, the only ones that really can are all high-end and come with high-end price-tags.

https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/qunexus/
I think it can send per-channel controllers and poly-AT. Should be good enough for some expressive phrases.
And it fit's nicely in front of your typing-keyboard (I had it for testing for a while some time ago).

Cheers,

Tom

[voon]

One thing I wondered: I also got NI Reaktor .... which lets you basically design your own synths through graphical programming (connecting boxes for signal flow). Now I have no idea of its CPU efficiency etc. But does someone know both Falcon and Reaktor? I own both and both are fascinating me by their implications of sheer unlimited possibilities, but I can't really compare the two .. .maybe one of you can?

[EvilDragon]

The difference is: in Falcon you can use only what UVI programs for you to use, in ways UVI enables you to use. In Reaktor you have a much more freeform playground - you can design your own oscillators, filters, effects and whatnot. It's truly modular. Falcon is, let's say a semi-modular with a great deal of modulatability and a very nice palette of effects.

[wagtunes]

The difference is: in Falcon you can use only what UVI programs for you to use, in ways UVI enables you to use. In Reaktor you have a much more freeform playground - you can design your own oscillators, filters, effects and whatnot. It's truly modular. Falcon is, let's say a semi-modular with a great deal of modulatability and a very nice palette of effects.

I wouldn't quite define modular in that way and here's why. Take Eurorack. It's a modular system. You can put together oscs, and filters and lfos and whatnot in any way and in as many configurations as you want. But unless you have the ability to build these devices (I don't) it's still not Reaktor. That doesn't make Eurorack a semi modular system.

If I want to have 50 oscs and 25 lfos in a Falcon patch, I can. Provided my CPU can handle it. That to me is a fully modular system even if you can't build your own oscs.

Reaktor I compare more to Synthedit except all Reaktor synths that you build have to remain within Reaktor whereas a Synthedit synth can be distributed in the form of a dll.

To me a semi modular synth is one where the architecture has a fixed limit. For example, Zebra 2 can only have so many oscs and filters. There is a max number regardless of CPU capability. Bazille is even more so fixed.

MUX and KarmaFX as well as the free Sonigen Modular are all fully open ended modular systems. You are limited only by what your CPU can handle.

Now, having said that, within that structure, Falcon is still more limited than MUX and KarmaFX as there are things that you can't do with it as far as HOW modules are connected. There are fixed connections within the open structure. So Falcon is kind of an odd duck. Sort of in between Zebra 2 and MUX. The plus side to this is that Falcon's architecture is easier to work with than something like MUX or KarmaFX where even the VCAs have to be connected or you get no sound. Falcon doesn't have this "problem." Just init an osc and you're good to go.

So Falcon is kind of a modular for dummies approach and I think it's great. But make no mistake about it. Even though, technically, it is not a true modular system, in practical application it is close enough.

So if, on the modular scale, MUX is a 10, Falcon is certainly a 9.5 whereas something like Zebra 2 I wouldn't rate more than an 8.

[newuser2014]

Just thinking about Falcon is fun.

When people ask to add this and that.
For example cross modulation was requested once. i.e. the FM oscillator modulating the Analog oscillator.

I would imagine the architecture of Falcon may be able to do that if a NEW oscillator was available that included that ability inherently but we couldn't get the already available oscillators to modulate each other.

...or maybe an effect could do that , a "convolution vocoder" if that makes sense.

I hope @Otristan is having as much fun programming Falcon as we do utilizing his much appreciated efforts.

[ErikH]

@ThomasHelze: I have a QuNexus, yes, and I like it so much that I postponed a new and needed 'real' keyboard for it.

[aMUSEd]

I was very disappointed in my QuNexus. tbh I think the way it's designed (particularly in terms of materials) just doesn't make sense for what it's supposed to do.