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

[PAK]

The usual excuse for this is that they are afraid of a big bandwidth bill. So instead they bring their website to its knees and lose money right when they put their product on sale?

We might hope it'd be brought online during these short-lived peaks, but I guess it's enough of a bill that they'd rather not. TBH I'd rather have the occasional wait than having to pay for the downloads.. Which are usually pretty fast.

[teilo]

The usual excuse for this is that they are afraid of a big bandwidth bill. So instead they bring their website to its knees and lose money right when they put their product on sale?

We might hope it'd be brought online during these short-lived peaks, but I guess it's enough of a bill that they'd rather not. TBH I'd rather have the occasional wait than having to pay for the downloads.. Which are usually pretty fast.

Perhaps this will all change soon. No egress bandwidth fees. $0.015 per Gb for storage. Any dev could afford that.

[c0nsilience]

UVI is great, but UVI Portal is a less than stellar user experience, for all of the reasons already mentioned. That being said, everything is always a balancing act and a tradeoff. I'm not going to slag them for it.

[grdh20]

the manual download site is not loading. well but very slow..

[krzys]

Hello UVI folks

Thank you for yet another great update. Your creative efforts are truly appreciated.
All the best.
Krzysztof

[digitallysane]

UVI Portal has been a good experience for me, and I have a number of their products.

[otristan]

It repeatedly completes a download, only for the install to fail, after which it places a zero-byte DMG file into my Downloads folder and asks me to install the product manually. Which of course is impossible since it is an empty file.

The only option using UVI Portal is to try the download again. Sometimes that works. Sometimes it doesn't.

This is probably part of reason your servers are getting hammered. People are re-downloading multiple times.

Downloading the installers directly works perfectly.

EDIT: I believe your problem is that somehow your download cache is getting cleared out between the download and the install. Perhaps some unforeseen Big Sur behavior? (I'm on 11.6). UVI Portal's default download location is ~/Library/Caches/UVI Portal. Perhaps if I changed that to ~/Downloads, it wouldn't happen. Just a guess, though. Perhaps another option is to enable "Force Direct Downloads".

Annoying. If you haven't contacted our support about this. Don't hesitate. Thanks !

[otristan]

i still wish, we had independant osc volume in falcon and workable modulations on program level without the workaround and drag and drop modulation.

There is already a per osc gain. Just make sure that you toggle off the "edit all oscillators" on the left of the oscillator section. HTH

[WatchTheGuitar]

When you do finally get it downloaded there are some really lovely presets under the Factory (with 2.5 in the folder titles). Some seem pretty insipid until you apply pressure, if you have PolyAT, or play with the macros - case in point one called Underscore. I really like how metallic sounding some of the filter/oscillator combos can get.

[grdh20]

Downloads all failed. Any idea when this will be available then?

[Lati]

Uvi Portal didn't work but direct download worked great after waiting a while. Thank you for a great update!

[Xbucket]

i still wish, we had independant osc volume in falcon and workable modulations on program level without the workaround and drag and drop modulation.

There is already a per osc gain. Just make sure that you toggle off the "edit all oscillators" on the left of the oscillator section. HTH

Thanks for this; I didn´t knew about this! By the way, the update is fabulous!

[dvnation]

Going through more 2.5 presets just to see what they sound like:

[machinesworking]

Just chiming in in absolute appreciation of UVI for this update. I'm planing on getting the M1x macbook whenever they finally announce it, and between Falcon, U-He, and AAS, I can wait on the rest for a long time!

[SJ_Digriz]

Finally was able to get the Falcon update from my products page. Portal just throws one torrent error after another without ever starting a download. But, I still can't get the library. It starts downloading a few k then stops and fails after 20 or 30 minutes. Anyhow, I'll get the library after the site calms down a bit. Seems like a great update. Looking forward to messing with the MS-20 filter.