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

[otristan]

Never mind - fixed it. Turns out there was an extraction error with the UFS so it was corrupted, I redownloaded it, working now. Strange that Falcon was able to mount it at all though, maybe it needs to be able to report if a UFS is corrupted?

You can however check soundbank integrity by right clicking the soundbank in the left panel of the browser.

[otristan]

I should definitely read the whole thread before starting answering otherwise mdsp and I are going to do duplicates a lot of time

[Cinebient]

This is all one patch playing some simple triads where you can blend the rythmic elements to your like via the macros (used it in a 100% Falcon demo track before). I´m still working on it that it will blend between different settings more smoothly via a macro(s).... so a bit like that thing Apple bought
I´m working on a little patch bank which i will share for free once i finished about 50-100 Patches and find out how to export all that in one package (including some sound sources you can use of course then also for your own needs.... if possible). But no mercy to cpu´s
Cheers!

https://soundcloud.com/cinebient/falcon ... 3-variants

[djhydrosonics]

Hi all,

I am really close to buying this synth, just spent last night playing with their plugin "Relayer" what a beast of a thing!! Inspirational to say the least. The $100 dollar voucher really sweetens this deal as I could buy the synth and relayer at a nice price

I'd just love to hear a few more demos, or see more videos! Come on guys sell this beast!!

I see it has a sort of drawable multi-stage envelope, does this envelope have a loop feature? And how many bars or beats long can that envelope be set to?

Anyways, I will probably cave in and buy this. I think it will complete my synth setup

[Sampleconstruct]

Hi all,

I am really close to buying this synth, just spent last night playing with their plugin "Relayer" what a beast of a thing!! Inspirational to say the least. The $100 dollar voucher really sweetens this deal as I could buy the synth and relayer at a nice price

I'd just love to hear a few more demos, or see more videos! Come on guys sell this beast!!

I see it has a sort of drawable multi-stage envelope, does this envelope have a loop feature? And how many bars or beats long can that envelope be set to?

Anyways, I will probably cave in and buy this. I think it will complete my synth setup

Sure, the multi envelope works like an MSEG if you want (or an LFO if you prefer), sycned to host tempo, with points snapping to grid, loop, loop in release, shapable slopes and so forth, in combination with the step envelope it makes for great rhythmical/pitch sequences and you can modulate it's tempo ratio and smoothing parameter with other things.

[wagtunes]

Hi all,

I am really close to buying this synth, just spent last night playing with their plugin "Relayer" what a beast of a thing!! Inspirational to say the least. The $100 dollar voucher really sweetens this deal as I could buy the synth and relayer at a nice price

I'd just love to hear a few more demos, or see more videos! Come on guys sell this beast!!

I see it has a sort of drawable multi-stage envelope, does this envelope have a loop feature? And how many bars or beats long can that envelope be set to?

Anyways, I will probably cave in and buy this. I think it will complete my synth setup

The more I work with this synth the more I see that it's a bottomless pit limited only by your imagination.

I will try to come up with something that will sell this for you but seriously, if you get it, you will not be disappointed. I own a lot of synths. Some say too many. But this one has quickly shot up towards the top of the list. There are a couple of bugs which have been reported. But all in all, this thing is pretty rock solid.

Demo is coming soon.

[otristan]

Hi all,

I am really close to buying this synth, just spent last night playing with their plugin "Relayer" what a beast of a thing!! Inspirational to say the least. The $100 dollar voucher really sweetens this deal as I could buy the synth and relayer at a nice price

Please note that the voucher is only valid on soundbanks, so not available for Relayer.

[Soman]

EDIT: Finally thanks to Olivier's help I got the crossgrade discount! Can't wait to try out and work with the Falcon now!


Still haven't heard from the support about my missing crossgrade price issue... On Monday the intro pricing ends and I really need to have a statement by then.

[Gribs]

Hey guys,

Here is a serious question for people who own/use Halion (Simon perhaps?):

Do you find it easier to program Falcon than Halion? Falcon appears to be of similar complexity and more. It has a modular tree view and whatnot. I thought that I would get into Halion 5 but I find that for what I like to do for the most part Padshop Pro provides the type of thing I like (granulating my own samples) and with Halion I have ended up just playing around with presets for the most part. The videos on UVI's youtube channel make Falcon appear to have a more user-friend interface. I am wondering if it is possible that I would like / click with the workflow better, much in the way I click more with Korg's Kronos (and the M3 before it) than with Yamaha's Motif interfaces.

Also, it appears in the YouTube videos that even though the Falcon GUI is resizable, the knobs and fonts associated with widgets do not scale with the GUI.

I am really trying to consider that I might be distracted by something new, bright, and shiny. My primary interest in Falcon would be the various oscillators based on IRCAM algorithms and the pluck oscillator with user sample input. It does appear to be a one-stop-shop quite a lot of other things, too.

[SJ_Digriz]

I have both but have just started with Falcon over the last two days. On the surface the architecture of the workflow is very similar. There are some interesting twists along the way though. It's probably just because I'm still learning that I find the Falcon interface to be more convoluted. I'm sure as I become accustomed to where things are and where/when you can route things that my initial clumsiness will diminish.

I actually like the patch tree in halion better than I like the tree view Falcon. To me it is a more direct view of the signal path.
However, I'm starting to like the main edit page in Falcon better than the tabbed editors in Halion, because it is all in one view. I have layout sets in Halion that accomplish something similar, but it is still just views with multiple tabs open instead of a linear top down of the patch.

Basically there are pros/cons to each. I'm basically using the FM and Wavetable in Falcon and Granular in H5. The other oscillators are tomato tomauhto as helpers to the patch I'm working on. As I get more experience it's possible some of the oscillators will show their strengths/weaknesses as well.

I haven't spent any time with the Falcon sample editors other than simple drag/drop scenarios. I will probably spend quite a few hours this weekend digging into just sample mangling. So, I don't know which one has a preferable workflow or capability set.

[Sampleconstruct]

Hey guys,

Here is a serious question for people who own/use Halion (Simon perhaps?):

Do you find it easier to program Falcon than Halion? Falcon appears to be of similar complexity and more. It has a modular tree view and whatnot. I thought that I would get into Halion 5 but I find that for what I like to do for the most part Padshop Pro provides the type of thing I like (granulating my own samples) and with Halion I have ended up just playing around with presets for the most part. The videos on UVI's youtube channel make Falcon appear to have a more user-friend interface. I am wondering if it is possible that I would like / click with the workflow better, much in the way I click more with Korg's Kronos (and the M3 before it) than with Yamaha's Motif interfaces.

Also, it appears in the YouTube videos that even though the Falcon GUI is resizable, the knobs and fonts associated with widgets do not scale with the GUI.

I am really trying to consider that I might be distracted by something new, bright, and shiny. My primary interest in Falcon would be the various oscillators based on IRCAM algorithms and the pluck oscillator with user sample input. It does appear to be a one-stop-shop quite a lot of other things, too.

Yes, HALion still uses this very old school mod matrix which I find to be somewhat of a workflow killer compared to Falcon. The fonts in Falcon are a bit small, but my eyes can still cope with them. HALion can batch-edit things on oscillator basis though, Falcon can't which is a bit of a drag if you don't plan a patch beforehand and then have to copy e.g. granular settings or Macro assignments from one osc to the other manually. But synthesis- and sound-wise Falcon clearly wins if we consider the entire palette.

[Sampleconstruct]

A wavetable I made in Serum by importing six different electronic wavs->to single cycle and then editing/morphing them. Used in Falcon in unison mode 6 voices with wavetable spread modulation and lots of other modulations too (via step modulator for the formant filter). Also using two parallel filter in the FX rack on keygroup level - formant filter and a normal LP Biquad. Modwheel adds synced ramp-down amplitude modulation and so forth and back and forth and back and forth...experimenting around.

[Sampleconstruct]

Hey guys,

Here is a serious question for people who own/use Halion (Simon perhaps?):

Do you find it easier to program Falcon than Halion? Falcon appears to be of similar complexity and more. It has a modular tree view and whatnot. I thought that I would get into Halion 5 but I find that for what I like to do for the most part Padshop Pro provides the type of thing I like (granulating my own samples) and with Halion I have ended up just playing around with presets for the most part. The videos on UVI's youtube channel make Falcon appear to have a more user-friend interface. I am wondering if it is possible that I would like / click with the workflow better, much in the way I click more with Korg's Kronos (and the M3 before it) than with Yamaha's Motif interfaces.

Also, it appears in the YouTube videos that even though the Falcon GUI is resizable, the knobs and fonts associated with widgets do not scale with the GUI.

I am really trying to consider that I might be distracted by something new, bright, and shiny. My primary interest in Falcon would be the various oscillators based on IRCAM algorithms and the pluck oscillator with user sample input. It does appear to be a one-stop-shop quite a lot of other things, too.

Yes, HALion still uses this very old school mod matrix which I find to be somewhat of a workflow killer compared to Falcon. The fonts in Falcon are a bit small, but my eyes can still cope with them. HALion can batch-edit things on oscillator basis though, Falcon can't which is a bit of a drag if you don't plan a patch beforehand and then have to copy e.g. granular settings or Macro assignments from one osc to the other manually. But synthesis- and sound-wise Falcon clearly wins if we consider the entire palette.

To add to this:
In HALion you have exactly 2 polyphonic LFOs per keygroup, 1 stepper, 1 multi envelope, 1 pitch envelope. You can add more LFOs in the tree on the right but they will be monophonic. In Falcon you can add as many polyphonic modulators on keygroup level as your CPU can handle. That makes a big difference.

[Gribs]

Simon an SJ, thank you very much for your responses.

Cheers!

Gribs

[SLiC]

A wavetable I made in Serum by importing six different electronic wavs->to single cycle and then editing/morphing them. Used in Falcon in unison mode 6 voices with wavetable spread modulation and lots of other modulations too (via step modulator for the formant filter). Also using two parallel filter in the FX rack on keygroup level - formant filter and a normal LP Biquad. Modwheel adds synced ramp-down amplitude modulation and so forth and back and forth and back and forth...experimenting around.

Sounds great, I look forward to your Falcon soundpack
Great to see 2 of my favourite synchs being used to make this ;0-)