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

[Sampleconstruct]

Crossfade-looping in forward mode is of course vitally important, I sometimes use long x-fades up to 15+ seconds long on long soundscape samples, so that the decaying tail of a sound can smoothly blend with the beginning of the loop, and with the slope controls we have a lot of options to shape the crossfade. I have never used x-fade looping in alternate mode, but of course it shouldn't crash the Falcon when trying to do so.

Hey Simon, you know a video on this process would probably help a lot of people, myself included. I'm not exactly an expert in Xfading because most synths that I have either don't have the option or don't use samples. If somebody could whip up something real quick, that would be great. Of course I don't want anybody to crash their systems either.

I'll make a little x-fade-looping-video tomorrow, that was on the tutorial-todo-list for Falcon anyway.

Here is a tutorial on the topic of crossfade-looping:



----


and some more Falcon music:

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... falcon-air

[Sampleconstruct]

...and then find a lake...

LOLZ

[UmFuFu]

Ah, thanks for the copy/paste info guys.
It would be useful all over the place as well, like whole programs, etc, but thanks for the tips for now!

b

[wagtunes]

Thanks very much for the video Simon. Explained very well.

[jacobh]

Single oscillator with stereo unison: anyone know if it's possible to put a different filter on the left and right channels? Or at least a different cutoff on each side? Using the comb filter specifically.

Thanks!
Jacob

Set the Layer to unison with x-voices, then apply a unison (or unipolar unison) modulator to cutoff, pan, pitch, whatever.

Thanks, Simon! Not exactly as flexible as I was hoping for, but I guess that will accomplish the goal in this case.

I suppose there is no way to get parallel effects processing at the keygroup level, on a single keygroup?

[Sampleconstruct]

Single oscillator with stereo unison: anyone know if it's possible to put a different filter on the left and right channels? Or at least a different cutoff on each side? Using the comb filter specifically.

Thanks!
Jacob

Set the Layer to unison with x-voices, then apply a unison (or unipolar unison) modulator to cutoff, pan, pitch, whatever.

Thanks, Simon! Not exactly as flexible as I was hoping for, but I guess that will accomplish the goal in this case.

I suppose there is no way to get parallel effects processing at the keygroup level, on a single keygroup?

There is, use an Effect rack on keygroup level, insert effect chains (e.g. filters) and control their individual levels with other modulators like Macros.

[Sampleconstruct]

Thanks very much for the video Simon. Explained very well.

My pleasure

[otristan]

Single oscillator with stereo unison: anyone know if it's possible to put a different filter on the left and right channels? Or at least a different cutoff on each side? Using the comb filter specifically.

Thanks!
Jacob

What Simon said and take a look at EffectRack FX (in misc)
There is factory one named StereoXpander

[rustman]

Has anyone tried writing the freeze button in Spark (within Falcon) to automation? I gave it a shot and had no luck in Cubase. Seemed like an interesting thing to explore. I'm over my head, but my guess is that there are so many parameters in Falcon that they can't all be exposed to the host without starting a fire. Maybe that's the case here?

[Sampleconstruct]

Has anyone tried writing the freeze button in Spark (within Falcon) to automation? I gave it a shot and had no luck in Cubase. Seemed like an interesting thing to explore. I'm over my head, but my guess is that there are so many parameters in Falcon that they can't all be exposed to the host without starting a fire. Maybe that's the case here?

Yes, you can assign it to a Macro (right click on the switch->add new Macro), set that Macro to on/off switch and automate it by just clicking on it, I use it a lot in many of my presets.

[rustman]

Has anyone tried writing the freeze button in Spark (within Falcon) to automation? I gave it a shot and had no luck in Cubase. Seemed like an interesting thing to explore. I'm over my head, but my guess is that there are so many parameters in Falcon that they can't all be exposed to the host without starting a fire. Maybe that's the case here?

Yes, you can assign it to a Macro (right click on the switch->add new Macro), set that Macro to on/off switch and automate it by just clicking on it, I use it a lot in many of my presets.

Oh that's right, macros. Very cool. Thanks once more Simon.

[Sampleconstruct]

Single oscillator with stereo unison: anyone know if it's possible to put a different filter on the left and right channels? Or at least a different cutoff on each side? Using the comb filter specifically.

Thanks!
Jacob

Set the Layer to unison with x-voices, then apply a unison (or unipolar unison) modulator to cutoff, pan, pitch, whatever.

Thanks, Simon! Not exactly as flexible as I was hoping for, but I guess that will accomplish the goal in this case.

I suppose there is no way to get parallel effects processing at the keygroup level, on a single keygroup?

There is, use an Effect rack on keygroup level, insert effect chains (e.g. filters) and control their individual levels with other modulators like Macros.

Here is a tutorial on setting up/using an Effect Rack to run effects and filters in parallel:

[jacobh]

Nice tutorial! Thanks Simon!

-Jacob

[the3ug3reeder]

1. drag a sample and place it in the mapping area (c1 for example)
2. change the oscillator from 'sample' to 'slice'
3. on the slice oscillator, click the 'Map' icon to slice the sample across your keyboard
4. in the mapping area, drag select the slices you just created ('Multiple Selecttion')
5. in the Multiple Selection, click the 'Batch' Button
6. select 'Change oscillators type'-> 'IRCAM Granular'
7. play your slices to assure yourself that each individual slice has been properly translated to IRCAM Granular
8. in the main falcon menu, select 'Save Program And Samples as...'
9. pick a location to save your program and name it something like 'test_granular_slice.uvip'
10. try to play your slices after having saved the program...

for me, all the slice settings are lost (specifially the start and end points)

simply slicing and mapping a sample (without changing the oscillator type) and then saving that program with samples seems to work as expected

am i doing something wrong?

[bademantel]

anyone knows if the new impulse response reverb is true stereo?

Cheers!