UVI Falcon 3

[Stan Navi]

You can try to push "Stop" button in the Falcon transport control. Usually it reset all stuck keys.

[Stan Navi]

Double post, sorry.

[stoopicus]

I am doing a really bad job of not buying this so far. The only thing that has saved me is UVI is apparently using a raspberry pi and a dial-up modem for hosting their web site.

[martinjuenke]

[stoopicus]

Seriously it's taking over a minute to load each page, and some fail. Might be temporary but not having any issue with other sites in Europe or the US.

edit: ...and it's fine now. Weird, was totally junky for me for ~24h.

[martiu]

Seriously it's taking over a minute to load each page, and some fail. Might be temporary but not having any issue with other sites in Europe or the US.

edit: ...and it's fine now. Weird, was totally junky for me for ~24h.

It was a sign maybe but you ignored it and now you will buy

[wpostma]

I've spent a few more hours fiddling around and I think I have reproduced this performance regression with:

1. falcon3 +
2. new rev2 presets, especially most of the ones in the Sequences category.

There's a very high per note CPU cost, and playing 30-100 note events per second will completely overload a single core, which is all that Falcon will allow. This "cpu cost of every midi note on event" appears to be much worse than in falcon 2.x.

[simmo75]

Falcon desperately needs multi core support.
It’s too cpu intensive.

[stoopicus]

Seriously it's taking over a minute to load each page, and some fail. Might be temporary but not having any issue with other sites in Europe or the US.

edit: ...and it's fine now. Weird, was totally junky for me for ~24h.

It was a sign maybe but you ignored it and now you will buy

I know, it's totally a sign. Of course I am also terrible at taking good advice.

[stoopicus]

I think people also get a bit confused when they compare a synth like Falcon to a synth like Phase Plant. They’re both multi-engine synthesizers, but Falcon is far more rooted as a sample playback machine than most anything else.

Yeah, this is UVI's model for a lot of their stuff. For a lot of their products this is what actually prevents me from wanting them - compare something like USQ-1 to SQ-80 V for example, and there's just no comparison - Arturia wins by a mile.

However, with Falcon, it seems much more fundamental to me and wouldn't bother me at all.

The one thing keeping me from buying v3 is that I just have so much of it covered in other synths. But as others say, nothing really collects it all in one quite like Falcon.

I am so spoiled by the Phase Plant workflow at this point that Falcon's might be something that keeps me from using it much, though.

Eh. Maybe I'll SonicPass it for a month and give it a shot. It will go on sale again, no rush.

[martiu]

If you are into ambient music and scoring Falcon seems great for that, it has great sampling engines.

[jules99]

Does anyone have a solution for the abysmal download speeds in UVI portal outside of contacting support? I got a notification of an update for Falcon 3 and even after 3+ ours it's only at 32%.

[Fleer]

Does anyone have a solution for the abysmal download speeds in UVI portal outside of contacting support? I got a notification of an update for Falcon 3 and even after 3+ ours it's only at 32%.

Download from your account.

[jules99]

Does anyone have a solution for the abysmal download speeds in UVI portal outside of contacting support? I got a notification of an update for Falcon 3 and even after 3+ ours it's only at 32%.

Download from your account.

Thanks for the tip! But I'm getting the same 30kb/s speed through that. I'll keep looking.

[Fleer]

They had a problem with a few countries, including Germany IIRC.