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[TrekStar]

Two Falcon granular glockenspiel patches in something slightly mysterious:

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... ystal-bowl

...sheer Beauty, Simon...a true brain Synapse massage...

[Sampleconstruct]

Two Falcon granular glockenspiel patches in something slightly mysterious:

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... ystal-bowl

...sheer Beauty, Simon...a true brain Synapse massage...

Thank you, those glockenspiel textures have been haunting me for days now...

[Vintage73]

Two Falcon granular glockenspiel patches in something slightly mysterious:

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... ystal-bowl

...sheer Beauty, Simon...a true brain Synapse massage...

Thank you, those glockenspiel textures have been haunting me for days now...

Well it was beautiful to me.

[Sampleconstruct]

Two Falcon granular glockenspiel patches in something slightly mysterious:

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... ystal-bowl

...sheer Beauty, Simon...a true brain Synapse massage...

Thank you, those glockenspiel textures have been haunting me for days now...

Well it was beautiful to me.

Thanks, I mean haunting in a positive sense, as in can't get them out of my head, have to make another patch, another sample, another track.

[Sound Author]

@Sound Author: I find that when you consider something to be perfect, you take away its dynamism. Why still take the time to work on upgrades if it is already perfect, mmm? Isn't 1.1.1 a lot better than 1? To me it is because now I can use everything, including the Ircams Stretch and Scrub without any problem.

I would add another five though, for a category that is usually forgotten in reviews: after sales. The helpdesk. They merit a five indeed. To me, this is very important.

Just because I gave Falcon a "perfect" score doesn't mean I literally think the plugin is actually perfect. There's always room for improvement. But on a scale of 1-10, I gave it a 10. I have NEVER given a plugin a perfect score before. I felt this one deserves it. Perhaps I'm wrong. At the end of the day, it's just my opinion.

[Sound Author]

Well, I finally finished my review for Bedroom Producers Blog

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2016/04 ... on-review/

Thanks for the indepth review

100% Is this the first time a product receives a perfect rating at bpb ?

Thousands of reviews on BPB, so I can't really say, but it's the first time I've given ANYTHING a perfect score.

[bftucker]

Well, I finally finished my review for Bedroom Producers Blog

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2016/04 ... on-review/

Thanks for the indepth review

100% Is this the first time a product receives a perfect rating at bpb ?

Thousands of reviews on BPB, so I can't really say, but it's the first time I've given ANYTHING a perfect score.

I enjoy enthusiasm...even if to share it gets expensive!

[jacobh]

Well, I finally finished my review for Bedroom Producers Blog

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2016/04 ... on-review/

Thanks for the indepth review

100% Is this the first time a product receives a perfect rating at bpb ?

Thousands of reviews on BPB, so I can't really say, but it's the first time I've given ANYTHING a perfect score.

In the review, you say "The Analog Stack oscillator is made up of eight stripped down versions of the Analog oscillator with the same basic controls, excluding Hard Sync and Unison, but don’t despair." but the Analog Stack Oscillator DOES have sync. It's the little button in the upper right hand corner of oscillators 2 through 8, right?

[Sampleconstruct]

Well, I finally finished my review for Bedroom Producers Blog

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2016/04 ... on-review/

Thanks for the indepth review

100% Is this the first time a product receives a perfect rating at bpb ?

Thousands of reviews on BPB, so I can't really say, but it's the first time I've given ANYTHING a perfect score.

In the review, you say "The Analog Stack oscillator is made up of eight stripped down versions of the Analog oscillator with the same basic controls, excluding Hard Sync and Unison, but don’t despair." but the Analog Stack Oscillator DOES have sync. It's the little button in the upper right hand corner of oscillators 2 through 8, right?

Of course it has sync, each osc can be synced individually and can be modulated independently.

[Sound Author]

In the review, you say "The Analog Stack oscillator is made up of eight stripped down versions of the Analog oscillator with the same basic controls, excluding Hard Sync and Unison, but don’t despair." but the Analog Stack Oscillator DOES have sync. It's the little button in the upper right hand corner of oscillators 2 through 8, right?

Woopsie. My bad. Thanks for spotting that. I'll have Tomislav fix it ASAP

[Sound Author]

Okay, here's something I noticed that is "less than perfect"

For some reason, when creating a new layer of sliced samples mapped across the keyboard with the Slice oscillator, the first sample in the batch doesn't want to crossfade, very fussy crossfade marker, and it would be nice to zoom in and out of long samples when fine tuning the S/E and L/R markers. Very sticky, temperamental controls.

[jacobh]

In the review, you say "The Analog Stack oscillator is made up of eight stripped down versions of the Analog oscillator with the same basic controls, excluding Hard Sync and Unison, but don’t despair." but the Analog Stack Oscillator DOES have sync. It's the little button in the upper right hand corner of oscillators 2 through 8, right?

Woopsie. My bad. Thanks for spotting that. I'll have Tomislav fix it ASAP

No problem. I'd also like to point out, though you may already know but I didn't see mention in the review, that there are multiple unison systems within Falcon. There is a unison on individual oscillators, as you point out on the analog oscillator, the wavetable oscillator, etc., but there is also unison capability at the Layer level as well, and this can be used in conjunction with the analog stack, to make the analog stack have unison, though you might want to apply some random type of modulator to the pitch if there is none on the voice already that you're using. It can also of course be used on top of the unison already found in any of the other oscillators, which then effectively multiplies the already found on the oscillator level.

I'm happy to see you rated Falcon so well, as I agree, that it's a very powerful instrument with a huge sonic breadth!

Cheers!
Jacob

[Sound Author]

In the review, you say "The Analog Stack oscillator is made up of eight stripped down versions of the Analog oscillator with the same basic controls, excluding Hard Sync and Unison, but don’t despair." but the Analog Stack Oscillator DOES have sync. It's the little button in the upper right hand corner of oscillators 2 through 8, right?

Woopsie. My bad. Thanks for spotting that. I'll have Tomislav fix it ASAP

No problem. I'd also like to point out, though you may already know but I didn't see mention in the review, that there are multiple unison systems within Falcon. There is a unison on individual oscillators, as you point out on the analog oscillator, the wavetable oscillator, etc., but there is also unison capability at the Layer level as well, and this can be used in conjunction with the analog stack, to make the analog stack have unison, though you might want to apply some random type of modulator to the pitch if there is none on the voice already that you're using.

I'm happy to see you rated Falcon so well, as I agree, that it's a very powerful instrument with a huge sonic breadth!

Cheers!
Jacob

I knew there was built-in unison, but I actually never messed with it. Sounds like a very uniform unison sound, judging by the pitch modulation suggestion. This is my experience with the global unison in Reaktor. Very uniform and harsh. Also, I think there's a unison effect via the Script Processor.

[c_voltage]

In the review, you say "The Analog Stack oscillator is made up of eight stripped down versions of the Analog oscillator with the same basic controls, excluding Hard Sync and Unison, but don’t despair." but the Analog Stack Oscillator DOES have sync. It's the little button in the upper right hand corner of oscillators 2 through 8, right?

Woopsie. My bad. Thanks for spotting that. I'll have Tomislav fix it ASAP

No problem. I'd also like to point out, though you may already know but I didn't see mention in the review, that there are multiple unison systems within Falcon. There is a unison on individual oscillators, as you point out on the analog oscillator, the wavetable oscillator, etc., but there is also unison capability at the Layer level as well, and this can be used in conjunction with the analog stack, to make the analog stack have unison, though you might want to apply some random type of modulator to the pitch if there is none on the voice already that you're using.

I'm happy to see you rated Falcon so well, as I agree, that it's a very powerful instrument with a huge sonic breadth!

Cheers!
Jacob

I knew there was built-in unison, but I actually never messed with it. Sounds like a very uniform unison sound, judging by the pitch modulation suggestion. This is my experience with the global unison in Reaktor. Very uniform and harsh. Also, I think there's a unison effect via the Script Processor.

If meant availability of internal global unison in analog stack osc, then probably do not should be a difference (by sound) compared with global unison of layer level.
But if talk about separate unison section(s) for each osc in analog stack, then i'm afraid to imagine how much it will require cpu resources in work, especially if enable Sync for each osc in stack ) .
(but maybe I did not quite understand what it was about.)

[Sampleconstruct]

In the review, you say "The Analog Stack oscillator is made up of eight stripped down versions of the Analog oscillator with the same basic controls, excluding Hard Sync and Unison, but don’t despair." but the Analog Stack Oscillator DOES have sync. It's the little button in the upper right hand corner of oscillators 2 through 8, right?

Woopsie. My bad. Thanks for spotting that. I'll have Tomislav fix it ASAP

No problem. I'd also like to point out, though you may already know but I didn't see mention in the review, that there are multiple unison systems within Falcon. There is a unison on individual oscillators, as you point out on the analog oscillator, the wavetable oscillator, etc., but there is also unison capability at the Layer level as well, and this can be used in conjunction with the analog stack, to make the analog stack have unison, though you might want to apply some random type of modulator to the pitch if there is none on the voice already that you're using. It can also of course be used on top of the unison already found in any of the other oscillators, which then effectively multiplies the already found on the oscillator level.

I'm happy to see you rated Falcon so well, as I agree, that it's a very powerful instrument with a huge sonic breadth!

Cheers!
Jacob

The analog stack itself can be used for unison sounds without unison on layer level, as you have 8 oscillators which can be slightly detuned and each one can be set to free running phase in the inspector, so just stack 8 oscillators and use the cent/fine-tune to detune each one, pan each one wherever you want or use an LFO to dynamically modulate pan position/finetune of each osc, add some PWM modulation and so forth, very thick/rich sounds can be achieved that way in a more CPU efficient way.