KVR Audio

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:50 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:Plastic Angel - a vocal pad sound and a wavetable patch using a resynthesized image inserting two bass drones:

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

Damn!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:09 am

quantum7 wrote:
Sampleconstruct wrote:Plastic Angel - a vocal pad sound and a wavetable patch using a resynthesized image inserting two bass drones:

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

Don't damn the angel

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:56 am

Explaining and demonstrating three patches which use bowed Chinese opera cymbals in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Ohn9mCm08

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EDIT (later that day):

Here is a little impro with the patch Hang Plucker RR6

Description (only mentioning a few things):
A mellow Hang accent played with a soft mallet exciting the resaonators in the pluck synth, 6 round robin variations run in cycle mode. Macros for filter velocity and overall velocity sensitivity are available. A velocity-modulated waveshaper on keygroup level can be dialed in with a Macro. 17 Macros are assigned.

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

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:01 pm

Here comes some industrial flavor for AIR, three finalized patches made with/derived from industrial field recordings I made in various factories, some of these factory drones are totally haunting, like giant organs:

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

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 4:20 pm

Here is Christmas demo combining several finalized patches, plenty of bells - sleigh bells, camel bells, ball tress, I always sampled a pair of those at 6x round robin, 3 articulations split across the keyboard, 1 octave each (bell A, both bells, bell B), a key-switch switches between loose and tight articulation, so one can also play tight rhythms without the longish attack phase of those bells.

Then there is the big multi-sampled buffalo drum, a cymbal scape which also integrates a field recording of Philippine women gathering under a bridge on a public holiday which I recorded in Hong Kong some years ago, two key patches, (one of them actually being the 3rd keyswitch of a multi-bell soundscape), and at the end some textural sleigh bells with FX convolution. I'll make a video explaining those 6 bell-patches later.

Merry Christmas...

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

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:28 pm

After another 10 hours of finalizing/fine-tuning patches today, I needed a jam which resulted in this little minimal music, using the patch Bettys Harp, which is 100% sample-free.

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

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 1:12 am

Another two amped electric guitar patches in this demo, combining multi-sampled feedback swells with whammy bar action and tremolo drones layered with their electronic derivatives, tons of Macro controls are available:

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

quantum7 · Post by **quantum7** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:21 pm

Patiently waiting for AIR to be ready.......well not really 'patiently'.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:28 pm

quantum7 wrote:Patiently waiting for AIR to be ready.......well not really 'patiently'.

Later today....

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 4:44 pm

Falcon AIR has now been released, I'll be sending out the links in a minute.

Falcon Air combines organic acoustic samples with the plethora of synthesis forms available in Falcon. Often several different synthesis modules are combined within in one patch, many presets make use of the new multi-granular engine, the wavetable synth and the new physical modeling module introduced in Falcon. All samples, wavetables and images (for image re-synthesis in the WT synth) were created especially for this library.

Expressive hybrid instruments meet multi-sampled percussive sounds, sweet ambient pads, ethereal textures and minimal sequences are drowned in haunting granular abysses, electric guitar ambiences, feedback swells and mesmerizing industrial drones, technoid synth arps and big bass sounds are accompanied by ethnic drums, beautiful mallets and various chromatic percussion sounds.

The sample content was generated from multi-sampled percussion instruments and glass objects, industrial field recordings executed in factories, electric guitar instruments, weird sounds of electronic gadgets captured with special coil microphones, audio-morphed vocal sounds and electronic soundscapes, also re-synthesizing and audio-morphing acoustic sounds with programs like Metasynth, Morph and Kaleidoscope, to name a few.

All patches have up to 30 Macros and switches assigned, most make use of the modulation wheel, quite a few also use aftertouch. In many patches tempo-synced modulators are used to animate the amplitudes and filters of the involved samples and sound generators, often key-switchable sound combinations or different articulations are available within one patch. All patches which have several different sounds split across the keyboard (often over a range of six octaves or more) use key-coloring in Falcon's keyboard which makes it easier to navigate through the various split sounds.

Specs:

*2.57 GB of original samples (538 wavs/stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit/phase-aligned), 24 wavetables, 1 single cycle waveform, 2 impulse responses, 11 images - very few samples were borrowed from other patchpool libraries. The content is not encrypted, so you can use the samples and wavetables in other samplers and synths or directly in your DAW.
*102 patches combining most synthesis forms available in Falcon.
*Library size in total: 2.6 GB
*Delivery: download (RAR-archive in 3 parts for better download handling)
*Price: € 56 EUR

Sampled acoustic Instruments:

*Chinese opera cymbals, bowed and beaten, also hand cymbals
*Wahwah tube
*Water drums / jicara de aqua (a pair of water pumpkins)
*Various bell types like Japanese wind bells, Nepalese crotales, bell trees, camel bells, sleigh bells, bronze bells, swirling bells (solid sonic triangles)
*Glass gongs
*Large frame drum
*Amped electric guitar - drones, feedback swells, chord textures, e-bow sounds

Patch categories:

*Bells (13)
*Cymbals - Percussion (11)
*Guitars (12)
*Mallets - Plucks (12)
*Pads - Textures (18)
*Sequencer - Arps (11)
*Soundscapes - Drones - FX (14)
*Synths - Keys (11)

All acoustic samples in this library were recorded with 3, sometimes 4 top notch microphones (Neumann/Shure) in L-C-R in 48 Khz/24 Bit, the microphone signals of all acoustic samples were phase-aligned which improves the stereo picture, enhances the transparency of the sound and makes for snappier transients.

You can view/download the PDF for this library with more details, the licence agreement, and the patchlist including descrtptions and playing tips here.

Product page

Audio demos:

All demos were produced entirely with Falcon using only patches from AIR, no post-processing was applied apart from a limiter on the outputs and some volume automation, if several instances of Falcon were used in a track.

https://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/ ... ibrary-for

Videos too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZRtbc ... r4&index=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzI0Vm ... r4&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZXRn9 ... r4&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OmNnr4 ... r4&index=7

More demos in this playlist on my youtube which also contains some tutorials for Falcon, demos for some of my Falcon factory sounds and other experiments.

Thank's for reading
Simon Stockhausen

jdoo · Post by **jdoo** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 6:47 pm

Congrats on the release Simon. Am sure those servers are getting hammered with folks like me, downloading the set.

Can't wait to load them up. Cheers and happy New Years!

Joe

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 6:57 pm

jdoo wrote:Congrats on the release Simon. Am sure those servers are getting hammered with folks like me, downloading the set. Can't wait to load them up. Cheers and happy New Years!

Joe

Thank you Joe, fortunately the amazon servers seem to be fast and stable, happy New Year for you too!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:09 am

I just added the supplement below to the order confirmation, as some of you are obviously still using Falcon version 1.00 and a lot of things have been fixed and added since the release, some features in AIR will only work with the latest version 1.04:

Please note: Falcon AIR needs Falcon version 1.04 or higher to be installed on your system in order to work correctly with all features used in the patches.

emasters · Post by **emasters** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:21 pm

Clearly a lot of time, effort and care went into this sound set. Really stunning quality and creative sounds. Simon, you've set a new high-bar for your product releases. Excellent job!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:06 pm

emasters wrote:Clearly a lot of time, effort and care went into this sound set. Really stunning quality and creative sounds. Simon, you've set a new high-bar for your product releases. Excellent job!

Thank you for the feedback, Ed - I need to challenge myself, so here I did

Falcon AIR released on patchpool