![]() ![]() Sound quality in these IRCAM designed oscillators is excellent, I mean super clean, with no unexpected artefacts or glitches. Add to this the ability to modulate any of the controls with any modulation source and you have a serious granular synthesis engine. Multi-Granular is reminiscent of Steinberg’s Padshop in that it can have up to 8 playheads traversing the audio at any time, with plenty of granular control on offer. Left-click on the waveform and loop points become available, right-click and extensive sample editing functions appear, including applying the full range of Falcon’s FX.įalcon has six more sample-based oscillators, each of which builds upon the basic sampler’s functionality:Ĥ Granular offerings developed by IRCAM, the most interesting of which is the Multi-Granular oscillator. Right-click on any of these controls and a context sensitive sub-menu appears with options to add and remove modulation and automation, MIDI learn and OSC stuff. A waveform view with a time bar and basic pitch, amplitude and triggering controls. *SAMPLING – Drop a sample onto the keymap and the ‘SAMPLE’ block opens up in the Oscillator section. If you can imagine a sound you can probably create it with Falcon In fact, for me, it is the perfect way to see what is going on in a patch. Not only are there tabs for effects and modulations, (so you can see and edit every modulation in the patch at once) but there is the Tree view in the left-hand sidebar, which is essential once you get to any level of complexity. The centre panel sections become full of tabs and modulations very quickly but fortunately help is at hand. This is great, but can get a little confusing after a while. You can even find arpeggiators and MIDI file players to drop in. Then I started slapping filters onto the key-groups, with LFOs and all the normal synthy stuff, which again, worked like a charm. I was quickly dropping oscillators all over the key-map, even layering some and it all works like a charm. The Analog oscillator has 17 presets, I click, drag and drop the oscillator onto the key-map at the bottom of the centre panel and immediately Falcon made sense. I found the oscillator section in the browser easy enough. I decided to load an ‘Analog’ oscillator and play with that. ‘Falcon offers 15 highly-optimized oscillators’. So if, like me, you find Falcon too much at first, I suggest you fetch yourself a drink and some snacks, get the excellent UVI Youtube videos up () and settle in for a while…įor me, Falcon’s big selling point is its synthesis options. This is all clearly laid out, but there’s a lot to take in if you’re not used to large, workstation type instruments. You can then load other presets into other ‘Part’ slots and selecting them brings up the edit panel for that part in the centre panel, plus FX and modulation for all the layers and oscillators within the selected ‘Part’. So we can load a ‘Program’ from the browser (which is located in the right-hand sidebar) into a ‘Part’ slot. Into a ‘Part’ can be loaded a ‘Program’ consisting of key-mapped layers of sounds and effects. In ‘MAIN’ mode, the left-hand sidebar is where you load or select ‘Parts’ in the ‘Multi’ you are working on. “MAIN’ mode is where all the editing takes place and where I spent most of my time. ‘MIXER’ mode is a full-on mixer with aux channels, and ‘PERF’ is a parts view with quick-edit keymapping and basic mixing functions. There are also three radio buttons to choose between ‘MAIN’, ‘MIXER’ and ‘PERF’ modes. The top bar allows you to select presets, show sidebars and all the usual master gain and stuff. The colour scheme is mostly monochrome with blue highlights and is a clean, efficient look. On opening, you see a large central panel with sidebars left and right. You get both sampling and synthesis on steroids. ![]() In fact, Falcon could be seen as Mach Five v4 in that it expands upon Mach Five’s feature set, while retaining a similar appearance and workflow. UVI also license the engine to Motu whose Mach Five v3 is in direct competition with NI’s Kontakt. Workstation is free, but UVI supply a large collection of premium content for it. UVI’s Falcon hybrid instrument is the latest incarnation of UVI’s ‘Engine’, a sampling and synthesis engine found in UVI’s Workstation. ![]()
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