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  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @enkaytee said:

    @Cambler said:

    @jonmoore said:
    It's also worth adding that much as UVI don't often discount Falcon, they constantly discount UVI libraries which can be played back via the free UVI player or via Falcon, where the source samples are game for further synthesis with all that Falcon has to offer.

    Jon, I bit the bullet and am now the proud owner of Falcon 2.5. Super excited to play and get lost in this beast. One quick question if you don't mind - do UVI do sales on their soundware? I'm trying to work out if I should hold onto my $100 voucher and see if there's a sale before it expires. Not wanting to spend any more money so will have to buy within that $100 range. Thanks for your help and info on this stuff!

    I used my $100 voucher to get a few Falcon expansions when they were discounted so it does work...👍

    That’s great news for new customers.

    When you factor all the discounts - $78 on Falcon expansions, $105 on Falcon itself and the $100 voucher, it means you’re effectively getting Falcon for $66. There’s 1200 patches in the default library itself, and 500+ wavetables, so the default package will keep you busy without ever purchasing an addon. It’s not as if your purchasing a sample playback engine. They already provide UVI Workstation as a free download for playing back UVI Soundware.

    You’ve got to shell out $244 for the privilage of getting those discounts, but UVI are offsetting that oulay with tangible benifits.

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @flo26 and other geetar players - Ownhammer have a sale on, using code 11YEARS gets 40% off all products. https://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=215_122

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    @gusgranite said:
    @flo26 and other geetar players - Ownhammer have a sale on, using code 11YEARS gets 40% off all products. https://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=215_122

    I have enough ir cabs for my next ten lives😉, but thanks for the info.
    Cheers!

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @gusgranite said:
    @flo26 and other geetar players - Ownhammer have a sale on, using code 11YEARS gets 40% off all products. https://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=215_122

    Good to know. Their cabs are useful for non-guitar timbres too.

  • FloRi89FloRi89

    Plugin Alliance are selling the Acon Restauration Suite 2:
    https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/x-acon-digital-restoration-suite-2.html

    29,99 with this code:
    ADRS22999

    Or 19,99 with this code:
    2021-10-25Kup0GfC36kjkj

    Second code will only work if you haven’t used it for something else.

    I think this is something different for once, au was eyeing Brusfi, but this seems like a great deal!

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @enkaytee said:

    @Cambler said:

    @jonmoore said:
    It's also worth adding that much as UVI don't often discount Falcon, they constantly discount UVI libraries which can be played back via the free UVI player or via Falcon, where the source samples are game for further synthesis with all that Falcon has to offer.

    Jon, I bit the bullet and am now the proud owner of Falcon 2.5. Super excited to play and get lost in this beast. One quick question if you don't mind - do UVI do sales on their soundware? I'm trying to work out if I should hold onto my $100 voucher and see if there's a sale before it expires. Not wanting to spend any more money so will have to buy within that $100 range. Thanks for your help and info on this stuff!

    I used my $100 voucher to get a few Falcon expansions when they were discounted so it does work...👍

    I just did a search back to my UVI purchases over Black Friday 2020 and it was a 30% off storewide promotion, so it's definitely worth keeping that $100 coupon to use over Black Friday 2021 as it's likely they'll do the same again this year.

  • Bon_TempiBon_Tempi
    edited October 2021

    @klownshed said:
    If you're still on the fence with the IK deal, as somebody that was previously very grumpy about it (I didn't see how I could get MixBox without spending more money than i can justify/afford) I can say there are ways in that make the deal a complete steal.

    It's almost like an adventure game working out all the permutations to get the most bang-for-buck pound... :-)

    So thanks again to @MisplacedDevelopment for the UNO Synth recommendation, that was the key that unlocked it all for me.

    So here's my advice if you've not yet entered the game:

    Firstly, Register with IK, make sure you jump through some hoops to get some extra JAM points as these might come in handy soon... You will probably get some "Gift points" for registering too. I got €35 in Gift points but have no idea what I did to get them! Uno Synth got me €10 and you'll get extra points for subscribing to newsletters, etc.

    Don't fight IK's way of doing things. Embrace it, you will benefit in the long run. They're not a bad company, but they are very opinionated, as we all are. But they're in charge of this deal, so give in and stop worrying about the things you don't like and just enjoy getting loads of really good software for a steal.

    Option 1

    Buy some hardware that gets you into the €199 tier. There's lots to choose from and a lot of it will be very useful for both iOS and Desktop.

    Then you should claim something like Amplitube 5. This will open up a lot of cross grade prices and make things like Mixbox available to claim in the €199 tier. Basically you will have access to everything except for the full version of Philarmonik. Which ain't worth crying over to be honest.

    Once you have that, work out what to spend your remaining slots on. Prioritise the >€99 items. I'd suggest Mixbox, Modo Drums, Modo Bass, Sampletron, Hammond, Tracks 5 and Ampltube if that wasn't purchase 1.

    Once you have all of that, you might want to buy back in at the €99 tier to round out the collection of Amps and T-Racks modules. Or sample libraries if that's your preference (although T-Rack and AMplitube >>> Sampletank libraries IMO).

    To buy in at €99 you have two good choices. Use those Jam Points I mentioned above and buy Gear Credits with up to 30% off with Jam Points.

    Then round out the collection by buying any Amplitube collections, T-Racks processors etc. in the €99 tier.

    You can get pretty close to everything you could want from IK for that.

    I managed to get 2 €99 tiers with products I'd not bothered licensing before and still have iLoud monitors I've not registered so I'm holding on to that in case they do something after hitting the target; I'm not expecting anything but it doesn't hurt to be prepared.

    Option 2

    Buy in at the €99 tier with hardware, try and get as many jam points as possible and then buy in to the €199 tier by getting gear credits -- 200 gear credits is €160. You should be able to get a few extra € off that price with the Jam points you've accrued already.

    So for about €250 you'll be able to get almost everything. You can always buy in again at €49 to mop up all the stuff that isn't worth burning a €99 or €199 tier slot for. And you can use any extra jam points you might get to buy gear credits again.

    Option 3

    If Amplitube is your priority, you might be better off buying the full version of Amplitube with Gear Credits/Jam Points as that's a lot of slots you'll be saving. IMHO it's not worth it as I could get everything I wanted with Amplitube 5 + all the collections. I'm not worried about mopping up all the extra mics and pedals. I already have more stuff in Amplitube than I could ever use. Make lists of what you want in order of priority and you can work out if you're better off with this option. Option 1 was by far the best option for me, YMMV.

    Make lists and prioritise

    Make lists for what you want from each tier; Doing this, I worked out that having a €199 AND a €99 tier means I can get everything in the >€99 and <=€199 tier now that we're up to 23 free items and that's with hardware as my buy in (There are 25 items between 99 and 199 I think -- and that's including T-Racks 5 and T-Racks SE -- getting both frees up some 99 slots for more processors -- I just got T-Racks 5 as it includes a processor from the 199 tier (Dyna-Mu).

    The ONLY product available to claim that is >€199 is Miroslav Philharmonik 2 full version (you can get CE). So unless you want that (and I'm not really sure why you would -- it's a lot of extra money for a library that is surpassed by lots of other orchestral libraries such as Spitfire) I think €199 + €99 buy ins gives the best overall value and gets you pretty much all the good stuff.

    Buying Amplitube 5 plus all the extras still leaves loads of slots for all the best T-Racks stuff too. Once you have MixBox you get access to a lot of the things like EQs already, so a lot of them won't be missed.

    Downloading

    Once you have bought in, if you have an external hard drive to use, I'd recommend you save all the downloads to that drive.

    Before you even start downloading, go into the Product Manager and set the download path to that external. Then make sure you download everything to the same place. Once you've installed everything, copy all the installers to another drive for backup. You'll need a big drive.

    Also, installer and content on the same drive will mean you'll need twice the space available. Downloading the installers to an external will prevent that problem, even if you're going to put all the content on the internal drive.

    If you claim something like Sampletron, after installing you will need to download the sound content. To do that click the sounds tab in IK product manager. You can then choose where to install it, so if you want the big sample libraries on an external, you can do that up front. If you try and move things manually you can quickly get into a mess. As I said, just accept that you need to do things IK Multimedia's way and don't fight that.

    So before starting, work out where you want the content downloaded, and then you can decide where to install the separate sound libraries, which can be on another drive.

    Once you've downloaded all the installers, make a backup of them as IK will charge you if you need to download again after 180 days. You should be able to forgive them that as you'll be getting so much for free!

    Having all the sound content backed up isn't an issue especially when you know you only have 180 days to download it all. Mind you, it might take that long to actually download if you're into all the sampletank stuff :lol:

    Thanks a lot for this cool oversight ... of how to get the best out of the deal ...

    Really helpful and I was not aware of most of the things you pointed out here ...!

    Just - one last thing is still on my mind ... so did I get you right ... ... that ...

    I can buy the hardware (for example the uno drum) wherever I get the lowest price - I don’t even have to buy it directly via IKMultimedia - I can also buy it on Amazon or Thomann or wherever - I just have to register it in my account and that’s it and from then on it counts as a qualifying product for the promo - and they don’t care from where the unit was shipped/bought?

  • CamblerCambler

    Thanks so much @jonmoore and @enkaytee . Really Appreciate. Already in love with Falcon after a quick play last night. Exciting!

  • NeuMNeuM

    Some nice strategies and tips there, @Bon_Tempi.

    Also, good thing you posted. Reminded me to check on updates and there's a brand new update for T-RackS 5 today.

  • piccolopiccolo

    I used my $100 voucher to get a few Falcon expansions when they were discounted so it does work...👍

    Is there an expiration date for the voucher or you can use it whenever you want?

  • CamblerCambler

    @piccolo said:

    I used my $100 voucher to get a few Falcon expansions when they were discounted so it does work...👍

    Is there an expiration date for the voucher or you can use it whenever you want?

    2 month expiry. This is from the email:

    “This voucher is non-transferrable and is valid for a single purchase within the next two months.“

  • shinyisshinyshinyisshiny

    falcon is awesome. thanks for the rec! idk how i missed this one. Ive been locked into the kontakt world for years now, but this is on another level. I got the SubCulture Orchestral as one of my freebies, and im having a blast reverse engineering and loading my own sounds in.

  • piccolopiccolo

    I am also planning to go for SubCulture Orchestral expansion but I haven't decided on the second one.
    Maybe LoFi Dreams or Inner Dimensions, any suggestions?

    Also, I am planning to use the voucher for Quadra. Any comments on Quadra?

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    Quadra is great at experimental soundscape type material and really shows off all aspects of the Falcon toolset. It can be difficult to integrate into existing productions but works well when it's the hero aspect of a larger composition. The fact it's got a bunch of Simon Stockhausen presets speaks volumes ref its sonic territories.

  • klownshedklownshed
    edited October 2021

    @Bon_Tempi said:

    @klownshed said:
    If you're still on the fence with the IK deal, as somebody that was previously very grumpy about it (I didn't see how I could get MixBox without spending more money than i can justify/afford) I can say there are ways in that make the deal a complete steal.

    It's almost like an adventure game working out all the permutations to get the most bang-for-buck pound... :-)

    So thanks again to @MisplacedDevelopment for the UNO Synth recommendation, that was the key that unlocked it all for me.

    So here's my advice if you've not yet entered the game:

    Firstly, Register with IK, make sure you jump through some hoops to get some extra JAM points as these might come in handy soon... You will probably get some "Gift points" for registering too. I got €35 in Gift points but have no idea what I did to get them! Uno Synth got me €10 and you'll get extra points for subscribing to newsletters, etc.

    Don't fight IK's way of doing things. Embrace it, you will benefit in the long run. They're not a bad company, but they are very opinionated, as we all are. But they're in charge of this deal, so give in and stop worrying about the things you don't like and just enjoy getting loads of really good software for a steal.

    Option 1

    Buy some hardware that gets you into the €199 tier. There's lots to choose from and a lot of it will be very useful for both iOS and Desktop.

    Then you should claim something like Amplitube 5. This will open up a lot of cross grade prices and make things like Mixbox available to claim in the €199 tier. Basically you will have access to everything except for the full version of Philarmonik. Which ain't worth crying over to be honest.

    Once you have that, work out what to spend your remaining slots on. Prioritise the >€99 items. I'd suggest Mixbox, Modo Drums, Modo Bass, Sampletron, Hammond, Tracks 5 and Ampltube if that wasn't purchase 1.

    Once you have all of that, you might want to buy back in at the €99 tier to round out the collection of Amps and T-Racks modules. Or sample libraries if that's your preference (although T-Rack and AMplitube >>> Sampletank libraries IMO).

    To buy in at €99 you have two good choices. Use those Jam Points I mentioned above and buy Gear Credits with up to 30% off with Jam Points.

    Then round out the collection by buying any Amplitube collections, T-Racks processors etc. in the €99 tier.

    You can get pretty close to everything you could want from IK for that.

    I managed to get 2 €99 tiers with products I'd not bothered licensing before and still have iLoud monitors I've not registered so I'm holding on to that in case they do something after hitting the target; I'm not expecting anything but it doesn't hurt to be prepared.

    Option 2

    Buy in at the €99 tier with hardware, try and get as many jam points as possible and then buy in to the €199 tier by getting gear credits -- 200 gear credits is €160. You should be able to get a few extra € off that price with the Jam points you've accrued already.

    So for about €250 you'll be able to get almost everything. You can always buy in again at €49 to mop up all the stuff that isn't worth burning a €99 or €199 tier slot for. And you can use any extra jam points you might get to buy gear credits again.

    Option 3

    If Amplitube is your priority, you might be better off buying the full version of Amplitube with Gear Credits/Jam Points as that's a lot of slots you'll be saving. IMHO it's not worth it as I could get everything I wanted with Amplitube 5 + all the collections. I'm not worried about mopping up all the extra mics and pedals. I already have more stuff in Amplitube than I could ever use. Make lists of what you want in order of priority and you can work out if you're better off with this option. Option 1 was by far the best option for me, YMMV.

    Make lists and prioritise

    Make lists for what you want from each tier; Doing this, I worked out that having a €199 AND a €99 tier means I can get everything in the >€99 and <=€199 tier now that we're up to 23 free items and that's with hardware as my buy in (There are 25 items between 99 and 199 I think -- and that's including T-Racks 5 and T-Racks SE -- getting both frees up some 99 slots for more processors -- I just got T-Racks 5 as it includes a processor from the 199 tier (Dyna-Mu).

    The ONLY product available to claim that is >€199 is Miroslav Philharmonik 2 full version (you can get CE). So unless you want that (and I'm not really sure why you would -- it's a lot of extra money for a library that is surpassed by lots of other orchestral libraries such as Spitfire) I think €199 + €99 buy ins gives the best overall value and gets you pretty much all the good stuff.

    Buying Amplitube 5 plus all the extras still leaves loads of slots for all the best T-Racks stuff too. Once you have MixBox you get access to a lot of the things like EQs already, so a lot of them won't be missed.

    Downloading

    Once you have bought in, if you have an external hard drive to use, I'd recommend you save all the downloads to that drive.

    Before you even start downloading, go into the Product Manager and set the download path to that external. Then make sure you download everything to the same place. Once you've installed everything, copy all the installers to another drive for backup. You'll need a big drive.

    Also, installer and content on the same drive will mean you'll need twice the space available. Downloading the installers to an external will prevent that problem, even if you're going to put all the content on the internal drive.

    If you claim something like Sampletron, after installing you will need to download the sound content. To do that click the sounds tab in IK product manager. You can then choose where to install it, so if you want the big sample libraries on an external, you can do that up front. If you try and move things manually you can quickly get into a mess. As I said, just accept that you need to do things IK Multimedia's way and don't fight that.

    So before starting, work out where you want the content downloaded, and then you can decide where to install the separate sound libraries, which can be on another drive.

    Once you've downloaded all the installers, make a backup of them as IK will charge you if you need to download again after 180 days. You should be able to forgive them that as you'll be getting so much for free!

    Having all the sound content backed up isn't an issue especially when you know you only have 180 days to download it all. Mind you, it might take that long to actually download if you're into all the sampletank stuff :lol:

    Thanks a lot for this cool oversight ... of how to get the best out of the deal ...

    Really helpful and I was not aware of most of the things you pointed out here ...!

    Just - one last thing is still on my mind ... so did I get you right ... ... that ...

    I can buy the hardware (for example the uno drum) wherever I get the lowest price - I don’t even have to buy it directly via IKMultimedia - I can also buy it on Amazon or Thomann or wherever - I just have to register it in my account and that’s it and from then on it counts as a qualifying product for the promo - and they don’t care from where the unit was shipped/bought?

    They do specifically state it has to be from an authorised reseller, but you only need a serial number to register and you’re in. You don’t have to provide receipts or anything. It doesn’t matter what you pay either. You get to go in at the tier that matches rhe RRP.

  • CamblerCambler

    @shinyisshiny said:
    falcon is awesome. thanks for the rec! idk how i missed this one. Ive been locked into the kontakt world for years now, but this is on another level. I got the SubCulture Orchestral as one of my freebies, and im having a blast reverse engineering and loading my own sounds in.

    Agreed. I'm absolutely loving this synth (synth doesn't seem big enough - system maybe!). I'm wondering if it's possible and a smart idea to use the $100 voucher on the $39 specials? Are they normally more expensive? I grabbed Analog Motion and Ether Fields as my freebies but was thinking I could grab "Subculture Orchestral" and one other with the voucher. No more funds to splash and not sure I can wait until Black Friday :)

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @Cambler said:

    @shinyisshiny said:
    falcon is awesome. thanks for the rec! idk how i missed this one. Ive been locked into the kontakt world for years now, but this is on another level. I got the SubCulture Orchestral as one of my freebies, and im having a blast reverse engineering and loading my own sounds in.

    Agreed. I'm absolutely loving this synth (synth doesn't seem big enough - system maybe!). I'm wondering if it's possible and a smart idea to use the $100 voucher on the $39 specials? Are they normally more expensive? I grabbed Analog Motion and Ether Fields as my freebies but was thinking I could grab "Subculture Orchestral" and one other with the voucher. No more funds to splash and not sure I can wait until Black Friday :)

    $39 is the standard price for Falcon Expansions. They're a lower price as the development cost is far lower (they don't involve the creation of huge multi-sample libraries). As to whether you should use your voucher now, I'd suggest you pay cash if you've got a burning desire for a $39 expansion now, and save the $100 voucher for Black Friday promos. That $100 will come in very handy to purchase any of the more expensive Soundware collections.

  • NeuMNeuM

    @jonmoore said:

    @Cambler said:

    @shinyisshiny said:
    falcon is awesome. thanks for the rec! idk how i missed this one. Ive been locked into the kontakt world for years now, but this is on another level. I got the SubCulture Orchestral as one of my freebies, and im having a blast reverse engineering and loading my own sounds in.

    Agreed. I'm absolutely loving this synth (synth doesn't seem big enough - system maybe!). I'm wondering if it's possible and a smart idea to use the $100 voucher on the $39 specials? Are they normally more expensive? I grabbed Analog Motion and Ether Fields as my freebies but was thinking I could grab "Subculture Orchestral" and one other with the voucher. No more funds to splash and not sure I can wait until Black Friday :)

    $39 is the standard price for Falcon Expansions. They're a lower price as the development cost is far lower (they don't involve the creation of huge multi-sample libraries). As to whether you should use your voucher now, I'd suggest you pay cash if you've got a burning desire for a $39 expansion now, and save the $100 voucher for Black Friday promos. That $100 will come in very handy to purchase any of the more expensive Soundware collections.

    Where can this $100 voucher be acquired?

  • CamblerCambler

    @jonmoore said:

    @Cambler said:

    @shinyisshiny said:
    falcon is awesome. thanks for the rec! idk how i missed this one. Ive been locked into the kontakt world for years now, but this is on another level. I got the SubCulture Orchestral as one of my freebies, and im having a blast reverse engineering and loading my own sounds in.

    Agreed. I'm absolutely loving this synth (synth doesn't seem big enough - system maybe!). I'm wondering if it's possible and a smart idea to use the $100 voucher on the $39 specials? Are they normally more expensive? I grabbed Analog Motion and Ether Fields as my freebies but was thinking I could grab "Subculture Orchestral" and one other with the voucher. No more funds to splash and not sure I can wait until Black Friday :)

    $39 is the standard price for Falcon Expansions. They're a lower price as the development cost is far lower (they don't involve the creation of huge multi-sample libraries). As to whether you should use your voucher now, I'd suggest you pay cash if you've got a burning desire for a $39 expansion now, and save the $100 voucher for Black Friday promos. That $100 will come in very handy to purchase any of the more expensive Soundware collections.

    Hey Jon, thanks for tempering my impatience :) I'll wait and see what happens on Black Friday. I think I have until the 13th of December for the voucher so enough time. Thanks for all your help. I'll leave you in peace now and continue getting lost in this beast.

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @NeuM said:

    @jonmoore said:

    @Cambler said:

    @shinyisshiny said:
    falcon is awesome. thanks for the rec! idk how i missed this one. Ive been locked into the kontakt world for years now, but this is on another level. I got the SubCulture Orchestral as one of my freebies, and im having a blast reverse engineering and loading my own sounds in.

    Agreed. I'm absolutely loving this synth (synth doesn't seem big enough - system maybe!). I'm wondering if it's possible and a smart idea to use the $100 voucher on the $39 specials? Are they normally more expensive? I grabbed Analog Motion and Ether Fields as my freebies but was thinking I could grab "Subculture Orchestral" and one other with the voucher. No more funds to splash and not sure I can wait until Black Friday :)

    $39 is the standard price for Falcon Expansions. They're a lower price as the development cost is far lower (they don't involve the creation of huge multi-sample libraries). As to whether you should use your voucher now, I'd suggest you pay cash if you've got a burning desire for a $39 expansion now, and save the $100 voucher for Black Friday promos. That $100 will come in very handy to purchase any of the more expensive Soundware collections.

    Where can this $100 voucher be acquired?

    It's automatically put into your UVI account when you purchase Falcon.

  • AileromAilerom

    Cableguys Noiseshaper intro sale. Looks pretty good to me.

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    If you are going to consider Cableguys Noiseshaper, it's worth considering Shaperbox 2 of which Noiseshaper is a single component. Pretty essential in my toolbox.

  • ahallamahallam

    @jonmoore said:
    If you are going to consider Cableguys Noiseshaper, it's worth considering Shaperbox 2 of which Noiseshaper is a single component. Pretty essential in my toolbox.

    The whole bundle is discounted to only $66 if you picked up Driveshaper (free earlier this year) and grabbed Timeshaper last month for $11. That’s a pretty good deal.

  • jonmoorejonmoore
    edited October 2021

    The other essential Cableguys plugin is Midishaper. Using this in most DAWs allows you to effectively get a lot of the same ShaperBox functionality, but with your own choice of FX. ShaperBox is better in terms of preset saving very complex modulation setups (and it's very efficient) but Midishaper can be more transparent with regards to visual feedback and if you have favourite processing effects (like Cytomic's The Drop in my case for creative filtering), you can achieve better quality results with Midishaper. Plus Midishaper is only $29 and is a good way of learning how far beyond traditional modulation approaches Cableguys plugins can go.

    If you're an Ableton or Bitwig user, they feature similar modulation modules natively but none that go as far as Cableguys plugins or that feature such intuitive UI/UX.

  • enkayteeenkaytee

    Venus Theory on YouTube is a big Falcon fan and regularly features the synth on his channel with demos and tutorials... https://www.youtube.com/c/VenusTheory

  • cabocabo
    edited October 2021

    bought it too you naughty guys ;)

    took LoFi and the vocal one as the expansions, buying at AudioDeluxe brought the € expense down quite a bit and there still is the 100 € voucher in my account waiting for BF (and some additional bonus bucks at AD), good one

  • ahallamahallam

    @enkaytee said:
    Venus Theory on YouTube is a big Falcon fan and regularly features the synth on his channel with demos and tutorials... https://www.youtube.com/c/VenusTheory

    I’d like to go in on Falcon, but the reality is that I could probably get all the sounds I want out of the synths I’m not using…

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @ahallam said:

    @enkaytee said:
    Venus Theory on YouTube is a big Falcon fan and regularly features the synth on his channel with demos and tutorials... https://www.youtube.com/c/VenusTheory

    I’d like to go in on Falcon, but the reality is that I could probably get all the sounds I want out of the synths I’m not using…

    The cool thing about Falcon is that once things click, you won't be able to stop yourself from loading it up, to explore and create outside of actual project work. Much as there's a lot of menu diving the results are immediate and I've never encountered a synthesizer where it's so easy to create complex modulations all the while keeping a lid on that complexity via the Tree view.

    The aspect of Falcon that a lot of reviewers miss, is that Falcon does raw stripped back synthesis just as well as all the 'pad machine' stuff. And a lot of what makes this possible is that the onboard FX aren't just good by workstation/hybrid synth standards, they're amongst the best available in each category as standalone plugins.

    One of the Expansions for Falcon is called Analog Motion, and it contains some of the best John Carpenter, Moroder, Vangelis, Vince Clarke, classic italo sound design I've come across. The patches are rich and expressive but they're also sounds that cut through a mix with precision. Much as recent Artutria software synths are getting better and U-he have delivered so much with their various VA's (to name two of the companies excelling at VA's), Falcon sounds alive in a manner that 'Diva & co' can't quite deliver.

    A few years back I had a fire at my studio and I lost a hell of a lot of irreplaceable classic hardware. I'd stupidly not updated my insurance properly to cover everything and I was left with some hard choices regarding my replacement setup. Getting Falcon and UVI Vintage Vault 3 gave me the confidence to not attempt to replace the irreplaceable using an insufficient insurance payout and I now have a setup with three networked workstations (2 PC/Linux, 1 Mac) at the core of my setup.

    I still have hardware, but its reason for being a part of the setup is more because of its tactile UX, not a perceived aural superiority. In terms of my software synthesis options, I feel confident in Falcons ability to create any sound my classic hardware was capable of. It gets used more often than some of my other software options not just because of how realistic it sounds, it can also be incredibly light on CPU resources in relative terms. You can of course build patches that burn 50%+ of a single processer core with ease but those classic 70's/80s timbres that I love so much can be achieved with minimal resources and they sound just as alive as the hardware they're emulating.

  • ervinervin

    Hmmm. I can't seem to find a demo or trial version* on UVI's site. Seriously - for a synth costing this much? Please tell me there is one and I'm just lame not finding it - I so hope to be wrong. :)

    (* I read about the workaround by getting a demo of Pro Tools or a few samples within the UVI Workstation but neither are a proper Falcon trial imho.)

  • klownshedklownshed

    @jonmoore Please stop. You're getting me looking at Falcon when I really can't justify the expense or even more importantly, the time!

    Between Logic, Reason and IK I have much more content than I have time to explore already, but man. I have a bad case of FOMO and GAS at the moment and fear more acronyms are on the way. :lol:

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