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I appreciate your comparison! Well done.

These are all single sample players. They sound good, but there’s no multi-sampled, multi-velocity layered acoustic kits like EZDrummer, Addictive Drums, Get Good Drums or Steven Slate. I also find the limits lanes of 8 to 10 kit pieces a problem. How about you?

korg esx1 is my favorite machine had lots but wont sell it ever. would love an updated esx1 not an elctribe 2 thay suck

Great comparison. Would like to see some toms added to UVI’s Drum Designer.

Triaz is great. Playbeat sounds/seems like a toy in comparison. I've had playbeat for a long time and have never used it on a track but I'm using Triaz on almost everything i do.

Anything with a drag and drop. morph pad, and randomize button makes me wanna buy it. Been on the fence about Triaz but I might just bite because of the two mentioned features. I'm not just thinking of drum samples. I'm thinking of morphable dragged percussive foley, normal foley and explosions. 😳

Thanks for reminding me I have playbeat haha. Triaz is my fave though. I like how you can drag the pad around to morph the samples.

Fragments 🎉

Another great video! I have and use extensively Playbeat 3 and XO (XLN Audio). But I just bought Triaz last night! I also have Battery 4, but essentially haven’t touched it in over a year. I wanted to tack on a few opinions, since I don’t have a channel like yours but think it could help people trying to decide between all these options. Playbeat 3 is so incredibly easy to use and get a glitch or chillwave groove going. I’d like to point out that’s its main randomization feature is its infinity looping mode! Maybe you touched on this, but I missed it in the video. The infinity looping mode means you can set it up so that it does its smart randomization thing every 1, 2, 3, 4, etc bars so that you never stop changing up the beat, even if it’s just slightly. I think this, plus its price, is why it’s so great! Lastly, Playbeat 4 is coming this Dec or Jan, so watch for the update to drop very soon! XO is, in my opinion, invaluable, because it is AI librarian system. What is the point in having 15,000 drum samples if you spend hours and hours having to sort through them? Its sequencer and MIDI export have some significant limitations, but its factory content includes over 4000 samples and they sound amazing. Importing your other one-shot sample library is nearly completely automatic, and I did my entire external hard drive library in about 5 minutes. Now my XO library has over 18,000 samples. Auditioning the samples is effortless in the main display (Space), with 0 latency. And it’s AI engine not only sorts the entire library (your can merge or sort by factory versus imported samples) by sound type, but it can also suggest a similar sound within that “family” if you want to change it up. I’ve sent XLN a long list of suggestions for their sequencer for their next update, so I hope they incorporate these changes. As far as Triaz goes, note that it’s on sale right now for €64, or you can do what I did and get the Instruments Bundle for €99, which comes with Triaz, their Bass Synth, the Drift expansion, two Kontakt drum machines, and two sample packs. It was too incredible of a deal to pass up.

I own licenses for all of these. All are good, but I prefer Triaz. Audiomodern really damaged their reputation over the recent Soundbox debacle. See the thread in the KVR instruments forum on it. Wave Alchemy and UVI both make amazing samples. You can buy massive amounts of general drum samples from Wave Alchemy, often on sale. I think they are at the top for drum samples along with Goldbaby.

Stop making me think about Triaz again, I just determined that I don't need it :p

I have Triaz and love it. Sounds great out of the box, and easy to tweak. But DD also sounds like a great option. As I am a Falcon user, I will have to consider that option. An update would make it easier to decide... I think that Teletone also has great options. Not as deep as far as the samples, but great sounds.

Although XO has been my favorite, I've been seriously considering Triaz. Now if I could only trade in Drumsynth 500, Boom, and Breaktweaker for Triaz...

Triaz looks interesting...

excellent review

Hiya @Arctic Fox! I hope you're doin' good, man! I like how you bring a different depth on your takes with plugins so I was hoping you have a Black Friday recommended vid planned. Curious to know what your recos are and why. Thanks!

Is there any public discussion of the upcoming 25 key version of the Osmose? I can't seem to find anyone talking about it. I'd love it if it were also optionally available as "just" a MIDI controller, to help reduce cost even further.

It looks really cool! Thanks for sharing he different ways in which you can use it! Very Inspiring.

what about trackers like M8?

I just got a plinky. Freaking love it.

thank’s ! 🙏

Craziness overloaded

If you are still on the lookout for your next soldering project, you could do worse than picking up a Befaco Oneiroi. I built this before I built my plinky - it is a bit more involved from the build perspective, but it is way more satisfying. And the best bit is this: plug the output of the plinky into Oneiroi and embrace the lush soundscapes

Just keep telling yourself, "I'm NOT getting into eurorack! I'm NOT getting into eurorack! I'm NOT getting into eurorack!"

Here’s another great plinky video. Sound samples overlaid with interview with inventor th-cam.com/video/pyvWqJq8AV8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=o0I60VrWLHf6gowC

Ain't MPE, though. "Only" poly aftertouch.

I was very lucky to get one just before the big waiting period!

Yeah, I remember Loopop's video. I decided "no" for various reasons that I can no longer remember. It seems cool but I haven't done any real soldering since I built my senior project in EE school in 1986 😛. I went the E&M/systems/signals/applied math route for grad school for various reasons, and that was one of them.

That’s an outrageous price! Behringer makes synths affordable and exciting.

Love this! great format, very entertaining watch and love the music examples. Great stuff.

I’ve held off buying any pedals, looking for stuff like this instead. Been wondering what plugin would be a good substitute for things like the Microcosm and Cosmos. This looks great. Also have Enso, Harmony Bloom, and Weeping Wall.

Kudos to you for taking on the DIY project. Although I built a few projects in high school electronics class decades ago, I'm not confident that I could wield a soldering iron w/o burning something. 🙂

Congratulations! Happy for you! A 3 year story comes to a soldering close! Fat sounding fella! Cyber Punky... errr Plinky! The chip shortage during the pandemic royally screwed so many tech orders from many industries.

I wonder if UVI and NI are sharing platforms because the UI looks a lot like Kontakt.

Love, Dead on!😊

Can you import samples like in kontakt

Moving FX, Mods and Events between layers is still not possible. Why 🙈?????? That would be a great workflow improvement.

I agree. I was an early adopter and my money was well spent. I kept adding libraries over time. Falcon has to be compared with Halion 7 IMO. I find the interface of Falcon easier to use, but they both have their strengths. The two places Falcon does not compete with Halion 7 are in its FM capabilities and the spectral oscillator in Halion. There are some cool third party libraries for Halion 7 out now (run in Halion Sonic free version; similar to Kontakt Player libraries), too. It helps to be a Cubase user, too. It was my first real DAW (after Cakewalk Home Studio, LOL).

I like that Sloom is not a commercial clone of PaulXStretch or a dumbed-down version of it, but that it has its own, interesting approach with the spectral shaping. Thanks for featuring it! And oh wow, what a neat idea to modulate key at a rate so glacial that no-one will notice! 🙂 That one I probably wouldn’t have thought about. Great also that it has presets (or “sessions”). My one big complaint about PXS is that it doesn’t. It’s so easy to tweak a few random controls in search of perfection and never be able to get back to the *really just great* sound I had moments ago. Or to recreate something I did months before. Sessions are a lifesaver. (If you happen to have an open line to the creators, please tell them though that the fonts are way too small; even at the max zoom I have trouble reading them. Yes, I’m getting old, but that’s not going to change and the fonts should! And if they can't make them bigger, it's time to rethink the UI. If Pigments can do so much more in the same space or less, then there's much room for improvement. It makes me fear buying Factorsynth, which fascinates me, but not if I can’t read the UI.)

I just bought it for half price, and it came with a £50 voucher, which I spent on a £30 preset pack with a "get one free" offer, so I basically got Falcon for £140 + 2 preset packs for free! One very happy bunny.

Also burning questions if I own the full Halion is there things Falcon can do for sound design that Halion can't?

I bought percussion factory, drum replacer and drum designer, all of which haven't been updated and lack some basic modern features, I would like to get into Uvi but they're inconsistent with their entire ecosystem and it doesn't inspire confidence. That being said it's an amazing deal right now

I have VPS Avenger, Kontact 6 and Falcon. Avenger is waaaay too overpriced for it's upgrades and forget their expansions...close to costing almost as much as the program itself. I like Kontact but since its updates, my S88 Mk 1, keyboard has been phased out and it's become a very basic midi keyboard. So I'm pissed at that. Falcon is very cool and it's one of the few versatile synths on market that doesn't charge for its updates...so kudos to the UVI team. And their expansions are affordable, especially now at 2 for 1. I would have like the drum module but I'm like Triaz now that it's broken out of Kontact dependency.

how large is the tag download?

Falcon is looking very attractive to me, a Kontakt user who doesn't want to pay 100s of dollars just to upgrade to the current version.

I can’t stand the ui of kontact. I really don’t like anything NI. Omnisphere is great but it needs an overhaul. Falcon is badass but I scratch my head with their choice of layout

Really, Falcon is on discount for $99, with an instore voucher included (usually always been this way). Previously, discounts would be $199 with a $100 instore voucher. They would sometimes align with the 'buy 1 get 1 free' ($39) expansion. The voucher would get you 4 expansions (2 paid + 2 free) for $78 (of the $100 voucher), but vouchers are single use and any left over ($22) is 'lost'. This meant people would usually spend an extra $17 and go with 6 expansions. Great marketing. Now when you buy Falcon, it's a $50 instore voucher. On discount for $149 you get Falcon ($99) and instore credit ($50). $50 only gets 1 expansion (or 2, with the buy 1 get 1 free deal) and you 'lose' $11. Or, you can spend an extra $28 and get 2 (4) expansions. People generally don't want to lose credit and $28 isn't a lot, so they spend it. Genius! If you're not interested in the store credit, the expansions or 'loosing' some of the voucher value by not dipping into your pockets, then $149 for Falcon and 2 expansions is still a great deal. Or if you're interested in some of the UVI Soundware products, use the voucher towards those, again, a great deal. I believe the vouchers have a 2 month life and with Black Friday coming around soon... Falcon is a powerful tool and it feels like a steal, even with their coupon 'tricks' tied into it.

I would add that apart from the current promotional $149 for Falcon 3.1, selected Soundware libraries are discounted with a 'buy 1 get 1 free' promotion. Your comments and rankings were 'on the money'...

I’m curious: how did Ekorain get into the S tier? What makes it *that* good? My #1 problem with Falcon as an ambient devotee is that so much of what UVI does is so blatantly, bombastically cinematic. While there’s a large overlap between cinematic and ambient, there’s also that that „huge drums and even hug-er string sections” that the two don’t share, and UVI libraries seem to sit firmly in that latter camp. (Though I did just buy Glass Orchestra, which makes me ecstatic with joy). My disappointment with “bare bones” Falcon, as I bought it a year ago (when they introduced those crazy, mesmerizing arps on acid) was that it comes with very little factory content. Like, precisely zero samples? (That, or I haven’t been able to find any). And the UVI libraries, not cheap by any means, are just presets, i.e. combinations of parameters, but they don’t seem to add any new content (please correct me if I’m wrong). I've auditioned them again recently on the UVI website and I seem to have no use for any of them (personal taste, of course, but there it is). By comparison, Phase Plant comes with tons of samples (and wavetables, and impulse responses) that are useful out of the box, and very neatly categorized. The content banks curated by Kilohearts are a mixed bag, but that’s because they do a lot of genre-oriented sets, so they tend to be of the “love or hate” kind - but if you’re into ambient, their ambient-oriented sets are really good. Thanks though for reminding me that I have Falcon 😊 Learning to use it was a steep upwards crawl, it’s SO unfriendly and (also unlike Phase Plant) not even trying to help a struggling first-time user. I've probably forgotten what little I learned last November. Have to get back to those crazy awesome arpeggiators!

UVI Sonic Pass. Access to everything for a monthly subscription. Works for me. It's huuuuuuuge! In my opinion, it easily competes with Omnisphere 2 and Kontakt.