UVI Falcon And Friends - The Kontakt Killer?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2018
- Here is a nearly exhaustive hour exploring UVI's offerings in sample libraries and their deep, powerful softsynth flagship. I chose Augmented Piano, World Suite, and of course Falcon to see what they're up to. Time Stampz:
Augmented Piano: 6:23
World Suite: 13:26
Falcon: 27:21
Autosequenced world patch: 50:00
Crazy bowed string generative patch: 55:52
Conclusion: 56:36 - เพลง
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Thanks for the new video! I'm not even a musician, just enjoy watching for a window into how y'alls world works.
Very wonderful to watch the way your mind works when you're tinkering... so thorough, yet still barely scratching the surface!
Very interesting pad patch making, one of the most well explained from all Falcon tuts... Love it
yes very much so
Dude! I love your videos! Super insightful and makes electronic music production concepts very approachable. Keep it up :)
By the time I've gotten to that point, they've left my property. That line made me laugh till I cried.
First time coming across your channel. Definitely glad TH-cam recommended you!
I love your editing and your way of thinking.
oh my god that augmented piano sounds gorgeous
I never knew there was a market for prepared piano sample libraries but I’m into it
This prepared piano library is great but the UVI IRCAM prepared piano is even better, check that out if you need (one of (?)) the best prepared piano sample library
Just got SonicPass and have enjoyed other videos from you, so it’s great to see this video posted !
Thank you for this! It is very helpful and also lot of fun to follow your steps. AND: Please do more explanations on sounddesign with UVi Falcon!
So fun! More videos about Falcon, please.
I just recently became a Falcon 2.5 user, and actually stumbled across this video when researching whether to add a second-hand license of World Suite 1 to my arsenal. Even though it has been upgraded to v2, v1 still seems like a great tool, so you made that decision an easy one for me!
I've recently bought into UVI and have no regrets so far. I'm just learning it all, but so far so good.
hey can you tell me where do you look for librares for UVI workstation or falcon?
In Falcon filters can be added at many different levels... that is, not restricted to the FX window. For instance, you could build a single patch that has 3 oscillators... analog, wavetable and granular - you can add a filter(s) (or some fx) to each oscillator... you can then add a filter(s) (or some fx) to the mixed output of the 3 oscillators - you can add further filters in the FX window along with any FX. DEEP!!!
That generative bowed patch! Swoooooon. Take my money UVI!
I've been looking into Falcon but seem to have totally missed these sample libraries, damn they sound good :O
I guess Im randomly asking but does anybody know of a trick to log back into an instagram account..?
I was stupid forgot the password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me.
@Vincent Seth instablaster ;)
amazing channel. Found you researching 'non Kontakt Cello library' :) Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. I'm a composer as well.
Thank you for this!....I learnt a lot.
The UVI product line is extraordinary. I use it with a Fishman Triple Play on a guitar and it blows me and everyone I demo it to away.
Hi I also start using fishman triple play in a few world livraries, but I wonder if there is a way to control the "key switches" with any pedals ? as guitarist Thanks
Love the intro
Brooo that intro was awesome!
Holy shizznit!!! I love this vst!
First thanks for the video upload ... great insight..
I have Omnisphere & Kontakt Komplete .. then bought the uvi vintage synth then Falcon
I will say though UVI needs videos like this that can show off the power
An example .. i know you can use scripting but sadly no videos on examples on how to ...
Its like saying Unix is powerful ...... we know it is, but how (show me) ..lol
Visual tutorials speak a thousand words than just reading a manual ..
I have to disagree, when it comes to writing a code, text books, manuals and tutorials work faster and more efficient than videos.
can you tell me is UVI workstation is enough if i just want to play the libraries made for falcon and UVi? Where do i find interesting falcon libraries , synths, futuristic sounds and so on? do you know the most popular brands that do them?
That last patch at 56:00 using the scripts was absolutely mind blowing!
You made me instantly want to get soundbanks from UVI... saddly 150 is a bit too steep for me at the moment, but while i ground up the money I got the Grand Piano Model D soundbank and it does not disappoint! cant wait to get Augmented Piano! :)
I think at 46:32 we weren't hearing Vibrato because it wasn't enabled (the little circle next to the Vibrato label was grey instead of blue).
Thanks so much for making this video! I bought Falcon recently and this helps a lot.
will be interesting to see your reaction on Kontakt 6...whenever it releases, i still have hope for this year.
Something about the Falcon's name, just makes me want to get it. But I can't put my finger on it.
brilliant, thanks a lot.
I’ve used some Native Instruments products in the past but I will be definitely investing in both in the near future
I don't know why uvi took so long to get popular. Is it the name? I remember seeing best of reviews leaving out Falcon completely. It's strange for such a powerful program.
So Funny awesome and i loved it!!!
Jeeez.... I'm overwhealmed by just watching. I make dark DnB/Experimental and use Serum for that, and i'm not even able to wrap my head around all the things that can do... And now Falcon....
What can I say, nothing but profession quality sounds. Even comes with tons of effects, to tweak the sound, the way you want it. UVI is the best.
This almost looks like a competitor to Halion 6. In terms of Omnisphere, Falcon's capabilities seem similar, but with more real instrument samples as opposed to Omnisphere's weird and wonderful samples that produce great pads, etc. I have Omnisphere and love it - this looks great too. I was waiting for a Halion 6 sale, but am now tempted by Falcon. Thanks for the video.
Great demo/tutorial man! I've been looking for an in-depth demo of Falcon like this and there isn't much out there.
I have Kontakt, but I don't use it often, I was actually looking for an all-in-one sampler/synth and I've been considering this and Halion 6.
This review makes it clear that Falcon is the one for me. Just curious, how easy is it to load user samples into the wave table synth in Falcon?
Thanks for the great video man! Subbed.
It's pretty easy! I just have a link to my Serum wavetables folder and you can drag and drop it from there. My only complaint is that I wish you could save your wavetables into the synth so you can just load it from their drop down menu in the wavetable oscillator.
Kevin Thorsen Alright, thanks for the reply and for clearing that up man!
Right now Falcon is on sale, so I guess it’s time to pull the trigger. I’m excited to dive in!
I love your dog ;)) Btw... veeeeeeeeeeeeeery nice video. Thx for that!
opening killed me you the best
Thank you.
Smokin'!
This thing is a beast
ever used kaivo by madrona labs? my fav granular / physical modeling VST by far. bit hard on the poor cpu though.
i'd love to see a tutorial of the analog rytm !
Awesome walkthrough of Falcon. It's certainly a product deserving much more attention. Also UVI's support team is great, should you ever need to contact them.
@Benn, could you please add a pop-filter to your mic? 🙏
Funny story, the one I use for this stuff fell apart and I ordered another on Amazon "same day" for this video, but it never came. After finishing the video, I realized it fell under my porch somehow. :)
I've had the UVI Workstation stuck in my DAW for years with no sounds and then today I got a free bundled UVI German Grand Piano with a Presonus Faderport, loaded it up and it sounded superb. Now I hear the Falcon calling me and you're not helping me! Only problem is we're not talking peanuts for AVI stuff, it's very expensive. I don't know why but I just don't like the Native Instruments model, seems like the Apple model were you have to totally commit to their product and buy into the whole concept rather than sharing it around. So I have a strong feeling Falcon might be the way to go later. Great video, love the dry humour, it's almost British! 😎
God damn falcon kills so hard
Amazing video. The fact that you are so proficient at manipulating this monster synth after only 3 months is jaw dropping. I keep waiting for a price break on the Falcon, but I'm running out of breath.
black friday my friend =)
Yeah, I managed to stumble onto a sale on the UVI website and got 25% off. Love this thing. Some of the deepest sounds I've ever heard.
You should have xinfinite more subscribers. Good job!
8:53 cutest moment right here
He is left handed! Sweet! He is from my planet then.
Komplete 8 is about as far as I got in the NI eco system. Omnisphere was going to be my next purchase in the new year, after seeing Falcon this changes things and saves me a ton of cash as well.
Hi Benn, you mentioned it's possible to add soundbank presets into existing keygroups as an alternative to simply adding them into the multi as an additional program, is this correct? I've been trying to figure it out myself but no joy, would be incredibly useful if that's actually possible. Thanks!
You forgot the amazing the drum synth module
It has the exact same parameters and signal flow as the mighty "sonic charge Micro-tonic
lol
opening killed me :D
Priceless right !! And SOOooo true ! I'm looking at Falcon 2 seriously...
@@hazybrain7 Seriously.👍
sorry i'm a beginner butif you can help me out, So all the libraries kontakt can open can be opened in falcon? is it the other way around as well? where do you find your libraries for falcon and what are some of your favorites?
hah Traveler sounds like instant Deep Forest:D
Nice to see some Falcon love, such a powerful synth, now if it only weren't for the terrible UI... I heard somewhere that spectrasonics used UVI as the engine for their instruments...anyone happen to know if that's true? Also, Occidental just means "western".
yes they used to
Pls explain how to use exs samples with falcon..cant find any tutorial ..regards
The background track is Flexe - Smoking Japanse (sweat mix)
YABN -- yet another Benn's nickname
That opening was too real
Falcon is badass.
I thought it was just me. This was like a support group. FOLDER MEMORY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.
8:53 Hi little tiny dog! You look cute :)
25 thousand on samples? Also, cute dog!
I've only just got Falcon. I've not tried Halion, but suspect things are similar there. NI have been lazy. Kontakt still feels like it did with version 2 15 years ago. You can do so much more with Falcon. Also, I'm loving Midi out. (I use Reaper, which means I can have multiple Midi out channels controlling multiple synths. And while the built in analog and wavetable oscillators aren't bad, being able to layer up Falcon's more sample-based oscillators with e.g. Serum, Diva, or Pigments, means that I can use Falcon as a single MIDI processor for all my synths. I'm especially stoked to get my hands dirty with the Lua event scripting.)
They should license some time-stretching algos from Serato.
Please, can You tell how did You connect you MIDI controller to laptop/PC/MAC (whatever you use). Is it MIDI over USB, or You are using sth else? I'm asking because of latency.
Thank You,
Josip
Benn, promo laugh, "Robin Williams 2.0... cause there's too many predators waiting as beacons in the light these days."
can you use that sample library without the falcon software?
Oh! Sedental!
Dude you have just said everything I wanted to say to Kontakt! I just don't understand why their such A-holes to the ones who actually pay their F'n bills. Anyhow, I just bought Falcon, And I must say, it is the synth/sampler that truly completes me! and I only have had it for a couple days. Not only will it be a Kontakt Killer, but also a Omnisphere Killer. However, the only downside, I read somewhere, it does not support Multicore CPU processing, IDK, I run it on a single track in Vienna Ensemble 6, which is networked to Logic X Mac and it runs very smooth. I have not noticed anything funky with CPU processing. I love the ability that is has so many multi-outs. Thanks for the great video.
34:16 ADSR do not work in the "Program" level. So if you want to modulate a filter with an ADSR you should set that filter and its ADSR in the "Layer" level or "Keygroup" level ;-)
Thank you for that!! I was following along and my ADSR was _not_ working. Looking at his tweaks after he added the ADSR, I was pretty sure his was not working either lol. What's annoying is that Falcon shows the ADSR attached to the filter and there's not a single hint as to why it's not working.
Only edge kontakt has is the many expansions over falcon but falcon is beautiful. They truly both are great to have. And imo u cant have one without the other. I also own omnisphere and nexus 3. Byoooootiful sounds
The Travelers = Instant Deep Forest
Watching this 5 years later because I'm trying to figure out if I want to buy Falcon (currently on sale), and I'd say that any decent synth is a Kontakt killer :-) except for a relative handful of unique made-for-Kontakt libraries (in my case, from Luftrum and a few other developers). And in that sense nothing can "kill" Kontakt, as long as developers keep making libraries for this non-resizeable archaic monstrosity.
Still not convinced about Falcon though - if PhasePlant added per-oscillator keygroups, it might just be the best middle ground for me. As an old-time coder, I'd love to try Falcon for the many sequencers (each could and should be a standalone plugin, I'd buy them all) and for the Lua scripting, but the layers - upon layers - upon layers design isn't giving me a "use me, I'm fun" vibe :-)
"Now you know what that sounds like" lmao
Great review, may I ask you which keyboard controller are you using, or if you could suggest a cheap one? More handy to have a standalone digital piano (like the Casio PX or things like that) around the house or a controller?
Man... I thinking about buying Falcon 2 or Vintage Vault 4, which is on sale right now for only 299!
Which one you think I should get???
Please show me how to make midi mapping in UVI Falcon.
can you delete UVI falcon presets without deleting the folder?
would you consider doing a video on reaper? reaper basically allows you to script everything you can imagine
AHAHhaha great intro !!
One or two lines of code in Python (depending on what you wanted to do with them) would probably not be realtime executable in main audio CPU thread (which KSP is) thusly you'd get glitches in your output most likely. Just FYI. :) Yes Python is really cool because of easy syntax and "magic one-liners" but the tradeoff is that it's not the most CPU efficient language out there (short of some superoptimizations like PyPy or Cython). Also it's not nearly as portable as Lua (which is why UVI went with Lua).
Yes, KSP is proprietary, yes it lacks some basic programming constructs, but it IS extremely efficient. It's even more efficient than Falcon's Lua implementation, btw. So your implication that just because something takes more lines in KSP takes up more CPU is flawed. :) Also, scripting alone is NOT the reason for SOME Kontakt libraries out there "running like a dog". You have to take into account how the instrument is structured first, which FX are loaded and what exactly the instrument is doing (i.e. polyphony, amount of modulations, etc.). Sure, there ARE some extremely unoptimized scripts out there (8dio, Orchestral Tools), but there's also some super-lean ones when you take into account all the things they do (Spitfire).
Disclaimer: I have done scripting on close to 200 sample libraries for Kontakt, and have also beta tested Falcon for several years, own it, use it, love it, but no it's not a Kontakt killer - the performance with large instruments is not at all comparable to Kontakt's.
Is there anyway we could have a chat - do you have an email? :)
I loved the video, i came here for a display of the sounds of Uvi workstation/falcon and you did it just amazing. But the plosives of your voice recording are kinda unbereable, i have an Eq in the Output of my PC so i can listen to music and videos for hours without fatigue, i lowered the 40hz region something like -18db and that supressed the voice plosives. I kindly hope in the next videos you use some plugin like Era plosive remover to kill those p p. Cheers (All the other sound in the video is excellent, its only the voice)
Jesus Christ.... that opening man. Is that TRUE!?
I. can't. Stop. laughing. I've run down decent size firestorms in initial attack and haven't been able to laugh for a long time. Got lyme's disease and had to reteach myself to speak in a basement in alaska with some vhs whirr going on. Inspired to throw down. I'm clay with too much water rn, but thanks. Brilliance takes endurance and stamina. There's no biological reason for a 24 hour sleep cycle.
almost 6k subscribers..under 900 views And ONLY 77LIKES?? I'd be disappointed to be honest...anyway...
thanks 4 reviewing the Falcon.
I have and mess with Absolute 3 ,Halion 6 does have great features and extensive sound design possibilities.Uvi has way more expansions for the free player and all can be opened in Falcon for I guess lost in time sound design experience...so ..do you think is Falcon the last synth/workstation we will ever need ?. hmm..if the many kontakt libraries out there will end as Uvi expansions then I think everyone will want to get Falcon at some point...
Thanks Benn/Flashbulb for you great reviews and music...!..ps.
when is FlexE PLS V2 coming? v1 is such a great compilation to listen to :-)...Cheers!
kontakt 6 is going to come out soon
the UI better scale for high res screens
@@issiewizzie it did not
2 years later, still making use of falcon? Considering falcon 2.
I know I'm late but just a random opinion of another internet entity... the handful of people i talk to that use Falcon, still do. Falcon in my opinion is for when you have the time to sit down and design a bunch of stuff to use in the future, not for a project where you need things done NOW.
The main "problem" of Falcon is its flexibility, depth and the learning curve to use it effectively. Its extremely easy to get off track and lose focus on a project you need to finish.
35:40 Adding new Programs
Does it have big sample libraries like Omnisphere?
yes but not as many
Great video, thanks! Interesting stuff! Kontakt is a love hate thing for me as well. I love the libraries, I kind of hate Kontakt. ;) It just feels so clunky and heavy, if that makes any sense.
LUA?! So all those hours fecking around with the Crysis editor 10 years ago can actually help me now??? 😄😆😂
Really tho, why does spitfire lean so hard on kontakt!?
Probably paid by ni to stick to their platform. Currently trying to find an alternative platform to create my sampled instruments
Can you load Kontakt libraries into Falcon?
nope
Piano sounds like an upright.
i will contact UVI now that i've seen what it can do ... we need forum groups where ideas can be shared ... this may help push the product
Am I nuts, or is that a tremendous amount of CPU usage?
lol intro ;) falcon yep ;)
I could see this being useful when making personal sample libs having a more friendly scripting language and all but I think on a development side, until we start seeing some banger UVI libs from the big developers its not really going to be worth developing for just yet on account of the industry as a whole being so used to working in Kontakt.