One thing I didn't see you mention is: there is a "midi out" script/event. If you add it to the end/last event, the sequencers can be used with any other synth... Which can be pretty powerful :) So yeah, try midi out to send your sequencers of choice so another synth, and you will have even more fun :) Great video!
fully agree, i love Falcon and i am actually a Sonicpass subscriber because also the UVI Soundpacks are amazing. The sound is so good and you can great so deep multi layered stuff that is insane, but the learning curve is out of hell. As example: The one thing i love the most about Phase Plant that it was mainly all on one page and you can more or less direct see whats happening is the total opposite on Falcon, more pages like my browser most of the time and clear overview i search until today. But still for complex pads or some very gritty filter stuff i will always use falcon first, its such a powerhouse. And thx to midi out the amazing sequencers can finally be used for other stuff, too.
That's an amazing feature indeed! I think that with all the sound that Sonicpass offers is definetly worth it. Still will come back to Falcon to play with the unique oscillators
@@AlexReidStudios yeah the oscillators and filters are able to do so amazing sounds, i am also a big fan from Sparkverb already and have tested Plate from UVI a few weeks ago and that one sounds amazing, too. My favorite Filter plugin comes also from UVI ;) Shade is such a nice Filter for crazy modulations, have not found a other Filter so far that can handle such crazy modulations and still sound clean.
Of late I have been watching Eric Bowman's sound design tips and work with Vital. I am realizing that I am as dumb as a turnip. I have enough synths anyways. First agenda download all the offline manuals I can find for what I have and read them again and again Perhaps in time I will aquire Falcon
I have unlimited sonic potential with this setup. UHe Hive and Diva for "simple quick sounds" Bitwig for more complex sounds and Falcon for the really crazy sample based and complex multi sample sounds. Learn by recreating the sounds from the expansions. I recommend Falcon for those that enjoy digging in and getting a crazy awesome unique sound. Also their expansions teach alot.
Falcon is on my temptations list and has been for a while. will start considering more strategic software acquisitions after i finish the great purge of stuff i tried and dont use. haha
@@AlexReidStudios yeah. i sort of feel like it would appeal to me since a lot of the things about it that people dont seem to like are the same sorts of things that people seem not to enjoy about FL studio but they are things i tend to get on well with. pretty nice time to be alive though having this many high quality soft synth ecosystems for people to try out and see which ones resonate with them though.
I am selling it and a stack of expansions etc, super cheap if you are interested@@GillamtheGreatest (apologies Alex for the slight hijack of your comments)
@@GillamtheGreatestyou can always get a month of sonicpass and see if it works for you. I’d highly recommend it… not only will you be able to find out for sure if it’s worth it, you’ll also get a taste of all the expansions and everything else UVI has to offer. Then you can make a list of anything you’d like to add in with the $100 expansion voucher they give you if you do buy it.
Coming from a guy with over 20 years experience with hardware synths, vsts, etc…. (And have a bit of hate for vsts) Buy Falcon and be happy! It’s beyond amazing. Workflow is similar to hardware synths,… fast! Unless you sound dive then you’ll be there for hours and be joyful. 😂
I own Serum ,Pigments, Phaseplant and now Falcon. I'll gladly never use the other three and just stick with Falcon if I had the choice. I'm not some sound designer or some technical guy but I find Falcon sounds way better with Presets and its functionality. It's really not even close with other Soft Synths. I also expected my CPU to warm me up rest of the winter but its doesn't hog it up like Pigments and Phaseplant does.
I was sorely tempted to buy falcon... But after being a little disappointed with phase plant (most of which I can do in biteig natively) I decided to hold off
@@AlexReidStudios Twist is mutable instruments Plaits. Surge is huge. I find I'm able to get good results from simple patches, basically treating it like Polymer: one cool oscillator, a solid filter, a few envelopes, done. Once you figure out how the modulation works you're good to get started.
falcon is huge...but MSoundfactory is the same...so huge....these synths are sound design tools, but so is phaseplant...so choice is need? Get? I use sonic pass and still not even used 1% haha
Agreed. I have all three. Falcon and MSoundFactory are way less intuitive than most of the competition, and perhaps more powerful. I found Phaseplant very easy to use.
Once you learn this, you won't wanna go back to most other synths. The sequencers alone are worth every dime be it subscription or paid for. But those Sound ware banks. FHHHUUUUCKKK. I can't live with out them. Total Kontakt killer IMO. I'm slowly buying up all the ones I used when I had the subscription. This is literally my Top synth now next to Avenger 2. Bitwig is in that same top one category even if it's a DAW. But yeah...all three of those synths have made me wish I never bought the Arutira V collection Oh oops. I forgot Halion 7 in that list. It's kinda a poor man's versions of Falcon, but it has a sound and vibe closer to Korg type synths, albeit a super powerful multiengine Korg type sythn
Bitwig is a synth in some way too! I honestly would be hooked with Falcon if it had some minor workflow stuff.as drag and drop modulation. Still with Bitwig, Pigments and Phaseplant I'm all set. Oh and Diva for that analog grit.
Yeah, I forgot Phaseplant Ooops. That's always been my defacto maim Squeeze of a synth before Avenger (I'm a sucker for advanced arpeggiators and drums, man! 😂) But yeah, I still love Pigments. @@AlexReidStudios
@@AlexReidStudios TIL that when you look at a Device preset, you can actually edit it plus hear it before you say Ok or Cancel! I believe that's in CLAP. With UVI it was a big heavy load to hear anything at all.
@@citadelo5rickscheck out the latest update, it seems as though the developers have made some big improvements in optimisation, my old Mac 5.1 used to buckle under the weight of playing a 3 note chord. Now it hits about 9% cpu usage when playing as many notes I can possibly manage with both hands.
Also if you haven't checked out the huge array of "algorithmic" sequencers in VCV Rack, you're infor a treat.
YES to a video on sequencers! Stepic, for example...
I got plenty on mind, even my two hardware synths
One thing I didn't see you mention is: there is a "midi out" script/event. If you add it to the end/last event, the sequencers can be used with any other synth... Which can be pretty powerful :) So yeah, try midi out to send your sequencers of choice so another synth, and you will have even more fun :)
Great video!
Thank you! That's indeed amazing. Usually forget about that because Bitwig has it's own MIDI routing.
Using exotic arpegiators and midi out :) and use drumcomputer to trigger Beatboxanthology2 is really powerful.
@@mathieuraetz2041 Drumcomputer ❤️
fully agree, i love Falcon and i am actually a Sonicpass subscriber because also the UVI Soundpacks are amazing. The sound is so good and you can great so deep multi layered stuff that is insane, but the learning curve is out of hell. As example: The one thing i love the most about Phase Plant that it was mainly all on one page and you can more or less direct see whats happening is the total opposite on Falcon, more pages like my browser most of the time and clear overview i search until today. But still for complex pads or some very gritty filter stuff i will always use falcon first, its such a powerhouse. And thx to midi out the amazing sequencers can finally be used for other stuff, too.
That's an amazing feature indeed! I think that with all the sound that Sonicpass offers is definetly worth it. Still will come back to Falcon to play with the unique oscillators
@@AlexReidStudios yeah the oscillators and filters are able to do so amazing sounds, i am also a big fan from Sparkverb already and have tested Plate from UVI a few weeks ago and that one sounds amazing, too. My favorite Filter plugin comes also from UVI ;) Shade is such a nice Filter for crazy modulations, have not found a other Filter so far that can handle such crazy modulations and still sound clean.
Of late I have been watching Eric Bowman's sound design tips and work with Vital. I am realizing that I am as dumb as a turnip. I have enough synths anyways. First agenda download all the offline manuals I can find for what I have and read them again and again
Perhaps in time I will aquire Falcon
Take your time and have fun :). Experiment a lot
I have unlimited sonic potential with this setup. UHe Hive and Diva for "simple quick sounds" Bitwig for more complex sounds and Falcon for the really crazy sample based and complex multi sample sounds.
Learn by recreating the sounds from the expansions.
I recommend Falcon for those that enjoy digging in and getting a crazy awesome unique sound. Also their expansions teach alot.
Would love to hear one of those awesome unique sounds.
Hello
Do you know any vst sequencers that can do things like the one in the falcon 😮
Hmm Bitwig has some very interesting sequencers. Harmony Bloom is also very unique. I have to research deeper
Falcon is on my temptations list and has been for a while. will start considering more strategic software acquisitions after i finish the great purge of stuff i tried and dont use. haha
Haha nice. It's a great synth but very workflow dependant imo
@@AlexReidStudios yeah. i sort of feel like it would appeal to me since a lot of the things about it that people dont seem to like are the same sorts of things that people seem not to enjoy about FL studio but they are things i tend to get on well with. pretty nice time to be alive though having this many high quality soft synth ecosystems for people to try out and see which ones resonate with them though.
I am selling it and a stack of expansions etc, super cheap if you are interested@@GillamtheGreatest (apologies Alex for the slight hijack of your comments)
@@GillamtheGreatestyou can always get a month of sonicpass and see if it works for you. I’d highly recommend it… not only will you be able to find out for sure if it’s worth it, you’ll also get a taste of all the expansions and everything else UVI has to offer. Then you can make a list of anything you’d like to add in with the $100 expansion voucher they give you if you do buy it.
Coming from a guy with over 20 years experience with hardware synths, vsts, etc…. (And have a bit of hate for vsts) Buy Falcon and be happy! It’s beyond amazing. Workflow is similar to hardware synths,… fast! Unless you sound dive then you’ll be there for hours and be joyful. 😂
I own Serum ,Pigments, Phaseplant and now Falcon.
I'll gladly never use the other three and just stick with Falcon if I had the choice. I'm not some sound designer or some technical guy but I find Falcon sounds way better with Presets and its functionality. It's really not even close with other Soft Synths. I also expected my CPU to warm me up rest of the winter but its doesn't hog it up like Pigments and Phaseplant does.
I was sorely tempted to buy falcon... But after being a little disappointed with phase plant (most of which I can do in biteig natively) I decided to hold off
Bitwig might be all you need tbh
@@AlexReidStudios yep. Bitwig gets deep!
IINM the Twist oscillator on Surge does VOSIM
I've been postponing a deep dive on Surge for a long time, I got to play more with it
@@AlexReidStudios Twist is mutable instruments Plaits. Surge is huge. I find I'm able to get good results from simple patches, basically treating it like Polymer: one cool oscillator, a solid filter, a few envelopes, done. Once you figure out how the modulation works you're good to get started.
@@GeorgeLocke I guess I haven't used it as much because I'm used to workflows like Vital, Phaseplant or Pigments, but I know Surge is very deep
Sequencers and sequencer note grids ftw
falcon is huge...but MSoundfactory is the same...so huge....these synths are sound design tools, but so is phaseplant...so choice is need? Get? I use sonic pass and still not even used 1% haha
I still need to try it
I do think if you like to build from scratch its worth it, if you just play UVI soundbanks then the free workstation is enough@@AlexReidStudios
plus you can demo those, this you cant so is irrevelant
Agreed. I have all three. Falcon and MSoundFactory are way less intuitive than most of the competition, and perhaps more powerful. I found Phaseplant very easy to use.
Once you learn this, you won't wanna go back to most other synths. The sequencers alone are worth every dime be it subscription or paid for. But those Sound ware banks. FHHHUUUUCKKK. I can't live with out them. Total Kontakt killer IMO. I'm slowly buying up all the ones I used when I had the subscription. This is literally my Top synth now next to Avenger 2. Bitwig is in that same top one category even if it's a DAW. But yeah...all three of those synths have made me wish I never bought the Arutira V collection
Oh oops. I forgot Halion 7 in that list. It's kinda a poor man's versions of Falcon, but it has a sound and vibe closer to Korg type synths, albeit a super powerful multiengine Korg type sythn
Bitwig is a synth in some way too! I honestly would be hooked with Falcon if it had some minor workflow stuff.as drag and drop modulation. Still with Bitwig, Pigments and Phaseplant I'm all set. Oh and Diva for that analog grit.
Yeah, I forgot Phaseplant Ooops. That's always been my defacto maim Squeeze of a synth before Avenger (I'm a sucker for advanced arpeggiators and drums, man! 😂) But yeah, I still love Pigments. @@AlexReidStudios
@@buckycore I've never played with Avenger, gotta get a demo
Falcon is too heavy, too many samples, UI is inconsistent, sounds are overloaded with effects.
Agree, there are so many examples of better UIs and implementation of similar ideas
@@AlexReidStudios TIL that when you look at a Device preset, you can actually edit it plus hear it before you say Ok or Cancel! I believe that's in CLAP. With UVI it was a big heavy load to hear anything at all.
@@citadelo5rickscheck out the latest update, it seems as though the developers have made some big improvements in optimisation, my old Mac 5.1 used to buckle under the weight of playing a 3 note chord. Now it hits about 9% cpu usage when playing as many notes I can possibly manage with both hands.
Whats with that ridiculous MASK???
Agree