You can make Fred Astaire stepdance like he's doing a drum solo now.

 

This is the reason i would never buy an extension for falcon unless i'm sure i will love/use most of the presets or it's a complete (sampled) emulation of a given synth. Everything else is just a waste of diskspace and money.

 

8TB for 100 will be back sooner than later
exept for some 3rd party stuff they all load very fast from slow drives

 

They could change my mind if they would release an "ufs-creator" where the legit customer could combine selfmade and/or extension patches into a custom & editable ufs file to use individually. This one could still get encrypted & sticked to a licence while saving to prevent distribution. That way the complete big extensions could go into an archive and only those presets that are needed are "live".

 

I have a Falcon-specific question regarding sampling:
Can Falcon detect a sample's pitch or key for automatic mapping?
Like, I see all these nice features of this "hybrid" synth. But I'm not seeing how to easily map samples by detected pitch.
The website mentions a "Virtual Pitch" feature which supposedly detects pitch, but I cannot find any instruction or demonstration of
its usage.

 

yeah but falcon is still a really powerful sounddesign/sampling tool you can absolutely use it without any expansions

 

I encourage to also consider specifically what you don't want/need. For example, the OB legacy and JP legacy are huge file sizes and really dont offer much vs the Arturia equivalents. That said, I put all UVI on a 2.8" HDD (7200rpm) and will be doing more side-by-side comparisons with Arturia, Native Instruments, IK Syntronik (tempted to upgrade to V2).

If you don't have much storage, I'd consider hanging on to all the suites (Keys AC/EL/DI, Toys, Urban, World). Everything else can be achieved with digital synthesis. There are so many nuances lost when sampling synths that can only be regained with recreated synthesizers, especially with envelops and modulation matrix.

 

You are clearly using your market power. The sound designers don't care. They are usually badly paid. I worked for a company, that meant doing 200 presets and then 50/50. No programmer goes to work for hourly wages. The work and the stress are left to others. It is also not transparent, you can neither find out how much turnover they make nor how much they sell. This is then a trade secret.

Especially young people fall for it and buy these expansions, they just want to have some fun. Young people say buy an Access Virus or an equivalent hardware synthesizer, for example from Roland. if you don't have a lot of money, you will also be happy with Behringer. I don't belong to the target group either, I'm too old.

 

On the other hand, Reason Studios enables you to create & share your own refills, even for expansions and even as they sell their own expansions aka refills.

He already told us in the GONGGGG thread, didn't he?

 

Fancoln disfuction! the synth won't play all my tracks!! why? hopefully I'll fix it but if not out goes Falcon...

 

If i remember correct he said after his Kontakt libs got warezed and his sales dropped by 90 percent, he decided to go for UVI ufs since that had a better protection and increased his sales again. He also told after a while he won't post again here, that's why he probably even did not see your question.

 

Why can't you create your own libraries? Its not that hard, easier than kontakt. Compare

 

does falcon have pitch detection?

 

Can Falcon save a Single instrument status as a preset?
Or does it have to be saved as a Multi?

 

You mean this?



*edit:* To clarify, saving a program just saves a .uvip file (seen on the browser, right side) which is just a XML dump of the parameters that reference the library.

 

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