UVI Falcon 3.1 Update & Sale

[Brian]

 

https://www.uvi.net/

 

Free update for any version of Falcon.  Get it with UVI Portal app.

Falcon on sale for $149 through Nov 4.

 

https://www.uvi.net/en/instruments/falcon.html#whats-new

 

If you don’t see the new catalog/preview content, it is a separate download in Portal called “Tag Library”.  You might also need to turn on indexing in Falcon:

https://support.uvi.net/hc/en-us/articles/360001667837-Missing-Soundbanks-in-UVI-Workstation-or-Falcon

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[Brian]

FYI The “Tag Library” is treated as a separate product in UVI Portal.  It’s free, but if you’ve not installed before, it won’t show under updates if you are used to just looking there.

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[Xandre]

Is it a full synth on its own, or do you need a whole slew of UVI libraries to get good sounds?

Xandre
Chaos Scatterbrain with a plethora of 4 bar loop projects, and barely any songs

[Brian]

Falcon is a very full synth, plus there are a LOT of $oundware packs.  It does come with a pretty large library of included “factory” patches  though.  The free UVI Workstation (think of it as Falcon “Player”) let’s you use purchased Soundware without owning Falcon.  I assume they have a trial for Falcon, but if you are considering buying, do a little research for reseller deals.  UVI also has given out vouchers for Soundware in the past to new Falcon owners, and they can be used against sale prices, so some planning will give you more for your $  I am not up on what they are offering right now, as I bought Falcon a long time ago.  The $100 vouchers were good for 90 days when I bought in.

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[Fleer]

Falcon ruled. Bigtime.

[Peter DeLegge]

On Brian said

Falcon is a very full synth, plus there are a LOT of $oundware packs.  It does come with a pretty large library of included “factory” patches  though.  The free UVI Workstation (think of it as Falcon “Player”) let’s you use purchased Soundware without owning Falcon.  I assume they have a trial for Falcon, but if you are considering buying, do a little research for reseller deals.  UVI also has given out vouchers for Soundware in the past to new Falcon owners, and they can be used against sale prices, so some planning will give you more for your $  I am not up on what they are offering right now, as I bought Falcon a long time ago.  The $100 vouchers were good for 90 days when I bought in.

I’ve seen so many Falcon owners post positively about Falcon in the Cakewalk Forum — I know @Fleer is among them. I really don’t like UVI’s interface. I wish they would create a Falcon Player interface for UVI. I think they would have taken more marketshare from Kontakt if they did. While I’m a huge fan of Kontakt — it’s my go to sampler — I would LOVE if NI had some better competition. I wish UVI would step things up.

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[Fleer]

But it’s soooooooo good.

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[myfragileego]

I’ve never seen it this cheap. Sign of the times, I guess. The voucher is down to $50 now instead of $100, but that seems fair since the price you are paying is less.

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[musicianw]

So much possibilities to play with in this synth.

Also they have released 2 new expansions: Pulsación and Modular Drums, with an expansion sale of buy one get one free ($39 each).

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[Xandre]

On musicianw said

So much possibilities to play with in this synth.

Also they have released 2 new expansions: Pulsación and Modular Drums, with an expansion sale of buy one get one free ($39 each).

So you would be able to get Falcon with 2 expansions for 149 now? (taking the voucher into account)

Xandre
Chaos Scatterbrain with a plethora of 4 bar loop projects, and barely any songs

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[Kirean]

On Xandre said

So you would be able to get Falcon with 2 expansions for 149 now? (taking the voucher into account)

I think Falcon offers a $100 voucher (unless they’ve changed it) when you buy it, so you’d get quite a few expansions.

[GoncaloL]

From what i read they have lowered the voucher to 50€ as well as the base price that is now 299€

didnt have a chance to test the new browser yet but it is looking good,  will turn that first approach to Falcon a lot easier…

and best of all it sounds awesome

 

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[Kirean]

On GoncaloL said

From what i read they have lowered the voucher to 50€ as well as the base price that is now 299€

Makes sense I suppose. None the less, at $149, Falcon 3 is a pretty decent deal I think.

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[Fleer]

The 3.1 update also includes a new filter from the infamous ARP Odyssey.

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[spice3d]

I was just thinking it needed a better preset browser lol. One of the reasons I never reach for it. After updating to 3.1, I quickly found something for what I was working on. Nice. 👏

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[Release]

It’s funny, a few months ago I tried SonicPass for a month and didn’t get along with Falcon at all.  I wanted to like it, but it just wasn’t working for me.  The sound was there but the workflow was too much.  I watched a few of the new 3.1 videos and something told me to gave SonicPass another shot today (I figured it’s safer to lose $24 bucks than it is $150).

This time it all made sense! Not nearly as daunting as the first run through.  I spent all day playing with it and I’m pretty blown away.

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[Brian]

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[Fleer]

This guy has some of the best vids around.

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[deleted user]

On Peter DeLegge said

On Brian said

Falcon is a very full synth, plus there are a LOT of $oundware packs.  It does come with a pretty large library of included “factory” patches  though.  The free UVI Workstation (think of it as Falcon “Player”) let’s you use purchased Soundware without owning Falcon.  I assume they have a trial for Falcon, but if you are considering buying, do a little research for reseller deals.  UVI also has given out vouchers for Soundware in the past to new Falcon owners, and they can be used against sale prices, so some planning will give you more for your $  I am not up on what they are offering right now, as I bought Falcon a long time ago.  The $100 vouchers were good for 90 days when I bought in.

I’ve seen so many Falcon owners post positively about Falcon in the Cakewalk Forum — I know @Fleer is among them. I really don’t like UVI’s interface. I wish they would create a Falcon Player interface for UVI. I think they would have taken more marketshare from Kontakt if they did. While I’m a huge fan of Kontakt — it’s my go to sampler — I would LOVE if NI had some better competition. I wish UVI would step things up.

Your friend who keeps the beat. I suppose I’m also the chef at this place.

It turns out Fleer is absolutely right on this one! Just bought it.. Falcon is a monster. I could honestly not even bother about the sampler and use it purely as a synth and be completely happy with the purchase. It’s definitely not just a rompler!

The built in effects are way better than Kontakt which definitely helps, but it’s so versatile and then you can add samples to any of those patches as well of course. Kontakt has a place definitely and it’s a very immediate kind of interface. I’m still learning Falcon and I do think they could probably work on that aspect, but when taking everthing into account, there’s not much competition. Falcon trumps Kontakt. The factory library of sounds it comes with is a much higher quality than Kontakt to my tastes / ears.

That’s not to say that Kontakt isn’t great. I think it is and will continue to use it. But it’s much easier to get interesting and really warm organic sounds out of Falcon and it’s much more feature rich.

It dose have a modular kind of feel to it and I think that’s part of the appeal / problem. They’ve made it so you can do just about anything and that comes at a cost of layout and being able to add effects for example in any part of the synth, from the layer, to the keygroup, to the program, etc. But it’s starting to make sense and give it a month or so and that additional flexibility will make for some crazy experiments 🙂

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