Saturday, November 7, 2015

Coming soon: Falcon AIR

After spending spring and summer with UVI's Falcon, alpha- and beta-testing it and creating 100+ patches for the Falcon factory library, it's now time to make some more sounds for this hybrid monster:



Falcon Air combines organic acoustic samples with the plethora of synthesis forms available in Falcon. Often several different synth modules will be combined in one patch, many presets will make use of the new multi-granular engine, the wavetable synth and the new physical modelling module. All samples, wavetables and images (for image re-synthesis in the WT synth) will be created especially for this library. Expressive hybrid instruments meet percussive sounds and deep impacts, sweet ambient pads, ethereal texures and minimal sequences are drowned in haunting granular abysses and mesmerizing drones, funky synth arps and big bass sounds are accompanied by ethnic drums and chromatic percussion sounds.

The sample content will be generated from multi-sampled percussion instruments and metallic/glass objects, industrial field recordings executed in factories and scrapyards, acoustic and electric guitar instruments, weird sounds of electronic gadgets captured with special coil mics, vocal performances and electronic soundscapes, also re-synthesizing and audio-morphing acoustic sounds with programs like Alchemy 2, Metasynth, Morph and Kaleidoscope.

All patches have the modulation wheel and 8 or more Macros assigned, quite a few also use aftertouch. In many patches tempo-synced modulators are used to animate the amplitudes and filters of the involved samples and sound generators, often keyswitchable sound combinations or different articulations are available within one patch. All patches which have several different sounds split across the keyboard (often over a range of six octaves or more) use key-colouring in Falcon's keyboard which makes it easier to navigate through the various split sounds.

All acoustic instrument-samples in this library are recorded in a dry studio environment with top notch Neumann microphones in L-C-R at 48 Khz/24 Bit, sometimes also adding a 4th microphone for e.g. the backside of a drum. All microphone signals are phase-aligned which enhances the stereo field and the transparency of the recorded samples.

Specs:


  • Approximately 100 patches combining all synthesis forms in Falcon.
  • Approximately 2 GB of original sample content.
  • Approximately 30 - 40 new wavetables.
  • ETA: around New Year
  • Pre-order price (paypal): € 40 EUR
  • Price on release: € 50 EUR

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