UVI's Falcon 2.8. First thoughts? It’s beautiful…

I am a five year long Falcon user. It’s a beast to work with and take some getting used to.

This is an amazing update !

I only have the demo sounds that come with it and they're all amazing and will definitely buy the full thing one day.

Well, I actually have the Digital Synthations and a Piano, but those are not the "Falcon" sounds.

Absolutely love Falcon, it is a serious workstation. Extremely powerful.

Isn't Touche limited to VST 2? If so, how are you using it in Cubase?

Great video, as always, Jef!
And on another note: the vintage Canucks logo is 🔥

Nice Jef!

great update!

Hi Jef, great that you're getting into Falcon. I've been using it for a couple of years, it's really impossible to describe how powerful it is. But it really takes some learning, the interface isn't the most intuitive out there. But it's worth the effort. I think there's now 17 different types of oscillator, plus sampling, over a dozen different sequencers, some of which are truly mind-bending, and a raft of world class effects and utilities. Also, you can build complex multis quite easily, there's a full mixer built in with inserts and send effects, multiple outs.. I could go on forever 🤣 I'll be very interested to see what you make of it over time.

Can't be bothered to learn this but it sounds nice. A sound designers tool but not a musicians!?

Not just a patch-maker's dream -- if you're invested in any of UVI's sample libraries or synths, practically all of it runs in Falcon. It gives you so many options the UVI workstation becomes obsolete. If you can afford it (assuming you're not Jef ;) Get it on sale if you can

I hope UVI just gave you a key to all of their stuff - their sound libraries are amazing. Falcon itself is a bit of an enigma - it's extremely powerful and can do almost any kind of synthesis you'll find in general synths. But the user interface is very frustrating to work with so I would never use it if I could make what I want with another synth like Pigments for example. Mostly I only use it to play UVI's own libraries, and you can do that in their free Workstation plugin. It also bothers me that Falcon has some first class audio effects built in, but it has no audio input capabilities (it's routing is pretty basic in general) so you can't use it as a general effect plugin. Instead you have to pay for UVI's standalone effects plugins, which leaves a sour taste IMO.

The scripts in Falcon are unreal - creative, unique, and crazy powerful.

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Love to see more video's on Falcon Jef - it's a pretty steep learning curve and I still have a long ways to go getting my head around it - super powerful though, and they just keep adding more and more amazing features, so it's worth the time investment to understand it methinks - cool video !

Great to have you in the Falcon hive! Awesome soloing there!

On any given day, you'll find either Falcon or Kontakt open in my projects. Falcon is by far and away one of THE best pieces of music software ever. With just Falcon alone you'll be occupied for months getting into it.
If you're a married person, be aware that it can become expensively addictive when you start adding all of the other soundbanks into it. Funny that they're called banks.
It was Falcon, Kontakt and Spectrasonic that got an eye raise fromt he wife. I've manage to convince her that as long as the mortgage stays at least two months ahead and we have at least milk and bread, it's fine lol

Hi Jef, I am considering of purchasing a Maschine + and was wondering if are you able to trigger a chord on the Maschine (while in chord mode) via an external sequencer? Say I have a 25 key midi controller, am I able to trigger a chord with one note from it via MIDI? I know on the MPC's you are unable to do this unfortunately. Thanks!

Falcon is amazing. I have owned it since early on. One of top go to's for me and my releases.

I love the 2.8 upgrade but unfortunately only a small number of 2.8 presets load properly. M1 MacBook Air, shouldn’t be an issue. Somehow the Lua scripts that load the presets are failing on 75% of them.

Wait Jef, you are saying you never tried Falcon before? holy cow. Quantas is a superb trainer indeed. Well, cool to see you are enjoying it. Great solo at the end btw :-) Cheers

i got uvi sonic pass and love it

and still to this day Falcon doesn't support multicore processing.... 😡
it is a tragedy. I'd rather wait for Halion 7. 🧐

Falcon looks amazing, but I find I’m still learning the boundaries of synths like Vital (free) and the content in Komplete 13. UVI has some great stuff, like Beatbox 2, Soul Bass and the Vintage Vault, but they’re always more expensive than I would expect. Even when on sale, they’re $59 USD each - so 3 instruments would be $180USD best case. Their SonicPass is $240USD/year - far more than Roland Cloud and other similar vendors. Is UVI stuff that good? Good enough to be double the price of Native Instruments, Arturia, Roland and Korg? I dunno…

Nice Big Screen :)

Great video, trying to decide on falcon or omnisphere. Leaning towards falcon due to the depth. Hard choice haha