UVI Falcon 2 Tutorial | Ambient Pads & Generative Scripts [Future Garage | Ambient | Sound Design]

[@azurite6452]

This is a BRILLIANT tutorial - thank you! I followed along with you, using different kinds of sounds to yours, but still, it turned into a wonderful sound I'm happy with. I really appreciate the time you've taken to share this with us. This video has increased my understanding of Falcon a lot!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoyed it! Falcon is an incredibly deep instrument so there's a lot to get to know but once you really start to understand it it's incredibly powerful and rewarding to use!

[@2an_sound]

After making my first instrument in kontakt yesterday, it's so nice to be back in Falcon. I'm probably going to watch this a couple times. Thanks for the texture tips

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Glad it was helpful! Falcon is incredibly powerful for sure, and has really replaced Kontakt for me except for a few libraries, but I rarely use them haha. Falcon is great for scripting too if you're familiar with Lua! I find it's a lot easier to make things happen as opposed to digging through a mile of KSP to figure something out.

[@2an_sound]

@@VenusTheory yeah making my steel and glass "ice bowls" kontakt instrument was so tedious compared to doing the same in Falcon. I'm going to be learning Lua for it pretty soon. One thing I'm stumped on is how to design my own UI for Falcon instruments... It seems like UVI has no documentation on how that is done. Do you know?

[@kollbassik]

Hi Cameron, thanks for the Falcon..this is priceless knowledge! Amazing sound!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Falcon is a total beast haha, I hope to see some other scripts come up as well! I've been trying to work on a few of my own but unfortunately I haven't really had much time to sit down and make that happen.

[@rayderrich]

Bought Falcon yesterday, am ready to start applying some of the newbie stuff before I try the more advanced stuff you showed here. Thanks for your video. I wish the Falcon hype train was still in full motion...

[@VenusTheory]

Yeah unfortunately it seems a bit underrated again. Hopefully UVI perhaps adds a demo version or something to help people spread the word and get to know Falcon!

[@rayderrich]

@@VenusTheory I played around a 'bit' and am deeply impressed with its power and sound quality. Suddenly my other synths look useless. But as I have seen from you and others on KZbin once the hype is over you do go back to others if the sound calls for it. It took me a while to learn about Falcon's existence and I have watched a lot before buying, so I can only imagine how many others missed out on it. Guess we need to create videos about it again ;-)

[@ysteinholmen7677]

Ah, something fun to try! Thanks for the tips :)

[@VenusTheory]

Have fun experimenting with it!

[@888y8z]

At 7:00 you're using a pluck oscillator with "Steady Clav". Is Steady Clav in one of your sample packs, or where could I find that?

[@VenusTheory]

Should come with Falcon actually. Pretty sure it's part of the core library unless perhaps it was taken out in a later version?

[@johnrun712]

Great help for my new favourite synth, cheers.

[@davidj.ebacher4745]

Hi Cameron, great tutorial as I also love generative compositions - ala Eno. However, I just did a fresh install of UVI Falcon and I do not have that file structure as seen in the video. What I do have is: Win10 > Docs > UVI > Falcon > UVI Scripts. Ideas?? Thank you so much! Drone On!

[@cp99music]

Those Event Processors make me really wish Falcon had some form of MIDI Out to control other VST’s. I use Studio One and while I love it, its creative/generative sequencing abilities are...lacking. I’m super jealous of Logic’s MIDI Scripting device and if Falcon had MIDI out it would be a great replacement.

[@GregoryCain]

Stumbled across this a few days ago, and have been messing around with these concepts. Really nice, and thank you for posting! Have you ever tried this? Applied a random LFO to the Position control on the multi-granular, set the frequency to 0, and set it to retrigger, which creates a random start time to each "note" played in the final instrument. Love it! Thanks again!

[@VenusTheory]

Yep! Great trick for some movement and something I use quite a bit when generating random noise layers for stuff.

[@sibbsnibbs]

Hi Cameron ... I managed to download the Falcon Punch files however, on my Mac Pro when I open up the document folder I'm only seeing 2 folders, under the UVI tab which are Falcon then UVIScript, which is empty ... I've made a folder called Falcon Punch, as you suggested and have copied the items from the LUA folder into this new folder ... I'm therefore wondering where to place this folder and your help would be very much appreciated ... Thank you for your informative videos ... All the best ... Siobhan .

[@Gabriel-l2j1r]

Cool trick!

[@farley333]

I love this synth.

[@VenusTheory]

Same tho

[@MGMORIGINAL]

You Da Man!

[@blaeke64]

Goodmornin Cameron ☕

[@VenusTheory]

Ayyyyyyy good morning haha.

[@kimmolaine665]

Very nice

[@VenusTheory]

It's good stuff for sure! Makes epic pad stuff very easy!

[@wrigna1]

Can anyone please tell me the specific settings I need to configure in Falcon to route sound to multiple MIDI channels in Ableton Live? Thanks in advance! 🙏

[@nicknadym]

Midi mapping?

[@DIABOLOS]

Hello Cameron, I'd really appreciate your advice, I'm looking for a "phat, analog, warm etc" sounding plugin with a nice arpeggiator/sequencer engine. Most of the synths with a great and detailed arp/seq section sound too digital, and most of the analog emulation synths don't have a detailed enough arp/seq section. I hope I was clear enough haha, anyways, looking forward to checking out your suggestions!! thank you!!

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! If I had to make some recommendations: Dune 3 - Love this synth, very powerful Arp and 8 part multitimbral with several different engines, effects, etc so it's a powerhouse AAS Ultra Analog 3 - About as close to analog as they come. Bitimbral but only subtractive and has a weaker arp. With some MIDI FX though it can easily fix the lack of a crazy arp. Sound quality is second to none. Synthmaster One / 2.9 - Both incredibly powerful, pretty cool arps and decent selection of FX and filters. Bazillions of presets too for 'plug and play' factor (including some by yours truly) Parawave Rapid - Badass synth, 8 part multitimbral, many FX (per layer!), arps for days, variety of filters and waveshaping modes, one of the sleekest reverbs out there, actually really fat sounding. Lacks many LFOs and Envelopes but makes up for it in stupid layering power and waveshaping/wavetables PhasePlant - Lacks a true arp but fucking powerful synth all around if you're into sound design, capable of vintage tones with the right patch design Falcon - Pretty much the greatest thing ever and extremely powerful. Very deep interface, very steep learning curve for complex patch design. Insane synth and sampler engine modes, effects, etc etc etc. Price is up there, but it's fantastic. Presets are good, and there are many preset libraries available but it really shines if you put in the time to learn it. However, there is no demo. Really, you can't go wrong with any of the above and I'd encourage you to try out the demos to see what you think and listen for the sound itself. Arps and such can be made up with MIDI FX and other effects can always be added later, so it comes down to the raw sound and your own taste/workflow.

[@DIABOLOS]

@@VenusTheory The funny thing is everytime there's a new synth that I really like I go to the developer's KZbin channel and boom there's Cameron showing off his sound design skills in an official video haha congrats dude, I'm really happy for you and how far your channel has come! Not gonna lie, I already knew most of those synths because of your videos; however, I'll make sure to check them out in depth by downloading the demos. Again, thanks a lot for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it man!

[@ChaiMingze]

Nice

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@LoveMeBack]

The scripts don’t show in my user presets unfortunately. Still on Mojave...

[@LibriumMusic]

Can you do a video on the sub in Oracle? How did you get it to sound wide but still controlled and sitting properly in the mix? I can't get stereo reese to work quite like that.... it sounds so fucking good haha, please elaborate on your processing :)

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Well, not really too much to talk about. It's just a patch on my Novation Peak (two detuned saws, low mixed sine for stability) with a lowpass really low (any synth could do it really) around maybe 200hz with a 24db/oct filter and quite a bit of filter drive and maybe 20% resonance and a little bit of keytracking to taste depending on the track, then put into Kilohearts Multipass - low band gets mono'd with the Stereo snapin, and a slight Distortion on Saturate (1-3db), then a chorus on the mid band and that's that. Compress it after (5-8db reduction) to tame it and that's my typical bass patch haha.

[@LibriumMusic]

@@VenusTheory Huh, thats weird, I actually went and downloaded it and ran it through ozone imager to see what the actual fuck was going on down there, and

[@stratuspheremusic]

For the life of me I cannot get the user preset folder to show up in the script processors tab. I have loaded the presets where you said but there was no user preset folder there. I cant figure it out :/

[@stratuspheremusic]

I didnt even have the event processors folder so I made one and put them in there and still nothing shows up in falcon

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! If you can't find the folder there, creating the directory should fix it. However, if that doesn't work you might want to get in touch with UVI support to see if they can assist you.

[@MarcTelesha]

@@stratuspheremusic Just find in the file browser in Falcon (The farthest icon on the left) Works that way. Nothing in the manual talks about user script locations.

[@stratuspheremusic]

@@VenusTheory I was able to just create it myself and it showed up in Falcon! Thank you for your great videos

[@bearsdj]

Hi I cannot find those other dirs..eventprocessors one..im not sure why

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Well I'm not sure if you're referring to your computer file system or the event processors in Falcon but if you can clarify I can try to help! If you're on Mac, someone pointed out it should be something like: Documents/UVI/Falcon/User\ Presets/EventProcessors/Script\ Processor/Falcon Punch

[@bearsdj]

@@VenusTheory hope this helps. i am looking for the event processors directory to copy those files into.i feel a bit blond as it is not there.

[@VenusTheory]

@@bearsdj Sorry! Missed the reply. In that case you might try manually creating it, or reaching out to UVI support as maybe it's installed to another location.

[@bearsdj]

@@VenusTheory Thannk will do ..and contact them...

[@distantidentitymusic]

First

[@VenusTheory]

12th!

[@RodneyRicoWillis]

Any new links to get the script? The github one is not working.

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! I just tested it and it seems to still be working - might have just been a temporary thing!

[@RodneyRicoWillis]

@@VenusTheory thank you, it was user error 🤣😂 sorry about that.

[@artheca7887]

Hi Thanks for yours videos! I just followed your advice and downloaded Falcon Punch. Is it normal that the file weighs only 699 ko? By following your tutorial, i am bored for the installation because on Mac in "documents" "user presets", I do not have "script processor". Installation on Mac is suddenly different? Thank a lot and very happy new year 2020 !!

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! That's correct, it's a pretty small file! For the Mac installation, someone mentioned the path should be something like: Documents/UVI/Falcon/User\ Presets/EventProcessors/Script\ Processor/Falcon Punch You might need to manually create the directory though, or reach out to UVI's support for help finding where it may be!

[@888y8z]

@@VenusTheory I'm on a Mac. I just created all the folder exactly like you said in the video (they weren't there before) and it worked! =) yay

[@rondakky4396]

how to download UVI Falcon 2

[@LightWingStudios]

No Windows Installer? BUMMER!

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! I don't think the installer exists anymore, not sure if there ever was one but it's hard to remember. In any case, I believe these scripts are actually included with the Falcon factory library now!

[@MarcTelesha]

@@VenusTheory I don't see them there in the factory

[@paultorbert6929]

i guess, since i am "hardware based", i need to consider getting a TCE GR-1..... then i will have the granular capability.....

[@VenusTheory]

It's on my list to buy as well! Hopefully I'll be picking one up sometime next year!

[@ReneGBoscio]

@@VenusTheory FWIW, I've been playing with a borrowed GR-1 for the past month, and after about 30 minutes of trying out Falcon, I quickly realized it's much more powerful than the GR-1. Granted, it's hard to beat a hands-on experience, but feature-wise, it's no match for Falcon.

[@VenusTheory]

Actually good to know! Appreciate the heads up as I was really on the fence with it

[@ReneGBoscio]

@@VenusTheory great tutorial, btw! any tips as to where to find more third party scripts like the Falcon Punch ones?

[@agreen9903]

Falcon punch was written by lawrence krauss and neil degrasse tyson.... Also falcon = ear sex

[@VenusTheory]

It's definitely a must have for any Falcon owner!

[@h.hristov]

Uh, I want to get this synth so bad but it's so damn expensive ;(

[@VenusTheory]

Highly recommend it! It's a great investment due to it's sheer power haha, there's really nothing else like it! I'd definitely sign up for their newsletter as there are discounts fairly often as well as great sale offers from time to time!

[@thatchinaboi]

You missed out on the holiday deal!