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A new perspective on the sound of Falcon

If I described in words how Zebra sounds, those words would all be things I usually like. Yet somehow it doesn't quite work for me. A lack of substance and body maybe? Which may be why it works so well in hybrid music.
IMO Zebra is a rather dark (or maybe smooth) sounding synth which is why I think it gels so well with orchestral stuff.

The thing with Zebra is that it's not very immediate. I'm not saying that because it's tedious, which it definitely is, but because it can sound rather boring? unless you figure out how to extract the nectar of gods from it.
 
Richard relies more on programming wizardry in his Divinity soundset. However, if you are under the impression Falcon is only capable of clinical sounds you're focusing on the expansions and haven't explored Vintage Vault or Synth Anthology.
Aren't Vintage Vault and Synth Anthology sample based too?
 
I have all 3 and would recommend Hive & Repro 1/5 over DIVA.
You know... as much as Diva sounds great, I've never been able to go along with it. I've bought it twice now, and ended up selling it because it didn't get any use from me. Honestly, still to this day I've never understood why I don't like it.

Hive and Repro are fantastic!
 
Aren't Vintage Vault and Synth Anthology sample based too?
Yes. If you want genuine analogue sounds, the thinking is, then use genuine analogue sounds, not digital emulations. Soundpaint is doing the same thing with Ultra Deep Sampling.

Those who prefer personal direct control over the sounds with a 100% complete synth are likely to prefer the pleasing fakery of emulations over the genuine but restrictive (in only some ways) sample method.
 
You know... as much as Diva sounds great, I've never been able to go along with it. I've bought it twice now, and ended up selling it because it didn't get any use from me. Honestly, still to this day I've never understood why I don't like it.

Hive and Repro are fantastic!
I feel similarly about Diva. So I bought some presets that sound a little darker to see if I could learn from them. Then got distracted by something shiny...
 
Yes. If you want genuine analogue sounds, the thinking is, then use genuine analogue sounds, not digital emulations. Soundpaint is doing the same thing with Ultra Deep Sampling.

Those who prefer personal direct control over the sounds with a 100% complete synth are likely to prefer the pleasing fakery of emulations over the genuine but restrictive (in only some ways) sample method.
Honestly, as far as analog mojo, I'm perfectly satisfied with what U-He and Synapse are doing.

I've yet to try synths from Cherry Audio, but from the demos they sound glorious!
 
Richard relies more on programming wizardry in his Divinity soundset.
So I've been listening to the demos of this soundset in more detail.

It sounds great, but it's very musical and I expected it to be much more experimental. I mean, it's Richard Devine who I recognize mostly for his insane experimental music.




For reference here's the playlist of the soundset:



Btw, Urs would despise this entire conversation. ;)
I'm sure he would LOL
 
Richard Devine makes some mean acid though… next to his sound design stuff… my Bandcamp tells me…


This is actually my favorite track by him. I find it strikes the right balance between music, sound design, experimental shit, etc.
 
Falcon lovers are so into CLEAN that the correlation with them owning dirty EQ plugins is pretty high. You know, to finally add some character to the ultra clinical eerie digital sound of their French synth. Hence this talk of emulated hardware is in fact on topic.
My Falcon track template always includes 'The Drop', 'True Iron' and 'IVGI2'. Falcon already has a nice low end. Top end is just a bit glassy and brittle generally, so above plugins always remedy that. If low end is weak or uninteresting for some reason, I'll insert 'Little Radiator' in the track chain.

My problem with Vintage Vault 3 and Synth Anthology both are that the actual vintage analogue offerings have somehow had most of their character removed so that they sound closer to the vintage digital offerings. I have to wonder why they went to all that trouble to castrate these great machines?

But my attitude about vintage analogue is probably more on the purist side since I've played so many of them. Very few virtual analogue softwares have impressed me, and not a single one has really nailed it imo, so I just treat them like synths with "programmed character".

Also I really do love how Falcon sounds in my template and genuinely haven't considered buying any other Synth plugins since.
 
Also I really do love how Falcon sounds in my template and genuinely haven't considered buying any other Synth plugins since.
Do you use third party libraries? Which ones do you like?
 
Haven't tried any non-UVI libraries for Falcon yet. Been too busy the last 8 months trying to get to know sample libraries. I would have to return the same question to the forum: Any non-UVI developed libraries recommended?
 
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