UVI's Falcon VST - Noodling Around with Presets 02
Channel: Matt Radd Creamer - Raddland Studios
Date: 2015-11-04

I'm hoping to expand this series in to other VSTs, and other music making methods (including chiptune). I would like to go beyond just messing with presets to actually talking about my methods for constructing a song, or even a preset from scratch. I'd like to expand this to an actually channel you can reliably visit in the future, so please keep checking back. I'd also like to get better at putting videos like this together, so, thanks for sticking with me through this initial awkward phase early vids. Until this channel takes off and becomes world famous, please feel free to check out my website for game audio, which is chalk full of ridiculous and goofy original music. The best kind.

http://www.mattcreameraudio.com
https://mattcreameraudio.bandcamp.com/

As for this video, it's another episode dedicated to noodling around with the presets for UVI's Falcon. I've had a little more time with this VST since the last time, but I am no better prepared to make any meaningful or intentional changes to the VST. I have learned enough that I might be able to talk about some of those things though:

What I can say is that this VST is definitely a synth and not a sampler which I kind of originally thought. While it can load samples, and play back samples in an eerily similar manner to that of Kontakt (which is better at straight up samples, mind you), it is actually more of a massive collection of "oscillators" that are essentially different types of synths (oh and also kind of a sampler). These types of synths include basic subtractive synthesis, to semi modular synthesis, semi Linear Arithmetic (Roland D-50), semi 4OP FM synth, semi organ, and semi wave table. On top of that, it has granular synth capabilities, the ability to use samples and a really solid collection of built in FX.

Of course, I don't get to *any* of that in this vid. I basically just incorrectly hammer around on the keyboard trying to make sense of what the purpose was for any given preset. Never the less, I now understand more about why this synth can occasionally be a CPU hog. Because it's a synth that lets you really burrow deep in to the inner workings to do some, quite frankly, very original things. A lot of these presets are pretty jam packed with weird intricate little things that can add up to some memory of you are flying all around the keyboard.

The learning curve is indeed ferocious. Unlike any VST I have ever encountered before. Traditional VST noodling is not enough to click your way through this beast in less than a collection of dedicated sessions. The manual is well laid out, and will help guide you, but learning the signal flow, and your own personal usage flow for this synth is definitely a buyer beware.

In the end, I have absolutely no buyer's remorse for picking this synth up. A feat that is rarer than rare these days.