UVI - Falcon v3.0.1

UVI’s Falcon hybrid instrument is the latest incarnation of UVI’s ‘Engine’, a sampling and synthesis engine found in UVI’s Workstation.
Workstation is free, but UVI supply a large collection of premium content for it. UVI also license the engine to Motu whose Mach Five v3 is in direct competition with NI’s Kontakt. In fact, Falcon could be seen as Mach Five v4 in that it expands upon Mach Five’s feature set, while retaining a similar appearance and workflow.

What do you get with UVI Falcon?
You get both sampling and synthesis on steroids.
On opening, you see a large central panel with sidebars left and right. The colour scheme is mostly monochrome with blue highlights and is a clean, efficient look. The top bar allows you to select presets, show sidebars and all the usual master gain and stuff. There are also three radio buttons to choose between ‘MAIN’, ‘MIXER’ and ‘PERF’ modes.

‘MIXER’ mode is a full-on mixer with aux channels, and ‘PERF’ is a parts view with quick-edit keymapping and basic mixing functions. “MAIN’ mode is where all the editing takes place and where I spent most of my time.

In ‘MAIN’ mode, the left-hand sidebar is where you load or select ‘Parts’ in the ‘Multi’ you are working on. Into a ‘Part’ can be loaded a ‘Program’ consisting of key-mapped layers of sounds and effects. So we can load a ‘Program’ from the browser (which is located in the right-hand sidebar) into a ‘Part’ slot. You can then load other presets into other ‘Part’ slots and selecting them brings up the edit panel for that part in the centre panel, plus FX and modulation for all the layers and oscillators within the selected ‘Part’.