Anyone who can share their experience with Simon Stockhausen's Falcon Single bundle? (Update: the bundle is brilliant).

doctoremmet said:

Patchpool (genius Stockhausen) has a summer sale. All Falcon Singles are currently €199. That’s 15 libraries.

I am sure they are great, since I own many of genius Stockhausen’s sound design work. I have his stuff for Padshop, Pigments, the UVI expansions, Halion 6 patches. All among the very best.

My question: how are the Falcon Singles, when it comes to the acoustic “raw” sample content? Are there a couple of “playable” instruments in there? In a true multi sampled sense? I like how the WAVs are being made available with these libraries. I could perhaps use them as part of Soundpaint, MSF, Equator etc. as well.

Or is it mainly “just” sample fodder for the famous sound design brilliance Simon is known for?

Looking for actual user experience! Thanks.

World Quintet - Falcon Singles Oud

Demo for the Falcon library “Falcon Singles - Oud“ avaiiable on patchpool.de

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Bass Flute Transporter - Falcon Singles Bass Flute

Two patches from the sample- and sound library Falcon Singles - Bass Flute, available on patchpool.de

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( ^ This bass flute sounds gorgeous. Would these be mainly “looped phrases” or actual multi sampled patches?

Here’s what the website says about this bass flute:

“For the main acoustic instrument 14 pitches were sampled with vibrato, 6-7 notes per octave between B1 - C4 with creshendo, decreshendo - sampled with 2x round robin.”

So, not “deep sampled” but maybe deeply enough for the sample material to be usable in a “somewhat” naked fashion?)

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I don't know much about Falcon, but I agree Simon's work is awesome. I bought a few of his Padhsop Pro and Alchemy libs. But listening to the demos, I'm wondering if Falcon should be on my wishlist instead of Zebra...

Well André, Falcon still is my desert island synth. And mister Stockhausen appears to be a fan too. It is a very flexible synth and sampler. The UVI expansions are really good, but much to my own surprise I hadn’t really paid close attention to these Falcon Singles.

I now think these may actually be the hidden gems of the platform, because the quality of the recordings appears to be most excellent. I am ready to pull the trigger on Bassflute and Framedrum. But the bundle looks kind of tempting too, despite it being a lot of money of course…

Anyway, at this moment it is all educated guessing on my part, hence my original post / question.

creativeforge said:

I'm wondering if Falcon should be on my wishlist instead of Zebra...

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Keep in mind that the examples you’re hearing here are all sample based, so rather than a Zebra comparison, one with Kontakt would maybe be more suitable…

But of course, Falcon is an excellent synth too haha…

doctoremmet said:

But of course, Falcon is an excellent synth too haha…

Cloud Music - Falcon Singles - Falcon Scapes Vol2

Improvising with a single Falcon patch from the sound library Falcon Singles - Falcon Scapes Vol2, Macro automation was added in several passes after the impro, 100% Falcon.

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I don't have much passion spending time trying to create sounds, I'm more of a preset user, and this sounds just amazing... Thanks Doc! Insomnia lead me to a great discovery today!

Not to bump my own thread (sorry!!) but mister Stockhausen is a true musical genius in my opinion… I hope he’ll do a saxophone library some day…







Also, update:

I bought Bass Flute and Framedrum, to test the waters. Simon assured me there’s always a very fair “complete the bundle” price so that’s a good enough reason to buy two and see how I like them. He also pointed me to an older Kontakt 4 library he made with soprano saxophone phrases, which I couldn’t resist for €7.50

Will report back and in the mean time would still love to hear some user feedback!

I have Simon's Bass Flute and I'm happy to provide any screenshots or details.

There are two Programs that come closest to a regular Bass Flute instrument, and these have the most samples. They both use the same ones, one switching between low and high dynamics via a keyswitch and one through velocity. Two velocity layers, each with fourteen samples.

Other patches have samples of overtones or key slaps, so there are more samples too. There are sixty-four samples in total. Six resynthesised, six 'electronic' ones (involving morphs and other processed samples), and various recorded effects such as harmonics as well as basic notes.

To get the greatest range of samples for playing with, there are probably other libraries that can offer you more. But this has a good number of samples, and all of that incredible sound design for use and study. The quality of the samples is, of course, excellent; and they were sampled to be used for sound design, so they are all readily useful.

If you'll be using granular effects, the number of samples is fine. If you wanted to create textures building up multiple samples across different keys, then it is a bit more limited. There are a good number of straight flute samples across the keyboard; but for other sounds it is usually one sample apiece.

The Info page/GUI has a lot of knobs meaning that you can control a lot of parameters easily from there rather than clicking through the Edit and Effects pages.

Great, thanks Bee. In the mean time I purchased Bass Flute and Framedrum and they completely live up to my expectations. These are not UDS libraries by any stretch of the imagination, but can be used in a somewhat “natural” state, to inject some greatly recorded acoustic flavours. While at the same time coming with the source material for deep sound design. In Falcon. And outside of Falcon (I’m thinking Soundpaint and NOVUM).

I may get more of these over time. Hangdrum, Bowls, Crotales, Glockenspiels and Oud all seem great as well.

Love having these flavours in Falcon.

doctoremmet said:

Great, thanks Bee. In the mean time I purchased Bass Flute and Framedrum and they completely live up to my expectations. These are not UDS libraries by any stretch of the imagination, but can be used in a somewhat “natural” state, to inject some greatly recorded acoustic flavours. While at the same time come with the source material for deep sound design. In Falcon. And outside of Falcon (I’m thinking Soundpaint and NOVUM).

I may get more of these over time. Hangdrum, Bowls, Crotales, Glockenspiels and Oud all seem great as well.

Love having these flavours in Falcon.

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When you first mentioned the Bass Flute, I wasn't sure it it was the one I had or I'd have replied sooner. But it's good to know you made the right decision anyway!

I also have the Singing Bowl & Friends set. Numbers of samples:
Ceramic Bowl: 32
Crystal Bowl: 16
Glass Bowl: 21
Singing Bowls: 76
Impulse Response: 1
Wave tables: 8

Samples include round robins and some effects (particles, for instance).

It is a pretty substantial sound design kit!

My first post here since 2014, thank you for your interest in my Falcon stuff, it has become my main sound design platform and I will continue to release libraries for it. 127 velocity layers with 64 round robin is not what I'll be aiming at though

Sampleconstruct said:

My first post here since 2014, thank you for your interest in my Falcon stuff, it has become my main sound design platform and I will continue to release libraries for it. 127 velocity layers with 64 round robin is not what I'll be aiming at though

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I'm glad to hear it! Your sound design is stunning, and being efficient in the memory footprint is a massive benefit.

Which doesn't mean that vampires such as me won't be re-purposing your samples in the hopes of finding inspiration in your work.

Welcome back to this board where I am only under a year and a half old.

Bee_Abney said:

I'm glad to hear it! Your sound design is stunning, and being efficient in the memory footprint is a massive benefit.

Which doesn't mean that vampires such as me won't be re-purposing your samples in the hopes of finding inspiration in your work.

Welcome back to this board where I am only under a year and a half old.

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Thank you
Apart from my HALion stuff where my samples have to be wrapped into a vst-container (by design) I've always released freely accessible wav samples with my libs and I encourage people to use those samples in other samplers/hybrid synths or even directly in their DAWs as long as they don't resample them for redistribution.

Simon it’s great to see you back here again!

kgdrum said:

Simon it’s great to see you back here again!

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Thank you, 8 years were long enough and VI is a profound forum with cool people after all.

doctoremmet said:

Great, thanks Bee. In the mean time I purchased Bass Flute and Framedrum and they completely live up to my expectations. These are not UDS libraries by any stretch of the imagination, but can be used in a somewhat “natural” state, to inject some greatly recorded acoustic flavours. While at the same time coming with the source material for deep sound design. In Falcon. And outside of Falcon (I’m thinking Soundpaint and NOVUM).

I may get more of these over time. Hangdrum, Bowls, Crotales, Glockenspiels and Oud all seem great as well.

Love having these flavours in Falcon.

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Update: I did end up buying all of the bundle and Simon was kind enough to just make me complete the collection and pay the difference for the “discounted bundle price”.

In the mean time I noticed this…

doctoremmet said:

Update: I did end up buying all of the bundle and Simon was kind enough to just make me complete the collection and pay the difference for the “discounted bundle price”.

In the mean time I noticed this…

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I think you and Simon were made for each other. As customer and developer, that is.

The man ranks #1 in my sound designer top 5, so at least that part is true

doctoremmet said:

Not to bump my own thread (sorry!!) but mister Stockhausen is a true musical genius in my opinion… I hope he’ll do a saxophone library some day…







Also, update:

I bought Bass Flute and Framedrum, to test the waters. Simon assured me there’s always a very fair “complete the bundle” price so that’s a good enough reason to buy two and see how I like them. He also pointed me to an older Kontakt 4 library he made with soprano saxophone phrases, which I couldn’t resist for €7.50

Will report back and in the mean time would still love to hear some user feedback!

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Woah all those performances are amazing.

Bravo.

Pier said:

Woah all those performances are amazing.

Bravo.

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Thank you