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My experience so far with expansions for Falcon and PhasePlant

Once you have the tree view, you can find your way around much better. It can quickly get more complex and befuddling; but the basic rule is there are a number of layers, each with a single oscillator. Each can have its own effects (including filters) and/or arp/sequencer. And you can apply effects and/or an arp or sequencer to the whole program (preset/patch) as well. Modulation can also be at these different layers.
 
Once you have the tree view, you can find your way around much better. It can quickly get more complex and befuddling; but the basic rule is there are a number of layers, each with a single oscillator. Each can have its own effects (including filters) and/or arp/sequencer. And you can apply effects and/or an arp or sequencer to the whole program (preset/patch) as well. Modulation can also be at these different layers.
Not quite right, Bee. Layers can contain any number of keygroups. A keygroup can contain any number of oscillators. Some modulations can only be effective at keygroup level (envelopes, adsr etc, anything that is triggered by a note on event. oddly it will let you place them higher up on layers or program level, but then they don't work. A classic newcomer hazard in Falcon).
 
Not quite right, Bee. Layers can contain any number of keygroups. A keygroup can contain any number of oscillators. Some modulations can only be effective at keygroup level (envelopes, adsr etc, anything that is triggered by a note on event. oddly it will let you place them higher up on layers or program level, but then they don't work. A classic newcomer hazard in Falcon).
Yes, indeed so. A slip up on my part. Thanks.
 
Got four expansions (the 3 Simon Stockhausen ones and VOKLM).

Edit: my bad, got pricing wrong with edu.
 
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Got four expansions (the 3 Simon Stockhausen ones and VOKLM) for $59.20, so under $15 each. My kinda price.
can I ask how you got this discount? I know about the current vouchers on the site and the 'SNOW' $20-off code but this seems a little better!
 
Any thoughts on the latest PhasePlant sound bank Ephemeris? As it’s by Venus Theory, I was rather interested, but I’m still not sure I’ll jump.
 
Looking at Organic Arps and wondering if I can’t do the same in Falcon already, for instance with the new Ostinato Arp from 2.8 but I’m wondering if Falcon also has a similar Chorder function as in Organic Arps.
 
I've never demoed Synthmaster or Serum, but PhasePlant can have a very different sound from Vital.

I wouldn't judge PhasePlant from the online demos (or its libraries). For $10 you can subscribe for a month and fully test it out for yourself.

In fact, listen to this quick test I did:




Definitely also listen to the .wav I've attached too.

If PhasePlant has such a "cold digital wavetable sound" you shouldn't have any trouble figuring out which of the four sounds it is, no? :)

The other ones are ZebraHZ (with Diva ladder filter), Dune (also the ladder emulation), and Repro.

I personally took to the sound of Phase Plant for some reason - which may be because I invested time learning it right before vital came out - so my bias would be to feel positive. But something about the oscillator response and sound quality just impressed me. Also I've tried creating presets in several other synths, but the one's I created for Phase Plant just felt more personal - in a good way.
 
Falcon has Chorder and Chorder Extended script processors. They'll let you do the same and even have some presets. Combine it with the Scale script proc to map a scale to the midi note input to make it even easier.
How do you approach learning about Chorder? I was thinking it might make sense to pick up Organic Arps because I was hoping that the Chorder script would be "exposed" in it. But I'm beginning to doubt that - alas, with bad vision Falcon has not been the most easy synth to learn (although admittedly I've barely spent any time since my focus has been elsewhere lately).

[For those with this question, I was able to find an example to work from in Falcon Factory Bank Rev 2. Under the CHORDS heading, in a preset called Ambi Strum. Go to Part 1, Layer 1 and there will be 2 script processors. You can turn each of them on and off. One is Chorder and one is Lag. You can experiment with the options that Chorder.lua provides from there...

Chorder is evidently not the script I thought it was - I am looking at a way to conform to key and scale relative to what's already in Chorder, which I guess is possibly an arpeggiator mode. It's presented on the interface of Augmented Orchestra (which I don't own), but it was insinuated someplace that scripting in Falcon can accomplish this combined set of functions as in Aug. Orch.]
 
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How do you approach learning about Chorder? I was thinking it might make sense to pick up Organic Arps because I was hoping that the Chorder script would be "exposed" in it. But I'm beginning to doubt that - alas, with bad vision Falcon has not been the most easy synth to learn (although admittedly I've barely spent any time since my focus has been elsewhere lately).

[For those with this question, I was able to find an example to work from in Falcon Factory Bank Rev 2. Under the CHORDS heading, in a preset called Ambi Strum. Go to Part 1, Layer 1 and there will be 2 script processors. You can turn each of them on and off. One is Chorder and one is Lag. You can experiment with the options that Chorder.lua provides from there...

Chorder is evidently not the script I thought it was - I am looking at a way to conform to key and scale relative to what's already in Chorder, which I guess is possibly an arpeggiator mode. It's presented on the interface of Augmented Orchestra (which I don't own), but it was insinuated someplace that scripting in Falcon can accomplish this combined set of functions as in Aug. Orch.]
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I think what you're looking for is the Tonal Harmonizer script. Take a look at this part of one of the official Falcon 3.0 videos by Venus Theory describing how to use Tonal Harmonizer after setting up an arp patch:



Tonal Harmonizer will be mentioned after Midi Out, but I think it'll be usefull to sit through it because you'll see what he did before (creating the arp).
 
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I think what you're looking for is the Tonal Harmonizer script. Take a look at this part of one of the official Falcon 3.0 videos by Venus Theory describing how to use Tonal Harmonizer after setting up an arp patch:



Tonal Harmonizer will be mentioned after Midi Out, but I think it'll be usefull to sit through it because you'll see what he did before (creating the arp).

I think that's possibly it.

BTW I put the chord bank in front of a harmonizer script. I had saved 3 chord memories on C#, D & E. Once I had added the harmonizer I set up a nice harmony and changed the scale to C minor (just as a test). Correct me if I'm wrong but it's not adjusting the pitches up or down to bring them into the key (which is something I just learned that "scale" does do. LOL I'm sort of lost with how to order these. I suppose it would be nice to have a chord bank, but be able to have a 'pass through' function on non-chord-memory-saved notes so that you can play the rest of the keyboard - but it doesn't look like harmonizer allows that (which apparently blocks incoming MIDI notes if you select a scale). Maybe I'm just confused - it's super late!
 
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