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Favorite Falcon expansions?

Cinematic Shades and Titanium both are (over) 2GB and the three Simon Stockhausen ones are over 1GB each.
 
Marcus Millfield said:
  • I'd seriously recommend leaving the expansions for what they are and spending $100 voucher on something else.

The expansions are a nice addition, but I found after having a Sonicpass subscription for over a year, that I'm not using the expansions at all. I did some demos to showcase some and use one piano patch from LoFi Dreams from time to time, but that's it. I get a lot more out of Falcon on its own, Vintage Vault, the Quadras, Percussion Factory, Synthology, Drum Designer, the different key instruments and the effects stuff like Whoosh etc. I'd check some YouTube vids and spend your money there if I were you.
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Fleer said:
I’d pick Synth Anthology 4 as it’s around $100 on sale now.
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Alchemedia said:
I agree with Fleer & Marcus. Plenty of excellent presets included in the factory library + SA4 is great. I have most of the expansion but never use them.
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In the time between when I posted and when these responses were posted, I had gone ahead and purchased expansions

I am not at all well-versed with synthesis and creating my own sounds so I figured the more presets available to me the better so I went with the expansions

Akoustecx said:
I "needed" to get an expansion to maximise the ROI from my Falcon voucher by tipping the BF discount to 50% by getting 3 products.
I settled on LoFi Dreams, as it brings 4GB of content to the table, which seemed to offer more value to me than all the others, most of which don't exceed 500MB. If any of the others had offered a style that I felt inclined to reverse engineer, that wasn't covered by the factory library, I might have thought differently.
I should point out that I've only had Falcon for 3 weeks, and I don't have any other expansions to compare it to, but if you're the type of person looking for content to build from, rather than presets to tweak, then its worth noting that LoFi Dreams has at least 5 times the content of any other expansion, and about 10 times the average.
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I ended up getting 5 expansions packs (since the BF sale discounted them further)

The 5 packs I purchased were:
  • Cinematic Shades
  • Kinetics
  • Organic Arps
  • Organic Pads
  • Voklm
 
Fleer said:
Cinematic Shades and Titanium both are (over) 2GB and the three Simon Stockhausen ones are over 1GB each.
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Fair point, well made.
In my defense, I'd already rejected these before I started getting analytical over my decision, as neither Cinematic Shades or Titanium appealed, and while I can only aspire to Stockhausens level of sound design, I wanted instruments to bend to my will within Falcon, rather than a demonstration of Falcon being bent to sombody elses.
What sort of ground does the sample content of the 5 you mentioned cover, when its Falconisation is bypassed? Much as I love the environment I've bought into with Falcon, I do find it slightly frustrating that it's not really made clear what building blocks most of the expansions provide you with.
 
The ones from SS are what I’m looking for in sound design but he has many more Falcon patches in his (patchpool) website. Def worth having a look.
 
Symphonichrome said:
In the time between when I posted and when these responses were posted, I had gone ahead and purchased expansions

I am not at all well-versed with synthesis and creating my own sounds so I figured the more presets available to me the better so I went with the expansions



I ended up getting 5 expansions packs (since the BF sale discounted them further)

The 5 packs I purchased were:
  • Cinematic Shades
  • Kinetics
  • Organic Arps
  • Organic Pads
  • Voklm
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Let me know what you think of them when you've spent some time with them.
As I mentioned, I'm new to this Falcon game, so still unsure about how to get the best from it. I already had Quadra M&H, so knew that Traveller would be a good fit for me, and you can never have enough percussion libs, so Perc Factory was a no brainer, especially when those 2 and LoFi Dreams came in at €68.
Kinetics and Voklm did cause a significant amount of prevarication, so I'd be particularly interested in hearing the opinion of real world users of those.
Regardless, I hope you're enjoying Falcon as much as I am.
 
Fleer said:
Quite interested in getting the Quadra’s next. Anyone tweaking the samples in Falcon?
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I've only gone as far as Layer level so far, tweaking 88 keygroups is a bit daunting for a bear of little brain like me! I love that it's possible to "prepare" each note within a layer, but unless there's a way of grouping keygroups within a layer, I'm more likely to use a layer for each flavour I'm looking for, and trigger notes from layers as appropriate. Not a problem for most cases, but it would be nice to be able to use per voice distortion without having to create one for every note required!
 
Symphonichrome said:
The 5 packs I purchased were:
  • Cinematic Shades
  • Kinetics
  • Organic Arps
  • Organic Pads
  • Voklm
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As far as expansions go you could've done worse. The Organic Aeps and Pads are nice and Voklm will get you some nice vox choices.

Fleer said:
Quite interested in getting the Quadra’s next. Anyone tweaking the samples in Falcon?
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The quadras are as much about the rhythms as they are about the instruments. I actually never use those sounds as a sound source for a patch in Falcon, but will add some of the Falcon effects or scripts on top of the ones in the Quadras. They are wonderful for rhythms and pulses. I like the fact you can layer electronic and acoustic patches right from the interface. Same goes for Augmented Orchestra, which is basically a Quadra with orchestral instruments.
 
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