FM Explorations
digital-motion

Explore the possibilities of FM synthesis from vintage digital to visionary hybrid tones — hyper-detailed and expressive FM patches offering vivid, evolving and highly-musical visions.

digital-motion interface

Introduction

Explore the possibilities of FM synthesis from vintage digital to visionary hybrid tones. Made popular in the ’80s, FM synthesis continues to inspire artists and sound designers with it’s rich harmonic sounds and other-worldly timbres. Utilized within the modular architecture of Falcon, Digital Motion delivers a focused set of hyper-detailed and expressive FM patches offering vivid, evolving and highly-musical visions.

The sounds of Digital Motion are layered and massive, providing a range of possible tones within each patch. Mix and tweak 3 discrete layers of synthesis, a uniquely prepared “Morph” control providing instant movement and modulation, ADSR amplitude envelope, filter and sends for reverb and delay. Quickly find sounds within useful groupings including bells, pads, keys, organs, leads, basses, atmospheres and FX, then tweak them on the front panel to create variations, or dig deep and transform them into your own unique sonic expressions.

Made for Falcon

The Digital Motion expansion leverages the advanced synthesis architecture of Falcon, featuring intuitive macro controls for instant playability.

Control your sound with MIDI, OSC, host automation, and Lua, or transform it with Falcon’s extensive library of oscillators, effects, modulators, and scripts.

Falcon’s versatility and pristine sound quality is evident throughout this collection, utilizing numerous synthesis and sound design techniques and a robust use of effects and modulators. Sounds can all be quickly previewed, edited, layered or performed with nearly limitless variation thanks to Falcon’s semi-modular architecture and rich component library.

INFO Page

The Info tab provides an overview of the selected program, houses macro controls, and provides a location for custom text and images via the (i) view.

Digital Motion INFO tab — Active Drive preset

Program Information

Press the Script button above the panel to switch to Falcon’s macro view, then the (i) button in its upper right to display program information. Many factory presets contain details about the program such as modwheel assignments, macro descriptions or tips for playing it. You can add and save descriptions for your own programs as well.

EDIT Page

If you want more control over a sound than the macros provide, the EDIT tab gives you full access to all parameters. Patches in Falcon are built within a fixed hierarchy: at the very top is the Program, inside the Program are Layers, within each Layer are Keygroups, and inside the Keygroups are Oscillators. Audio effects, MIDI effects and modulators can be placed on any level.

Falcon EDIT tab — Program / Layer / Keygroup hierarchy

The mapping, oscillator and modulation editors are described in Falcon’s software manual: see Hierarchy and Edit.

Preset List

115 presets spanning six categories — from animated sequences and FM basses to bells, keys, pads and sound-design FX.

01 — Animated

22
  • Active Drive
  • Base 80s
  • Calm Down Siren
  • Chaotic
  • Chase
  • Convolutions
  • Dead Light
  • Earth Planet
  • Gate FM
  • Groovy Body
  • Jump N Run
  • Pleasantries
  • Poly Jammer
  • Poly Short Arp
  • Roving Seq
  • Sister Bell
  • Slide Step Keys
  • The Bends
  • Trank Circus
  • Upbeater
  • Weird Kissing
  • Zephyr

02 — Bass and Leads

24
  • A Robot Slide
  • Bite Attack
  • Chubby Bass
  • Clowner
  • Dark FM Bass
  • Doorstop Bass
  • Finger One
  • Formant Bass
  • Growl Sustain
  • Mean Mono
  • Mean Wire
  • Nervous Lead
  • Octave Slide
  • Oddmet
  • Opto
  • Phase Retro
  • Silver Slide
  • Sour Apple
  • Sync Tab
  • TriLayer Bass
  • Wet Chord
  • Wide Sustain Bass
  • Wing Bass
  • Zee Bass

03 — Bells

10
  • Andromeda
  • Bell Wave
  • Bright Chime
  • Chimer
  • Glass Bite
  • Playmobells
  • Species
  • Thin Line
  • Twilight Bell
  • Wavy FM

04 — FX

11
  • Dark Fall
  • Floating Chord
  • Follow Me
  • Green Gas
  • Haze FM
  • Ice Cavern
  • Met Hit
  • Pile Bone
  • Sanitarium
  • Signals Crossed
  • The Void

05 — Keys

28
  • Add Keys
  • Amber Dream
  • Amusement
  • Anthem
  • Beauty FM
  • Byzantine
  • Chasm Keys
  • Cloudy Keys
  • Coin Keys
  • Cool Keys
  • Dirt Slide Keys
  • Driven Chord
  • Elastix
  • Emote
  • Flutter Keys
  • Java Keys
  • Memorize
  • Metalide
  • Octavized Keys
  • Quirk
  • Short And Bright
  • Solemn Key
  • Spring Keys FM
  • Stratus Keys
  • Super Bright Keys
  • SynGlass Keys
  • Velo Hollow
  • Winter Keys

06 — Pads

20
  • Abel Pad FM
  • Bell Texture
  • Chrysalis
  • Citrus Pad
  • Cold Peace
  • Cryogenic
  • Drive Pad
  • Dusk Pad
  • Frigid Waters
  • Greed Fields
  • Hollow FM
  • Lavasyn
  • Midnight Chill
  • Mirage
  • Phase Dark
  • Sky Organ
  • Slither
  • Soft Space
  • Sunray
  • Tri Pad

Credits and Thanks

Sound Design — Louis Couka · Alain Etchart · Ed Ten Eyck · Kevin Guilhaumou · Damien Vallet

GUI & Graphics — Anthony Hak · Nathaniel Reeves

Documents — Garrett DeMartinis · Nathaniel Reeves · Kai Tomita

UVI Team