120 masterfully-designed key patches spanning Acoustic Mood, Mono Chords, Digitalish, Lo-Fi, and More Than Keys — expressive, tweakable, and built for modern genres from Neo-Soul to IDM and Lo-Fi.
Introduction
Exquisitely crafted and tweakable sounds designed with modern genres in mind, Organic Keys is a one-stop shop delivering 120 key patches perfect for everything from pop and scoring work to genres like Neo-Soul, IDM, and Lo-Fi. Sounds are arranged in 5 categories including Acoustic Mood, Mono Chords, Digitalish, Lo-Fi, and More Than Keys, and offer a wide variety of characters to explore.
Every patch in Organic Keys is constructed with 4 independently mixable sonic layers including Sample, Synthesis, Pluck, and Texture, giving you a huge range of sonic space and allowing you to dial-in the perfect sound to suit your track, automate it to create movement and distinction, and perform it to add life and expression to your compositions.
Each of the presets in Organic Keys is designed to be expressive and playable, providing helpful controls such as an ADSR amplitude envelope, delay and reverb, and a custom macro control allowing you to sculpt your sound and bring your tracks to life. As with all Falcon expansions, you have the ability to dig beneath the surface into each sound’s patch structure, to manipulate and reshape it in any way you see fit.
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. This page is available in both Falcon and UVI Player.
- 1 LAYERS
Every preset blends four layers: SYNTHESIS, SAMPLE, PLUCK and TEXTURE. Each large knob sets the level of its layer, and the MUTE button below silences it.
- 2 ADSR
The program’s amplitude envelope, which shapes the level of all four layers: A attack (0 to 10 s), D decay (0 to 30 s), S sustain level (0 to 100 %) and R release (0.01 to 20 s).
- 3 DELAY
Sets the send level of every layer to the delay on Aux 1 (Dual Delay or Tape Echo in most presets).
- 4 REVERB
Sets the send level of every layer to the reverb on Aux 2 (SparkVerb or Sampled Reverb).
- 5 EXPRESSION
Controls the preset’s Macro 1, whose targets are set per preset. In Bowed Feel it deepens the chorus and the LFOs of the Synthesis and Sample layers, modulates the width of a pulse oscillator and brings in the noise of the Texture layer.
Like all macros, it can be controlled via MIDI, OSC, host automation and Lua scripting.
- 6 WHEEL
When on, the modulation wheel (MIDI CC 1) drives EXPRESSION and the knob follows it; when off, the wheel no longer affects it.
Macros
Organic Keys’ patches have been programmed with macros that provide users easy access to the key parameters of each patch. The custom front panel is built with Falcon’s Script feature. The macro parameters may be controlled via MIDI, OSC, host automation and Lua scripting for expressive performance and easy customization.
For more details on macros, see Falcon’s software manual.
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.
- 1 Program Editor
Top-most level of the patch. Broad changes affecting the overall sound: add audio or MIDI effects, adjust volume, pan and pitch.
- 2 Layer Editor
Group and modify Keygroups. Same effect/modulation slots as the Program, plus velocity curve, polyphony modes and unison settings.
- 3 Keygroup Editor
Ground level of the patch — hosts oscillators, defines MIDI note and velocity ranges, and sets basic oscillator attributes like pitch and trigger modes. Effects instanced here run per-voice, with the extra CPU cost that implies.
The mapping, oscillator and modulation editors are described in Falcon’s software manual: see Hierarchy and Edit.
Preset List
120 presets organized across 5 categories.
01 — Acoustic Mood
25- A Rhapsody
- Acronymous
- Amospherix
- Amped
- Art Mood
- Bar Souffle
- Bella
- Blanche
- Bowed Feel
- Celesta Vibe
- Clavecina
- Dulcikey
- Grand Nebbia
- Hammered Cave
- Harpiana
- Kolipe
- Light Felt
- Lover Tone
- Lyrisme
- Noire
- Pianissima
- Piano Steam
- Rainforest
- Rusty Piano
- Windpump
02 — Digitalish
24- Aguira
- Ammara
- Aqua Keys
- Banjon
- Bottle Keys
- Brass Organic
- Bygone
- Darker
- DX Eight
- Euphonius
- FM Bells
- Gosh
- Harpsy Grain
- Hazykey
- Made Of Steel
- Neo Full
- Organilla
- Pianet
- Prepared Organ
- Reeds
- Rust
- Underwater Glock
- Veridis
- Wurlish
03 — Lo-Fi
25- Grungy Sines
- Act Scape
- Ammotional
- Amorino
- Antic Music
- Chord O Tron
- Dusty Kyes
- Fluttery Field
- Harmonix
- Harpsy Tron
- Humming
- Kimbie
- Lo Mute
- Monarchoid
- Morning Haze
- Mount Kuboshi
- Mrs Mills
- Peacock
- Pick Vibe
- Reflections
- Rusty Vibe
- Soulful Piano
- Study Time
- Vintage Organ
- Winter Fall
04 — Mono Chords
23- Abundancy
- AM Ring
- Apex
- Aqueous Transmission
- Astrummed
- Atlantis
- Brushed Bowls
- Chordas
- Delloreanica
- Die Welt
- Gamma
- Gnomes
- Housy
- Mantra
- Marina Day
- Meditative
- Moody X
- Odyssey
- Peacock
- Pipes Land
- Smoothy
- Sofa Mood
- Strange Planet
05 — More Than Keys
23- A Dark Knight
- Akif
- Angel Bells
- Aquaphone
- Bowl Strike
- Carilloning
- Chimeria
- Choral Keys
- Clery Call
- Discovery
- Etherium
- Fjord
- Ghost Piano
- Grain Orchestra
- Idylle
- Java Keys
- Lone Choir
- Low Hits
- Magical Garden
- Mystic Choir
- Plate Grains
- Ubud
- Una Vox
Credits and Thanks
Sound Design — Julien Cautru
GUI & Graphics — Anthony Hak · Nathaniel Reeves
Documents — Nathaniel Reeves · Kai Tomita
UVI Team