Introduction

Drawing inspiration from ’70s West Coast synthesis, West Fold offers a modern take on the rich, harmonic unpredictability of the complex oscillator. The expansion is built around Falcon’s West Folder engine, leveraging its wavefolder, built-in AM and FM modulation, and lowpass gate. This approach yields a distinct tonal landscape, capturing the raw, woody resonance and plucky dynamics that define this beloved synthesis approach.

West Fold brings 100 expressive, modular-inspired sounds covering every foundational sound type, from deep basses and responsive keys to sharp plucks, bells, percussion and evolving textures. Most patches include a built-in sequence that can be instantly activated or bypassed, while custom macro controls let you tweak the fold depth, modulation or gate behavior on the fly, keeping the performance intuitive and highly musical.

Whether you’re producing driving electronic tracks or searching for unique, animated timbres to layer into your compositions, West Fold delivers a versatile toolkit of character-rich sounds. And in Falcon, you can explore, tweak or transform the core of every patch.

Made for Falcon

The West Fold 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.

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Macros

As with Falcon Factory Content, West Fold’s patches are programmed with macros that give quick access to the key parameters of each patch. West Fold also ships with a custom front panel built using Falcon’s Script feature: the four colored knobs drive the program’s Macros 1 to 4, and the SEQUENCE button drives Macro 5. The panel parameters can be controlled via MIDI, OSC, host automation and Lua scripting for easy customization and expressive performance.

Beyond the panel, the mod wheel is assigned in 99 of the 100 presets, most often to a filter cutoff, and pitch bend covers ±2 semitones in most presets. In many presets velocity also shapes the sound, most often how strongly the lowpass gate opens.

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.

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

Preset List

100 presets organized in eight categories. The category of the loaded preset is shown at the bottom right of the panel.

Credits and Thanks

Sound Design — Alix Labbé

GUI & Graphics — Nathaniel Reeves

Documents — Nathaniel Reeves · Kai Tomita

UVI Team