UVI Cinematic Shades User Guide

SOUNDBANK USER GUIDE

SOFTWARE VERSION 1.0

EN170710

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

INTERFACE

INFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

PRESET LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

LINKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

CREDITS & SPECIAL THANKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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INTRODUCTION

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Falcon 1.3+

• 2.5GB of Disk Space

For more information on the installation process, please refer to the document: Soundbank

Installation Guide

CINEMATIC SHADES - POWERFUL AND EMOTIVE SOUND DESIGN

Cinematic Shades is an evocative and visceral collection of sounds designed for composers
and modern producers who need unique and powerful emotive elements for their
productions. Arranged in 7 categories, Cinematic Shades delivers a curated selection of 130
atmospheres, pads, textures, melodies, sequences, basses and cinematic elements with
pre-mapped macros that provide creative modulation options and easy automation control.

A joint collaboration from sound designers Richard Gale and Carlo de Gregorio, Cinematic
Shades dives deep into the dark and experimental side of music and sound culminating
from of over 15 years of sound design experience. Ranging from brooding and ethereal
to brazen avant-garde glitch, patches can easily be morphed and performed to suit
numerous uses. Create unyielding tension, thunderous releases and rich, expansive sound
environments with numerous playable instruments and modern cinematic textures. Utilizing
both acoustic recordings and raw synthesis the sounds of Cinematic Shades come alive
with rich dynamics and micro-detail, ready to add depth, impact and evolving atmospheres
to your productions.

MADE FOR FALCON

The power and flexibility of Falcon is underscored throughout this collection, making use of
numerous synthesis techniques including analog modelling, multi-granular and wavetable,
as well as many of the robust eects and modulators. Sounds can all be quickly previewed,
edited, layered or performed with nearly limitless variation thanks to Falcon’s ecient semi­modular architecture.

Take your experience to the next level with this expertly-crafted Falcon expansion pack.

(Falcon license required. Not compatible with UVI Workstation.)

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INTERFACE

INTERFACE » MAIN » INFO

MACROS

Same as Falcon Factory Content, Cinematic Shades’

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patches have been programed with macros which
provide users with easy access to the ‘key’ parameters
of each patch. These may be controlled via MIDI, OSC,
host automation and Lua scripting, allowing for easy
customization and expressive performance capabilities.

INFO

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.

To change the layout of the macro controls, press the
EDIT button in the upper left to switch to Edit Mode. You
can freely move controls, double-click a label to rename
it, or access additional commands from the right-click
contextual menu. For more details on macros, please see

Falcon’s software manual.

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Press the (I) button in the upper right to display program
information. Many factory presets will 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.

KEYBOARD

At the bottom of the Info tab, a keyboard is displayed and

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can be clicked to play the program. The key range of the
program is highlighted, with keys outside the key range
darkened. If keyswitch layer rules have been created,
those keys are highlighted blue. Additionally, key color
can be customized using the Script Processor. For more
details on keyswitches, please check Falcon’s software

manual.

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INTERFACE » MAIN » EDIT

LAYERS OF A PATCH

Patches in Falcon are created within a fixed hierarchy that
can be thought of like layers or folders. At the very top is the
Program, inside the Program are Layers, within each Layer are
Keygroups, and inside the Keygroups are Oscillators. Audio
eects, MIDI eects and modulators can be placed on any
level. While patches can be as simple as a single oscillator, the
structure of Falcon allows for wildly complex sounds of nearly
any variety to be quickly created and edited.

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EDIT

If you want more control over a
sound than the macros provide, the
EDIT tab gives you full access to all
parameters. Here you can make fine
adjustments to any aspect of a sound
or redesign it in any way you can
imagine. Here is a brief overview of
the EDIT screen hierarchy, for more
information please consult the Falcon

software manual.

PROGRAM EDITOR

The top-most level of your patch, use the Program editor to

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make broad changes that eect the overall sound of your
patch. For example, try adding audio or MIDI eects, or
adjusting volume, pan and pitch.

LAYER EDITOR

Layers are used to group and modify Keygroups. Here you

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can add audio eects, MIDI eects and modulations just like
the Program level but you also have control of attributes like
velocity curve, polyphony modes and unison settings.

KE YGROUP EDITOR

Keygroups are the ground level of your patch, they can

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hold any number of oscillators and define which MIDI notes
and velocity ranges trigger those oscillators. They also set
basic oscillator attributes like pitch and trigger modes. Like
the previous ‘folders’, keygroups can contain eects and
modulators, but there is one significant dierence: eects
instanced at the keygroup level operate per-voice. This can
have fantastic eects, but comes at an additional CPU cost so
consider how you use it carefully.

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INTERFACE » MAIN » EDIT

EDIT

MAPPING EDITOR

The mapping editor allows you to define the note and velocity

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ranges of the selected keygroup. A patch can be as simple
as one keygroup that spans all notes and velocities, or as
complex as your desired sound requires; there are no set
limits.

OSCILLATOR EDITOR

Falcon has many types of oscillators including sample-based

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and algorithmic. Here you can edit existing oscillators, change
them or add new ones.

MODULATION EDITOR

Modulators can be instanced at any of the levels mentioned

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above and this particular editor provides a centralized view
of all of them - allowing editing of modulator parameters (e.g.
LFO speed, ADSR values etc.) along with their assignments.
All modulators in a patch are represented by tabs. Once
clicked, the modulators’ assignments are displayed directly
above the tab. Here you can edit how they eect the various
parameters they are assigned to in your patch.

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PRESET LISTS

PRESETS:

PRESET LISTS

Atmospheres:

Amino
Amygdala
Antineutron
Azure
Beam
Collisions
Corpus
Disturbance
Echoes from Sao Paulo
Even Colder
Foundry
Ground Loop Day
Ice Kingdom
India
Jazz Smoker
Jurassic Dark
Longrun Meadow
Nuclear Fallout
Static Workshop
That Place

Basses:

Afterglow
Biter
Circuit Breaker
Cyclon
Dark Matter
Disentegration
Dragontail
Droidslap
Farside
Friction
Heavy Metal
Infusion
Manifold
Metalmorph
Neo
Nerve Cell
Neurotic
Predator
Reese Concerto
Spinning Wheel
Submerged
Symbiosis
Toot h
Ultramodified
Warhorn

Cinematics:

Alien Production Line
Atomic Structure
Axis
Binary Star
Chain Reaction
Death Machine
Fallen Angels
Feedback Storm
Flash Forward
Fragmentation
Half-Life
Horror Strings
Inertia
Shockwave
Subterranean Culture
Transform
Twisted Metal
Unravelling
Whiteout
Zeropoint

Melodics:

Afterlife
Archaos
Bellwerks
Dusty Piano
Electrode
Exoplanet
Fireworks
Floods
Frozen
Glasstail
Hell Strings
Jacob's Ladder
Kotone
Kyoto
Mariposa
Mercury
Moonshine
Neurochemical
Reality Engine
Remnants
Rusty Rhodes
Stairway to Hell
The Box
War
Waterfall

Pads:

Bicycle Day
Black Hole
Crystal Bridge
Cyberpunk
Deep Field
Frontiers
Hammers
Hexopod
Impending Doom
Leather Jacket
mTheory
Organizer
Psirens
Rain Maker
Redshift
Saturn
Silver String
The Necromancer
Umbrella
Waterworlds

Sequences:

Action
Alien Tribe
Biome
Colosseum
Forbidden Path
Forest Tracers
Fractal Visions
Grand Grain
Harmonic Motion
Lost Highway
Mad Season
Metro
Mysteries
Real Horror Show
Shadow in the Fog
Signals
Stargate
Thrash
Witching Hour
Zildjian

Textures:

Catacombs
Comb
Dark Night
Debris
Enter The Vortex
Gravity
Ion Storm
Machine Elves
Materia
Multiverse
Planet 9
Procreation
Sky Arc
Solar Sail
Springheeled Jack
The Abyss
Upright
White Walker
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Wired

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LINKS

UVI

Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . uvi.net

General Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . uvi.net/downloads

Your Product Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . uvi.net/my-products

LINKS

FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . uvi.net/faq

Tutorial and Demo Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .youtube.com

Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . uvi.net/contact-support

EXTENDING FALCON

UVIscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .http://www.uvi.net/uviscript

Lua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .http://www.lua.org/docs.html

OSC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://opensoundcontrol.org

Scala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala

ILOK

Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ilok.com

iLokLicenseManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ilok.com/ilm.html

FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ilok.com/supportfaq

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CREDITS & SPECIAL THANKS

UVI TEAM

SOUND DESIGN

Richard Gale

Carlo de Gregorio

GUI & GRAPHICS

Anthony Hak

Nathaniel Reeves

DOCUMENTS

Nathaniel Reeves

Garrett DeMartinis

Kai Tomita

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