UVI Falcon 2 €349

Essentially a supercharged version of their free UVI Workstation, Parisian developer UVI’s Falcon hybrid synth/sampler has been the ‘secret weapon’ of many a well-informed producer for over five years now (9/10, cm227). Building extensively on the core architecture of UVI Workstation, Falcon puts multiple synthesis and sampling styles, a huge spread of high-quality effects, a wealth of scripted performance devices and more at the heart of a freeform modular system that, while certainly not for the faint-hearted, is as powerful as virtual instruments come.

Although many tweaks, fixes and additions have been worked