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Elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses and tapirs

11 February 2021 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

The word Pachyderm refers to an obsolete classification of mammals which included elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses and tapirs.

Today, elephants are considered to be the only existing species of the order Proboscidea. Hippopotamuses belong to the Artiodactyla order (known as even-toed ungulates) and are related to pigs, peccaries, antelopes, mouse deer, deer, giraffes, camels, llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats and cattle.Â Finally, rhinocerosesÂ belong to the Perissodactyla order (known as odd-toed ungulates) which also include tapirs and all equidae such as horses, asses and zebras.

This is interesting to know.

Adieu Jean-Pierre Bacri…

18 January 2021 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

Un de mes acteurs préférés, Jean-Pierre Bacri, est décédé aujourd’hui d’un cancer. En plus d’être acteur, il était un scénariste de génie avec sa complice de toujours, Agnès Jaoui, que j’adore aussi.

Ils ont fait tellement de bons films ensemble… Par exemple, Cuisine et Dépendances, que Christina et moi regardons au moins une fois tous les ans. Mais aussi Un Air de Famille et Le Goût des Autres. Nos enfants aussi aiment.

J’imagine la gueule de Bacri la haut et je ne peux pas m’empêcher de sourire…

Adieu…

How I use the UVI Falcon software synth and sampler

10 October 2020 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

I have just written the following comment in Reddit to a question on whether UVI Falcon is worth buying. I personally think Falcon is worth it. I think that it was interesting that I share the comment here too:

I am a hobbyist as well and I bought Falcon in October 2018 with the 30% discount. (Since then, I’ve upgraded to 2.0 and now 2.1 for free.)

I have a number of UVI expansions and sound libraries, most which I got for free from UVI. On the other hand and by choice, I’ve bought World Suite, BeatBox Anthology 2 and Synth Anthology 2. (PS: I also got Digital Synsations for free from UVI). For me, this represents a decent amount of money invested over the past two years.

What I have now is a formidable amount of patches, most of them good for electronic music (which I do) and very complex & fun to play with. I also love World Suite as it is so inspirational.

But, here are two things I have noticed: (1) I have only used a small subset of the patches up to now (because there are so many of them) and (2) I don’t really use Falcon for programming new patches (because I already have so many of them — and when I want to do some programming, I tend to use a simple subtractive synth like OB-Xd).

In other words, while Falcon is a formidable synth and sampler, I tend to use it for its expansions and libraries.

(PS: In the past, I sampled my Kawai K4 synthesiser using MainStage. I have created patches in Falcon for them and it’s easy and fun.)

I also own other massive synths with a lot of complex patches e.g. AIR Music Technology Hybrid 3 & Loom II, Applied Acoustics Systems Ultra Analog VA-2, iZotope Iris 2 and KV331Audio SynthMaster but, now that I have Falcon, I tend to use them less. In fact, apart from VA-2 and SynthMaster, I have not really gone in depth in any of the others (which I got for very cheap through deals).