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FALKNER AUDIO
Meridian‑8 · Polyphonic Voltage Synthesizer
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Falkner Audio · Instrument № 04 · VST3 / AU / AAX
The Meridian‑8
Falkner OS 2.3Poly 8 · A=440
Eight voices of analog‑modeled voltage, two legendary filters and a genuine triode output stage — living comfortably inside your DAW.
Preset
042 · HELIOS PADPOLY 8 · UNI OFF · A=440
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Meridian‑8 v2.3 pictured. Every knob answers the mouse the way brass answers fingers.
Under the hood
Circuits, not shortcuts.
We modeled the Meridian‑8 component by component — every transistor mismatch, every capacitor that never quite forgave the summer of 1979.
Two Legendary Filters
A creamy 4‑pole transistor ladder and a raspy 2‑pole Steiner‑Parker, each with its own drive circuit. Sweep the big amber knob and hear the resonance sing, not scream.
Triode Output Stage
A variable 12AX7 tube stage sits on the master bus. Gentle honey at nine o'clock; full harmonic bloom past three. The VU needle tells you when you've gone too far. Ignore it.
12‑Slot Mod Matrix
Route anything to anything: drag a patch cable and watch it swing under its own weight. Aftertouch, MPE, and per‑voice random sources come standard.
Engraved in metal
Engineering specifications
Read them the way you'd read the back panel of something heavy.
Meridian‑8 · Service Data · Rev 2.3
- Engine
- 8‑voice subtractive · 16‑voice unison
- Oscillators
- 2 VCO + sub + noise, thru‑zero FM
- Filters
- Ladder 24 dB/oct · Steiner 12 dB/oct
- Effects
- Tape echo · spring reverb · BBD chorus
- Presets
- 312 patches by 14 sound designers
- Formats
- VST3 · AU · AAX · Standalone
- Systems
- macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10+
- CPU load
- 0.8 % per voice @ 48 kHz on M1
- Oversampling
- Up to 4× on filter & tube stage
- Tuning
- A4 = 415 – 466 Hz · Scala import
Own the instrument
One price. No subscription. No rust.
Every license covers three machines, offline activation, and a 14‑day money‑back guarantee — no serial number engraving required.
Meridian‑8
$149
One-time · yours forever
- The full instrument, all engines
- 312 factory presets
- Lifetime v2.x updates
- 3 machine licenses
- 14‑day full‑power trial
Meridian‑8 + Voltage Vault
$199
Instrument + 4 expansion banks
- Everything in Meridian‑8
- 480 extra patches in 4 vaults
- Cinematic · Techno · Ambient · Wave
- Artist patches: Reyes, Petrenko
- Priority bench support
Falkner Complete
$349
Every instrument we make
- All 5 Falkner instruments
- Ironworks drum machine & FX rack
- Every expansion, forever
- Future instruments at 50 % off
- Engraved digital nameplate
Educational licenses 40 % off with valid ID. Crossgrades from any hardware polysynth you still own: send us a photo of it, get $30 off. Really.
Bolted to the wall
Plaques from the field
Unedited, except where the engraver ran out of room.
"The first plugin filter that made me sell a piece of hardware. The drive knob alone is worth the hundred and forty‑nine dollars."
"Meridian‑8 pads sit in a mix like they were printed to two‑inch tape. I reach for it first, every session, before coffee."
"It even feels heavy. Clients keep assuming I bought a vintage poly and hid it in the machine room. I let them believe it."