Cutting up samples in weird ways is 100% the draw of Novum. I need to dive in further, but it really mangles rhythmic things in good ways.
I owned MachFive3 before it, it's only the odd file structure that can put me off, the rest of it isn't so hard. You can use it with patches and all the crazy MIDI FX and still be happy, I just like using it as a sampler, sample mangler. I feel like the more you use it, the less awkward the routing seems. Right clicking solves a lot of problems IMO the tree structure brings on. I really think MackFive could be a desert island synth though, since pretty much everything is represented.The fact that you are willing to dig into Falcon makes you very courageous... To me it is really a tool I fear. I tried a few times to really dig into it, but when I finish to google every action because it is not intuitive to me, it gets boring... That's a shame because I really love UVI soundware.