Cakewalk Instruments...What's next on your wish list?

Drum module which can read Battery 3 kits ('cause I already own Battery 3 and it's a great piece of software), and with a built-in drum-centric sequencer like the MPCs, Linns, and 809 Rolands. Fully integrated with Sonar and Project 5.

Full-on vintage synth module with sound quality and graphics to rival anything by Arturia or GMedia.

Edit - Sorry, one more: Rhodes - all flavors, including DX-7 Rhodes. Must be comprehensive and sounding of the highest quality.

An fm synth would be neat with 8 - 10 operators that you can choose waveforms and route where you want them to go. 2 operator fm synths or ones with preset routing defeat the purpose imo.

A vintage modular synth would be neat. again lots of oscillators per voice with selectable waveforms and usable as audio range or LFO. selectable filters, amps, envelope generators, that allows you to add more and route them where you want them to go.

Or an additve synth that lets you construct 'snapshots' of the frequency spectrum, then morph from one snapshot to the next over an amount of time that you input. The snaphots could be constructed with sine waves one by one, or with a template for standard overtone series for formants like female voice, oboe, cello, xylphone, and also other waveforms could be substituted for sine waves to make it fast & easy to construct complex overtones quickly. it would also need filters to find and remove nasty high and low frequencies that might occur.

1. Choirs. Huge Freakin' ones. Small ones. Humming choirs. Loud oooohs & aaaaahhs & other useful sounds (I need something to practice writing Picardy 3rds with...)
2. Horns. Everything From Tuba's on up. Leave nothing out.
(Dimension Pro x-pansion pax, anyone?)

Merry X-mas

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1. Choirs. Huge Freakin' ones. Small ones. Humming choirs. Loud oooohs & aaaaahhs & other useful sounds (I need something to practice writing Picardy 3rds with...)
2. Horns. Everything From Tuba's on up. Leave nothing out.
(Dimension Pro x-pansion pax, anyone?)

Merry X-mas

I hear ya. I been on about this since Dimension got shipped with Project5 v.2

Choir set for dimension pro.

lfo's, step sequencers, envelope generators

I'm climbing back on my soap box and requesting fractal based modulation control
sure it's impossible to visualize what's going on, but the patterns can provide a less fixed, less machine-based feel in the way they roll along

Banjo, mandolin, pizzacato bass ala bluegrass.
Choirs. Oohs and ah's, male and female would be enough.

3. Where in SOnar 7 is there a drum synth, an FM synth, and a slicer? Not a REX player, but something you can slice up samples yourself?

Cyclone.

You actually do the slicing in Sonar's loop tool and rearrange slices in Cyclone.

I want all the old Cakewalk instruments to get a revision.
Consolidate the user interfaces a bit... clean them up. And, add some new features to each of them.

z3ta+ 2
Pentagon 2
PSYN 3
RXP 2
Cyclone 2

And, I'd like to see a better Arpeggiator MIDI FX plugin.

That's pretty much it.

- zevo

I've mentioned before that Rene should make a monster FM synth. I also think it would be cool if the next version of Rapture could have some of these features:

1. Wavetable synth features, like PPG Wave, Waldorf Wave and the more modern Kubik where you can sweep an editable wavetable.
2. Graphical wavetable editor where you can load a different waveform (.wav or .sfz) into one of many slots. If you load one waveform into slot 1 and another at slot 16 (for example), Rapture can automatically create a smooth 'morph' between these two waveforms.
3. Easy to use wavesequencing - a variation on 2 but no morphing is needed, the lfo, envelope, etc. can step through the different waveforms loaded into its slots for Korg Wavestation type sounds.
4. True Pulse Width Modulation, there is a workaround on the Project5 wiki but a proper PWM would fatten up sounds, nicely.
5. A built in graphical .sfz editor! I know a lot of people here have no problem using Notepad to edit sfz files but I like a graphical interface, especially when doing keymapping. This would be great in Dimension Pro, too.

Rapture is a truly fantastic synth, the modulation options, effects, etc. are incredible. What I feel needs more work is the oscillator section. There is not that much you can do with the 'raw' sound of an oscillator before it goes to the DSP section. Breathing life into the oscillator would move it from 'fantastic' to 'God-Like' with over 10,000 hit points!

Whatever Cakewalk makes next, I just hope it's not based on the sfz engine. Rapture, Dimension Pro, DropZone, they are great but sound very same-ish, so do Pentagon and z3ta+. Sure, they all have different features, but their oscillators, filters, and effects are basically equal-sounding.

Maybe an FM synth wouldn't be a bad idea at all. Or a physical modeling synth, in the lines of the Yamaha VL1. Something that's not sample-based.