Anyone have the Anderton Electronic Guitars for Rapture yet?

Well, I have it!

Seriously, check out the video under the NAMM news...all the sounds on it (except the drum loops) were made with the Electronic Guitar Expansion Pack patches. That should give you a pretty good idea of the general feel, but of course, there's a lot more than just what's in the audio examples.

I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have, but bear in mind I'm pretty biased LOL...I worked on it for over a year, and did it primarily so I'd have new sounds to use in my own music and soundtrack libraries.

Well, let's see what people think!

One thing about the set is that it takes some time to familiarize yourself with the various options. Some patches are meant to be played one key at a time, and allowed to develop...these are patches like the "one-finger chord progressions." If you play a big chord, they're going to sound pretty useless. If you hit just one key and work the mod wheel, then it all makes sense. On the other hand, the pads just beg to have you play huge, wide chords. I'd say the pads were the biggest surprise to me - I didn't know going in that guitar sounds could be so fat when layered and processed.

Even the basses have some built-in subtleties. Most of those sounds let you use the mod wheel to morph into an alternate patch. For example, you might want to use a particular bass sound for the verse, but move the mod wheel to bring up an alternate version for the chorus. Or you can simply think of it as having double the number of bass patches :)

So, Electronic Guitars is a somewhat "deeper" set of patches than the Minimoog Tribute pack. Lots of mod wheel options bring different elements in and out, for example, to add ornaments to the step-sequenced patches. You can hear a lot of this on the video, but it's a different experience to be sitting in front of a keyboard and morphing a patch to fit the song.

ORIGINAL: Anderton

Well, let's see what people think!

One thing about the set is that it takes some time to familiarize yourself with the various options. Some patches are meant to be played one key at a time, and allowed to develop...these are patches like the "one-finger chord progressions." If you play a big chord, they're going to sound pretty useless. If you hit just one key and work the mod wheel, then it all makes sense. On the other hand, the pads just beg to have you play huge, wide chords. I'd say the pads were the biggest surprise to me - I didn't know going in that guitar sounds could be so fat when layered and processed.

Even the basses have some built-in subtleties. Most of those sounds let you use the mod wheel to morph into an alternate patch. For example, you might want to use a particular bass sound for the verse, but move the mod wheel to bring up an alternate version for the chorus. Or you can simply think of it as having double the number of bass patches :)

So, Electronic Guitars is a somewhat "deeper" set of patches than the Minimoog Tribute pack. Lots of mod wheel options bring different elements in and out, for example, to add ornaments to the step-sequenced patches. You can hear a lot of this on the video, but it's a different experience to be sitting in front of a keyboard and morphing a patch to fit the song.

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the response. Your post mentioned basses and sequences. Can you give an idea of the number of patches and patch categories that come in the pack?

The screen shot on the webpage gives a little bit of the patch list, but I'm curious about what all is in there.

Thanks!

--SmokeyJ

The video at http://www.cakewalk.com/products/ElectronicGuitars/videos.asp has a section that scrolls through the Rapture browser, showing all patch categories and names of the 100+ patches. If for some reason you can't see the video, I can write down the names of the folders and how many patches are in each one.

ORIGINAL: Anderton

The video at http://www.cakewalk.com/products/ElectronicGuitars/videos.asp has a section that scrolls through the Rapture browser, showing all patch categories and names of the 100+ patches. If for some reason you can't see the video, I can write down the names of the folders and how many patches are in each one.

Thanks for the links, Craig and Fog.

For some reason, the one on Cake's site wouldn't load for me, but I was able to see the YouTube version that Fog posted.

I'm intrigued by what I've seen and heard. I don't have the cash right now, but this is on my list.

Overall, I'm pleased to see another Rapture expansion pack. Part of the reason I bought Rapture was to own an incredible synth with lots of options to expand it (e.g. Anderton's packs, Galbanum, etc). I hope to continue to see more packs in the future.

--SmokeyJ

ORIGINAL: Fog

smokey you have the 2 mentioned in my sig also? both free.

Absolutely. They're both fantastic.

--SmokeyJ

chad I think a friend had one of them, well some midi guitar controller , this is going back YYYEAAAAAAAAARS though..
although I think his one was a yamaha one (was one of them days I wasn't paying much attention)

ModWheel con move from major to minor!

is there a Mod Wheel for tritone substitution?

What would you want a PDF to include? It does come with the video but I suspect you want something else....

I bought it the first day. All I need to see is "Anderton" and "Rapture" (or "Cakewalk") and I am ready to buy.

I haven't played with it a lot, but, as mentioned, using the MOD wheel to go from a minor to major chord is nifty.

It's not a set of loops or guitar emulations, although there are some nice guitar-sounding patches. It's not a construction or loop kit. It (apparently) uses funamental guitar sounds to build pads and other patches.

In some patches you can hear that it may have started out as a guitar sound, but that it has been processed and Raptured into something else. Some patches seem to use a guitar only as a basic oscilator, but the result is nothing like a guitar.

I think I would use it as a starting point for creating something. You can browse the patches and get inspired, and there are many different sounds in there. Of course, you can further tweak them within Rapture.

EDIT: I just went back and watched the video referenced in this thread. Hadn't seen it before! Everything is as advertised. Yes, it's good. :)

Oh one more thing...ALL oscillator sounds started off as guitar samples, even the kick drum patch. There are no waveforms other than guitar in there.

Craig , but that's like a beer advertised here.. "probably the best beer in the world" .. it may well be, but I haven't tried all of them yet

I dunno what mag it was reviewed in, but like more I suspect we have our favourites and stick to 1 or 2, I mean I decided to buy S.O.S the other day, I haven't bought that in a very long time. I subscribe to CM , and FM is from the same publisher. So maybe submit it to both of them as well? .. just a thought.

Generally speaking , I rarely buy something solely on 1 review if I'm honest and if it only has the 1, well if I can I test the thing in the shop as well if possible.

yep I guess there is that aspect Craig.. the balance for you since you write as well..

obviously that could be leveled because you work for a mag, bit of a conflict of interests.. Someone here in the UK you'd probably know thru your work also used to write for a mag, but was also a distributor and if memory serves he did a review on one of the products he distributed but didn't exactly make it obvious of his connection with it

I mean if you did more stuff and submit it to a few without your name obviously on it that might work..

A friend did that with a EP he did, was rather funny when he was playing a live gig and a guy commented on how he liked the songs, how he played... then later he was at the bar slating another band.. the joke was the guy playing (a friend of mine) , he used that band name as another alias..hehe

I guess it's like the saying "your only as good as your last album".

Very good idea...but I'm not the one to implement, I don't play wind controller and wouldn't really know how to optimize patches to work well with it :( Sorry!