Dumb Question - Rapture

312 page Rapture manual is in the same box as the software that you bought.

Under your installation folder, in the \Documentation folder, there's a copy of the manual in pdf format after installation. It's called "Rapture User's Guide.pdf".

It's a very comprehensive manual (about 75 pages x 4 languages), describing every single feature in Rapture.



-René

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-René

ORIGINAL: René

Under your installation folder, in the \Documentation folder, there's a copy of the manual in pdf format after installation. It's called "Rapture User's Guide.pdf".

It's a very comprehensive manual (about 75 pages x 4 languages), describing every single feature in Rapture.

-René

Thank you. I'm glad to see that they hid it so efficiently Actually it would have made more sense not to include it at all from a piracy standpoint. Except for using the presets, this is one synth program that is almost useless with out documentation.

I also found the Z3TA+ User's Manual similarly well hidden.

ORIGINAL: René

Most users work with *either* the online help (which just appears when you hit F1), *or* the printed copy of the manual, which every user gets inside the box, as a very nice orange book.

Well hidden... well, the PDF manual for both z3ta+ and Rapture is <cough>, well <cough>, inside the "Documentation" folder. I was under the impression that anyone looking for information would try looking inside. It's actually faster and easier than writing a forum post. I guess I was wrong.

It's so funny. For z3ta+, we used to have a Start Program icon for the PDF manual, then I removed it because users complained about the installer adding unnecessary/bloating icons. "We don't need three ways to access the same manual". Oh well



-René

Rene

I think you misunderstood me. In most applications the pdfs of the user manuals are located on the root directory of the CD-ROM instalation disk. That is where I looked for them for both Rapture and Z3TA+. As I explained, with the NFR set Cakewalk sent there were no printed manuals. Of course it makes sense that the documentation would be in the documentation folder, but I just never thought of looking that deep into the installed directory structure, and apparently neither did Rick McNab. Anyway, I have had a chance to play with Rapture and Z3TA+ and I find them both to be quite amazing. Unless something goes reall afoul, I can't imagine ths being anything less than a stellar review. One point that you might want to discuss with Cakewalk, though. I don't think that either program is being marketed as efficiently as it might be. I'm quite the Cake fan and have been with them since Cake for DOS v1. I was excited when I heard about Rapture, but when I read the text in the Cakewalk "Instruments" pages, and sampled the MP3s, I wasn't thrilled enough to actually buy it. Now that I have it and can see what it can do, I would buy it in a heartbeat. I've known of your excellent reputation for some time, but I never bought Z3TA+ because I wasn't really sure what, exactly, it did. Now I know and I am amazed by a lot of it.

I also have an idea for a new product. Something of a more Ambient nature that would compete with Spectrasonics "Atmosphere", but with more host-synchable functions and a file driven arpeggiator like Z3TA's. Something that would be more sample-based then Reason, like Atmosphere with balls.