Great news: Rapture 1.1 free update coming

It's old news for me, but that's only because I've been making presets to show off the new features.

[[Let the new feature speculation begin ... ]]

Wow I have no idea. Rapture and Dimension are the vsti synths that keep on giving.
New banks, now two sets each and now an upgrade.
Perhaps it is a way of putting it way ahead of Monster and other competitive vsti synths.
What wonderful news this is!
I wish we could pry some of the secrets out of Frank.
Well by his talking we know that there will be included some new banks. So this is expansion bank set three with new features added. How cool is that?

Frank,

glad to know what you can tell. And always nice to have more presets. The world waits ...

I hope they include a control to adjust the sound quality output like rgcAudio's previous synths. At the moment, Rapture ships with a medium-quality sound output by default. To get the highest quality sound, you have to do a registry hack.

Shayne

ORIGINAL: Shayne White

I hope they include a control to adjust the sound quality output like rgcAudio's previous synths. At the moment, Rapture ships with a medium-quality sound output by default. To get the highest quality sound, you have to do a registry hack.

Shayne

How can you say that Rapture (and Dimension ) ships with a medium quality output by default?

This info is quite misleading especially to future buyers of DimPro and Rapture.
It shouldve said: "At the moment, Rapture ships with a medium-quality sound output by default with MY DAW configuration."

Background info is important here.

I wonder if we will need to redesign the skins to be compatible

So....how much longer?!?!

Steinberg

Check out René at namm - his take on Rapture

http://www.harmony-central.com/theater/wnamm07_p2.html

René at namm - his take on Rapture

... Rapture 1.1. Aha! There's a leak! And one from the most reliable of sources.

I've not exausted all the fun stuff I can do with 1.0

I don't think that anyone can honestly say that they've exhausted the possibilities in 1.0, Larry. That's OK, though: I'll take more. After analyzing this video clip like it was the Zapruder film, here's what I can glean of of it so far:

Tempo Sync for the envelopes: This is cool; something that most everyone wanted. I was never very taken by this before, but I can see some extensive possibilities now. For one, you can now build an envelope, and easily change the length of it proportionally to everything else going on.

DSP section and routings: Did you guys catch this? It looks to me like you can accomplish a whole lot just by switching among the 14 routings, without ever touching another control. I didn't catch all of the new Drives in the video, but I hear z3ta-like functions mentioned. Multiplied by three of them, arranged fourteen different ways along with the filters.

MIDI Learn everything: Anything you can see on the screen? That appears to take The Easter Egg and put it into overdrive. MIDI Learn the X-Y pad? Polyphony? Transpose? Global parameters? This is big.

Step Generators: Did anyone notice the zoomed frames on a Shot mode for the Stepgens? Just like the LFOs now. And if you can copy the LFO to the Stepgen, you can 'store' your favorite shapes in user-defined LFOs. You may not need to. Extracting the shape of a wavfile means you can use samples or oscillators as resources for the Stepgens.

That sure beats drawing them in by hand. Anyone for taking the a piano or vocal sample (or a whole song, for that matter), and instantly translating it into a control source for your filters, or pitch, or ... We just got ourselves another set of sync'ed 'envelopes', among many other potential uses.

Program Selector up front: You have to look close and listen for this one. I see a set of selection arrows in the program slot up top. It looks to me to be a very easy way to scroll through your presets now without opening up the Program Browser.

Killer, indeed. Let's roll ...

Yes ... quite the ... filmic analysis ... B ...

ORIGINAL: lawapa

His comp has a bug that will not allow these synths to run at better setting. Got a consumer box I assume. If he'd up to a real daw with card he'd not be left out.

Well, if an AMD Athlon 64 with Sonar 5 is a conumer box....

The issue is that Rapture can't do the highest quality sound in realtime without a registry hack (or, in Mac OS X, a library hack). I've never been able to figure out why Rene did it that way, but thankfully Rene told me how to fix it (thanks so much, Rene!!).

These were Rene's exact words to me last April:

The attached registry file will set the samples to play at a higher interpolation mode, the same Dimension Pro uses for realtime. On it, you shouldn't find more than a 10% of CPU increase depending on your system settings.

What I'm saying is that we should be able to choose the realtime sound quality output WITHOUT a registry hack. Most of the time I have it set to full quality. If you set it to the lowest settings, however, it gives you a gritty, lo-fi sound that might be useful in some cases. Again, only possible with a registry hack at the moment.

Shayne

Shayne probably has extraterrestrial ears.

I wonder if we will need to redesign the skins to be compatible

Only a couple of very minor changes will be needed (i.e. new next/previous buttons, about box, etc.)


The update is hot and it's coming soon. I think it'll be out before Q3 this year.



-René