Despite being sold as a super modern plugin it's been in the doldrums for years with no support or development. In particular it's not supported for modern Macs which is a real pain. It sorely needs an update  - why is it so neglected?

What sort of things would you like?

Th basic Rapture engine is fine, works exactly as it should and Cakewalk have in the past released additional soundpacks/patches for it.

Although not the most powerful SW synthesizer, I believe that Rapture is both a classic and a work of genius, both for quality of sound, and a feature set that is wisely selected and makes Rapture very easy to use. I have mixed feelings about Cakewalk "improving" it. However, features that I could use are free-running LFO's and envelopes to control the X/Y pad.

I think all he wants is support for newer Macs

Yea, an update wouldn't hurt tho I don't use a mac.  Cake did a good job with Z3TA 2, but I wouldn't want them to go whole hog unless they added something like a granular engine.  But definately expansion packs. As w/ any rompler, new programs and sounds are like an update.

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What sort of things would you like?

 
An assignable Step Sequencer (or two).  Series / parallel blending. Tabbed alongside the Global StepSeq.
 
With Smoothing, it's an LFO(s).  With One Shot (maybe a sustain point), it's an EG(s). With Step, it's event triggers.  If screen real estate becomes a real problem, simply add it as a source in the Modulation Matrix.  Then reconfigure the Global StepSeq for dual purpose.

Lack of Mac support beyond 10.6.8 is a real shame, cuz Rapture and Dim Pro are both excellent low-cost solutions, IMO, especially Rapture, which I always had a thing for... I don't care how good the latest compressor FX are reported to be, etc., I refuse to get sucked into cake's lack of commitment to mac, as demonstrated by Rapture and DimPro end-of-life (for no good reason, as far as I'm concerned), and will not be buying any cake synths and FX. I did snag zeta 2 for a cheap upgrade price, but I won't be using it, unfortunately. I'm x-platform at this point, just cuz I love me some MacBook Pro, and I need my software vendors who purport to support both platforms to actually demonstrate commitment to such.  

b rock

What sort of things would you like?

 
An assignable Step Sequencer (or two).  Series / parallel blending. Tabbed alongside the Global StepSeq.
 
With Smoothing, it's an LFO(s).  With One Shot (maybe a sustain point), it's an EG(s). With Step, it's event triggers.  If screen real estate becomes a real problem, simply add it as a source in the Modulation Matrix.  Then reconfigure the Global StepSeq for dual purpose.

- arpeggiator (global, per element would be terrific)
- assignable eg/step sequencer (same request as b rock)
- additional filter types 
- mix setting for Filter1 and Filter2 in each element when run in parallel
- additional algorithms for the dsp section 
- link the filter/dsp settings fore more elements, or insert a master filter/dsp section
- probability-based step sequencer (each step value is a percentage for the step to be triggered)

did ya put in a feature request, my old friend ? :-)

hi paul thanks for the suggestion just sent