I would like to ask a favor...I'm trying to determine if there is a pattern to people's favorite patches. For example, there have been lots of favorable comments about the "analog" sounds, but I expected the sequenced patches would go over the best. Or maybe it's just particular patches that really tweak people.

If you have any particular favorite patches from the Minimoog Tribute set, knowing what they are would help me a lot in planning my next expansion pack (which will be based on an entirely different, and fairly large, sample set). Do you want pads? Basses? Sequences? All of the above? Any assistance would be appreciated.

That's very helpful feedback. Just to sort of give a teaser, the set I'm working on right now is all about Electronic Guitar. In the same spirit as the Minimoog Tribute, although some sounds are immediately identifiable as guitar, I use Rapture to really mutate things. I'm finding that doing step sequencing on sustaining power chords can give some great effects, so if people like the step sequencing patches on Minimoog Tribute, you can bet I'll have a lot of sequenced patches in Electronic Guitar. I'm also using axes like the Roland VG to give very unusual guitar sounds, even without the Rapture processing.

Love the e-pianos and all those buttery organs - they're of incredible quality. Perfect deep house sounds.

I forgot to mention...there are some "Easter eggs" in there, in the sense that for some patches, elements are turned off because they didn't contribute to a specific patch but make interesting noises nonetheless. I don't have a specific list of patches that do this, but the QC folks at Cakewalk found 'em and wanted to know what the deal was.

Cakewalk, what about a discount (e.g. on a choosable expansion pack from your store) for all Leopard users waiting since months to use their Rapture?
As a let's say compensation for not being able to use it properly...

You're very welcome, Craig.

Yeah, playing inverted and mirrored sequences together (i.e. 2 instances of Rapture, although you could probably do something like it with two elements...) is a HUGE source of instant grooves!

I have to say, I am kind of proud that you hadn't thought of that. I have been reading your writing for decades! I am very happy to give back a little...

Doc DROP

Good question...first of all, yes, the Minimoog did do legato. But I guess for these questions, it's a question of personal preference (or a different way that fat fingers work!). With bass and lead, I almost always want to have a strong attack, and in legato mode, sometimes I'll miss the attack

Hey--I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who bought the Minimoog Tribute pack. It's doing well, and I appreciate that you're not just downloading it off of BitTorrent or something :)

Anyway, I'm working away at the Electronic Guitar patch set and it should be done in time for Summer NAMM. I gotta say Rapture continues to impress me more and more, even after all these months...what a great synth. Congrats to Cakewalk for winning a MIPA for it, it's deserved.

I did the Rapture Full + Moog Pack deal last month and I'm still in bewilderment mode {after getting expansion packs, Craig's Moog pack, that patch site stuff and those crazy mellotrons} but the one patch that has stood out for me is the Brass_Analog and that sawf2 waveform. Something about that patch is so pure and the touch sensitivity and expressiveness is all there. I took the effects off the 2 elements and the global and do a little chorus with my old deltalab 1024 delay and some real spring reverb but the soul of that sample is what speaks. The expressive variations you can do with just velocity and envelopes is what I'm savoring at the moment. It sounds good in every octave and at the very very bottom it does that cool chugging seq thing all by itself. I loaded that waveform into Nanowave in Reaktor and it sounds great there, too but lacks the touchy expressive qualities of the Rapture patch.

I'm not particularly bonding with any of the sequenced stuff {except doing some crazy big extreme panning sequences} but that will be another day.

Thanks Craig!

do you have an ETA for this yet?

I have a ton of raw material that I use every day, cryo. It may be enough to release right now, with a little refinement, but there are a couple of items that have been holding me back from doing so.

For one, the Soundtower editor for the ADR III had some serious flaws for deep editing. In any kind of 'emulation', I'd like to include the original ADR III presets as a base, then layer on my custom presets over that. My current editor forces many parameters to be 'stepped through' from the hardware itself, and that's a very tedious process.

I do see an update to the editor, and I'm in the process of downloading it right now. Thanks for the unintentional reminder to check this out.

Secondly, I was waiting on something that will make my collection here explode with possibilities. It's that good. But without a defined ETA on that, I can't really tell you how soon afterwards I would put out my take on the enhanced capabilities.

I'm still working on the Electronic Guitar Expansion Pack...I'd hoped to have it done by now, but you know how it goes :)

And yes, the AdrenaLinn is wonderful! I did an entire loop CD for M-Audio based around playing guitar through the AdrenaLinn2.