Muz3um for Rapture/Rapture LE released

Hello all,

after 6 months of work, Muz3um for Rapture is released.

Muz3um is a collection of new presets for Cakewalk Rapture, built on waveforms from vintage synthesizers.
It features also the use of convolution with impulse responses taken from amp sims, cabinets and lo-fi speakers, providing additional colors to the set.

Programming these patches, the goal was to provide playable sounds, with particular attention to all that could make them as alive as possible, featuring extensive use of modulation and human interaction as well (modwheel, aftertouch, velocity...).

I had a lot of fun creating this set. I hope you'll have the same fun using it.

A few numbers:

- 661 presets organized in categories: Basses, Keys, Leads, Pads, Sequences
- 573 waveforms
- 36 impulse responses


Setup instructions: download the file - there are two different installers: one for XP/Vista and one for OSX - from PatchArena and run the setup, the installer will take care of the rest.
A new Muz3um folder will appear in the browser.




thanks to the following people:

- all who provided the sample material (some of them even when this project was a collection for z3ta+): hollowsun.com, analoguesamples.com, john from ruskeys.net, chad from patcharena.com, antonio from autodafe.net, rory from rozzer.net

- Tom Brockway (B Rock): you were the first one here to know about this project, you were the first one to give me encouragement and support. And thanks a lot for your endless list of tutorial and tricks (of course, heavily used here)

- Paul Fogarty (aka Fog): for your incredibile attention to detail, patience and suggestions during the final phase of this project. Thanks man, you were a huge help for me

- Chad Beckwith: for the installers (a real pro work) and your enthusiasm during all these months.

- René Ceballos: we all know why, you were the one who made all this possible




regards
Francesco

...and suddenly my Monday just got much longer. I'll check these out after work this evening - thanks fr4ncesco!

wait , whats the charge ? am amazed !!!! cant wait to try it

thanks for your kind words Francesco , it was a pleasure to help..

it still works with LE also, just in case others are wondering..

expanding the vista of Rapture. Thanks, Francesco.

Can't wait to try 'em out!

Especially this part:

ORIGINAL: fr4ncesco

himan interaction

Wow, I am amazed. Thank you, fr4ncesco, for all of your hard work and for sharing it with us. It feels like Christmas morning!

ORIGINAL: torhan

Can't wait to try 'em out!

Especially this part:

ORIGINAL: fr4ncesco

himan interaction

himan

ops! thanks, corrected

Did you post this at KVR yet?

Great job,

Many thanks for sharing it !

Thanks mate - can't get wait to get my teeth into these...

after 6 months of work, Muz3um for Rapture is released.

Francesco:

I saw this 'baby' from its infancy, and watched it grow & gain gain strength though its middle development. As you know, there was a point where I ended up working away from home much more than I was there, with limited access to my setup. Regrettably, that situation prevented me from getting more involved. So, while I missed a lot of the final stages, I've got to comment on how refined this package has become between the last look & now.

Of course, now you decide to release it while I'm serving on jury duty.

But, from what I've been able to preview, the final Muz3um for Rapture release has matured into one great product. So many 'professional' designers crank out standard fare, cater to the basics only, and approach synthesis design in one dimension. Your insistence from the beginning to "provide playable sounds, with particular attention to all that could make them as alive as possible" has really paid off.

By the time an end user explores the extensive use of programmed modulations, it's going to seem like there are double the 661 presets here. Better yet, these modulations are folded into the programs in a most organic way. René's going to be thrilled about this, Francesco. I'm sure this is representative of what he had in mind for Rapture, ever since it hit the drawing board.

Fantastic work.

Well, I've been going through these sounds for the past half hour or so and, wow - nice work! You definitely captured some vintage sounds here. Thanks again for all these great sounds and, especially, for making them available for free!

Fantastic work. Thank you very much!

ORIGINAL: torhan

Did you post this at KVR yet?

not yet


edit: just saw your post there. Thanks!

Awesome! Many thanks for making this work with LE as well.

wow,

thanks

Holy cow - this is awesome....

Thanks! Very nice.

This is great stuff - thank you! (Now I have to find something to use these sounds in...)

so cool so so very much
thanks for making my favorite synth even more

Downloaded, thanks! :-) I have to go through this and Anomaly also, which I just got.

Excellent work, Francesco. Thanks so much. You've obviously put a lot of time into this.

fr4ncesco ... your imagination never ceases to astonish

thanx = kev

hey, are you that kevvvvv?

a warm hug to an old friend!



thanks to all the people who download the set, I only received very kind words so far

I hope that you enjoy this collection and - most important - go create great tunes with it

Francesco

I just took a 10 second walk through... wow!
Very nice job! and an installer too!

Look forward to checking this out in depth when I get time.
...Steven

This was fantastically done. I am so blown away. Been exploring for a few hours now. Mind blowing work!!

This really is a wonderful collection. Wow! Exceptional. Thanks so much for your terrific generosity.

Thank you.

At the risk of being repetitive, I must also join this choir of praise for Francesco's work. Incredible. Thanks, man.

Wow!

Thanks, thanks and thanks again.

This is some collection Francesco, I've spent the last couple of days going through it, WOW.

On a preset level over 650 of 'em for FREE!!!

On a programming Rapture level there's loads of tips'n'tricks to be picked up

You are one generous guy.

mmmmmmmmm Bump!

'scuse me!

Coming in late, but:

These are excellent. Thank you,
- zevo

A lot of great possibilities here...Thanks...

Awesome kit. Thanks for the work.

It definitely showed some hardcore work.

I just downloaded Muz3um. (I missed this thread, having been busy with too many projects to get on the forums regularly. So I didn't learn about this until I got an email from Cakewalk today.)

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!! I have PURCHASED presets & waveform libraries that I don't enjoy playing as much as this set. The patches are superb and very definitive. I like the fact that they are memorable to my ear; and I will absolutely be using these in some projects.

Thanks for all of your hard work. I hope this project gets you some well deserved publicity and PAID work.

the latest cake newsletter includes it, too.

Great work!

Just a comment for those (like me) who have merged their Dim Pro and Rapture multisamples - the installer places its wavs and sfzs in the default folder, so you will have to move 'em yourself afterwards.

Dear Francesco,

Thank so much for your generousity. These sounds are amazingly incredible. I don't think I will ever have to use another emulation synth again. My search for the right sound(s) is over. I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate your work. After listening and playing for a while, I almost forgot to come back and thank you, Francesco.

The only thing I can say other than express my appreciation is suggest that perhaps you could have made nice little fortune from selling this pack. It is so good, it is better and more usable than any others I've heard. I can't believe it is free.

Wow, again and thanks!! Totally blown away.

not worthy, not worthy, not worthy...


Thank you,


Michael

For anyone who has written some music with this pack, PatchArena is looking for audio examples to be shared on the Rapture Muz3um feature page. So if you have some tunes and cool sounds you've made with Rapture Muz3um, please send me a PM.

Good deal pa ....

now, if I could only get something finished instead of just playing with the new sounds.

@

Thought I would drop by, and totally say again:

what a great a set. i'm still very much enjoying and using in my music. excellent mate. very generous and totally cool

cheers again

thanks to you

unfortunately my DAW died in early August, just a few days after muz3um release
so I was lucky enough to finish the project but unable to make a couple of mp3 demos
or simply enjoy the set

anyway, glad you like it

O.K. I finally took a spin through these sounds. I have to jump in the pile. Even with high expectations from reading the other posts, I was still blown away by the quality of these sounds. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I will post a track once I use the sounds, but given my typical "production schedule" it won't be for a couple of months...But, did I mention thank you?! (Oh, and I loved the Paia Fatman samples.The only real analog synth I ever owned...)

thanks drop, glad you like it
yes, working with those paia samples was really inspiring

ORIGINAL: JoseC.

At the risk of being repetitive, I must also join this choir of praise for Francesco's work. Incredible. Thanks, man.

Another choir member here!

I've only just got Rapture and downloaded your expansion. Just a quick play shows the quality of the sounds here...and I think it's so very generous to make the results of what must have been a tremendous amount of work available to the rest of us.

Many thanks.

errm bump.. (this was on page 2 at the end.. nooo!)

thanks fog,

here's a quick demo. Nothing special, just 4 chords looping in a slow (and a little boring) crescendo.
I used 11 Rapture instances.

muz3um demo #1 (12.6 MB)

hey at least if gives people an idea anyway Francesco.. hows things ? pc is behaving itself I guess

btt

Thanks!!! They sound great :)

wow can't belive there isn't more of a buzz about this one...this is by far the best free sample set I have every got. after having a day or two playing with this one it is still impressive honestly more so. thanks again for taking the time to create this one:)

thank you for your kind words

by the way, one year ago I started with the idea of doing this project, but I had no idea it would have reached its final size
(l'appetito vien mangiando, we say here...)

I have a couple of unfinished songs entirely done with this set. Maybe during the Christmas holidays I'll find the time to complete them


regards
Francesco

ORIGINAL: JSkeen
wow can't belive there isn't more of a buzz about this one...

sometimes people like to keep what they use in their studio a secret, which might be part of it, esp sounds in the hope many don't have them. Although if you look at the hit count on this thread + how many downloads there have been at patch arena. It's a good few who have bagged it 800+ if (I'm correct) .

if someone let it slip they used it and had a commerical hit from using it, the hit rate for it would go thru the roof.. although I'm not sure ALL of the downloads have been counted.. so it's probably a lot more

Note for Vista 64-bit Users and/or users who choose custom folder locations for their software installation:

You will need to manually move the content from "C:\Program Files(86)\Cakewalk\Rapture" to the proper location, such as mine being "C:\Program Files\Audio Apps\Cakewalk\Rapture"

i have all my Audio apps in C:\Program Files\Audio Apps\[appname]

Francesco, please make changes to the installer or make a dowload that is NOT an installer. Use system folder IDs like %program folders% instead of hard coded paths, OR BEST: ask the user to specify the location.

Thanks for the free expansion pack. Now i don't have to trick my system into recognizing z3ta+, virus_z3ta+ AND mus3um_zeta+ VSTi (i have success with the first two, but could not install the third - so i am thankful for you releasing a Rapture version, despite the installer faults.

Best wishes,

-jace cavacini

thanks Jace

the installer was made by Chad Beckwith, so all I can do at the moment is notify him of your issue.
This evening (now it's 7.50 am here) I will upload a simple zip file.

ciao
Francesco

ORIGINAL: dysamoria

Note for Vista 64-bit Users and/or users who choose custom folder locations for their software installation:

You will need to manually move the content from "C:\Program Files(86)\Cakewalk\Rapture" to the proper location, such as mine being "C:\Program Files\Audio Apps\Cakewalk\Rapture"

i have all my Audio apps in C:\Program Files\Audio Apps\[appname]

Francesco, please make changes to the installer or make a dowload that is NOT an installer. Use system folder IDs like %program folders% instead of hard coded paths, OR BEST: ask the user to specify the location.

Thanks for the free expansion pack. Now i don't have to trick my system into recognizing z3ta+, virus_z3ta+ AND mus3um_zeta+ VSTi (i have success with the first two, but could not install the third - so i am thankful for you releasing a Rapture version, despite the installer faults.

Best wishes,

-jace cavacini

Hey Jace,

I'll look into this, the installer should be looking at the registry for the Multisample folder location. Luckily the power users who have customized their installation know how to quick fix and move their files post-install.
Cheers,
Chad

<EDIT>

I looked into this and the installer should be working. It seems as though you may have moved Rapture's contents without creating a custom Multisamples path within the registry. See the following post from René:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.asp?m=825357

ORIGINAL: René
The 'Multisamples Folder' registry entry works in Rapture as well. The installer doesn't create it, basically because Rapture factory multisample set is tiny (about 1MB), but you can create it yourself and in this way relocate Rapture multisamples folder anywhere in your system (I have it relocated *inside* DP multisamples folder myself). It's HKLM\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Rapture\Multisamples Folder (szstring).

I had reinstalled XP a couple days ago, and this is one of the things I put back on there when reinstalling Sonar 7 and all my softsynths.

I just wanted to give it a well deserved "BUMP"

Thanks