The videos make it look like they are taking some of there lessons from the FX Chain where you have nobs that can be intricately assigned to various parameters. Turn 1 nob - 3 things change - all with different ranges and start and end points.
 
Now, 1 finger = 3 fingers. ooooo the joy!
:-)
 
I love Rapture. I use Dim Pro some, but I'm way more into Rapture. I like Z3ta, but I get way cool ambient vibes out of Rapture much more quickly. I'm not much of a keyboardist. I tend to use the midi synth from my guitar and the hold pedal to create swoons of sound. That along with the expression pedal to control volume is just wild fun.
 
The problem for me has always been dropouts. Processor 1 kreeps higher and higher until I take my foot off hold. If it gets too high... znip+shrank+zzzzz+silence. and that's it. I have to close and re-open Sonar. There are times when I just keep playing anyway, but it's such a loss! Vibe is wrecked. 
 
Someone posted about Rapture Expansion that doesn't work well on his PC. In my experience, like the Galbanum packs, they use tons of CPU. If you are running low on CPU, they'll kill it and fast. The ones included with Sonar are much less intricate but also create substantially less load on processor 1.
 
What we really need is that load spread evenly across all 96 processors. 
 
And I mention again Syntorial. I've completed a huge portion of the training for Z3ta and it has helped me understand Synths SOOOO MUCH. I can now hang fairly well with my keyboardist friends and not say stupid things quite so often.
 
For me, Rapture is a magik smoke machine... it fills the room with a cool haze of awesome smells.

£53.49 or $58.16 at http://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4-Synth/1504-Rapture-Pro-Upgrade-Pre-Order-
 
-edit: My bad. I thought it was Euros. I stand corrected.
 

Susan G

benvenisti
£53.49 or $58.16 at http://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4-Synth/1504-Rapture-Pro-Upgrade-Pre-Order-
 

When I go to that link, the upgrade price shows $79.60 USD.
 
-Susan

The Aussie price, after currency conversion, is about the same as what I paid when I pre-ordered directly from Cakewalk.

Also, does purchasing a Cakewalk product from a Cakewalk dealer still cause the product to appear in your Cakewalk "My Products" page?

According to Steam - 2 days and 15 hours until Rapture Pro is available.
 

what hosts has it been tested in?

Andrew,
1. Will we have to re install all the old Dim Pro stuff? Quite a few expansion packs over the years
 
2. Will it be best to remove old dim pro and Rapture?
 
3. what do we do with the zillion legal copies of Dim Pro we have :-) 
Thanks
Frank

I'm going to see if Rapture Pro consumes a lot more resources than Rapture. If it does, I'll leave Rapture for my Rapture-only patches. But I see no reason to keep Dimension Pro in there, given how much more capable Rapture Pro is compared to DP.

PH68
I do think Cake should have a monthly payment option thing on the lines of Adobe.

Pay forever? .. no thanks lol
All software "could" follow that path... and software to create anything would double or triple fast.
$100 to $200 per month for a basic OS.
$20 for a bare browser ... or $75 if you like media
$10 to look at pics
$20 for viewing video and hearing audio
$50 to $75 for email ... plus fee for messenger
$50 for basic tracking in anything, $100 for advanced with unlimited tracks (I hope everything is included so I don't need a different mastering prog.)
$3 to $20 per plugin
$2 to $5 per driver
on and on and on
 
The basic computer granny would need about $300 a month to find recipes and see the grand-munchkins.
That is IF website software remained free, and not $2 per search.... or $.25 per result, which would happen to compensate dev costs.
And on the other end, people like me who create music, and photography and video, and webdev, and manage a business, and..., and ..., would need a second or third house payment..... plus!
And to add mobile handhelds ... yikes.
 
Extreme? ... maybe, maybe not.
It was extreme to think a computer would sit in your living room at one time also, and now it's in your pocket.
Just post your credit card info on "facecrack" and kill the middleman!
 
Say no to software rental! lol
 
(On the other hand, that's one way to bring back analog cassettes and print ... which would also double lol)

Are there, or will there be, any sound demos of conventional acoustic instruments?  Can that even be done with this new synth?
 
Thanks.
 
 

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]Rapture and Dimension Pro combined but with an adaptive workflow and GUI along with new sounds and features. The GUI has also been redesigned and adapts depending on what you are doing (composition, live performance, sound design).
 
Check out the web pages and sound examples. Very powerful synth and we are excited to finally announce it.

Hi Andrew,
 
I really did dig through this entire thread, and a couple shorter ones, and I visited the product page. I'm pretty well sold, even though I don't really NEED yet another synthesizer<G>... when did need become an issue???

The one question I can't find an answer to - does Rapture Pro replace Dimension Pro and Rapture? Or, put another way, will I be able to play all  my Dimension Pro and Rapture patches using Rapture Pro? If this is the case then it will streamline my workflow, which is one point that hasn't seemed to make headlines yet.
 
Thanks!

Bob In Portland
It's April 27. If Rapture Pro is supposed to come out in April Cakewalk is running out of time. 

Somebody hasn't been paying attention  ... many of us are assuming tomorrow is the release date as Sweetwater and some other retailer sites have detailed that their preorders will be able to download on 4/28/2015.

Anderton

boblettnoe
[... many of us are assuming tomorrow is the release date as Sweetwater and some other retailer sites have detailed that their preorders will be able to download on 4/28/2105.

That's certainly planning ahead!

OOPS!  Surely, it will be ready by then...(damn those fingers!)

subtlearts
I was so hoping it would come in my lifetime, but at least I can put it in my will. Grandchildren, enjoy!

I am sure we will get it at least by Christmas............  2016

I'm looking (hoping) for a release tomorrow, if not the next day, if not the next day, whenever it gets here I am sure it will be well worth the wait.

LaszloZoltan
steam (for what it's worth) does show availability on Apr 28th

Pity that was not Australian time.....  we're there already...