Rapture Pataches?

Just starting out with Rapture,does anyone have any patches they really like?- to point me in the right direction.I know I have to learn the program myself and Rapture is all about making the right patch work for me but if you could help me save time it would be nice.'Set your mind free and your ass will follow'

Buy Simon Cann's Cakewalk Synthesizers, available in the Cakewalk store and elsewhere. A very good resource for getting in at ground level and working your way up.

Hey b rock I am interested in 'best of show' for starters what little I have heard so far is very impressive.For practical patches I am interested in rich synth bass.My interest would be to combine techno/trance with(over/under&with) African poly rhythms(Soukus).Right now I am waiting for Cakewalk's Synthesizer book by Simon Cann.If you would'nt mind I would like to know I get Sonar 4 to record DXI's(Rapture).I can at least hear the patches when I press insert but no recordings comes through.

I have got something under preparation, and b rock knows about it...

but it won't happen soon (bad news) because of my little spare time and because it's becoming bigger and bigger, beyond the initial scope (good news, after all)

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1251592

it started as a conversion but soot it became something more challenging:
- more samples/waveforms
- more presets
- deeper use of Rapture exclusive features, for me it's still quite a new instrument
- (maybe) some sfz programming with a new set of samples, not just single-cycle waveforms

honestly, I have *no idea* about a release date, that's all I can say at the moment

I have got something under preparation, and b rock knows about it...

... and b rock hasn't been nearly been holding up his part of the 'bargain'. Apologies again, Francesco; it seems like I've been working away from home since last Christmas. All I can say publicly is ... absolutely incredible. And I haven't yet had a chance to thoroughly check out the latest.

Keep your eyes open for this release, folks.

the exact path

Here's as close at it came to a ReadMe file from the original thread. I'm not sure if I suitcased that into the archive as a text file or not.

Let's see. It was under C:\Program Data\ for a while when I fought Vista. You're XP 64, right? Under XP Pro, my exact path is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Cakewalk\Rapture\Programs\ (Or whatever ...\User Profile\... ) If you extract the .zip file to that location, my presets will be contained in a 00 - Relative subfolder. Refresh the Program Browser with F5, and you should be all set.

But let me know if you run into any snags. There's also a 111th preset hidden in there as a ".pog" file.

Edit:

My interest would be to combine techno/trance ...

I took a little tongue-in-cheek poke at that with the 'TB - Should B Clubbed 4 This' preset.
I'll have to think about some more serious examples out of the thousand-plus mentioned in this thread.

Not to go against the grain, but as has been said, Rapture is a beast as a newbie, and as such, I think of it as an advantage! Since my "tweaking" skills are way beyond my "programming" skills (even on the every day subtractives), I took Rapture as an oppertunity to learn a synth, that aside from my lack of programming skills, I wouldn't be too, too far behind the curve learning this wavetable thingy with the envelope generators...

Now, I will never be b rock, but I can catch up with a guy with those skills if I out live them twenty years. lol j/k Seriously though, look at not knowing crap about it as a plus. RTM, and possibly the Cakewalk book, but the manual tells you what everything does (though not how to use it for this or that....).

I started off by learning how to make a single cycle wavetable, no, nothing to do with Rapture, except that it uses those (I guess) or can anyway... I had to use both Audacity and the crappy, badly-needs-an-update-to-at-least-catch-the-free-Audacity, Pyro Audio Creator to make them. Audacity for chopping the sample, finding the zero crossing, and Pyro to convert it to mono.

Then, with this wavetable (or up to six) that I made, I started figuring out, section by section, what does what to my sound...

Reverse engineering works for some, but since I didn't really know what did what anyway, reverse engineering in the dark does little if you don't know much about envelope generators and step generators...

Anyway, other than the mucking about with the envelope generators, Rapture works like any other synth pretty much when using the regular triangle, saw, sine, etc. waveforms...But using custom wavetables, though 90% of mine regardless of my sample source (a synth, a sample from a record, a vocal, whatever), when loaded, sound the same (a digital fart best describes it), you really learn how this thing can shape sounds into wonderful patches.

ORIGINAL: Loketo
... I haven't seen any tutorials for Rapture on any sites on the net.

Try starting with these:

• http://p5.sonarama.com/p5/index.php/Category:Rapture
  
• http://p5.sonarama.com/p5/index.php/Rapture
  

It sounds like you have some great ideas and the drive to do something about them; keep us posted with what you come up with.

Could there be a difference between DXi and a VST depending on the way my computer is set UP?

No. There may be the occasional oddball difference in automation parameters or something, but for the most part, they're functionally identical to the end user. With Rapture, feel free to use either the DXi or VSTi versions.

Is there a something(button) I should press to get the DXi to record?

First of all, need to know if it's something other than what I described in [this reply above], or whether you just happened to miss that description. Let me know the answer to that queston, and then we can proceed from there.