Rapture Pro Painfully Slow to Load

Have a project with an instance of RP - in Plt. Took around 5 min to load the project. I know it's Rapture as when I first loaded it into the project initially, it took that long for it appear. Anyone else experiencing really slow load times?
 
Any process available to speed it up, like 'batch-resave' in Kontact as this speeds K loads quite well?
 
Thanks in advance.

Yep, I'm seeing the same thing and this box is no slouch. I thought it crashed Sonar a couple times, it hangs for around 5 min but eventually it loads. I think I'm going to wait until they get some of the bugs fixed before I actually commit to using it in any projects other than TestRP.
 

mudgel
I decided only two days ago to get Rap Pro and I agree it is by far the slowest to load either as a plugin or stand alone. There's not really much of a preferences section where settings could be changed. Surely it's not rescanning its whole database of samples and programs each load.

... For "Surely" read "Ummm.... hopefully?"
 
'Cause that's not the craziest theory I've ever heard. But it would sure be disappointing.

mudgel
I decided only two days ago to get Rap Pro and I agree it is by far the slowest to load either as a plugin or stand alone. There's not really much of a preferences section where settings could be changed. Surely it's not rescanning its whole database of samples and programs each load.

Just loaded mine into blank project and loaded before I could count to 2. Mind you, I only have one 2GB Bank for it to scan, so maybe you are on to something. To load a 1945MB program took about 10 seconds, off a standard laptop harddrive

Blank slate

Hmm. I'm wondering if the blank slate thing is where we should be looking - maybe it's if you install (like me) over existing Rapture / DimPro installations, and it kind of has to deal with all that as well as its own versions of those libraries - there seems to be some overlap.
 
So I'm thinking I may have to (when I feel like spending an hour on this) uninstall all 3, carefully saving any user presets I may need in future, then install Rapture Pro *first*. Then I would likely install Rapture again, since I have used it in so many projects and I'm not sure how they will react to trying to use RapPro instead - though it might be interesting to find out, maybe it's a clean replacement and can handle that? Seems unlikely, but a person can hope...
 
DimPro I think I will leave uninstalled, as I have basically never used it in a project. Assuming this is the problem and RapPro loads fast, it would wholly replace DimPro for me. Rapture too but only if projects can magically load it.
 
I seem to recall Galbanum Piscis being a right pain to get working on Win7 and later (I'm on 8.1 here), requiring registry hacks, but now it seems to show up in my CCC so maybe that will be resolved?

I asked for a listing of the content of each pack, so I can make an educated decision about downloading each one. Partly because download speed is terrible here at the moment, and partly because I don't want to wade through banks of unneeded stuff. If this means that my system is faster because of it, then that's another reason to have a listing.
 
You can't delete programs from Rapture GUI. If you go ahead and delete sample banks in an attempt to tidy up, you don't really have an intuitive way to know what Programs relate to them. For instance I have 4 programs using the clavinet SFZ files, but only one of those is listed under Electric pianos, the others are things like 'World Instruments' which is the last place I'd look.
 
 

Just realised that PianoT is actually PianetT, but Youtube isn't working at the moment, so I can't see if I want that sound, I'm not too familar with it. Hiding stuff you don't want also makes CCC work faster, with checking for updates. The more I look at the list the more I want to cut it, but the installer has so little info beyond the download size.
 

Painfully slow here as well.
 
Rap Pro takes nearly as long to load as my orchestral template (135 tracks, multiple instances of Play, EWQLSO Platinum).

Kamikaze
Just realised that PianoT is actually PianetT, but Youtube isn't working at the moment, so I can't see if I want that sound, I'm not too familar with it.

The Pianet was made by Hohner and is loosely similar to a clav but the action and sound are very different - instead of strings like a clav or round tines like a Rhodes they have flat metal 'reeds', a bit like a Wurli - but instead of being struck by hammers or the like they are excited by a kind of sticky pad attached to the keys pulling away from the reed. It's a cool, unique sound - I've played and recorded on a real one and it's weird and very cool. There were some hits that featured it... "She's Not There", "Louie Louie", "Joy To The World"...

RapPro was never to the point of painful loading here, but I have gained huge improvement by adding flac/wav/mp3 types to the exclude types list in my antivirus, along with the Cake content directly and the Sonar process.
 
I use Windows Defender

I have installed -
 
Dimension Pro
E-MU Proteus -
   Mo' Phatt
   Planet Earth
   Proteus 2000
   PX-7 Drums
   Virtuoso 2000
   Xtreme Lead 1
DSF Symphonic Strings HD
DSF Vol 3 Vocal Expressions
DSF Ultra Modern Synthesizers
DSF Vol 7 Accoustic Kits
Gibson EB5 Bass
Platinum Samples Rock Legends Kit 1 and 2
Dim Pro Holiday Pack
Andy Johns Kit 1
 
 
Rapture
DSF Dance Tools
DSF Analog Digital Synth Resource
DSF Synthesizer Rage
Encanti Haunted EDM
Galbanum Piscis
Muz4um
 
Rapture Pro
DSF Vol 3 Vocal Expressions
DSF Ultra Modern Synthesizers
Galbanum Piscis
These 3 also installed for Rapture Pro (the others above didn't show up for download and installation under Rapture Pro in CCC)
 
Loading Rapture Pro Stand Alone is roughly 3 seconds
Loading Rapture Pro into a project with various other audio tracks and vst's, BFD3 etc, approx the same 3 seconds
Loading Rapture Pro into a blank Project, approx 3 seconds to load it and tracks, then approx 3 seconds for Rapture Pro to open when clicked on
Sometimes rarely it has taken a little longer, but nothing excessive, 10/15 seconds at the most, but usually it's as above. (I think I placed the above in the correct lists, one or 2 may be listed under Dim Pro but should be Rapture and visa versa, but I think it is correct)
 

subtlearts

BobF
RapPro was never to the point of painful loading here, but I have gained huge improvement by adding flac/wav/mp3 types to the exclude types list in my antivirus, along with the Cake content directly and the Sonar process.

Whoa. That sped up my load time from about 3 minutes to about 40 seconds, which is still pretty bad but a huge improvement. Thanks for that! I've never seen anyone else mention this anywhere - I'm going to see what else it can speed up (obviously it doesn't make sense to use it to speed up your internet browser or anything else that ought to be scanned continuously). Other people with slow load times - give this a try!

Someone else posted it here in the forums ... I wish I could remember who.

Yep. I can confirm.

subtlearts
OK I managed to get around to uninstalling all three - Rapture, Rapture Pro and Dimension. And then did a clean re-install of RapturePro first. followed by Rapture. And guess what? It loads pretty quickly now. Like, well under 10 seconds. That's down from 4 minutes or so.
 
So, it looks like there may be a problem with installing it over existing Rapture and/or DimPro installations. YMMV, but here it more or less completely solved the problem The first load with new content is a bit slower, but after that it's smooth sailing. Yay!

Looks like this is the way to go...going to try the files exclusion in MS Essentials first before going down that road though.