Rapture Question

(3v, 5v, 7v, 9v). AFAIK that works with the multisamples in Raptures folder. A different thing called wavetable. But not with wavefiles. Now you can take a wave file load it into different elements and detune them individually. But a single cycle wave table is what you need for that multi function.

I don't use a mac but I can get the drop down menu. Rclick in the window that displays the patch name for the dropdown.

Those patches are different? You are too high. The window is in the GUI. Just below.

You can load a single wave file multiple times-up to six and then tune that file slightly different for eack instance with pan and get something big similer then using sample offset/delay set to velocity in the midi matrix for really big sounds.

Yeah, I am talking about the GUI. There is a little triangle next to the patch name, and this calls up the 8 most recent sounds. Whether I right or left click on the patch name, it calls up the browser. It's not a huge deal, I just find it a bit counter intuitive. I was happy to discover that you could at least cycle through the waveforms by clicking on the name, though.

And yeah, I figured I could load the sample into multiple elements and detune them that way, I was just hoping there would be a way to do it in a single element so I could have the other elements free for other stuff. I did manage to get my SQ-80 waveforms loaded in there, and MAN does it sound monsterous when using Multi. Chorus really isn't an option for me, as I don't like the way it softens the attack of sounds.

Anyway, thanks for the help, guys!

Ok, here what I just did. One new folder with a single wavefile copied to it.

A text file containing this this was put in the folder with the wave file and renamed to .sfz

<region>
sample=your wave file name
pan=-70
tune=-10

<region>
sample=you sample file name
pan=70
tune=10
offset=350

As you can see the same file was loaded twice with 1 panned left 1 panned right but not hard, each file was offset in pitch by 10 cents for a total diff of 20 cents and the last sample file was offset by 350 samples such that it started just a touch latter. The resulting sfz file loaded the wave files into Rapture set to the sfz settings using only one element. If you would like to take this a step farther copy/paste the 2 regions again and paste below and alter the setting such that you will now have the same file loaded in 4 times each with a specific pan/tune/offset for a really fat silgle file load off your one sample.

The sfz format is so powerful you can set any parameter in the gui plus some that are not for a total control over your sound from a single element. You can also load up more than one file but bear in mind unless you want to exactly set the location the wavefile must be in the folder with the sfz file you created within a text editor. This is exactly the same as loading in the same wave file in the GUI and setting the detune parameters with the addition of sample offset for a thicker sound.

Please note I do not use a MAC so I am unaware of the differences between it and windows. please modify these instructions to suit your machine. Also note that when you use this sfz you load the sfz and not the wave file. the sfz will then load the wave file and set per it's instructions.

Oh but sir you are very wrong you can load anywave table using sfz with the opcode wavetable_on? And this means you can mix and match as many singlecycles with volume setting there level into a single element.

Lawapa is correct. Using sfz, any amount of layers can be loaded in a single element, either if they're wavetables, samples, or a combination of both. Each layer can have its own tuning/detuning, pan position, etc.


-René