Anderton
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Rapture Tips and Tricks
Harmony Central resurrected one of my articles, on Rapture Tips and Tricks, in the latest issue of their Music Gear Weekly newsletter. The article is at http://www.harmonycentral.com/articles/31095211 Which got me thinking...got any favorite Rapture tips? Post 'em here, and maybe we can end up with a thread devoted to useful Rapture techniques. C'mon, give us your faves!
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czyky
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/08 23:47:30
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To get a whole next-level appreciation of things you can get Rapture to do, peruse some of the rapture patches at http://patcharena.com/synth-resources/cakewalk-rapture/ Lots of good stuff there, great to listen to and be inspired by, but also to tinker with, take apart, and scratch your head over ("How does that patch get that wild sound?"). All the patches here are, ahem, free, but more to the point they are quality. I am particularly fond of some of the deeply wild (wildly deep?) outside-the-box patches done by b rock (one of a handful of true forum titans). He pushes the envelope by punishing raptures envelopes, if you get my drift. Some of his patches make me laugh out loud when I try them. (Okay, maybe I do have a mouse in one hand, a Moosehead in the other, so what's your point?) If you've only ever used the standard shipped-with-rapture patches, which were rushed out many moons ago against a product release deadline, you really ought to try the freebies at patch-arena, or--heaven forfend-- try/buy some third-party patch packages. Don't misunderstand, the standard rapture patches are phat and useful, but these other patches (freebies and third-party) released since then are the realizations of sound designers who took the time to really play with/stress/abuse rapture and come up with amazing "sound spaces".
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 00:40:04
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 11:03:25
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It is nice to have all those important options gathered together. It is easy to forget how deep Rapture is if you're not programming weekly like the TV guide. Thanks Craig.
And yes, PatchArena is a great resource for Cake synths, and the Mus3um sounds/patches are a must have and provide a lot of great analog sounds ripe for tweaking and twerking. SFZ resources and compilation of sources which are spread out over the virtual universe. Plus, Chad etc. are expanding into hardware. Check it out if you've never been there or haven't visited in a while.
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 11:04:23
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czyky
To get a whole next-level appreciation of things you can get Rapture to do, peruse some of the rapture patches at
http://patcharena.com/synth-resources/cakewalk-rapture/
Lots of good stuff there, great to listen to and be inspired by, but also to tinker with, take apart, and scratch your head over ("How does that patch get that wild sound?"). All the patches here are, ahem, free, but more to the point they are quality. I am particularly fond of some of the deeply wild (wildly deep?) outside-the-box patches done by b rock (one of a handful of true forum titans). He pushes the envelope by punishing raptures envelopes, if you get my drift. Some of his patches make me laugh out loud when I try them. (Okay, maybe I do have a mouse in one hand, a Moosehead in the other, so what's your point?)
If you've only ever used the standard shipped-with-rapture patches, which were rushed out many moons ago against a product release deadline, you really ought to try the freebies at patch-arena, or--heaven forfend--try/buy some third-party patch packages. Don't misunderstand, the standard rapture patches are phat and useful, but these other patches (freebies and third-party) released since then are the realizations of sound designers who took the time to really play with/stress/abuse rapture and come up with amazing "sound spaces".
Rapture is a really good synth and possibly not given enough credit for being such a good wavetable synth. Much thanks to Francesco Silvestri for all the developements and Muz3um patches. Czyky, I enjoyed listening to a bunch of you tracks......well done and thanks for posting this link!!
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 11:28:18
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Well maybe I should remind people I've done two expansion packs for Rapture... Minimoog Tribute and Electronic Guitars. I believe there are demos for both on YouTube. One of the things I really like about Rapture is that it's ideal for MIDI guitar, what with six elements and being able to set polyphony to one note per element.
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 11:46:51
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I like the polyphony idea, just never had a guitar setup to use it. I prefer Rapture over DimPro in general and tend to create/load samples and sfz files in Rapture first. So for me, you have created more than two expansion packs because the EB-5 files work fine in Rapture too.
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 11:50:38
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 12:01:21
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
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Anderton
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/09 23:19:29
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It's great to see people linking to the instruments forum. It was brought up to me that this thread should have been started there, which is probably true...but if posting this thread in X forum inspires people to check out what's happening in the Instruments forum, that's probably a good thing. b rock has indeed posted a bunch of cool tips in there.
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/10 00:07:51
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I just watched FBB video on Rapture. Really thought is was easy to work with. I'm a guitar player, so I've never programed a synth before. I have an understanding of ASRD. So after watching the video I was getting sounds that was usable somewhat!!
I just really think it's easier to work with that I had originally imagined.
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/10 01:57:33
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czyky
b rock (one of a handful of true forum titans)
"Titan" is an understatement to me; b rock is always throwing out some of the most amazing things! I always feel bad when he talks about the cool things with Rapture, because it is the one synth I never used other than to check out the interface, but does some very cool stuff.
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Re: Rapture Tips and Tricks
2014/04/10 18:12:52
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If I could have only one soft synth, it would be Rapture. Well, maybe Omnisphere...okay, if I could have only two soft synths, they would be Rapture and Omnisphere 
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