Universal 120 for Rapture Released!

It looks nice, Chad. However, it would be great to have some of the basic programs sounds to listen to, rather than songs.

Still may have to check it out.

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What is the footprint on this ????? Looks mighty interesting !!

Wow...this is exciting...700 !!?! step generator presets....that's incredible.

This is going on my "to buy" list. So many great products...so little cash.

Thanks for what looks to be an awesome expansion.

--SmokeyJ

This XP pack is nice! I used it on my latest track titled Pathogen. there is some sic content included,.. well worth it!

nice work guys!!

Cool - I'll add it to my wish list

WOW!!!

UNIVERSAL 120 ATE MY EARS!!!

Bought it, Love it!

Thanks <er> fisound!

I may start writing again -oh noes!!!

Nice work Chad!

Ya, something has to be done about the LFO situation....

Please, Cakewalk, just allow them to be loaded in the same fashion as Oscillators... Then they will be unlimited, and the problem is solved... and we can all be as pig-ish as we want with our expansion packs... ;-)

I would honestly think so.

I intend to use some of the patches for film sound/mood effects.

But there's enough here for everyone - plus they included enough content for the programmer types to modify to their hearts content...

Full Disclosure: I am not a beta tester for this product, but I am a satisfied customer.

Thanks to everyone for the support. Chad & I put quite a few months into this package, because we wanted to build something different. We're both ardent Rapture enthusiasts, and we set out to create something that we would use. One objective was to pack in as much useful content as we could, while trying to cover many different styles of music. Another target was to keep the price affordable. Times are tough for everyone, and this is a discretionary purchase.

I don't disagree with the discussion of the LFO limitations here. The writing was on the wall for that problem ever since Rapture was released. I'm not sure if it was expected that the UD-LFO feature would get the workout that it has in nearly every Expansion Pack. But I've got to give René big props for adding the step generator and envelope presets to version 1.2.x. Huge potential there: logical folder organization, unlimited (?) storage, parameters like the new EG retrigger steps being saved, ...

In many (but nowhere near all) cases, you can substitute a looping envelope, or a smoothed StepGen sequence, and 'emulate' an LFO perfectly. Hey, the LFOs are just smoothed step sequences anyway. If you can get away with the unipolar characteristic of EGs and SGs, think of it in terms of how an LFO behaves. It's fair to say that I included hundreds of examples of this kind of approach among the 1300+ .sg and .eg presets in U-120.

I didn't know that Chad and you work together.

First-time collaboration with Universal 120. We had been talking about putting something together for a long time, and U-120 is the result. Chad's a great guy, and a deeply creative & intelligent person to partner up with. The two of us had been heading in parallel, yet independent directions for an XP. But when we put them together, it all meshed in such a way as to achieve a broadened scope over the two original paths.

We placed Universal 120 under the Fisound header, but the concept extends much further than that. There are several more projects in the works with more up & coming sound designers; for Rapture, along with several other popular synths. The plan was to have U-120 at the tip of the virtual iceberg.

We're not done with Universal 120, though. We have several more audio demos 'in the can', plus video, enhanced tutorials, and perhaps an "Expanded Pack" for U-120 in the works. For example, I did a couple of 'period' pieces from the '40s and the '70s-'80s, as proof-of-concept.

The songs are built from 100% Rapture instances, using stock presets. Any 'effects' found there are introduced with channel aftertouch and/or CC1 (mod wheel) movement. Any panning or layering is the result of combining stereo wavetables, parallel DSP routing, and 'Width' effects.

the UK price was £28.79..(well when I bought it yesterday)

More is always good :)

You guys need help. Doctors, that's what I mean. Seriously.

Coming from you, René, I consider that to be the highest compliment.    Thanks for everything; especially the inspiration.
 
For those who have been asking about the 'Demo' / 'Bonus' / 'Expanded' Pack, I can say that it's still coming.  Chad & I have been pressed for time in two different directions, and it'll continue to be that way for at least the next few weeks.  We've been kicking around the ideas, though, and I'd like to ask what the preferences might be here:
 
 
- A all-new mini-version of the complete Universal 120 set.  A dozen programs, a dozen wavetables, 12 Elements, 12 envelopes, etc.  These numbers aren't firm; just as an example.  Equal amounts of each type of component.
 
- Just new programs.
 
- Step-by-step examples of how to build new programs from the included 'Construction Kit' content.  A-Z.
 
 
There can be other combinations.  I'm looking for opinions.
Try to keep the requests reasonable, because we'd like to keep this Pack(et) as a freebie.

- Step-by-step examples of how to build new programs from the included 'Construction Kit' content. A-Z.

This gets my vote too!
 
Not sure how I missed this post - new forum doesnt always send email notifications, grrr

b rock said:
I don't disagree with the discussion of the LFO limitations here. The writing was on the wall for that problem ever since Rapture was released.

I've reread this thread several times trying to figure out what these limitations that are repeatedly mentioned are.  It's like many involved here were parties to another thread where this was discussed in detail but which I haven't read.  Can anyone summarize what this limitation is?
 
Edit: or better yet, point me to an earlier thread that discusses this issue.