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!

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".

Great thread.

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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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!!

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.

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.

There are scores of Rapture tips & tricks scattered throughout the Instruments forum.  Many of my own ... well, the illustrated links are broken (uploaded to the deceased Project5 and Sonar wikis).
 
Here are a couple of the more recent ones, plus a few .pdfs that were easy enough to find:
Rapture "Assignable" Sequencer from Sonar
Rapture As a Track, Stem or Entire Mix Processor
Frozen LFO Cake (DimPro; Rapture; z3ta+ 2)
Wide Load - Stereo Wavetables in Rapture 1.1/LE
Purebred Wavetables
Steal This Waveshape (Part I and Part II)
 
I read Craig's tips via the Harmony Central email.  Good refresher.

One from the past, when the instrument forum was much more active, not really tip/trick more but one I have used http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/1411016 In this case the links are still good.

Good catch, scook.  I forgot about the Mellotron.
 
Here are a couple more tip collections of a decidedly oddball nature:
Stupid Pitch Tricks
Rapture/DimPro: Bloopers, Outtakes, & Practical Jokes