Sometimes Help files are in .hlp format - that's not in Windows 7.

See this:

http://www.microsoft.com/...oad/details.aspx?id=91

I couldn't find the doc either. 

I did find this: http://www.rolandce.com/m...e%20User's%20Guide.pdf

Also there is a good video course available from Cakewalk for like $5 and its well worth it if you don't mind the guy's Scottish accent. 

Bub


I just went looking for the manual, and the OP is right. There is none.

But ... I did discover that there are 2 free expansion packs for it.

That's a bit of good news, ain't it?

http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Rapture/feature.aspx/Rapture-Free-Expansion-Packs

And there's also the free Muz3um expansion pack also, not from Cakewalk. Full of vintage synth sounds. 


http://patcharena.com/dow...59220d1dc665aa9f02fa9e

.chm files were dropped in win7. Help files in win 7 are html files

there is a file to download to restore this function. check the microsoft site

daveny5

Bub

I just went looking for the manual, and the OP is right. There is none.

But ... I did discover that there are 2 free expansion packs for it.

That's a bit of good news, ain't it?

http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Rapture/feature.aspx/Rapture-Free-Expansion-Packs

And there's also the free Muz3um expansion pack also, not from Cakewalk. Full of vintage synth sounds. 

http://patcharena.com/dow...59220d1dc665aa9f02fa9e

Thanks Dave! I'll check it out right now.

Bub.

mudgel : ".chm files were dropped in win7. Help files in win 7 are html files "

If I double click a .chm file in my win7 it opens just fine. I haven't downloaded anything.

PapaBear


I have a (probably) silly question:
I placed Dimension.chm file in C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Documentation. Pressing F1 doesn't open it. The same thing happens if trying to open Rapture User's Guide.pdf. What do I have to do so that the programs see these files and open them?

I send an email to tech support some months ago asking the same question about the DimPro help, saying, as you did, that I had the file, but couldn't get it open with the F1 key.  They sent back a nonresponsive response pointing me to where I could download the help file, which I had told them was already on my computer.  I gave up at that point, and just put a shortcut to it on my desktop for when I need it.
 
About Rapture - F1 wasn't working for it, either.  And there was no .chm file in the Rapture documentation folder.  But I found a Rapture LE help file in the Rapture LE documentation folder.  I opened it and saw that it said that the help file for both LE and full Rapture are the same.  So I copied it to the full Rapture documentation folder, removed the "_LE" from the file name, and lo and behold, that did the trick.  It now opens with the F1 key from inside Rapture.
 
F1 doesn't work for Z3TA +2 either, and I don't think I ever found a help file for it.  But, under "Options", you can click on a link to the user manual pdf, which does work.
 
For the rest of the plugin synths, it seems hit-or-miss.
 
All this is with Win 7 (x64) and X2 with the quick fix but not the A patch.
 
 
 
  

daveny5

Bub


I just went looking for the manual, and the OP is right. There is none.

But ... I did discover that there are 2 free expansion packs for it.

That's a bit of good news, ain't it?

http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Rapture/feature.aspx/Rapture-Free-Expansion-Packs

And there's also the free Muz3um expansion pack also, not from Cakewalk. Full of vintage synth sounds. 


http://patcharena.com/dow...59220d1dc665aa9f02fa9e

Hey, thanks for those Dave - I never knew they existed

Universal 120 Manual
 
Not a "plug".  But I do think that Chad did a great job of illustrating some of Rapture's newer features from the point revisions.  This is something that you won't find in the manual or help file (although the features are touched on at the Cakewalk update pages).

wr

 

I send an email to tech support some months ago asking the same question about the DimPro help, saying, as you did, that I had the file, but couldn't get it open with the F1 key.  They sent back a nonresponsive response pointing me to where I could download the help file, which I had told them was already on my computer.  I gave up at that point, and just put a shortcut to it on my desktop for when I need it.
 
About Rapture - F1 wasn't working for it, either.  And there was no .chm file in the Rapture documentation folder.  But I found a Rapture LE help file in the Rapture LE documentation folder.  I opened it and saw that it said that the help file for both LE and full Rapture are the same.  So I copied it to the full Rapture documentation folder, removed the "_LE" from the file name, and lo and behold, that did the trick.  It now opens with the F1 key from inside Rapture.
 
F1 doesn't work for Z3TA +2 either, and I don't think I ever found a help file for it.  But, under "Options", you can click on a link to the user manual pdf, which does work.
 
For the rest of the plugin synths, it seems hit-or-miss.
 
All this is with Win 7 (x64) and X2 with the quick fix but not the A patch.
 
 
 
  

Thanks for your comments, wr. I had similar experiences with Cakewalk Tech Support: never received any solution from them. I am not a programmer, but I thought that making a program to see and open a .chm or any other file when pressing F1 should not be such a big deal; unfortunately it looks like it is, at least for the people who built Dimension Pro and Rapture. In my case, these two programs didn't even install the .chm files; I had to obtain them afterwards. So, I ended up by making a folder where I collected all kind of help files (.chm, .pdf, etc.) for plugins. You open Windows/File Explorer, open Plugins Documentation folder, open Dimension Pro Help folder, click on Dimension.chm and, voila: after only four clicks you get Help! Or, you put shortcuts on the desktop: if you have 30 plugins you have to place only 30 shortcuts and you're done.  Or, as someone suggested, you can discover how the program works by guessing and/or playing with knobs. Nice and elegant.
 
The truth is that I really miss those primitive printed manuals.