The videos make it look like they are taking some of there lessons from the FX Chain where you have nobs that can be intricately assigned to various parameters. Turn 1 nob - 3 things change - all with different ranges and start and end points.
Now, 1 finger = 3 fingers. ooooo the joy!
:-)
I love Rapture. I use Dim Pro some, but I'm way more into Rapture. I like Z3ta, but I get way cool ambient vibes out of Rapture much more quickly. I'm not much of a keyboardist. I tend to use the midi synth from my guitar and the hold pedal to create swoons of sound. That along with the expression pedal to control volume is just wild fun.
The problem for me has always been dropouts. Processor 1 kreeps higher and higher until I take my foot off hold. If it gets too high... znip+shrank+zzzzz+silence. and that's it. I have to close and re-open Sonar. There are times when I just keep playing anyway, but it's such a loss! Vibe is wrecked.
Someone posted about Rapture Expansion that doesn't work well on his PC. In my experience, like the Galbanum packs, they use tons of CPU. If you are running low on CPU, they'll kill it and fast. The ones included with Sonar are much less intricate but also create substantially less load on processor 1.
What we really need is that load spread evenly across all 96 processors.
And I mention again
Syntorial. I've completed a huge portion of the
training for Z3ta and it has helped me understand Synths SOOOO MUCH. I can now hang fairly well with my keyboardist friends and not say stupid things quite so often.
For me, Rapture is a magik smoke machine... it fills the room with a cool haze of awesome smells.