RAPID Synthesizer | Rapid 1.8.0 released | Free "SP - Granular Elements"

[ATS]

nice job.

[Touch The Universe]

Wow. Looking Sharp!

[exmatproton]

Yeah. Good stuff

[recursive one]

We are very sorry for this delay but the gold was too heavy and hard to transport.

Theme Gold.jpg

Way too much gold here

I do like the black/violet one though

[Halonmusic]

Those are nice. The gold one is my favorite

[Teksonik]

Can we get a screenshot of the Light Blue one please ? I think that's the only one I could work with. The other new color options are a bit too gaudy for my taste. I've kind of ignored Rapid due in no small part to the original GUI which looks rather dated in my opinion.

[sircuit]

We are very sorry for this delay but the gold was too heavy and hard to transport.

Theme Gold.jpg

It would have made total sense to develop a method of skinning independent to plug-in itself, in the way that skins to be added at a later time without holding off other updates just ebcause they must be embedeed with the binary. My 2c.

[parawave]

RAPID 1.5 is now available for customers!

As always, you can download the update on your Purchased Products page.

The new demo version, more information and videos will follow soon.
Also: There will be a Celebration Discount on everything very soon.

FAQ:

• Mac Users. The previously separated AU and VST installers are now bundled into one installer.
• No you don't need to reload the Factory Sounds for this update.
• No you don't need to re-activate your license for this update.

Change Log - Rapid 1.5.0

Additions:

• Resizeable GUI.
• GUI 'Themes' are now switchable via options menu.
• Draggable GUI resizer in the bottom right corner.
• Graphics rendering via OpenGL (CPU is still available via options).
• Pitch and modulation wheels on master page.
• Stereo balance for mixer and send channels.
• Individual oscillators can now enable skip of filter and insert.
• Key ranges are now move- and resizeable via mouse wheel.
• Quick Modifier for Pitch, Mix-Voice, Mix-Delay and Mix-Reverb on master page.
• Sidechain position marker and preview.
• Holding shift when setting sequence steps now locks the selected shape.
• New types Formant A & B for filter module.
• New oscillator insert effects : Asymmetric Clip.
• New oscillator insert effects : Sync Add & Formant Shift.
• New oscillator insert effects : Bend Side/Mid/Double/Mirror.
• New oscillator insert effects : Overlap 2x/3x.
• Layer context menu can now reset all macros.
• Modulator context menu now contains a reset function.
• Oscillator display now previews wavetable insert effects in realtime.
• Oscillator display now shows random range, position, phase and loop marker.
• LFO and Sequences can now use retrigger modes 'First Note' and 'First Input'.
• Velocity meter plus note value in headline.
• Previous and next buttons for modulator and effect presets.
• Added various copy & paste context menus for textfields.

Changes:

• Application options menu is now available by clicking the RAPID logo.
• Mix modules uses gain parameter from insert plus balance per voice.
• Mix module can reorder the processing of filter and insert.
• Reduced key range minimum to one. Double click to reset to a default range.
• Adding a modulation via drag and drop now uses a default routing amount greater than zero.
• When loading another preset the current layer now stays selected.
• If the voicing count is set to 1, mono legato now uses a monophonic mode and retriggers envelopes.
• Voicing wavescope is turned off if scale is set to zero.
• Popup Menu for BPM Sync times (normal, triplet, dotted ) now uses three columns.

Fixes:

• Envelope position marker now also previews delay time phase.
• LFO waveform now displays the actual output value as marker with circle head.
• LFO waveform now uses a different fill method when in bipolar mode.
• LFO waveform now displays the actual random values for hold and glide mode.
• Sequences now display a time phase marker at rates below 8Hz.
• Preset browser now shows ellipses if the text is too long to display.
• Increased arpeggiator octaves control mouse drag sensibility.
• Reduced phase artifacts in oscillator insert under certain conditions.
• Sample playback preview is now displayed relative to pitch.
• Invalid or zero loop ranges now correctly play oneshots instead of silent loops.
• Increased comb filter accuracy at high frequencies.
• Copy & Paste in context menu for most parameters.
• Midi Learn is now available for almost all external parameters.

Optimizations:

• Multi-Sample preview is only rendered when displayed, decreasing preset loading times.
• Pre-Render of multi-sample previews is now multi-threaded.
• Reduced unnecessary re-draws of running arpeggiator patterns.
• Reduced re-draw performance of wavescope buffers.
• Removed modulator preview value runtime alloctations.
• Removed legato voice nodes runtime allocations.
• Speedup voice buffer mixing process.

[exmatproton]

Shit yeah!!!

[DJErmac]

[exmatproton]

Flat nosferatu is amazing! Awesome job on the theming and resizing options. Will be testing the new tech.features next week.

[nordickvr]

Thanks for this update!

[recursive one]

[*]New types Formant A & B for filter module.
[*]New oscillator insert effects : Asymmetric Clip.
[*]New oscillator insert effects : Sync Add & Formant Shift.
[*]New oscillator insert effects : Bend Side/Mid/Double/Mirror.
[*]New oscillator insert effects : Overlap 2x/3x.

Yes!

Awesome!

[plexuss]

Congrats on the new release. I am still waiting for license transfer support and then I will consider buying Rapid.

[MirkoVanHauten]

Congrats on the new release. I am still waiting for license transfer support and then I will consider buying Rapid.

+1 This and the UI were the biggest concerns of mine. The resizable UI and style is nice. But the license thing is a big downside. But will try the demo again of course.