So what exactly IS rapture anyway?

[dougsyo]

anybody knows if in rapture you can set the lfo start phase at the bar start

Switching any LFO from sync to frequency takes it from host tempo control, and ties the phase to note on events. You can change that phase by clicking and dragging the waveform widget, or using Shift and arrow keys. Like the oscillators themselves, any changes update at the next note on event. Alternately, you can just load your own custom LFOs.

B Rock, I think the only person that knows Rapture and DimPro better than you is Rene himself. I'm glad to see you dropped in!

Doug

[René]

Rapture will get the frequency spectrum of any sample you provide to it, and will re-synthesize it to get an oscillator which won't alias in the whole audible range out of it.

It's not grabbing one cycle of a waveform and looping, no.
That is what any sampler can do, and while that could be theoretically called 'wavetable synthesis', that's not what Rapture is about, at all. No sampler, nor sample-playback synth can do what Rapture does.

Rapture can *also* play samples and sfz files. There are six elements, and you can load a wavetable, a sample, or an sfz multisample in each of those elements.

Once the waveforms have been resynthesized, they become a 'wavetable oscillator'. Wavetable oscillators can be either mono or stereo, and when they're stereo the whole DSP section becomes stereo.

There's a 'multi' mode, where those oscillators can become 3, 5, 7 or 9 independant oscillators with adjustable detune and stereo spread. Also two oscillators in each element can ringmodulate each other. The result of the ring or multi mode is sent to the DSP chain, including the filters.


I forgot where I was going... ah. Again, no sampler can perform the sound synthesis method Rapture does

[pljones]

B Rock, I think the only person that knows Rapture and DimPro better than you is Rene himself.

Speak of the devil...

[MitchK1989]

B Rock, I think the only person that knows Rapture and DimPro better than you is Rene himself.

Speak of the devil...

...And he shall appear.

Thanks Rene. I'll definitely be giving rapture a thorough demoing, as any synth capable of loading a single wave instead of bogging me down with multisamples just to stop a waveform from aliasing is alright in my book... Resynthesis is always an interesting thing.