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

[frizzbee]

i didn't read it yet, but is the ui resizable?

[wagtunes]

Geez, just a reminder I wrote this really short sentence:
"I don't know. Maybe you could come up with a price tag?"

Next time I will definitely use a wink smiley. It was just a small call to guess the price based on presentation, as the end price is still TBA. Not meant as philosophical discussion starter about pricing shemes. I never claimed that your guesses would be used as main decision-making data. The price range was fixed as development started. The TBA is a placeholder so people can evaluate the presentation without bothering about future investions. As I see know, the opposite happened. I guess chaos theory in perfection.

For the people who critize the GUI. Yes, maybe it's not state of the art, I know that. But it is sharp, well sorted and especially functional. A thing that other companies often forget. It's also very easy to introduce new modules in coming updates, a thing that all major 3D-prerender synth GUIs don't offer.

The Serialz thing from the last post is just silly
Again. A 'z' ...
Small thing, big twist of original intention.
But it's ok. I'm not even mad ;D

Where are the feature questions? Thought people here would be more interested in real values.
Ok, a new game: Here are the currently avaiblable effect slots. Guess the functionality.

After being a bit annoyed at the message that was passed along by one of the members here, I think some things in this thread have been blown out of proportion, including my own reaction, which was stupid.

As I'm typing this, I'm listening to the factory sounds demo again. Leaving emotions out of this, I love the way this thing sounds. Comparing it to other synths that I own, as I posted previously, I'd pay somewhere between $149 and $169 for this synth. This is in no way meant to influence your pricing as you've already come up with a price and you should stick with it. I'm quite sure it will be very close to my range as I've been buying a lot of synths for a long time now. I usually have a pretty good feel for these things. In fact, many times I overprice the synth and am pleasantly surprised when the price is announced.

I didn't go through all the specs in mass detail. Just kind of skimmed. But from what I read, appears to cover the important stuff. Oh, up to the guitar like lead now. Really digging it.

This will make a nice addition to my arsenal as well as provide what I hope will be a solid foundation for a sound library that I hope will sell as well as comparable synths for me have sold like Serum, Dune 2 and others.

Looking forward to getting my hands on this one.

Will an announcement be made here when it's available?

[parawave]

i didn't read it yet, but is the ui resizable?

I didn't read your comment, what did you ask for? : D

No but seriously, as any Plugin developer I would love to see a resizable GUI. But maaan it's not easy to be honest. So at the moment it's not supported. I know there is an easy possibility to increase the layout stepwise, like 110%, 120%, ... 200% and so on. But I'm not exactly satisfied with that. My optimal solution would more be like a modern responsive website layout. I will think about that after the major release, as the future is 4K.

[frizzbee]

I didn't read your comment, what did you ask for? : D

thank you. i may wrote it missunterstandable. i meant i didn't read any info about that

[toby]

The FX send feature is really stand out. This will be very useful for creating huge pads (send to parallel multiple layers and drench them in reverb / modulation fx ). Or for creating complex neuro style modulated basses, the send fx can be used to create frequency splits between multiple layers (each having their own fx). Can't think of too many other synths right now that do that....

[Kalamata Kid]

How about Rapid to be able to host third party VSt fx?
Better yet to have a modular environment to host VST fx and to be able to freely route them.

A bit crazy. An overkill? Perhaps.

[nineofkings]

A bit crazy. An overkill? Perhaps.

Definitely overkill.

[idfpower]

Yes. Hence the company doing the product should think about what they consider the "right" price. They could release it as freeware too. But then, maybe they want to make a living with what they're doing. IMO, it would be pretty idiotic not to orientate on competing products, which seem to be fairly popular, but to orientate on opinions of cheapskates, who think they can shoot a bargain, because the company is unheard of until now.

It's not that simple. Some companies already have an established name. For their products, ppl are willing to pay a bit more because they trust the brand and the quality standard that comes with it. But with a new name, the gambling factor feels a lot higher.

Now the dev has prolly already done the math so he/she knows how much he/she has already invested in that product and what the price tag should be in order to make some profit out of it; but it's not a bad idea (IMO) at all to "ask" and see if you're in the same ballpark with your potential clients. It's a good strategy (again, IMO) because it also allows you to adjust things in the very last minute if needed, instead of dropping the price shortly after the release and thus destroying any chance of seling it ('cause when you see the price dropping, you kind of get that thing is not selling well).

The real challenge though would be to actually convince ppl to buy another synth nowadays. Plenty of solid freeware and awesome commercial instruments already... but hey, good luck

[Echoes in the Attic]

Where are the feature questions? Thought people here would be more interested in real values.

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I posted a couple questions that didn't get answered:

Looks nice to me.

My standard questions:
Can the pitch bend be set to +/-48 notes?
Does it respond to polyphonic aftertouch (i.e. Key pressure) ?

[parawave]

I posted a couple questions that didn't get answered:

Looks nice to me.

My standard questions:
Can the pitch bend be set to +/-48 notes?
Does it respond to polyphonic aftertouch (i.e. Key pressure) ?

I have seen your questions, totally forgot about it while reading the madness.

Pitchbend range can be set within +/- 24 semitone. For playability a range of +/- 48 is not really necessary. I see that most people would use such a large range for uplifters and similiar things, but I think then a macro control would be the better solution.

Polyphonic aftertouch and channel pressure is not supported for now, as it's not really common in most MIDI keyboards. To be honest I didn't even use AT or p.AT. But as you are the first person to mention it, I will put it on the To-Do list ;D

[Touch The Universe]

I see formant oscillators, but what about formant filters, or all pass? Can modulations be assigned to arp tie? How about arp speed run in free mode (ie not in step wise sync)?

[parawave]

I see formant oscillators, but what about formant filters, or all pass? Can modulations be assigned to arp tie? How about arp speed run in free mode (ie not in step wise sync)?

It is not listed as allpass. But if you are looking for phase shifting behaviour, you can use the comb filter with no damping and no resonance. Or use the time-lag insert which is essentially a kind-of allpass.

The arp runs at fixed times. It's not really common to use a free mode, as problems arise with note-on or note-off events. You can realize free-running pitches by using one of the sequences an activating the semitone grid. So you exactly hit the correct pitch with different steps.

maj-scale-sequence.png

e.g a free running major scale sequence

Edit:
For the formant filter, it's not available as filter, but a good idea for an update. There is a talker effect with basic vocal formants (a-e-i-o-u) in three different modes (Male, Female, Child).

[Soundplex]

Tbh 250 bucks for a Windows only VST2 plugin would be way too much. Sure one can say it is the first release and there will be more platforms available in future, but then it may be smarter to release a small "test-plugin" first. Even if Rapid would be THE synth it wouldn't get the deserved attention yet due to these lacks. Especially compared to the direct competitors.

Is Rapid able to change presets or banks via MIDI? Polyphonic Aftertouch is also a feature I'd like to see. What about setting the Mastertune for Note A oder C? Will it have wavetable generation methods similar to Serum? Am I able to export MIDI from the Arp as well? And what about voice-limiting, are there settings too?

Too me the UI isn't much inviting. On the pictures the small font doesn't look well readable. What is the UI size? If it is not resizable I hope it will be at least FullHD-size.

[fluffy_little_something]

What is so rapid about Rapid?
The sound character seems rather digital in my view, and a bit sterile.
On that effects page the value rings around controls are hard to see on certain backgrounds. Maybe a different color would be better, intense red for instance.

[recursive one]

FLS, go buy glasses