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

[Kumi_27]

"Legacy" from the era of green (and amber) monitors

[lolilol1975]

Hello,

Just to say that since I cannot buy music stuff right now, and already owning enough synths to plays with for a good while I'm willing to offer my "early bird" price to whoever is interested if parawave is okay with that.
Just contact him and refer him to this post.

First come, first served.

[Stanoli]

Hello,

Just to say that since I cannot buy music stuff right now, and already owning enough synths to plays with for a good while I'm willing to offer my "early bird" price to whoever is interested if parawave is okay with that.
Just contact him and refer him to this post.

First come, first served.

I`d be happy to take the discount. It looks like a great synth.

[turrikaani]

I´d like to have discount too if anyone doesn´t want to use theirs. btw nice synth! hands down best I´ve ever used, instant results. Finally feels like I don´t have to post-produce my sounds, except some basic channel eq tweaking. Great sound and especially distortion done right! no harsh artifacts...

[phreaque]

@Parawave, a little suggestion.
Let's make the main patch browser goes to the selected patch when we load the project.
Thanks

[lolilol1975]

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[Stanoli]

Thanks for the discount
...and man, those pads.
Reminds me of the Roland JD-800, warm with pristine High.
And so easy to musically modify with a new layer, incredible.
Happy me.

[highkoo]

Thanks for the lucky bird special!
If I did not have most of your competitors it would be an absolute deal.
But I do, and fortunately or unfortunately boredom drives more of my purchasing than economics these days.

You really should have an intro/sale price. Its a steal at what you offered the lucky birds, but its a bit much at regular price. Somewhere in the middle is your sweet spot.

If I can donate the sale price to anyone please let it happen.

[Gregorius]

I finally had the chance to test this synth Download speed was slow as hell even for the demo. And I instant disliked most the demo limitations. I understand loading & saving presets is a good limitation and many other companies do this too. And I'm okay with that because you can't use a demo like this in a real project. But why is there a layer limitation? It has no additional profit. Quite the opposite: Now I think that rather was made to disguise the CPU load. And I don't get why there is the limitation to 20 minutes which is waaaaaaayyyyyyy to short This also made me think about "Why does this developer don't want me to really test his product?".

The first minutes I really had to search for controls and options. That really wasn't a "rapid" workflow. And it isn't now after a few hours. I got quicker but compared to other synths it isn't enough. Two things which held me back from being fast were the missing possibility of entering values by keyboard as well as missing displayed values of some controls.

Like others too I stepped through presets at first and they weren't special. Ready to use but not unique. They did remind me a lot of Nexus. I read that some asked why it is compared to Nexus and I think it's because: 1) Nexus also has an open version only for soundesigners so it is not really open to users. 2) One growing use of Nexus are the SQ presets which also would be the main use of Rapid. 3) Essential content like new waveforms, wavetables and multisamples are only available as expansion right now. This is exactly like Nexus.
So we all will agree that Rapid is more open which is really nice But I'm not quiet sure what the future direction of it will be. But I should be before investing more than 200$ in this synth

The realtime updating waveform displays are great. Some of the FX sounds really nice. The modulaton matrix is a bit unusual to me but I got used to it. I don't mind the colors or fonts in the GUI but I have to admit it was hard working with it. Especially the size was a problem. I twice had a crash during preset change: Ableton often took too long loading a preset but it suddenly froze 2 times and shut down.

I think it Rapid is a good synth, not the best I've ever had/heard but nice to play with. Choosing this release date was well thought. Because (and that's the bad news) Avenger will be released in a couple of weeks. And to be honest it can do everything that Rapid can do but a lot more. And its price will not be close to Rapids but below. So in my opinion releasing Rapid right now was the only way of selling some more copies. This is just bad timing or the wrong product at this time I guess. An indication of this is also how many customers donated their "early bird discount".

Also what has left me uncomfortable is Mirko Ruta. Not that I have anything against him! I liked some of the videos he did for reFX. But it's very controversal to me as he had also deep insights to Avenger and Nexus as a former employee. And after seeing that there are so many similarities in both ways Avenger <-> Rapid, it might have came to my mind: well, the last 3 years he could have taken a look what Vengeance does and make a synth with parawave. He knows how parawave is handling stuff and so could "inspire" Vengeance. (edit: also came up in the Avenger thread and got disproved by parawave with a nice explanation here ). And parawave had shot in a similar direction with one post. In my opinion this is a big conflict of interests.

Nonetheless good job parawave. There'll of course be customers to Rapid. They'll enjoy it and I am looking forward for some user made videos. I'm also interested in what products might come up. Building one product is start but continuity is the key

[ATS]

This also made me think about "Why does this developer don't want me to really test his product?".

I'm not sure you realize how crazy paranoid you sound. you also go on about someone who worked on it accusing them of stuff as well. Man see a doctor seriously.

[ATS]

double

[shonoob]

Quite a nice sounding synth, tried the demo today... But I can't be the minority who dislikes the color theme. Darker / blue alternative etc would be fantastic.

[Gregorius]

This also made me think about "Why does this developer don't want me to really test his product?".

I'm not sure you realize how crazy paranoid you sound.

There are developers offering unlimited demo time. All fine. But as soon as I get restricted in any way, I ask myself: why? And often it is because the dev knows that if a customer spends more time with the plugin, he might not buy it because the initial hype is gone and more bugs come up or hidden problems. It is a way to force someone into a quick unconscious buy and I always get suspicious with that. That's all. Probably I'm the only that thinks like that because I worked in advertising and marketing industries and I know what happens behind the scenes There's nothing wrong with that, other devs would also do it like that. Most time it's the customers that are sheeps...

[parawave]

But it's very controversal to me as he had also deep insights to Avenger and Nexus as a former employee. And after seeing that there are so many similarities in both ways Avenger <-> Rapid, it might have came to my mind: well, the last 3 years he could have taken a look what Vengeance does and make a synth with parawave. He knows how parawave is handling stuff and so could "inspire" Vengeance.

Your assumptions are purely presumptions. Mirko Ruta is not a former employee. He works as sound designer on a freelance base. In such cases a NDA is not uncommon. So a leak of information between both companies is not really a case, as such a break would result in contractual penalties. Rapid and Avenger may be capable to create the same sound, but that's it. The architecture, layout and features are fundamentally different (aside from standard synthesizer features).

Otherwise thanks for your critic. The small GUI is a thing that will be enhanced in the future. It's not really a widespread feature at the moment, sure some plugins provide it, but definitely not the large part. But I think as the market slowly adapts to 4K, our GUI will also adapt sooner or later. I think atm the user base is splitted, between people who just work fine on 1080p, and people who use 4K setups or multi-monitors that stand further away. The latter are the smaller group I think.

[ATS]

This also made me think about "Why does this developer don't want me to really test his product?".

I'm not sure you realize how crazy paranoid you sound.

There are developers offering unlimited demo time. All fine. But as soon as I get restricted in any way, I ask myself: why? And often it is because the dev knows that if a customer spends more time with the plugin, he might not buy it because the initial hype is gone and more bugs come up or hidden problems. It is a way to force someone into a quick unconscious buy and I always get suspicious with that. That's all. Probably I'm the only that thinks like that because I worked in advertising and marketing industries and I know what happens behind the scenes There's nothing wrong with that, other devs would also do it like that. Most time it's the customers that are sheeps...

Man you come on a public forum accusing people of all kinds of things, that is not alright and you really do sound paranoid in a sick way. I would seriously go see a doctor if I were you.