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

[JonSolo]

Why is VAT included with someone like myself in the US not needing to pay it?

[Mirko R.]

Here is a simple demo I made with that resynth shit! Hell Yeah Parawave,... you did a great Job with that importer.
https://soundcloud.com/mirkoruta/parawa ... s-importer

Stunning - Kiefer aber sowas von voll runtergeklappt!

Thanks a lot. Enjoying it, because it's in German. Also,... danke dir mein Bester.

Here is something more I build with this f**king awesome,...... f**k yeah, I love this synth,.... RAPID!!!!

https://soundcloud.com/mirkoruta/parawa ... lue-circle

[Mirko R.]

I'm really sorry about that. ;-P

https://soundcloud.com/mirkoruta/rapid- ... e-importer

[sircuit]

@Hi René: regarding the installation, could we have the factory and the user presets/libraries being saved under

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C:\Users\$USER\documents\Parawave\Rapid

?

This is the place where almost all VST-plugin vendors put their preset/patch stuff.

On the same note, on mac, the location of factory library should be at /Library/Application Support/Parawave as opposite to current /Library/Parawave.

The simplest way to preserve backwards compatibility and solve this small thingy would be to let the user move the library location and when Rapid starts, to pop-up a dialog to picking the new library path.

[LiteOn]

@Mirko: Yes, this is really gorgeous. Rapid is a wonderful instrument - for those who know to play it.

[recursive one]

Random guessing game, just for fun. This is a short example of a trippy sound commonly used in psytrance based on a modulation of frequency content with an S&H LFO. I've made similar patches (though they weren't meant to be exacly the same) with Virus and Rapid. Synth No. 1 plays the firth 4 bars, synth No. 2 plays the next 4 bars. Which is which?

https://soundcloud.com/recursion-loop/p ... nd-example

First is Virus, 2nd is Rapid - both sound pretty cool to me though.

Correct!

I guess you are familiar with the Virus sound, aren't you?

[Sparky77]

Why is VAT included with someone like myself in the US not needing to pay it?

Thats a good question.

[fmr]

Why is VAT included with someone like myself in the US not needing to pay it?

Thats a good question.

You're not alone. I have a VAT registered ID, which would mean I would not have to pay VAT either, when purchasing outside my own country, and yet, when I essayed a purchase, I was being charged VAT, and had no way to remove it. I contacted Parawave, and was told that currently they have no way to avoid this. Too bad for them - I didn't buy it.

This is a problem since the changes that occured in 2015 in EU tax policy. Several digital sales platforms already implemented things right, but others did not. Avangate, for example, has a "shady" behaviour: If you are an EU citizen, you see the price with the Net amount and the VAT discriminated (the sum equals what you have to pay).

However, if you are a company, or an individual with a VAT registered ID, as soon as insert the VAT number, the Net price changes to the full price, and the tax changes to 0 - the amount to be paid, of course, remains the same.

I already passed on two purchases because of this. I will not mention the names of the companies because I think that's Avangate that's responsible to this bad behaviour. This is just to show that things may somehow be different than what they should, and we have to pay attention.

[JonSolo]

Yes even in the US I have a business which allows for a sales tax exempt status on business purchases. So either way this is not good. I pay so much US tax there is no way I am going to start paying VAT.

[parawave]

@Hi René: regarding the installation, could we have the factory and the user presets/libraries being saved under

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C:\Users\$USER\documents\Parawave\Rapid

?

This is the place where almost all VST-plugin vendors put their preset/patch stuff.

Actually, the presets located under C:\ProgramData\Parawave\Rapid\Sound Presets are intended for the Factory & Extension presets. All user Presets should be saved under C:\Users\$USER\Documents\Parawave\Rapid\Sound Presets. Both locations are scanned at start up and refresh. If you click on the file icon in the top row and select Browse Presets exactly this location will open. Also, when in the preset browser on the master page, you can always right click a bank and the actual location will open.

BTW all new user libraries are created under C:\Users\$USER\Documents\Parawave\Rapid\Sound Content. When right clicking a user library entry in the source browser, Browse Library... will also open the location.

@Hi René: regarding the installation, could we have the factory and the user presets/libraries being saved under

Code: Select all

C:\Users\$USER\documents\Parawave\Rapid

?

This is the place where almost all VST-plugin vendors put their preset/patch stuff.

On the same note, on mac, the location of factory library should be at /Library/Application Support/Parawave as opposite to current /Library/Parawave.

The simplest way to preserve backwards compatibility and solve this small thingy would be to let the user move the library location and when Rapid starts, to pop-up a dialog to picking the new library path.

The Application Support directory should be only used for static data, e.g. the Factory Content is stored at /Library/Application Support/Parawave/Rapid/Factory Sounds/.
Same as Windows, presets can be located in 2 location. Either /Users/&USER/Documents/Parawave/Rapid/Sound Presets or /Library/Parawave/Rapid/Sound Presets/.
In Logic or Garageband, only /Library/Parawave/Rapid/Sound Presets/ can be used. Otherwise the infuriating Apple sandbox stuff stores the sfiles in a weird sandboxed location no one knows of. And only specifically for this app. So if you save your presets in Logic and later want to load it in Ableton, it's not there where you intended to save it, but in the sandbox.

I guess you are familiar with the Virus sound, aren't you?

Would have guessed the same. Not because of the Virus vs Rapid sound, it's more likely the second sounds uses some of the wavetables in the SYNC MODULATION category or something similar.

[trusampler]

Here is a simple demo I made with that resynth shit! Hell Yeah Parawave,... you did a great Job with that importer.
https://soundcloud.com/mirkoruta/parawa ... s-importer

Stunning - Kiefer aber sowas von voll runtergeklappt!

Thanks a lot. Enjoying it, because it's in German. Also,... danke dir mein Bester.

Here is something more I build with this f**king awesome,...... f**k yeah, I love this synth,.... RAPID!!!!

https://soundcloud.com/mirkoruta/parawa ... lue-circle

This is a nice patch, do you have it available for customers of this synth?

[recursive one]

the second sounds uses some of the wavetables in the SYNC MODULATION category or something similar.

Don't remember which exact wavetable was used but modulated parameter was the hardsync osc FX amount.

I guess you are familiar with the Rapid sound, aren't you?

Btw, ever since I've got Rapid I'm using it for many tasks where I used to think Virus has no satisfactory software alternative.

[LiteOn]

Hi,

thanks for explanations.

BTW all new user libraries are created under C:\Users\$USER\Documents\Parawave\Rapid\Sound Content. When right clicking a user library entry in the source browser, Browse Library... will also open the location.

Nope, not over here. Just did another test (new Lib "Test", Resynthesis import) and it gets also stored in the program installation folder, not the user documents.
And this is where my question actually came from.

Btw, what you've written could be easily used to make up a "Preset Handling" chapter in the manual.

Cheers,
LiteOn

[re23071998]

Did you working on GUI updates for now?

[parawave]

Did you working on GUI updates for now?

Yes, also some general workflow features, small performance boosts here and there.

Pictures or parts of the new GUI will be posted as soon as there is some noteworthy to show. In the meantime you can post cool stuff you created with Rapid.


Love to see stuff like that. Keeps the motivation meter at a high level ; )