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

[focusrite]

I love that you can rename your layers and route/send layers into other layers for further processing / fx. You can even modulate the sends!

[epiphaneia]

As today´s the last day of Rapid´s Black Friday pricing... this to all you Rapid + Rapid extension owners:

... are there any extensions that are *way better* than the presets or extend Rapid into sonic territories uncovered by the presets, or are the extensions basically at the same quality level as the presets, just "more" and "genre specific"?

[collider]

Best buy in a long time. Love it!

[sircuit]

As today´s the last day of Rapid´s Black Friday pricing... this to all you Rapid + Rapid extension owners:

... are there any extensions that are *way better* than the presets or extend Rapid into sonic territories uncovered by the presets, or are the extensions basically at the same quality level as the presets, just "more" and "genre specific"?

If you like the factory you'll definitely like the XPs because its the same designer (I think is Mirko Ruta for all XPs). The demos are pretty self-explanatory.

[NWSM]

Finally, it looks great, 60fps animation, fluid, clean....sounds really great and...better than one year ago. The UE is...okay. The Musical Aspects and Feedbacks is a bit low.

Improvement:
- Threshold detection Line visuals in the Master Compressor is nearly invisible
- No dB feedback anywhere?
- Better Limiter (True Peak Visuals) not that one Knob Thing, without anything
- Better Clipping Visuals (Trying with Youlean Loudness Meter shows me Truepeak, Rapid do not)
even my DAW dont show that...so Rapid is clipping, despite the limiter
- Master Frequency Analyzer should have more adjustable parameters like Volume Range Zoom, sometimes that Loudness Visual is too flat
- That EQ Part should have more Visual Feedback, Low-Mid-High Band is just a ???
Wich Frequency Range has L-M-H Band?
- Compressor: Attack Time, Release, Threasold dB?
- painting notes in the arpeggiator should be nice, because deleting every not per click is paintful, and reset resets sadly all, the step length also
- on click solo for layers

ah...i forgot that we have 8 arpeggiators

that all...

[parawave]

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that all...

Thanks for the feedback

Mattias Holmgren did a review of Rapid 1.7, starting right off by showing some presets and sound examples.

[GMusic]

When are new expansions coming? It's been a while. Makes me sad.

[parawave]

When are new expansions coming? It's been a while. Makes me sad.

Big one coming in December. At least two other ones will be finished in early 2020.

[paterpeter]

Aww man, I bit the bullet and grabbed Rapid. I've been trying to convince me I don't need it (and I probably don't) but there are so many little neat things in it, I just couldn't resist. And after Tone2 pulled that stupid "no free upgrade to Icarus 2 if you haven't paid me enough" stunt, Rapid easily won against Icarus. So, yeah, here I am Congrats to the dev for such an appealing product!

[paterpeter]

Oh you sneaky bastards, you extended the sale. Now I have to consider getting an expansion or two

[grdh20]

When are new expansions coming? It's been a while. Makes me sad.

Big one coming in December. At least two other ones will be finished in early 2020.

Sounds good. Let us know. Hope there is still a holiday sale on the new December pack.

[THE INTRANCER]

As I mentioned my another thread here, I now have license for Rapid, it's the only VST synth I've bought other than those from Native Instruments and past Rack Extensions, and that Of UHE's Hive.

But my question is about changing the interface (reskinning) one's self. I have found the zip files from the directory it opens to in the drop down window C:\ProgramData\Parawave\Rapid\Style Data

With Hive you locate the hive.data folder to access the actual folders in which to change the images which are uncompressed.

How does user re-skinning work with Rapid ? I checked the manual and looked on the website, but couldn't find anything that relates how this is done...other than opening up the zip files and extracting them. I tried the re-zipping of the files and also editing the xml file to a new name but, it's not being found in the menu of the VST, so I figure there is more to it in that there are resources stored somewhere else.

[sircuit]

No. Its all inside the zip file. Just make sure you edited the meta.xml file to a unique skin name and have the folders inside the zip properly placed: when you enter the zip archive you see these folders and files: 100%, 200%, 300%, meta.xml and style.ini - and NOT a folder and these resources inside it.

[focusrite]

My gosh, this is fast becoming my goto for anything. Stunning results with complex patches that are easy to program and creativity is maintained.

HOWEVER I'm getting stuck midi notes in reaper using 2 or more instances running at 96khz. I've reported the bug via email

[THE INTRANCER]

No. Its all inside the zip file. Just make sure you edited the meta.xml file to a unique skin name and have the folders inside the zip properly placed: when you enter the zip archive you see these folders and files: 100%, 200%, 300%, meta.xml and style.ini - and NOT a folder and these resources inside it.

Thanks, it probably didn't like being in a folder, so the process is to extract the files, edited and resave them, change the xml file name, then select all the individual files and select the compress to zip file from the menu. In this instance I had to rescan it from the DAW side for it to take effect. This is probably due to the way the installer puts things on the C Drive by default, I imagine. It should normally refresh when another instance of the plugin is added. More testing needed to see if this is the case, I think.