Parawave Rapid Discussion Thread II

[MattLeschuck]

Looks great to me on my mac. I definitely wouldn't hesitate being that its 50% off now.

Cheers. Are you on M1 or intel?

Im on intel running the latest Monterey OS.

[zvenx]

All the knobs have gone pixelated for me with this release (Mac).

Can anyone confirm this? I'm considering buying.

Knobs are fine too on my mac intel.
rsp

[syntonica]

id rather have the dev be a dick if the codebase is great. when i demoed it seemed the most performant and best laid out synth ive used. its 50% off now.

I think he's so cranky because of his original thread here being constantly trolled by a certain person (q.v. above). It appears the same is going on on Facebook as well.

The dev has been apparently working on some stuff for Nexus and has been preoccupied elsewhere. The latest extension came out 10/21, so it hasn't been 2 years with no updates.

Anyway, with VST3 support on board, I'm in.

Now, for a CLAP version... just in case.

[andresnol]

All the knobs have gone pixelated for me with this release (Mac).

Can anyone confirm this? I'm considering buying.

The same issue for me on Intel MacOS 11.6.7 on a 4k screen. The issue disappears if you disable GPU rendering. Im sure they will fix it soon.

[HydrogenHuman]

From their twitter:
"The next major update is 1.9. and will add advanced modulation features. Mapping curves for example and other stuff. It's will be pretty extensive so it still takes a while."

[chagzuki]

I went and bought it. Not sure what Parawave is doing but somehow the formant filters and general sound are aggressive in a way that I can't seem to get from other synths. And I've tended to think that perceptions about 'sound quality' tend to be driven in large by placebo effects, but Rapid seems to default to 'cutting', clean and hi-fi. The chorus sounds really good.

[zvenx]

From their twitter:
"The next major update is 1.9. and will add advanced modulation features. Mapping curves for example and other stuff. It's will be pretty extensive so it still takes a while."

Is this an older tweet? I don't see it amongst their most recent tweets.

rsp

[HydrogenHuman]

From their twitter:
"The next major update is 1.9. and will add advanced modulation features. Mapping curves for example and other stuff. It's will be pretty extensive so it still takes a while."

Is this an older tweet? I don't see it amongst their most recent tweets.

rsp

It's from the tweet they sent out yesterday regarding the VST3 update. They replied to a comment. https://twitter.com/ParawaveAudio/statu ... EpiatiPFhQ

[Neon Breath]

I went and bought it. Not sure what Parawave is doing but somehow the formant filters and general sound are aggressive in a way that I can't seem to get from other synths. And I've tended to think that perceptions about 'sound quality' tend to be driven in large by placebo effects, but Rapid seems to default to 'cutting', clean and hi-fi. The chorus sounds really good.

The whole effect suite in Rapid is stellar. Check that reverb, especially the Solar mode, sounds fantastic.

The granular synthesis algos are solid and sound really good as well. Such a monster (and sometimes overlooked) synth. Very glad it's been updated and still maintained.

[HcDoom]

Well done, Parawave. Waiting for the next major update.

[zvenx]

From their twitter:
"The next major update is 1.9. and will add advanced modulation features. Mapping curves for example and other stuff. It's will be pretty extensive so it still takes a while."

Is this an older tweet? I don't see it amongst their most recent tweets.

rsp

It's from the tweet they sent out yesterday regarding the VST3 update. They replied to a comment. https://twitter.com/ParawaveAudio/statu ... EpiatiPFhQ

Ahhh thanks.
rsp

[Neon Breath]

Roadmap also been updated few days ago.

https://parawave-audio.com/rapid_roadmap

[gExpectations]

honestly advanced modulation is the last thing i want but i can see i might be in the minority here. im in bitwig and thanks to the great midi implementation i can advanced modulate anything anyway.

[gExpectations]

As there is some interest and general discussiona bout rapid in this thread, I changed the title to better reflect whats currently going on here and maybe get more people in here.

[SLiC]

I still think Rapid is one of the most underrated and under discussed synths, never really understood why more people don't rave about Raid. There seems to be something about companies who just have 1 product (like Spire) were the updates are slow (you would think it would be the opposite with just one product) but irrespective, great sounding feature rich and nice looking synth that really isn't missing very much at all...everything is just a bonus from here as far as I am concerned and every update to Rapid has been free (there have been a lot of updates since it was launched). I don't see to many other VST makers giving an update roadmap for their Synths...