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sircuit · Post by **sircuit** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:15 pm

tedannemann wrote:In Logic Pro X touch automation isn't working. Is this due to the demo version or some missing response from Rapid?

Neither in Ableton Live (macOS) as it should, but Ableton is smart and at least knows the last used knob.

tedannemann · Post by **tedannemann** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:28 pm

sircuit wrote:
tedannemann wrote:In Logic Pro X touch automation isn't working. Is this due to the demo version or some missing response from Rapid?
Neither in Ableton Live (macOS) as it should, but Ableton is smart and at least knows the last used knob.

Is this the full version or the demo version?

sircuit · Post by **sircuit** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:29 pm

Demo here.

db3 · Post by **db3** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:29 pm

Great to finally see Rapid on mac, liking what I'm hearing so far.

*edit*
Unlike Avenger, I can run multiple instances and there's no hint of the fan rushing to rescue the GPU...but
I can still see that CPU almost doubles with GUI open (even with just the browser screen). I've not really noticed GUI's having such an effort before Avenger and Rapid. CPU-wise it seems more hungry than Avenger.

MirkoVanHauten · Post by **MirkoVanHauten** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:49 pm

-The installer is not verified. In default the installer will not open!
-One of the versions caused Studio One to completely freeze during the first plugin scan. A mac restart was necessary. I cannot say which one because both got blacklisted. I was not able to reproduce afterwards.
-Even in HQ 60fps the ui felt very sluggish. (AU+VST)
-Right after loading a preset I get massive CPU spikes and dropouts. They hold up to 2 seconds. (AU+VST)
-The preset loading time from my SSD is pretty high. For example "Splitted Caribic Sunset 2" takes up to 6 or 7 seconds. (AU+VST)
-Touch automation is not working. (AU)
-Sometimes while tuning knobs the ui starts flickering and I can see the mouse arrow. (AU)
-Knob handling is uncommon: If I turn a knob to 100% and keep moving the mouse, I have to move the mouse the same distance in opposite direction before the knob is reacting to the mouse movement again. I expected the mouse movement to "clip" and as soon as I move it into another direction the knob should reflect this. (AU+VST)
-I played a saw and automated a macro to control the LP filter. When automating this macro the filter closes as expected but it sounded very steppy. (AU+VST) I uploaded a short clip: https://soundcloud.com/user-885002749/r ... ionlpsteps

Tested with Presonus Studio One, 44.1khz, 256samples buffersize, MacOS Sierra

tedannemann · Post by **tedannemann** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:56 pm

MirkoVanHauten wrote: -Touch automation is not working. (AU)
-Sometimes while tuning knobs the ui starts flickering and I can see the mouse arrow. (AU)
-Knob handling is uncommon: If I turn a knob to 100% and keep moving the mouse, I have to move the mouse the same distance in opposite direction before the knob is reacting to the mouse movement again. I expected the mouse movement to "clip" and as soon as I move it into another direction the knob should reflect this. (AU+VST)

Yep, these three things really bother me too. All the other stuff I could (currently) live with as it seems to perform overall quite well on my system. But the knob movement is a pain.

Besides that I am quite suprised how good it sounds. It's one of those synths with some sort of "mojo". I own Avenger and think it's an unbelievable good synth - but it lacks of "mojo".

sircuit · Post by **sircuit** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 8:28 pm

Mojo or not, going back to the synths that actually work. It was a good talk guys

woodsdenis · Post by **woodsdenis** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 8:32 pm

Knobs are very unresponsive when GUI displays wave form. Fairly high CPU here, not unusable but not in the low -med territory. It certainly sounds nice .

tedannemann · Post by **tedannemann** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 12:53 pm

I couldn't resist and bought it anyway. It just sounds too good. I am confident that the few flaws on Mac will be fixed soon.
Mirko Ruta did an amazing job with these factory presets. Sound and GUI wise I prefer Rapid over Avenger - It's more musical to me, it's easier to get to the point - sound wise.
Great synth!

Mirko R. · Post by **Mirko R.** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 1:34 pm

Hi at all.
At the moment i create a new Extension for Parawave RAPID. All Sounds you hear are presets for it. The drums are also synthetic and live generated, I doesn' use any samples. Just RAPID synthesizer. Hope you like it.

https://soundcloud.com/mirkoruta/rapid-funky-demo

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 2:04 pm

Bought it last night... Definitely up there with my favourite synths.

It sounds great and to think you can stack it with 8 layers. Great job chaps!

woodsdenis · Post by **woodsdenis** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:15 am

Any update on fixing Mac issues ?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:18 am

Mirko R. wrote:Hi at all.
At the moment i create a new Extension for Parawave RAPID. All Sounds you hear are presets for it. The drums are also synthetic and live generated, I doesn' use any samples. Just RAPID synthesizer.

huh? I thought this was a wavetable synth so surely even the built in sounds are sample based? Does it do physical modelling too?

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:25 am

Mirko R. wrote:Hi at all.
At the moment i create a new Extension for Parawave RAPID. All Sounds you hear are presets for it. The drums are also synthetic and live generated, I doesn' use any samples. Just RAPID synthesizer. Hope you like it.

https://soundcloud.com/mirkoruta/rapid-funky-demo

Great stuff

Love that twacky thing playing on the background

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:27 am

aMUSEd wrote:
Mirko R. wrote:Hi at all.
At the moment i create a new Extension for Parawave RAPID. All Sounds you hear are presets for it. The drums are also synthetic and live generated, I doesn' use any samples. Just RAPID synthesizer.
huh? I thought this was a wavetable synth so surely even the built in sounds are sample based? Does it do physical modelling too?

Wavetable is NOT = sample based. This word created a lot of confusion when the Windows soundcards appeared in the end of 80s and during 90s, because they had, in fact, a ROM sample memory that was called "wavetable". But wavetable synths (in the way Waldorf created the term) are in fact tables of (in that case 64) synthetic single cycle waves, that can be read statically (just one wave of the table) or dynamically (sweeping the wavetable, changing from one wave to another during the same note). These could be gererated thorugh purely additive synthesis or through resynthesis, but in any case, they were not "samples".

OTOH, Rapid can also use samples, and it has some built-in (althoug, AFAIK, we cannot import our own, at least for the time being).

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