Parawave Rapid Discussion Thread II

[chagzuki]

One thing of note, the bus layering is often not talked about with Rapid. With this and the 8 layers you have a ton of control with the routing, modulation and effects. Reverb & Delay sends that are all routed through a Sub group gives you a ton of control.

It just took me a while to figure out where the send is... kinda obvious in retrospect. This is superb, similar to what I can do in Falcon but much quicker.

[MattLeschuck]

One thing of note, the bus layering is often not talked about with Rapid. With this and the 8 layers you have a ton of control with the routing, modulation and effects. Reverb & Delay sends that are all routed through a Sub group gives you a ton of control.

It just took me a while to figure out where the send is... kinda obvious in retrospect. This is superb, similar to what I can do in Falcon but much quicker.

Quick tip, if you use the send function to route layers to a Sub Group, make sure to turn off the "to master" on each of the layers you send to the Sub. Otherwise you will be running things in parallel. I set up every patch i make in Rapid this way, with layer 7 being my Reverb send, and layer 8 being my Sub group where i can have global effects. In the picture below the Bell and Noise layer, and the Reverb Send, are all routed through the final Sub Group on layer 8.

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[THE INTRANCER]

I released some skins I designed for it last year... Find them here.

[whassup]

It says 50% off BF sale. Is 90€ the reduced price?

[rlared]

Especially at 50% off, Rapid is worth it regardless of the NFR IMO. But to be honest, i never really look at what a companies policy is regarding this if I'm purchasing something i like. I just make sure to test it thoroughly before buying. The only synth i regret purchasing is Pigments 3 lol

One thing of note, the bus layering is often not talked about with Rapid. With this and the 8 layers you have a ton of control with the routing, modulation and effects. Reverb & Delay sends that are all routed through a Sub group gives you a ton of control.

Im on a 2018 Mac Mini and am not experiencing any of the GUI issues that others are posting in big CPU sessions. Not sure whats going on there.

Some of the tutorial presets use a send bus with the glitch effect which is honestly pretty cool. Being able to send the various layers to a bus is a nice feature. Also I like how you can load a preset and then load another preset as an additional layer by dragging to an empty tab. I hope they add the ability to preview the layer without loading it, that would make layering presets even better.

[rlared]

It says 50% off BF sale. Is 90€ the reduced price?

Yes

[teilo]

Since there is no mention of Apple Silicon support on the roadmap page, they might not be aware of it.
Or simply they do not plan to support.

It's been native for two years, since 1.8.5.

[teilo]

Rapid is still one of my favorite synths. The "one thing" it does better than others, to my knowledge, is harmonic re-synthesis from a WAV file. I've used this feature a lot.

[pierb]

Rapid is still one of my favorite synths. The "one thing" it does better than others, to my knowledge, is harmonic re-synthesis from a WAV file. I've used this feature a lot.

Is this comparable to what Alchemy does?

[simmo75]

Hi Parawave, is it possible for license transfers now?
It would be respectful to allow your customers the choice.

[tdm71]

Where does the rank vs Nexus and Avenger?

[rlared]

Where does the rank vs Nexus and Avenger?

I'd put it on par with Avenger. Both great synths. I had them both. Comes down to preference and what you find most important in a synth. Never used Nexus but I think that's more of a romper than synth.

[zvenx]

Where does the rank vs Nexus and Avenger?

Subjectively for me:

Programmability/Features/WorkFlow
1) Avenger
2) Rapid
..............
3) Nexus

Sound Quality:
1) Avenger
2) Nexus
3) Rapid


Low Cpu Usage:
1) Nexus
2) Rapid
..............
3) Avenger

Quality Presets available for it:
1) Nexus
2) Avenger
............
3) Rapid

my two cents.
rsp

[Neon Breath]

Since there is no mention of Apple Silicon support on the roadmap page, they might not be aware of it.
Or simply they do not plan to support.

It is already.

From their version history:
Compability for MacOS 11 (Big Sur) and Apple Silicon (ARM64) platform.
https://parawave-audio.com/rapid_version_history

[CrystalWizard]

Rapid is still one of my favorite synths. The "one thing" it does better than others, to my knowledge, is harmonic re-synthesis from a WAV file. I've used this feature a lot.

Is this comparable to what Alchemy does?

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