New and Promising Synth has landed : Rapid



RAPID is a modern polyphonic hybrid synthesizer designed to bring together fast workflow and powerful synthesis techniques. The unique layer engine that powers RAPID lets you shape and customize all aspects of your sounds, resulting in dynamic and fat patches, ready for production, performance or simply inspiration.
Oscillator

• Morphable Wavetables
• Multi-Samples with velocity layer and/or Round Robin
• up to 8x unison voices
• Bass and Treble control per waveform
• Phase Modulation, Phase Bend, Chaos Phase
• Ring Modulation, Pulsewidth Modulator, Hard Syncronisation
• Tube Distortion, Noise Generator with smooth Brown/White/Pink fading

Filter & Insert

• 6, 12, 24 dB Lowpass and Highpass
• 12, 24 dB Bandpass and Peak
• 24 dB Multi-Bandpass and Multi-Peak
• 12 dB Notch and Multi-Notch
• Acid, Analog, Legacy and Vintage Lowpass
• Feedback-Comb and Time-Lag
• Bitcrusher and Exciter
• Tube Distortion, Overdrive and Tone-Fuzz

Modulators

• four ADSR envelopes with adjustable slopes
• four LFOs with dual waveform and phase bending for complex shapes
• four sequences with up to 32 steps, with loop and oneshot mode

Arpeggiator

• 32 step pattern mode
• up, down, random, queue and chord mode
• import/export external MIDI files
• octave and shuffle control

Voicing

• Legato Mode with Glide
• MIDI Channel Filter
• Keyrange per Layer
• Key-Input filter

Effects

• Reverb with Room, Hall or Area mode
• Delay with smooth delay time modulation
• Dual Delay with Cross-Feedback and Ping-Pong mode
• Chamber for very short reverb acoustics
• Smooth Tube Distortion with dynamic EQ Boost
• Bitcrusher, Rate-Reduction with Jitter
• two band waveshaper with adjustable crossover
• Phaser, Flanger, Chorus with precise modulation depth control
• Ensemble Chorus
• three band Equalizer with low-pass, high-pass, low-shelf, high-shelf and bell filter
• Talker Filter with Male, Female and Child vocal mode and internal crusher
• Dynamic Compressor with Digital and Analog mode
• syncable sidechain leveler with different shapes
• 32-step stereo Trancegate with shuffle-rhytmn mode
• Send Router, to mix the output parallel to other layers

Master

• 8-Channel Mixer
• three band Multiband Dynamic Compressor with different mode
• output level Limiter with automatic makeup gain
• Modifiers for Volume and Filter Envelope, to control all layers with only one knob

Worflow

• Drag & Drop Modulation
• Save each Modulator, Effect or Arpeggiator Pattern as seperate Preset File
• easily copy and paste Modulators, Patterns or whole Layers
• three easy accessable Macro Controllers

RAPID comes with a great variety of production ready sounds. Each preset designed and handcrafted for playability and creativity in mind, passed through careful quality control. All macros are linked to allow an easy control of the most striking sound aspect.



General
Version

• 1.0.0
• future updated included

Factory Size

• 2,0 GB

Delivery

• Internet Download

Content
Sound Presets

• 650+

Wavetables

• 250+

Multi-Samples

• 190+

Modulator Presets

• 210+

Effect Presets

• 220+

Audio Plugin Specification
Plugin Format

• VST 2

Architecture

• 32-bit (x86)

• 64-bit (x64)

Supported Hosts

• Ableton Live
• Steinberg Cubase
• Image-Line FL Studio
• Cakewalk Sonar
• REAPER

• most available DAWs (Test the Demo Version to be sure)

Channel Output

• Stereo

Supported Samplerates

• 44.1 kHz (internal)

• 48, 96 and 192 kHz (resample)

System Requirements
Operating System

• Windows 7 and later

CPU

• SSE 2 available
• Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Xeon (recommended)

Memory

• 4GB RAM

• 8GB RAM (recommended)

• at least 3GB free disk space

Screen Resolution

• 1280×1024

• 1920x1080 (recommended)

Miscellaneous
Copy Protection

• Serial Number / Online Activation

 

ugly... but does sound nexus-ish yes....

didn't see a link to dev's site.. so I'll just leave this here..

https://parawave-audio.com/index.php

 

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This is Nexus too:

 

I've read a bit. Such expansions are on the track too ...

 

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I don't quite understand. You mean Rapid will have such expansions? I don't see how that would beat Nexus' 64 oscillators and low CPU though.

I think both Rapid and Nexus can do very well very specific jobs (one is flexible to a certain extent, the other one has more oscillators, low cpu and big stack of simultaneous round robin). Neither is going to kill the other. Not even upcoming Avenger.

 

So they say. In each genre. Future will tell.

 

i'm missing an option in the poll: this isnt a rompler so how can it kill nexus?? 2 different things, better compare it to serum, makes more sense

 

I too, I don't think we can compare the two.

 

Perhaps the next poll should be...
"Should noobs be allowed to start polls?"

I'd start it, but I'm a noob

 

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210 euro. Umm... For what? Avenger looks more complete, polished, less ugly and more user-friendly. Imho.

 

Yeah can't demo it at moment so could sound amazing but seems a bit highly priced for me personally.

Don't see the need to "kill" nexus.
Personally I always thought Nexus way overpriced but that just me.
This looks initially like it has way more "Tweeking" potential with better modulation options than nexus though.
Wavetable modulation always interesting.

GUI is really poor and ugly as hell imo and for something with such a price tag they should have done a way better job imo.

Need to demo but initial thoughts are unless it sounds amazing there a number of synths in the same price bracket that appeal more to me personally.

Could be amazing tho

 

Nexus is a preset whorehouse. This has a preset whorehouse in the makings but is as a bonus, a goddamn synth with many features equal or better than serum. Doesn't even compares to nexus.

 

In Rapid you can't import wavetables or samples and you can't process wavetables at all then you have less LFOs and envelopes compared to Serum. But if you use Serum only by browsing presets I can see that you're seeing it as being "underwhelming".

You can look like these two like this: Rapid is a synth geared toward "immediacy" and possible live players while Serum can do real crazy stuff by importing geometric shapes images & so on.

This is somehow nagging me. People are complaining about being an expensive synth so the sales may or not may be great. What would be the minimum revenue that would keep the developer motivated to - you know - develop?

 

I don't use presets and yeah importing wavetable is missing but is something they intend to add (so I've read in a few places, if they don't yeah that sucks), I said it can be better than Serum in some stuff (some stuff being the magic word) in for example being able to parallel filter with the 8 (or is it 10? can't remember from the video I watched) layers of stuff, which makes all kinds of crazy chains possible. 4 lfos and envelope is enough to me but I can more being something cool to have occasionally, for a while serum only had 4 and it was no hassle most of the time.

Serum has some crazy stuff but I don't see it as that obvious that it's better (ignoring the price tags here), I see potential in this Rapid synth, even tho it's going the nexus path focusing on presets (which I honestly find cool based off the ones I've demo'ed even tho I'm not a fan of using them because I'm more interested in synthesis than producing songs tbh)

And yeah, who knows if it will sell poorly and will shutdown, time will tell. If it does suceed, I look foward to seeing it take nexus place while also being regarded as a cool competitive synth, that'd be interesting.

 

now this is a good comparison

 

Why should any synth kill any other synth? Or any OS kill another OS, or DAW kill another DAW.....
I've always hated these types of comparisons. I'll use 5 or more different synths in a project. Over a dozen kontakt libs sometimes. Maybe SD just for cymbals. The poll part of the topic was unnecessary.
If you ask me, the more you know the further you'll go.
If you choose to limit yourself that's your choice.

 

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Remind me about Nexus and Tone2 shit. Sound of "metalic" sounds.

 

I just demoed it and it sounds pretty good to me. Also light on CPU.

Solely based on the presets I'd say this won't be a Nexus killer. IMO probably not even the right question to ask if it is

EDIT: Also it isn't that hard to use after you've been using it for like 15 minutes. Not as easy as Serum though.

 

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Multisamples as an oscillator
8 layers with key ranges
Drag and drop midi onto the arp module
Thats whats up with this synth
Watch here

 

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What I don't get is this obsession with Nexus. I think people are obsessed with it only for two reasons:

1) it is super expensive [for no reason, and you have to pay extra for the stupid stuff like skins!] and super overrated by guys who don't know any better.
2) only v1 has been cracked.

Then people with nothing else to do obsess over it in the forums. Nexus in my eyes is just a very average rompler. There are so many other really great synths on the market like Serum, Spire, Korg synths... even Omnisphere is better than Nexus. People should just forget about that mind challenged developer and his exclusively terrible creations. That guy has some serious and really bad issues, really!

p.s. there might be a third reason why people are obsessed with it: its size. Some people equals the size of the installation with quality which can't be further from the truth. Only sound matters. Listen with your ears, not gigabytes on the hard disk, not money paid for it, nor with your eyes [nice skin].

 

Last edited: Nov 8, 2016