![]() Why deviate from the presets when the presets give you what you need without having to fiddle with parameters? We’re all for tone tweaking and knob-fiddling, but we prefer it in the analog world. Perhaps keyboard enthusiasts would want a more robust solution, but for guys like me, this covers all my bases. And for under $30, we see this as a one-stop solution for producers and guitar players looking to beef up demo tracks and scratch sessions if real instrument equivalents aren’t easily available. ![]() ![]() ![]() With almost 5 GB of sounds, though, there’s not a lot missing. What’s nice is you can also search sounds easily, tag them as favorites for easy recall in the left-hand navigation, and expand things later on if you wish (expansion packs are available, or you can upgrade to the ridiculously feature-rich Rapture Pro if this weren’t enough for you). For those without a controller, your DAW should allow you to map notes to your keyboard, or use the on-screen keyboard in the Rapture bowser window to start testing tones. Launching the browser window, you’re given the choice of 11 different categories, anything from standard pianos, lead patches, bass synths (excellent EDM possibilities in there, btw), organs, percussion, etc. Getting back to our Moog/Arp tests, we were pleasantly surprised by the sound quality of the available patches across the board.
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