RAPID Synthesizer

As your knowledge of music theory and production expands, you may want to try to approach your craft differently. For example, if you started by working with samples, you may feel a natural need to create your sounds from scratch. For this purpose you will be looking into the capabilities of many virtual synths; not only will you find it difficult to choose one that suits your needs, but you may also be just a bit amazed at how powerful some of these plugins are.

If you’re looking to create sounds using a complex process such as wavetable synthesis, then surely a versatile tool such as RAPID Synthesizer could be of help.

There probably aren’t that many people in the world that can think of any reason why a synth should be able to produce eight layers of sound. Well, RAPID can do just that, each layer featuring no less than three oscillators. That’s 24 oscillators in one single plugin! It’s difficult even to imagine what it would sound like if you played all of them together. Thankfully, not many producers would consider doing that, at least not without proper tweaking.

Well, RAPID isn’t shy on tweaking possibilities either. Each layer allows you to carefully modify your wavetables until they start to resemble music, by selecting the amount of voices each oscillator uses, and then adjusting bass, treble, balance, and volume. After that, you can select the type of filter that you want to use for the layer, choose between a plethora of different effects, and then route LFOs, envelopes, sequencers and an arpeggiator to other parameters.

There’s no doubt that RAPID can do quite a lot, but chances are that, if you’ve worked with virtual synths before, you won’t find this one very difficult to use. Helpful tooltips may answer your questions fairly quickly, while the presets should highlight most of the plugin’s capabilities.

Speaking of which, RAPID’s library is simply huge, featuring hundreds of sound presets, modulator presets, effect presets, wavetables, and multi-samples. If that’s not enough, you can always get more extensions from the developer’s website. If you’re looking for a tool that can help you take your sound design to the next level, RAPID Synthesizer is definitely a worthy plugin.