05/16/07: Galbanum Announces Architecture Waveforms Cakewalk Edition
11/30/07: Galbanum Announces the Sample Line and Releases Abstraction 01
01/07/08: Galbanum Releases Abstraction 01 Ms
03/07/08: Galbanum Releases Abstraction 02
05/30/08: Galbanum Announces the Synth Expansion Line and Releases Piscis Rapture Expansion
08/25/08: Galbanum Releases The Second Coming Rapture Expansion

SECOND COMING RAPTURE EXPANSION PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Shock-and-awe sultans of swing and scrappy subterranean sunset soldiers seeking stupendous sound sorcery, stop searching and simply submit to superior scholarly skill. Subjugate silence, snub scant and slender sonance, secede from slanderously simple sensations, and suppress scandalously spineless sonics. Spew sub-harmonic shrapnel, sling splendid super-sonic spears, secure synthetic synaptic swords shrouded in secrecy, and strenuously stir up the signal with some sensationally stout sonic science. Swarm to our superluminal sonata and score steadfast sound with Second Coming.

First came the lamb - now comes the lion! These are not your grandma's well-behaved retro sounds! Galbanum's Second Coming Rapture Expansion focuses on aggressive high-energy dance music synths, monstrous techno & electro basses, industrial FX, and big-room arpeggiated chaos. It offers 400 pedal-to-the-medal presets based exclusively on 600MB of new custom resources developed for Cakewalk's award winning Rapture synthesizer.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

• Over 600MB of new content 1,393 files in total!
• 400 new meticulously designed presets for Rapture and Rapture LE!
• 1,000 new resources.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Stereo Waveforms that produce sounds with massively huge, 3D-like spatial images! Stereo waveforms also give each preset a unique psychoacoustic signature through interaural phase differences allowing sounds to stick out of dense mixes without resorting to excessive effects usage that can muddy the mix.

• Obsessive and extensive use of the Modulation Matrix! and MIDI controller assignments which enable complex sound morphing.

• 80 custom, 64-bit, 65,536 point LFO Waveforms which allow complex fractal-like LFO shapes that cause modulations to morph between slow shifting and fast FM-like behavior.

• Velocity sensitivity, dynamic envelopes, FX input controls and other techniques are also used to produce incredibly expressive and dynamic presets which encourage performance, inspire creativity, and enhance usability.

• 40 velocity cross-faded multi-waveform SFZ instruments which allow velocity dependent shifting and morphing of timbre without even using filters.

• 16 special new "Spectrum Sample" SFZ instruments which stretch across eight octaves and consist of perfectly diffuse band-limited spectrums made up of over 2,000 voices each.

• Second Coming was developed for Rapture version 1.1 or later and makes extensive use of the its new features including new filter modes, new DSP transforms, new signal routing, tempo-synched envelopes, 64bit waveforms, stereo waveforms and more.

PRICING & AVAILAbILITY

The Second Coming Rapture Expansion is priced at $59.95 and is available here.