Parawave is just 1 man, as far as I've heard. The developer himself admits that it's hard for him to add features because it's all so "set-in-stone" with the current GUI design. You can dial back the filter "tone" knob to make it less harsh, but you can't dial back the saturation to make it cleaner. Everything is almost TOO sharp/saturated. And almost everything screams "Trance Music!".
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For example, each patch can contain 8 sound layers, but you cannot modulate between layers (ie control the filters of multiple layers with a single modulator). And it's made from bitmap graphics, so you can't scale it.
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It looks like a kid designed it in 1998 after they found "the Alien Skin EyeCandy Plugin for Photoshop". I can't even look at it without feeling sickened. You can't do any modular stuff (such as adding extra filters and effects to a single layer), unlike the other two synths. To layer anything in Rapid, you basically need to set up 8 separate synths.
Most of the time that you want to layer, you'd be okay with 8 oscs going into 1 filter instead of 8 oscs going into 8 filters, but Rapid can't do that. All of the 8 layers are individual synths with their own separate oscillators and filter and amplifier and envelopes etc. Other developers who did care about Rapid said it was their worst-selling preset libraries ever. Huge top-quality outlets like Vandalism Sounds don't care about Rapid. +/- Good 1st-party (developer) soundware support, with lots of high quality preset packs being released. So it's the simplest of the 3 layer-workstation synths. Because its GUI is very compact and "limited". + Cheapest of the bunch, but the price difference is small. Here's a video showing how powerful and TEDIOUS Falcon is. This synth definitely roams in that direction. Not that that's a bad thing, and it's great at doing those kinds of sounds. Very wishy-washy cinematic/ambient sounds. something like what Camel Audio's Alchemy was getting. But I expect mostly ambient/cinematic libraries to be honest. Other developers don't make much of it yet, but it really is "Omnisphere 2 on steroids", and unlike Omnisphere it actually gives developers deep access to internals so that they can make anything with it, so maybe it'll get growing 3rd party support. It's not a good EDM machine, even though it COULD be. But all of it is very "bread and butter ROMpler" style stuff. UVI themselves has a vast amount of sample libraries and all of them work in Falcon as "sound sources", and they release expansions constantly. +/- The soundware support is hit and miss. This lack of structure is very hard for someone who just wants to make sounds quickly.
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It has a full programming language (LUA) built in. It's modular and you pull in various modules. With the most effects, highest-quality effects, best-quality sampler engine/playback engine, etc. There are 3 "big dog workstation do-it-all" synths for that right now. I make mostly EDM, but also ambient and cinematic and pop.