Cakewalk Rapture Pro
Cakewalk’s Rapture soft synth has been completely reworked and re-imagined: introducing Rapture Pro.
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Cakewalk’s Rapture soft synth has been completely reworked and re-imagined: introducing Rapture Pro.
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