4ms Meta - Rackception

Ok, hello, I lurked this thread a while back but have had my head in the sand to get v1.0 ready for release date. Now am seeing there tons of questions I missed… Sorry for the silence here!

So, first of all I just posted the code for our VCV plugin here: GitHub - 4ms/4ms-vcv: 4ms modules for VCV Rack platform They’re free, GPL-v3+ licensed. I plan to submit it to the Library shortly, too, but if you care to try out a pre-1.0 version, the CI on that repo is building releases.

Regarding wav file/sample playback: That’s the last module yet to port. I have our STS module (dual sampler) working on a dev branch, but there are some UX things to figure out still regarding where the sample library lives on a user’s harddrive when creating a patch in VCV, vs. on a USB drive or SD card when using it on the MetaModule… The idea is that you could have multiple sample “libraries” on a USB drive and each STS could be assigned to a different one. There is no hard limit for the number of samples being played back in parallel but obviously the USB through-put and RAM buffer will eventually be a limit.

Regarding plugins: I actively want to help developers port to the MetaModule platform. Ideally I see it as a fifth platform (linux, windows, mac-arm64, mac-x86, … and metamodule), but right now converting a VCV plugin requires a wrapper script and usually a few code changes. You can browse examples at the metamodules-plugin-examples repo. Please get in touch with me if you want help porting!

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