Annoucing the arrival of the first Bastl module for VCV, Kompas.
Kompas is a three-coordinate probabilistic pattern navigator. Each coordinate has a unique traveling pace and a dedicated trigger output. The amount of probability can be adjusted manually or by external voltages. Once a coordinate has been adjusted, a new pattern is generated and looped until the next change of direction.
Neat! Why GPL-3.0-only license though? might not be compatible with future versions of VCVRack then (it itself uses GPL-3.0-or-later for forward-compatibility with the GPL)
Good question. The reason (as I understand it) is that the source on which it is based is CC-BY-SA V4, which is one-way compatible with GPLv3 (but not GPLv3+).
Yes, definately don’t run the v2 betas anymore with the plugins now available. Use latest SDK and latest released Rack v2 or compiled yourself. You cannot rely on the betas to be compatible with the SDK and plugin source now online. Also: Completely (!) clear out your …Documents/Rack2/ directory when you have run the betas, before you run the releases, that’'s a must.
commit 9ad53329fff74989daf3365600f9fccc0b6f5266 (HEAD -> v2, tag: v2.0.4, origin/v2)
Author: Andrew Belt <andrewpbelt@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 18 11:41:51 2021 -0500
Add cleandep target to Makefile.
Which appears to be the latest source commit. Btw, I also update and build all open-source plugins in use on this system. AFAICT everything’s up to date here.
Probably a compiler/library issue.
[edit] Yeh, likely so. VCV Host throws the same error. @cschol told me that the official toolchain uses a version of GLIBC that wasn’t a part of a stock Ubuntu system (well, mine at least). I can 1) switch to using the prefab version of VCV Rack or 2) install the same components in the upstream toolchain and rebuild Rack and its plugins. Both solutions are relatively straightforward, but for the time being I’m going to keep my system as-is. It’s a tool-kit, and for quite a while already it’s been chock full of stuff for me to explore. I’m sure the Bastl module is super-cool, but right now I have a modules collection super-abundant with super-cool stuff, which I shall take off to explore now. Thanks for the note, Lars !
Hmm, it doesn’t explicitly say that though. The “or any later version” is something that you have to append explicitly to the GPL. I don’t think this relates to CC in any way.
I know that there are “no immediate future plans” but if you happen to have a list of potential modules then please add Tea Kick and Little Nerd. They’re discontinued anyway, aren’t they?
And Wackel Kontakt the infamous Broken Cable & Bad Contact Emulator!
Are you trying to run plugins from the Plug-in Manager in your own compiled version of Rack? That will only work if your Rack is compiled with gcc 11 (as the plugins are).
Yes, we discussed this. The error here was different from previous GLIBC version errors, it took a moment before I realized it was still a compiler issue. As I wrote earlier, rebuilding with the required compiler is do-able - or I could just use the available binary - but at this time I’m putting my Rack energies into other concerns. I do prefer to run my own builds, so I’ll avoid downloading from the PM. Thanks for the note, and thank you for all your work on VCV Rack.
Pizza Crust is a hard-hitting drum voice and goes way beyond drum territory. It consists of two layers - the NOISE source and dual oscillator TONE generator. Hard-hitting drums need a lot of transient attention and CRUST has you covered with the combination of pitch envelope, layer mixing, FM envelope, and transient shaper with hard-clipping.
Four modes to play with the sound
The NOISE source has built in lowpass-highpass FILTER and 4 modes (white noise, clap, bit and metallic).
The TONE has 4 oscillator configurations (FM, FM2, dual and ring modulation), pitch envelope, detune, V/Oct input and timbral SHAPE control.
The LAYER fader crossfades between the layers, but also adjusts their relative decay envelopes to achieve drum-kit like playability.
The ENV knob makes shortest envelopes in the middle and elongates the decay to the right and both attack and decay to the left making more of a shaker/reversed/synth timbres.
The TIMBRE section either focuses on the whole body of the sound (left) or is focused towards the transient (right).
The final CLIP distortion stage with either soft clipping with a bass boost (left) or transient shaper with hard clipping (right) makes the drums go super-hard.
Available in the library, link below. Note that this is a seperate free but closed source plugin, so will need subscribed seperately from the free and open source plugin (currently only Kompas).
Future Bastl plans
Bastl are interested to bring the wider lineup to VCV, including others from the Pizza series (as part of this collection), but other modules too. Watch this space for details!
almost threw up with saw this!!! been wathing videos about BASTL modules since i started getting into modular so this brings me pure joy. im really thankful that you made this free for everyone to use <3.
Thanks for the note, Lars !
