Building a hybrid setup VCV Rack with Eurorack

My modular which I mostly use for live jamming is hybrid too which I enjoy a lot. Modularwise VCV really was a gamechanger for me. VCV and Euro are connected with an ES-8 + ES-6 + ES-3 combo.

Master clock is Pamela’s New Workout which sends clock and start/stop to VCV.

I even can sequence the hardware from VCV in time although VCV gets its clock+start/stop from it because I delay that clock+start/stop by 2 bars minus AD and DA latency to drive those VCV sequencers intended to sequence the hardware. This means that when I press “start” on Pam’s it’s like my hardware is doing a 2 bar upbeat until VCV’s sequencers I use to sequence the hardware kick in and after that first 2 bars everything’s perfectly synced.

The other sequencers/clock used to drive VCV internally are synced to Pam’s anyway.

I do the same with MIDI controlling/sequencing the Squarp Rample and Yamaha MODX from VCV to get 'em synced (delay the signals to balance MIDI latency).

When i feel like multitracking I can engage the Nysthi Poly Recorders and track down everything going out of the two Mindmeld mixers.

It took me a while to figure out that exactly config and what to adjust to get VCV and Euro play seamlessly together but well, that’s what I like to do when I am too lazy for making music and it worked out well and stable.

VCV template:

Euro “main rack”

Euro “mod rack”

cheers, t.

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