Would like to use the ES-9 as a separate audio interface in VCV VST as well. That would save a lot of hassle with using other ways to use VCV and lose some reliability.
At least you now can use multiple audiocards in VCV standalone and if you have shared drivers you can use your main audio interface together with your DAW of choice and VCV standalone. Or you can use the outputs of soundcard1 to put into some spare inputs of soundcard2 with or without a mixer in between.
Use a hardware or software midi loopback for syncing also is possible. My personal experience that it not always works very well and you may get microstutters. Too bad Propellorheads dropped their Rewire support and it requires a license fee as well. I don’t now about Ableton Sync though.
That’s what I found with software loopback as well - also quite a lot of latency. I found the hardware loopback on the RME Digiface to be significantly better.
Yeah physical audio I/o from soundcard 1 to 2 was my Rack 1 use case, but I was especially looking forward to this specific feature, as it would allow me to use the VST.
Don’t mean to be a hassle, or insinuate that Rack 2 is anything less than monumental. However, I paid 99 bucks for this specific feature (as others might) that was described by Andrew on multiple occasions, so I’d like to know whether it is on the backlog or dropped.
I’ll take it up with support, but it is of interest for everyone who considers buying the Pro version.
Good News! The feature does exist and will be enabled some time from now:
"Ah yes, that makes sense. It looks like that feature has been forgotten about after it was disabled in the Rack Pro 2.0 build. We can re-enable it soon after stability testing in a future release. It will likely not work with ASIO but should work with all other drivers.
VCV Rack’s prime use case, imho, is as central hub in a hybrid (soft+hardware) setup.
Other softwares my be able to compete, but this specific feature allows us to use this hybrid setup as a VST in your DAW, which makes it completely unique. Really looking forward to giving this a spin, some time in the future.
Never expected this would be high on the priority list but that it’s on there is good to know.
From a commercial perspective this also is a unique selling point as MerkDak mentioned.
"Ah yes, that makes sense. It looks like that feature has been forgotten about after it was disabled in the Rack Pro 2.0 build. We can re-enable it soon after stability testing in a future release. It will likely not work with ASIO but should work with all other drivers.
Andrew Belt"
But without ASIO support there will be a very high latency which makes this feature completely useless, especially when playing in live situations
I’m trying to accomplish the same thing. I’ve got a MOTU 896HD 8 channel interface with the ES-3 and ES-6 modules attached via ADAT. I can get CV in/out in stand alone mode of VCV. I’m using Bitwig and having a heck of a time getting the routing setup for the VST mode. When send out virtual CV, do you pass it through the Audio module of VCV, I assume? I’d love to see or read a breakdown. I feel like I’m 90% there. I think I’ve got the CV out working, but getting CV in is another story.
For CV out: VCV Audio module with DAW driver > Another audio track in Bitwig set to input from the VCVs multi-channel outs and output to hardware channels.
For CV in: Audio track set to input CV from hardware and output to the VCV instance (on a different track). In VCV, pull the CV from the “From Device” 1 & 2 (or 3 &4) outputs of the Audio module.
The caveat: I believe that currently multi-channel inputs to VSTs in Bitwig is limited to 4 channels - by default you are inputting to channels 1 & 2 but you can use the VSTs sidechain input to access channels 3 & 4.
