Eurorack Modules You Want in VCV Rack

[DaveVenom (Dave Benham)]

I’ve almost finished creating Linear Beats, and I’ve already got a post for my next release asking for testers. I will post info about Linear Beats there once it is closer to being complete, and that will be a good place for feedback.

@gc3

• Might it be interesting to turn the per-channel switch into two switches, essentially “block others” and “be blocked by others”? Channel #1 would have the “block others” switch but not the “be blocked” switch. There might be some interesting configurations there. (“mute but block” is a potentially interesting mode but, yeah, a downstream mute module would handle that)

Interesting idea. I think we need just one more mode, rather than two switches.

Pass all but don’t block can be handled by placing that channel at the top and then starting a new grouping below.

Don’t block downstream, but be blocked by upstream is all that is needed. I will call it “Non-blocking linear”

I am implementing mutes as expanders - they can be input mutes (don’t block, and don’t send the gates), or output mutes (block downstream, but don’t send the gates)

@gc3

• Taking that one step further, what about making those switches stochastic? Knobs would probably be overkill but even four or five levels (“block others 20% of the time”, “be blocked 80% of the time”) might make for some interesting mostly-linear variations, and I think that would be much easier to do in-module (you could probably build a wrapping network of stochastic switches, mults and AND gates, but that starts to get impractical)

Another interesting idea, but I want to keep Linear Beats focused. I feel that stochastic functionality belongs at the source of the gates. I don’t think it makes much difference where the probability is implemented, and there already exist a number of stochastic pattern generators.