forsitan modulare v2.16.0: eleven new modules

Hello everybody, v2.16.0 of my plugin, forsitan modulare, is out. Eleven new modules since the last version in the library.

  • tundo: parameterized digital drum voice. inspired by Basimilus Iteritas Alter.
  • caligo: a long modulated echo inside a nested allpass diffuser, with the feedback loop broken out to jacks. port of Greyhole.
  • raucus: rendition of the Big Muff Pi, the four-transistor USA V3.
  • materiae: percussion voice built from two square waves and five operators .
  • viginti: the MS-20 lowpass.
  • scrupea: sixteen oscillators and sixteen feedback combs. After Skrewell.
  • gradus: eight rows, one knob and four moves each: up by it, down by it, straight to it, straight to minus it.
  • cartilago: the Gristleizer.
  • vates: stereo sample player. based on Citadel Wave Bard.
  • artifex: nine stereo effects on one feedback loop, based on Citadel FX Wizard.
  • aether: audio to a pulse train on one clock, recovered by a PLL on another, based on Interstellar Radio.

vorax also got a body CV input. With Fast body CV in the menu it drops the hardware’s glides, so an LFO on it goes from tape wow to sidebands.

I’ve also made a small video preview for the new modules:

Cheers to all rack users!

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I really like the whole collection, im slowly making my way thru the various modules, there are many and they sound really nice. I use 2399, Tabes and Antrum and Vespae a lot as well as Draen, just started playing around with Caligo, love it. Thanks

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You keep on making, we’ll keep on racking! Love the modules before but the 11 new ones just increase the joy!

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I REALLY gotta get to these, there’s hardware waiting to be plugins here and you’ve already put out so much… this is why VCV is so important, you get tons of free modules like these and my racks will probably rack my brain getting around the combinations I want to try… hoping to see and hear more in the future as more modules come!

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Really enjoying your plugin rn! I like a lot of the approaches to the modules, and I really enjoyed the sound of the physical modeling. I see draen as a quick cheat code to really pleasant and musical voices, and it works so well with your other modules for ambient workflows. Thanks for sharing your vision!

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Your modules have become central to my workflow! I really love what you’re developing and encourage you to keep going. I think my next album will mostly be made with your modules.

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@nolente not sure, but I think Vates is acting up, right channel just outputs a solid 10v, left is fine

Win 11, VCV pro standalone

edit… and of course now I cannot reproduce it, is there some way i modulated the right different than the left and output 10v continuously??

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I’ll take a look, thanks!

Thanks @cubistguitar, I think I’ve found something.

A single NaN reaching one of vates’ delay lines never leaves it: it gets read back, written again through the feedback, and after a few seconds the whole buffer holds NaN. The output clamp turns that into a steady 10 V, which is why it looks like a deliberate DC rather than a fault. The chorus side of the fx knob runs its two lines independently, so one channel can go while the other stays fine. That matches your right-channel-only symptom.

The only way in I can find is a 32-bit float wav in a user kit: it is the one sample format that can contain a NaN, and the loader took the values as written. The generated banks should not produce one, and a NaN arriving on a CV input is stopped at the jack, so if you were on a generated bank with nothing odd patched, I have not got the whole story yet.

So the reason it stopped when you went looking: moving the fx knob off the chorus side silences it, and the poisoned buffer is cleared by a patch reload. Nothing else clears it.

Two things, if you still have the patch:

  1. Was the fx knob past centre, on the chorus/flanger side?
  2. Were you playing a user kit rather than one of the six generated banks, and if so, are any of those wavs 32-bit float?

v2.16.2 fixes it in three places: the delay lines will not store a NaN, the wav loader drops non-finite samples as it reads them, and the outputs now fall silent instead of presenting 10 V. Builds are on the releases page, and I will push it to the library once you have had a chance to confirm.

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Ok yes, it is accessing kits I assembled to play around with pellicula. It may include some clips I have made that might have that issue. I def had amount wide open or had modulated to full open. Good catch. I think you matched my mishap. Thanks for looking into!!

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