Generative Traces – John’s Patch Log

Notes, sketches, and generative experiments in VCV Rack

Welcome to my ongoing patch log — a place to collect the small traces left behind by generative processes, modal drift, rotating rhythms, and the patterns that emerge when a patch is left to run

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2025 – Restless Sequences

A year shaped by motion, subtle harmonic restlessness, and rotating accents.

Entry 1 – Syncro Rhythm Pattern (1.6.11)

A generative study built around Syncro: rotating rhythmic accents across four chord tones, two modal chords with a one-note shift, and a walking bass that changes the harmonic context.

:headphone: YouTube:

:puzzle_piece: Patch:

https://patchstorage.com/syncro-rhythm-pattern-1-6-11/

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Welcome to the forum John! This is a nice little study of those phasing patterns. Looking forward to your creations. Pro tip: If you leave a blank line both above and below the YouTube link, it will show as an embedded player.Cheers.

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Thanks Lars! Appreciate it — and thanks for the embed tip too. :slightly_smiling_face:

Entry 2 – Syncro Rhythm Pattern (3.6.6)

This one gets a bit unruly — everything starts rising together, and then the rotating rhythmic accents pull it into stranger territory.

YouTube:

Patch: Syncro Rhythm Pattern_3.6.6 | Patchstorage

Entry 3 - Drop 2 Study (1.8.1)

This one sparkles. :sparkles:

Path: patchstorage.com/drop-2-study…

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Lars tried to tell you this earlier. Put a blank line before and after the plain YouTube link, and nothing before or after on that line, and you will get a playable embedded YouTube link like below.

Do the same with the plain PatchStorage link and you get the following.

While editing, the text above looks as follows:

Lars tried to tell you this earlier. Put a blank line . . .

https://youtu.be/4G9BTxKACCM

Do the same with the plain PatchStorage link and you get the following.

https://patchstorage.com/drop-2-study-1-8-1/
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Posts edited by moderator to show the vids,
the links were not working

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