I’ve started posting things on YouTube, among them there’s a few VCV patches. I also participate in this year’s Jamuary, which should result in a jam per day - so far, these two were also VCV patches.
I’ll start this thread with 2 videos and update it when I have new VCV things
People who participate in it jam a lot in January, quite a few of them try to do it daily, then upload to their socials and tag it with #Jamuary2022 and / or #Jamuary. That’s it
There are some sites that provide daily prompts, but I don’t use it, and a few more prolific creators promoting it - like True Cuckoo and Trovarsi.
Of course, there’s also a subreddit for sharing: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jamuary/ - but AFAIK it’s all very distributed. Other than that, it’s just “start / continue creating”
Do you start from the scratch and spend 3-4 hours in front of the monitor before completing? Or do you have hundreds of half-baked tunes and you pick one? Or do you have ‘module selections’ to start the puzzle?
Do you start a patch without expectations (like most Omri videos)? Or do you have a draft in your notebook what to achieve (a certain melody, a style, a sound, or usage of a specific module, etc.)?
I just start patching. I usually have an idea of what I want to achieve, and that idea can be anything - a mood, a sound, a genre, a vibe, a melody. But I actually don’t always have that idea before I place the first module
I just see where the sound takes me, and enjoy the way there as much as the end result
I’ve made some more patches with VCV in Jamuary, I’d like to share two of them in here:
One evening I was so tired that all I could do was a lullaby - having a new thing up every day definitely takes some time
I’m looking forward to more hardware jams, to be honest. Can probably only do them on weekends though. But today’s patch, I actually started in Voltage Modular because of its oscillators, but switched to VCV Rack when I got frustrated with VM’s sequencing. VCV’s is much better, to me.