hello, i use VCVRack free latest version and VCV-Host. I want to send a vco output from vcvrack to a vst. is it possible? i am on linux ubuntu with jack or pulseaudio emulation inside pipewire. my thought is to patch vcv outputs to the vst or reaper inside the jack or carla patchbay.
perhaps through vcv-host or ahornberg midi-over-audio or anything else. i don’t have a real idea.
Thanks Karl
Use jack and just route the audio between applications.
You may need to use Release v2.7.1 Minor Fixes and Builds for Everything · simotek/stkjack-vcv2 · GitHub for easier jack routing.
i know this. but how could i patch an output from a vco, not the complete audio from vcvrack to an application via jack? usually there is no patchpoint inside the jack patchbay. i think, that i need something like vcv-host to pull the audio from vco out to the patchbay. or am i wrong?
[EDIT: this is wrong, see below]
I’m no expert but I think that if you’ve provisioned enough input and output channels to suit your needs (making Jack present like a multichannel interface) you should be able to do everything on the VCV side with Audio-8 or Audio-16. Anything you connect to a numbered output in VCV should show up as a Jack input with the same number in your other application.
VCV doesn’t have any default audio bus–it’s just passing whatever you put into one of the Audio modules, so there’s no “complete audio” unless you’ve made a stereo mix on the VCV side and sent it out over two channels.
Others on this forum know Jack a lot better than I do, but I’m happy to try to help! Are you able to (1) get, say, 8 channels open in Jack; (2) get Audio-8 to connect to it; (3) get your DAW to connect to it at the same time?
The problem with Audio-8 and Audio-16 is that they don’t present ports to the jack graph, but connect directly to a device/application. Which is usually not what you want when using jack.
That is wrong. You just connect a cable from the vco to the output port and then you can connect between VCV Rack and ie. Carla in the jack graph.
Ah! Got it, thanks.
unfortunately the author of this software wrote, that you have to uninstall pipewire and install jack to make it compile/work, as far as i understand. so that will be no solution for me, but gives a direction.
perhaps there will be a solution to work with pipewire. or any other module. thank you.
You can just download the binaries. Should work fine (let me test in a sec)
[edit: confirmed. works absolutely fine]
ok thank you. i will test it here in the evening. yesterday i miss the binaries. thought that i have to build from source. this could usually be a mess…
That’s why I linked directly to the release that has the binaries attached.
hello, good news! i just installed the plugin and it works in my patch out of the box without recompiling or any configuration. thank you for the info and link.
now i will test the routing between my patch and carla with several ports. e.g. pitch v/oct ->jack → vst → jack → vcvrack audiomanipulation → jack → mixer or any other.
unfortunately there seems to be an error. the modules are not saved with the patch… i have to insert it every time the patch is loaded. strange.
any ideas?
v/oct will likely not work as the audio is probably normalized to different levels
ok, i split it. v/oct through cv-midi modul and audio back through jackrack. works,but after save the patch, the modul is gone and vcvrack reports a crash.
