I really want to get into this. So I have spent hrs skimming youtube but I find most of the videos just go waaaay too fast, I have not bought Omri Cohens courses yet but I am thinking about it as it seems to be the only way into this for a newbie. I did just buy Syntorial as it has 2.0 coming out.…

[WTF is a Krell Patch?!] While yes I did actually watch many tutorials, these tutorials are useless if you have no idea what he is actually doing…

If a YouTube tutorial is moving too fast, go to Settings:Playback speed and go Hainbach-style: Half speed.

How to learn? That’s a study on it’s own. The forum has text and a video link pages aimed at beginners. [image] Getting started with VCV Rack VCV Rack If you’re just getting started with Rack, this post is for you! It aims to be a quality list of links to art…

Dude, you are going to waste your money on courses and such. If you already understand piano and a bit of music theory, you are already there. Just open VCV Rack and start plugging away. What’s the worst that can happen? You can only learn what works and what doesn’t. Omri Cohen is great at explaini…

I am not sure about courses… I think it’s better if it is personalised. So if Omri gives one-on-one lessons - try it for sure. Courses have big disadvantage - as any mass education system - in trying to appeal to the average. And even within this “average” strata people are different. Some remember …

What @auretvh said. What got me going was really to patch along Omri’s Patch from Scratch videos but deviate here and there. Pick a different scale, tempo, whatever. Make up some What ifs? for yourself. This sequencer instead of that one. So you’ll create small and manageable problems that, by the t…

I agree! But if I understand it correctly, the problem here is not with music, but more with technical stuff and construction of a patch. Like an architecture of a generative patches.

For beginners to generative, for instant gratification I always recommend Impromptu ProbKey, get a couple of those running at different speeds / lengths driving different voices and you’re off. For some percussion add Valley uGraph & Vult Trummors.

Depends on how you define generative. I’d say: In a generative patch: a section of the patch generates notes and rhythm rather than notes and rhythm coming from a more defined source such as MIDI input or a predetermined sequence. The modules, techniques and approaches for how to do that generation …

Yeah, well… I would define it this way too. And there are lots of ways to achieve that, for sure! But the architecture is basically the same. That’s semantics, I agree, hahaha. To me it’s not the actual modules and paths or routes, but the “functional blocks”. And that’s what I think it comes down t…

How do I actually practise this?

VCV Rack

Jens.Peter.Nielsen (Jens Peter Nielsen) May 6, 2023, 4:01pm 4

How to learn? That’s a study on it’s own.

The forum has text and a video link pages aimed at beginners.

Maybe this is a good start, if the videos are too fast (it’s for Rack 1.6 but still a good read): https://www.musicwords.net/vcv/How_to_Rack.pdf

I wish you a pleasant journey.