Is there a module that lets you record a “tapped-in” trigger sequence?
With my hardware Eurorack system, I would use my Intellijel Planar 2, or my Bela Gliss module. In both cases, once I’ve recorded it, I can play it back by triggering it.
This might do the trick
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Cool! ReMOVE, coupled with a VCV Push module pretty much gets me where I needed to be. Thanks.
I was looking for a specific thing, and I hadn’t considered ReMove.
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you could also just use a sampler to record the gate signal,
or this thing, for quantised recording of 64 steps:
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Hello,
is this a solution work to manually tap triggers and record them? If that is the case it would be so useful for making off grid rythms, swing and strum. I dont understand how a revorder for parameter automation would record the taps. And how can i solve the issue when i reach end of cycle to get vcv to continue to loop the taps after the record.
With the BigButtonSeq you can record gates manually (quantized to the clock with “snap” on, and unquantized with “snap” of) and play them back.
You can also use a sampler like the Nysthi Simpliciter, hook up a gate or trigger to the input and record your gates/triggers. You can then play the sequence back and even manipulate it with the sampler.
Simething like the BigButton can be used to output gates, but you can also hook up a midi controller.
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In what capacity will the midi controlle function? Is it possible to when quantized to the clock to quantize little at a time or will it emmidietly be fully quantized?
I would use the midi controller for tapping in gates/triggers (keyboard controller or drum pad). The button on Impromtu’s BigButtonSeq has a cv input, so you can just use the Midi to cv interface, patch from the gate output into the cv input that controls the button.
For parameters that do not have a cv input, you can use the Midi Map. In VCV Rack you can control anything via midi.
As for your question regarding quantization: With the BigButtonSeq you only have the choice to quantize to the clock or have no quantization at all. Manual is here, scroll down to “snap” for an explanation how quantization works.
Not sure if there’s a sequencer with quantization options in VCV Rack. I’m using hardware sequencers to sequence notes, gates and triggers in VCV Rack and mostly use sequencers inside VCV Rack for modulation, so never really looked into sequencers with lots of quantization options.
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you can use also
to log in a 20 channel spreadsheet all your gates and so on…
and maybe change them using EXCEL
and after re-play the csv with the UNlogger…
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Hello Synthi,
I saw your post in another thread on additive synthesis. I will reach out to you there about it eventually. This module seems great for storing (can it also store pitch patterns?) Would it be possible to store “semi” quantized triggers on it?
I hope I’m not being rude, but you have been asking some sort of version of this same question in multiple threads lately.
The answer is: IT. IS. ALL. DATA.
It is all voltage values.
There is one of Omri’s videos where he says this out loud. “It is all voltage!” Sorry, I don’t recall which video (it’s at least 2 years old), but that would probably be worth watching.
Pitch, triggers, gates, envelopes, even audio at 44.1/48/96 or any other bitrate is simply a series of voltage values.
Once you embrace this fundamental concept, you quickly realize that any recorder module can record anything.
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Thank you for pointing this out. Thank you VCV rack community for all the unfathomable help and support. 
I am still at the struggle stage and have some bare minimum experience only. I do my best to really reaserch in full the guidance I get here on the forum on Youtube, in VCV rack and other scources before returning on a subject and I try my best not to ask overlapping questions. I am looking forward to being able to reach the stage you are describing where I am using knowledge of one thing in order to solve another thing. I made one application to a patch in this way already even. 
What exactly is it you want to do? Do you simply want to sequence drums, but you want to tap in the triggers manually and have the option to quantize what you tapped in? In this case I would recommend a (drum-)sequencer that can quantize patterns. Many ways to do this in modular, but a simple (drum-)sequencer would be most straight-forward. I haven’t found a VCV module that does this, but you could use your DAW to sequence VCV Rack. It would let you easily record “taps” and then quantize how much you want, apply swing, humanization etc.
I use my Elektron Sequencers for that, but you can use any sequencer that can record manually and outputs midi.
I want to record triggers (mostly for synthvoices as of now) which are not fully locked to the grid, and then I want to incrementally quantize those manually tapped triggers to be more align to the grid, but not fully.
I saw Dr.Mix do this in Ableton, he played a synth loop on the keys of a synth and after he quantized the loop gradually to the grid but not fully, just to be somewhat more on beat.
Which DAW do you have? It should be possible to do in any DAW. Probably best to use your DAW before you look at dedicated sequencers.
A reason that I want to quantize it somewhat back to the grid is becasue on an acoustic guitar the feedback from the strings are emmidiate, so when i strum it, it will be strummed in tempo/swinged or offbeat as I intended. But on the computer there is a lag and hence the rythm will not be quite as I intended when I punch the keys, So then I would want to be able to quantize the triggers somewhat.
I dont use a DAW. I have Ableton, the ligher version that came with the interface. However I am hoping to record directly into VCV Rack in order to save CPU and keep everything simpler by using one framework.
Ableton is a DAW. Why don’t you use it until you find a VCV module that can do all that? I get that you want to do it all in VCV Rack, but it won’t be a problem with cpu. Sending midi notes from Ableton to VCV is one of the lightest things on the cpu you could do.
Advanced quantitation is traditionally the realm of DAWs and hardware sequencers, not so much in modular. I tried searching for a VCV module that can do that, but only found simple quantize to the clock or not options.
I have less experience in Ableton than in VCV rack A workaround to bypass the need for quantitation would be to have some device that with encoders move the triggers back and forth in time, instead of punching/pushing in the triggers where they stay that way to have encoders that can slide the hits back and fort would leave room to set up the correct timing intervals when cycled.
This sequencer can set a microtiming for each of the steps, but still the steps are locked to the grid and when one improvises to far from the grid the result will be awkward.
Try this:
You should be able to record your sequence, and then shift the notes to your liking. Make sure you switch off “snap to grid” in the context menu.
And read the manual.
If that doesn’t work, try this:
to record a midi file and then load it into Seq++. And then modify the notes.
Or one of the paid Entrian Sequencers.
I’m not at Rack now for proof of concept, but I hope it can help.
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