From @joopvanderlinden and Path Set come two new plugins that mix composition techniques with modular aesthetics. Harness sequencers that can react to your melodies like a jazz musician improvising on compositions. Blend rhythmic subdivisions with weighted note pools to author or randomize rich melodies that mutate over time.
JPLab is a premium collection contains with three main sequencers, a utility module, and a bonus expander.
Four Track ‐ Program 4‐voice melodies or chords.
Improv - Jazz companion. Add notes to the keyboard and it adds them to the sequence.
Star Matrix - Fully control transition chance between any note block.
Navigator ‐ Sequence events with two gates and two CVs and a bit of randomness.
Counter Point ‐ Expand any main JP sequencer with an extra voice using delay, regression or inversion.
JPFree is a free collection containing Jr versions of the JPLab sequencers and the Shift & Shuffle expander which works on any main JP sequencer, even those in JPLab.
The stylish manuals describe the rich features these modules have to offer. And if one of those features happens to be broken please report an issue.
Thank you to everyone who helped test these modules!
Congratulations Andrew and Joop! It was a great pleasure to be a part of the long testing phase of these. These are some really serious generative modules with a lot of depth to some of them. Very enjoyable and fun to use, and I know that I will personally use these a lot in my future music making. And thanks for the great manuals!
Congratulations on these. I do a lot of stuff using random variation of programmed sequences (i.e. I add a random amount to the pitch CV before quantizing) and they sound a lot like a certain kind of jazz player. Mostly they do Miles-era Joe Zawinul groovy vamping.
Having a hiccup today, I have a patch testing out Star Matrix (lovely sequencer) and cannot seem to add
4 TRACK, as it crashes and closes each time I try to add it. I’m running VCV pro 2.4.1 standalone on WIN 10.
testing a bit more, it seems I can add any module except 4 Track without hiccup, insta-crash with 4 Track.
Well, it made me get familiar with Three Track today, not a bad thing. I see some opportunities to pair these streams of cv with Jooper too, lol. I’m sure it will get ironed out soon.
These modules seem really cool. One question : does the paid version contain all the modules from the free version, just in bigger ? In the free collection, I see the “Shift and Shuffle Expander”, but I don’t see it in the paid version. Will I have to still subscribe to the free version too after buying the paid version to have them all?
Thanks
The paid version has basically the three sequencers, but in a bigger version.
Next to that in the paid version there’s the event sequencer Navigator.
The shift and shuffle expander is in the free version, as is Navi, which can do a few nice tricks, so yes, it’s best to subscribe to the free version too.
If you just want the unique modules from the free collection, you can add them specifically by going to each of their pages and pressing the add button in the upper right
Seems to be fixed, I did have one crash as I tried to copy sequence from sequencer to expander. And then when I reopened no more crashes, but I did notice there is no copying of sequence data from main sequencer to the expanders, which would be most helpful to me.
great sequencers, I love the range of available rhythms and use of note names and the keyboard note entry tool, just well thought out stuff
You actually can already copy and paste blocks from the sequencer to the expander (or any other partial set). I made this video to show you how
Directions:
Step 1. Hold Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) and drag mouse over blocks you want to copy
Step 2. Right click and select “Copy Blocks”
Step 3. Right click and select “Clear Selected”
Step 4. Hold Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) and drag mouse over blocks you want to replace
Step 5. Right click and select “Paste Blocks”
