Member Introductions 😃

Hi Josep,

what u-he plugins do you use?

I toyed them for a bit but for stuff like reverb, compression, eq etc. I prefer fabfilter. The uhbik-g is pretty nice though. Anyway I’d like to hear your opinion on what makes someone with 25 years of experience choose a certain plugin over the other :slight_smile:

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Hi, I am Da. And I absolutely love what you have done. Thank you so much for your amazing work. Looking forward to version 1.0!

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Hi y’all,

Mark here from Amsterdam.
I am so delighted with VCV Rack!
I am a music hobbyist; been DJing since halfway the nineties (moving from turntables to CDJ’s to Ableton to Traktor and back to Ableton) and I have been shifting towards creating edits / full on production (using Maschine & Ableton).

Last year I decided it was time to get into hardware synths. I looked at desktop synths, modular and semimodular and figured that for my preferences semimodular is the best of all worlds and decided to order a Lil 'Erebus DIY kit. That thing is awesome! The built was a little challenging for someone with no experience whatsoever with soldering / hardware synths, but it taught me a lot about how that little synth works (i love it to death).

Off course I wanted to start expanding it, so and i’m going two ways: I just added a Doepfer dual Polarizer to the small DIY rack I am building, and I bought a second hand Motu Microbook to connect the Lil 'Erebus to the digital world. That is where VCV rack comes in.

I love the fact that I have a very small, dedicated instantly playable hardware synth (with great sounding VCO and filter) that can be expanded and automated infinitely with VCV Rack!

It is great to see how you’re mind start thinking once you get the hang of synthesizer and modular basics. I keep on thinking about stuff I want to do with it, see if people already figured that stuff out (and learn the correct words to describe them).

I love many sorts of music; in the nineties I started out playing House and Hip-Hop. Later this shifted to Techno, Electro, Disco, Funk and Beats. Ideally I combine elements of digital (synths!) with analog stuff (drums!), so people like Gaslamp Killer and the entire Brainfeeder / L.A. Beats-scene are great inspiration for me.

Hope to become an active member of this community!

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Welcome Mark… and I just love the sound of the Erebus!

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Welcome Mark! u have a nice mix w hardware and software. i’m still software only but the hardware is tempting.

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Hey everyone!

Ema here, one of the few women who are using VCV rack (hopefully there will be more of us in the future!)
I just wanted to say big thanks to Andrew for developing this amazing programme and also a shout out to Omri for his amazing video tutorials, great job and much appreciated! I’m completely in love with VCV and have been using it since the very beginning.:purple_heart:

I make downtempo/experimental music under the alias The Tellurian Experience and minimal/house 4x4 oriented music under Ema Remedi.

Happy to be part of this growing community!

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Apparently I posted my introduction in the wrong place so here it is again :slight_smile:
Hi from Belgium! I’m mostly interested in VCV as a tool for making playable synths and designing either very specific or very random interesting sounds to use for music production. (So not much into the lets make a giant patch that plays a whole song by itself even though its super awesome so watch what people make sometimes)

I’m trying to create psychedelic trance music that tries to get away from existing conceptions of ā€˜this is what that psytrance should sound like’ and of the functions of elements inside a composition.
Since discovering VCV rack I totally got hooked, nearly all the sounds I use are now made with VCV and I learned a lot more about signal processing in general.

I’m also (re-)learning c++ to make modules I often need but never find. catro-modulo on github :slight_smile:

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Hello There, I’m Pascal from Paris/France,

I am an amateur musician who plays modestly some musical instruments (drums, bass, guitar and sometimes piano).
I started the modular several years ago when Reaktor 2.3 was released, then I move to Eurorack in 2012 ā€œeuro-boomā€.

I have a 6U Euro system, a Digitakt and my guitar. I’ve recently add VCV to my rig (since Elektron Overbridge release) and I’m completely in love with this app !

Thanks so much Andrew for the platform, all the dev for the contributions and all the users for sharing they experience and tricks.

This is is a great community !

All the best,
Pascal.

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Welcome Pascal!

have you played with the new Wired Reaktor Blocks yet? this is like that x e^i🄧

I too have a digitakt and have been thinking about ways to remove the back and mount it as a sequencer osc envelope filter super combo!

never even thought to use overbridge and try that with vcv!

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Hi friends, I’m Rando Patchissian, I use vcv for its random possibilities. A piano may have 88 keys but I only use two: Ctrl key and R key.

Happy patching!!

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Guten Tag. My name is Sebastian, i’m from Germany near Berlin. I use VCVRack on and off for some time now, but plan to use it more seriously. I needed some break from computers in my spare time (my main job is system and network administrator), so i used mostly hardware. Now i start missing the Rack and will try to combine both hard- and software i’m using mainly VCV Rack and Renoise. Cheers.

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Hey,

Andrew here from the UK. Just started with VCV Rack and absolutely loving it, and happily purchased a few plugins to show my support. I mainly use Live and Max/MSP, and experimentation is the way I like to make music. My favourite artist is Autechre.

Although I used to own a bunch of hardware synths, these days I’m purely software. My co-collaborator has a bunch of Eurorack hardware(Eurorack 1 - left - Eurorack Modular System from roomofwires on ModularGrid), so now I get to join in the fun :slight_smile:

We’ve been collaborating for 6 years, but have never met, working entirely via the internet. Our music can be found here: https://roomofwires.bandcamp.com

Having been a lurker on this forum for the past week or so, it seems to be a great little community <3

Anyway, pleased to meet you all.

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Hello to all of Voltage Controlled Mens (and women)
I’m french, mathĆ©matical and Phisycal teacher in Burkina Faso.
My musical passions are rock, blues, jazz, funk, rock Psychedelic, heavy metal, classical music, world music, reggae, dub, techno, Drum’n bass, jungle and a lot of other things.
I’m also play music with my didjeridoo, Khƶƶmei singing, vietnamian guimbarde, synthetizer Korg MS20, or with different soft of MAO (Reason/Record, Fruity Loops, etc etc…)
I’m obseded by thoses musiciens who used modular and semi-modular synthetizer in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s (like Pierre Henry, Hot Butter, Pierre Schaeffer, Emerson Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, or Jean-Michel Jarre.)
So, When I heard about VCV Rack, I couldn’t living without it!!!

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Hi there

I’m just getting into VCV Rack and posted a question in the thread about the Mac Mini.

I’m really enjoying using VCV Rack. I haven’t paid for any modules yet, I do want to support the developer but not sure if any of the VCV paid modules are for me just yet, but when v1 comes out, I’ll definitely want to purchase a license so I can use it as plug-in in Logic.

I might purchase the full set of Vult modules - they seem pretty cool.

Anyway, thanks to the developer of VCV Rack and all those who contribute modules. It’s a lot of fun.

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Hi Rack fellows, I’m Valentin, a french IT student. In my spare time i play many different instruments, and i love VCV rack. I either make Synths in it, or whole compositions, and also proccess my instruments with it. I love this ā€œcommunity vibeā€ VCV rack has. Been following @Omri_Cohen for a while, and thought i should come here too :blush: I have a youtube channel where i post some music, i plan on making more with Vcv Rack too, check it out if you feel like it :wink: here’s the link to one of my Vcv made music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EbAsX0K13M

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Great to see you here Olival! :slight_smile:

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I’ll qualfy with ā€œwest of the mississippiā€. :slight_smile: PondRacer

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Welcome here! That won’t be until V2.x :+1:t4: :wink:

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Hi my name is Adam. I’ve played the piano and other instruments since I was a kid, and I’ve always been fascinated by computers. I discovered modular synthesizers a few years ago, and was blown away by the bizarre sounds and endless possibilities. Many thanks to @Vortico and all the plugin developers for opening this creative medium to ā€œthe peopleā€ :slight_smile:

I’m the developer of a free Rack plugin: computerscare modules. Almost all of the modules are manifestations of various music-related software experiments I’ve created over the past decade. It’s been really fun for me to have a platform on which I can turn these ideas into something that I and others can use. Another major thanks to Andrew for making it easy to develop for Rack, and for providing clear documentation and examples of plugins.

Stand up comedy:

One time I was interviewed by ABC news about my engagement photos with a step ladder:

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I think you just won the thread :laughing:

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