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Very cool! We also tried porting your modules, as well! Iā€™ll PM you

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Hi Dan, great to see you here.

Iā€™m jaynothin and Iā€™ve been playing with VCV exclusively since 2017. Totally addicted now. :wink: So thatā€™s my intro. :rofl:

Iā€™ve been asked by Loopop, who is in the process of reviewing the MetaModule, if I could try and make a couple of patches so he can load them in the MM.

I donā€™t know much about the module, but Iā€™ve installed the plugins package available on github.

Iā€™d like to know, if possible, if there is a listing somewhere with all the plugins I can use (160-200?) and perhaps even their CPU load. As I donā€™t have the IRL module to test. That way I could be faster and he wont have to try and readjust everything.

Maybe Iā€™m just anticipating to much and I donā€™t need any list :slight_smile: But Iā€™m in the quick searching process right now, so before I start building patches Iā€™m gathering all the information I can :smiley:

If there is a manual also? And if Iā€™m not suppose to have any of this because Iā€™m not one of the reviewers, no problem, I totally understand.

Maybe in my research Iā€™ll answer my questions. But in any case, thank you. :slight_smile:

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All that info is to come! Manual, website with list of pluginsā€¦ Iā€™m talking with Loopop, too, so we can go more in depth about specifics over email if you like.

Itā€™s going to be a little hard to create a patch blindly, but my suggestion would be to prioritize modules that are the built-ins: 4msCompany, Befaco, AudibleInstruments, HetrickCV, NonlinearCircuits, Eightfold, Valley.

Plus the open-source plugin brands so far:

Not all modules in all plugins work well on hardware. In general, if it does something that an old-school synthesizer module canā€™t do (like, have an XY touch-pad, or is impossible to use without the screen, or it does some magical thing like remote-control a neighboring module) then itā€™s not likely to be very fun on the MetaModule.

As for CPU, reverbs use a lot of CPU. Itā€™s fine to use stereo reverb on every patch if you want, but I wouldnā€™t try to add 8 reverb modules or something like that.

Thanks :slight_smile:

Appreciate the answer and Iā€™ll go with it :smiley: this is great Iā€™m sure Iā€™ll come up with something even if I go blindly on it :stuck_out_tongue:

That looks cool. It would especially be cool to use if youā€™ve had a BA-level understanding theory and are comfortable with notation. My own musical practice any more is un-notated, and often Iā€™m not thinking in chord shapes or melodic scales at all.

But OpusModus looks like something you could get really deep into.

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This is exciting to see. Welcome!

Hey, I am Peter :wave:. VCV Rack is so cool!

I am currently into music theory and different tuning systems. Iā€™ve done some theoretical discoveries, and I want to make them practically audible. Building some modules for VCV Rack seemed like a very logical next step. The ones I released are the very beginning, there is more to come. Check them out in the library at VCV Library

Thank you Andrew for building such a powerful piece of tech!

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Very cool, @peterjungx . I am also interested in alternative tunings.

You should consider posting a dedicated announcement thread about your plugin to the Announcements category so everyone can find out it exists and what your modules do. Plugin announcements are moderated, so you will have to wait maybe a couple of hours before VCV Rack allows the thread to be posted. This is to ensure that the announcements are legitimate, to protect VCV Rack users from malware, scams, etc.

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Excellent - we need more people experimenting with and/or developing for alternative scales and tunings.

You might want to check out my Venom Non-Octave-Repeating Scale Intervallic Quantizer. It is great for all manner of alternative scales and tuning systems

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ehi just want to say hello, started using VCVrack for about a month and Iā€™m having lot of funā€¦my name is Davide I am from Italy, guitar is my main instrument but I have been messing around with electronic music some years ago with a roland mc505 and then with a little eurorack system. Now with VCV Iā€™m learning new stuff and experimenting with modules I just dreamed about for yearsā€¦and thanks everybody for sharing, this is amazing! :heart_eyes:

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Hello, Iā€™m Steve Brenner, the founder of Vector Modular, a new brand in the VCV Rack ecosystem, focusing on free and open-source modules. Iā€™ve been using VCV Rack since its early versions, but my heart has always been with hardware. Since becoming a parent, Iā€™ve transitioned into more in-the-box (ITB) work, and VCV Rack has been an incredible way to scratch that modular itch.

In my day job, I work in IT, and Iā€™m aiming to dive deeper into DevOps, which (for the non-techies) is a field that combines software development and IT operations, allowing for faster and more reliable software delivery. This path led me to embrace coding and development, something Iā€™ve always enjoyed but hadnā€™t fully committed toā€”until now.

VCV Rack has become my creative outlet to refine my coding skills while exploring the software development process. Iā€™m excited to get serious about developing and releasing modules that will, hopefully, inspire creativity in others. One day, Iā€™d love to expand into hardware as well.

Iā€™m a huge fan of the documentary I Dream of Wires (I even own the extended Blu-ray) and love the music of Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Datachā€™i, Com Truise, and more. Lately, Iā€™ve been obsessed with the synth-heavy soundtrack from Vox Machinae by Brent Silk. Oh, and I still crank Mick Gordonā€™s DOOM soundtrack at the gymā€”canā€™t get enough of its blend of metal and hard-hitting electronic music. Per interviews he uses Eurorack in a lot of it, which is awesome.

Thanks for welcoming me into this amazing community! My modules are currently under review, but if youā€™re curious, feel free to check out my site at vectormodular.com. Iā€™ll be posting an official announcement in the ā€œAnnouncementsā€ category once they get approved.

Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Hey everyone!

Iā€™m Alex, founder of Black Noise Modular. Super excited to finally join the VCV Rack community!

We specializes in the production of handcrafted boutique Eurorack modules in France. Our main mission is to create unique and innovative modules that empower musicians and sound designers to express their creativity and explore new sonic territories. We want to make these tools accessible to everyone, and VCV Rack feels like the best way to achieve that goal!

For this first release, weā€™ve focused on the highly-requested COSMOS, Slew-LFO, and the brand-new GOMA II. COSMOS was the perfect choice for this release because itā€™s a truly revolutionary module, but can be tricky to grasp due to its uniqueness. Thereā€™s really nothing else like it. Bringing COSMOS to VCV Rack will allow everyone to easily explore and understand the full potential of this one-of-a-kind module!

We worked really hard to make this port as faithful to the hardware as possible, which was quite a challenge! The result is a super accurate module, with additional features enabled by the software, such as polyphony and over-sampled logic outputs. And if, after all that, youā€™re still craving that special ā€œanalog sauce,ā€ you can always go for the hardware version! :wink:

Weā€™ve also taken the opportunity to add some new features to Slew-LFO and GOMA II, but weā€™ll let you discover those for yourself! We hope you enjoy this first release and that these modules help fuel your creativity and take you to new sonic territories.

Feel free to share your patches and sonic explorations on Instagram, the VCV Rack forum, and beyond. We canā€™t wait to see where this bundle takes you!

We hope this is just the beginning, with more Black Noise modules set to join VCV Rack soon!

Grab your version of the COSMOS Bundle straight from the VCV Rack library And donā€™t miss the amazing video prepared by Omri Cohen

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Hi people Iā€™m Marco, saltatempo nickname from Aemodular AEM system (tangible waves and third party) community. Iā€™m italian and I teach physics and maths to teenagers.

New here in VCV and in general in modular synthesis. I like to learn and recently I bought a second hand Komplete Audio 6 interface, so I have four DC coupled output to export VCV CV modulation to AEM system world. Some weird mechanisms to boost low output from the Komplete to max 5V of my hardware, but solved with an opamp diy amplifier. Now Iā€™m ready, maybe Iā€™ll start from ENTROPIA module, it seems wonderful.

Thanks in advice to all you experts from this community.

Clear skies with your sounds

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Greetings!

Super new-to-modular user here, posting to greet the community.

Iā€™ve got lots and lots to learn about this new audiocreative landscape Iā€™ve ventured into, and I look forward to being able to gain knowledge and search for answers in this forum. Maybe some day, I will be able to answer a few modular questions myself! For the moment it all feels pretty abstractā€¦ (and maybe I ought to cherish that feeling! :wink: )

Having a certain amount of experience in the realm of audio recording however, perhaps while Iā€™m getting up to speed on what module plugs into which, I can in shed light upon questions about recording that might arise.

All the best, o2k

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Welcome to VCV
and have fun in this deep rabbit whole
where time doesnā€™t seem to exist :wink:

btw I moved your post to the appropriate thread

Thank you, and for putting my post where it ought to have been.

Quick question: Is it desirable for me to create a sig file outlining some system details?

Iā€™ve done this for some other forums ā€“ I think it sometimes helps folks to have an idea about system capacity with respect to those, umm, ā€œunexpected results.ā€

I canā€™t figure out where to create a sig in this system, which is why Iā€™m asking.

Thanks again! o-2k

we donā€™t have such sigs here

when you try to report some problems
you need to give some details about your setup if it is needed to help you

ok ā€“ thank you, thatā€™s what I will do.

best regards, robert

Cheers!