In my opinion without these plugins Rack will not become a full fledged DAW:
Portastudio
The main purpose is multi-track recording and playback of sound. The “freeze” function appears and the mixing process will become easier.
In conjunction with Parametra and Console getting a full portastudio.
The controls:
- 8 inputs
- 8 outputs
- Record button
- Play/pause button
- Time counter display with the ability to manually enter values for rewind in the desired time of recording
- For the record and play/pause buttons trigger/gate inputs
- Output for synchronization with other modules
- It also does not hurt to be able to download an external audio file to the channel.
MIDI Recorder
The goal is to record and play MIDI with the ability to edit.
The controls are similar to a Portastudio, but only one recording channel. The main feature - the ability to synchronize with the Portastudio time counter.
Similar functionality is implemented in the seq++ module, but it is a sequencer. Recording MIDI notes is implemented only step by step. There is no possibility to record live performance. And there’s no record of velocity.
CV Recorder
The goal is to record and play the CV with the ability to edit (if possible).
The controls are similar to a Portastudio, but only one recording channel. The main feature - the ability to synchronize with the Portastudio time counter.
In principle, the functionality of this module overlaps the functionality of the MIDI recorder, since it will be possible to record non MIDI notes but V/oct signals. But the problem in this case is editing.
The lack of these modules gives rise to many complex (and in my opinion unnecessary) ways to connect VCVRack to other DAW.