pachde One, featuring Imagine

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pachde One version 2.3 is now unleashed in the VCV Rack Library. If you don’t have it yet, subscribe today: VCV Library - pachde-One

CHANGELOG

Includes five new modules, mostly for spiffing up your skiff, and refinements for better control of Copper as an extender. As always, every module is documented.

Info is better than ever, with quick on-panel editing of the text a click way. Press F2 or click the i logo for the Text settings dialog with options for text orientation (Normal, Up, Down, and Inverted), panel and text colors, margins, font selection, and Copper control.

new Skiff with some cool options:

  • Alternate themed rails, or set your own Rail SVG. The snip shows the Sine rail, and there are 6 others.
  • DERAIL — Hide the Rack rails, leaving the background black.
  • NOPANEL — makes most module panels transparent.
  • CALM — A smoother, calm rendering of many common Rack knobs and ports.
  • UNSCREW — Live dangerously: remove the screws from most modules.
  • NOJACK — Hide unused ports.
  • DARKNESS — Quell das blinken lights.
  • PACK’EM — Pack all modules, or selected modules into neat, left-aligned rows.

Hover the ? for keyboard shortcuts when the mouse is over Skiff:

  • F6 = Zoom selected modules (why Rack didn’t already do this is a wonder).
  • F7 = Pack selected modules

new FancyBox — Jazz up your skiff background with up to 4 layers of Fill/toning, Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, and Box Gradient (vignetting). FancyBox has an expandable panel to show or hide the 46 CV inputs for animating the colors and parameters of the layers. You can use Fill for green-screen in OBS or video editing software.

new Rui — 2hp knobs and CV animation for Cable Opacity, Cable tension, Room Brightness, and Light Bloom. F2 to suspend automation, F6 (or the tiny button) to toggle cable opacity.

new PanelTone — 2hp module for lovely toning of module panels in the patch for a unified look. Options for toning all/left/right/row/selection, so you can color-code the voices or functional segments of your patch. The effect can be barely noticeable, up to completely blanking the panel by changing the opacity of the color. Check out the factory presets. CV control can fade in/out on a trigger, or modulate the effect continuously. Pair with a Copper to animate the color, too.

new Guide — A development tool to overlay a panel with customizable design guides, so you can see where widgets might need fine adjustments.

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pachde One version 2.5 is now available in the VCV Rack Library.

New module FancyBox Mini, with Skiff boxes and image background.

#d One Info, FancyBox mini, and Skiff are showcased here (alongside #d CHEM). The Skiff boxes (similar to Purfenator), background image, background toning and vignetting courtesy of FancyBox mini (Use FancyBox if you want to animate background effects). The alternate Rails are courtesy of #d One Skiff.

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There’s a bug in Info in this release where the panel and text colors are transparent by default. The fix is available in the Github “Nightly” build. Until the next library release, I can recommend this workaround:

After adding an Info to a patch, you can press F2, choose better defaults to your preference, then right click the module and choose Preset/Save default.

Thanks to Venom for the bug report and workaround.