Congrats! Very stylish and nice panels. I also enjoy ergonomics of the modules specially AstroVibe. I keep on fooling around with them.
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These look great! I love the aesthetic. Very creative ideas for modules as well, I think I’ll use these a lot. Just one little nitpick is that there are typos on Ice Tray, it should be “repeats” and “pattern”. I’d it if Ice Tray were stereo too. This one is a lot of fun! Thanks so much and congrats on your first modules!
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I’ve only tried IceTray so far. I have no idea what I’m doing, but it goes absolutely mental! Need to read the manual, loving it so far though. Definite potential.
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I agree. Ice Tray is wonderful. Unpredictable at the moment, but I am sure that I will use it a lot in the future. Clocked random delay thingys are a great fun!!! But it is hungry. I am on a very decent machine and it constantly swings between 4 to 8% CPU-Usage @48kHz. Win 10 - everything up to date.
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Thanks for catching those typos. I’m horrible at spelling.
I do want to add stereo to IceTray. I think it would make it work better with AstroVibe. I actually started working on it but stopped because I worried about the performance issues. How does it perform for you?
How big of a deal is the performance for you? I’m not sure if there will be a fix. The slow part is the pitch shifting that it does to offset the record speed. I guess I could put it on a toggle to turn that part off and I think it would perform a lot better. For the pitch shifting I copied the HCTIP module from Bidoo. For me it performs just as slow. I also created a thread in the dev forum to see if anyone has any ideas for making it perform better.
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Yeah IceTray is really hard for me to wrap my head around too. Especially because the changes to the knobs can be delayed dozens of seconds it can be confusing what’s going on. Please do let me know if the manual helps or if I can help.
Astro Vibe is aptly named. Some of the sounds (from my very brief exploration of it) reminded me of those NASA audio recordings derived from RF emissions from the planets.
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Ice tray is the best plug-in I’ve tried so far but in my Pc CPU consumption went really crazy when using it. Hope it can be reduced the impact on cpu. Got around 8-10% Intel i9 9700k, 32gb ram ddr4, windows 10, RTX 3090.
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I would not call it unusable for me, but I have a fast PC and for a lot of users this will be more like 10% to 20% Usage and that could be a dealbreaker.
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I’ve been experimenting a bit with AstroVibe, and I’m wondering if it’s intended that it is extremely dissonant? I can’t seem to find any way to tune it to the incoming 1V/Oct signal.
Edit: Holy crap Ice Cubes is amazing. I can see this going into a LOT of my patches.
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Yeah AstroVibe was a random kernal idea I had that I kept bolting things onto until it sounded ok, so its hard to say what is “Intended”
If your looking for a pure tone the out of it the first thing to do is turn everything to audio, that disable all the internal routing. Then play around with the different engine and wave form settings and the frequency knob. In theory once that is “tuned” the v/oct input should work, but I don’t have a great ear for pitch so there is a chance that doesn’t work right. It might also be that you cant get rid of all the dissonance… please let me know what you find.
I’ll alao be the first to admit the music side of this stuff is a weakness of mine so please do provide feedback. Ultimately I want to make something people love using.
I’d also love to see one of your patches with IceTray once its done. I’m supper interested to see how people use it. I like the idea behind it but I was strugging to make a lot with it myself, so I’m really interested in what people do with it.
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really like the panel designs and the module’s concepts,. have not had time to test yet.
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Hello I have been using Ice Tray and now tried Shifty in a patch, work very well at producing repeating delays! Well done.
One thing though, the example patches won’t open for me, it said something about the ‘json file not been compatible’ any reason why that should be?
Here’s a patch:
RPJ PLya +ICe tray n Shifty.vcv (6.5 KB)
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“Cute” module graphics don’t normally gel with my personal aesthetic, but somehow I really like your design. It seems like it would fit in with the Fall Out series of games.
I really appreciate the limited but effective color pallet, and the spacing of the graphics to avoid clutter. I love the font for the module names. Overall a great and cohesive vibe.
I’ve only experimented briefly with Astro Vibe. Looking forward to trying Shifty and Ice Tray, especially after reading what others have said about them.
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Thanks for sharing your patch, that is pretty crazy what you’ve got going on there.
I’m not sure why you’d be having issues loading the examples. I uploaded one of them patchstorage in case that helps. Are all of them broken for you or just some of them? I’m using VCV Rack 2. If your still having issues could you post the full error your getting?
The one you uploaded to patchstorage works fine but the ones I downloaded from the Github page produces the same error below for all the different modules:
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Love Astro Vibe! The patches load differently every time though which I am not sure is intentional? Some order in the chaos and this will be one of my favorite Sound Generators.
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It was sort of intentional. I mostly wanted to get something out first and see if people liked it. But it seems like there is enough interest that adding that persistence is what I’ll work on next. Thanks for trying them out!
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That is supper weird. I am able to open them when I download them just fine. It looks like the file is getting corrupted some how. Would you mind sending me one of the files you downloaded?
Also how are you downloading the files exactly? I’ve tested it with both the view raw and download button. I’m using Chrome on a Windows 10 machine.
