Paths to follow after Fundamental

[steve]

@StochasticTelegraph

I’m new to all this, I have the VCV Fundamental plug-in, I fool around with that, but that’s clearly not everything, but there’s thousands of modules, what do I do next?

Unsurprisingly perhaps, this exact issue has popped up before

Curated module sets using Stoermelder MB favourites

This thread is inspired by Lars’s thread on the FB group about issues beginners face regarding the sheer amount of choice offered by the plugin library with currently 2,487 modules and counting… here’s a link to that thread for reference. Users often want to download all the free plugins because this enables them to open other people’s patches which is one of the best ways to learn, but this can lead to choice overload in the module browser. Various ideas were put forward as to how the situa…

The issue is that in order to follow along with tutorials, new users often download all the free modules, but then their browser is full of thousands of modules they don’t know/understand. If they only install a few plugins in order to keep the browser manageable, then they can’t follow along with the tutorials that tend to be the best way to learn - it’s a catch 22.

Back in V1 you could share a json file of favourites from Stoermelders MB module, and that was seen as one way of approaching the issue - a curated list of say 100 high quality modules that users could move onto once they had got to grips with the Fundamentals.

A favourites list acts as a browser within the browser - so that new users get the best of both worlds - a small list of modules to focus on initially (which can be added to at any time once they are ready to experiment more) while still having access to all free modules so they can follow along with tutorials.