NOTES: Every voice but one was done totally in VCV Rack 2 Pro; the one that wasn’t created in VCV was sequenced in VCV and then sent to Bitwig using the CV-MIDI module to play the nylon string guitar (from MG Soft Nylon Guitar (Lite) – pianobook). All VCV voices were mutli-track recorded in Bitwig for mixing/mastering.
NOTES: I wanted to try something different this week, and use VCV Rack as the generative sequencer but use more organic sounds. I used a simpler rack than normal and routed the various NoteSeq’s out of VCV into MIDI channels which I routed to various instances of Spitfire LABS to play most of the actual music.
I think I’m probably the first person in the world to make generative spa music.
NOTES: This is a pretty simple patch, several of the voices are native VCV Rack module chains, and then I used Luftrum’s Lunaris for some of the atmosphere and Spitfire LABS’ Peel Guitar for some occasional interest.
NOTES: 5 total voices, sequenced by VCV Rack in Bitwig, and played with VST and Kontakt Instruments like the MG Soft Nylon Guitar and Hoveflute from Pianobook.
NOTES: 4 total voices this time, each sequenced by VCV Rack (NoteSeq16 into QNT per voice) in Bitwig, and played with VST and Kontakt Instruments like the MG Soft Nylon Guitar and Hoveflute from Pianobook.
NOTES: As usual, note/“music” data from VCV Rack sent to Bitwig via CV->MIDI and played using samples/VSTs like The Feathered Flute, Lunaris,and BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover
In VCV, almost universally the NoteSeq. I love the interface, I love how easy it is to get great sounding patterns out of it, and I love the fact that there are so many options for scales (even if I pretty much only use pentatonic, personally).
If not VCV, I just use my Arturia Keylab Essentials 64 and record sequences directly into Bitwig.
NOTES: I took a break from VCV for a bit to challenge myself but found myself coming back when I wanted to program the bansuri flute sound. The sound itself is from a VST running in Bitwig, but the sequence was recorded by using a fast clock into a Bernoulli gate set at a very low percentage to use as a trigger, which was fed into a sample & hold which was then sent into a quantizer. Recorded nearly 3 hours of sequence before I found a snippet of something that I liked (I still ended up tweaking the notes a little but VCV gave me the bulk of it). Added some groove in Bitwig to give it a little more human feel.