I think I totally agree with this for a couple of reasons, at least:
VCV is literally flooded with enormous potential and possibilities. The community is here to prove it. YET, for someone who never heard about euroracks or similar (like me, DOH!) it’s incredibly frustrating the first time.
It’s frustratring to open the software and see a grey empty panel with nothing in it. And then you ask yourself “well, and now? What do I do?”
YEAH, I know there are manuals that should have been read, tutorial that should have been watched but the first impact is befuddling and TBH some manuals on GitHub are… Uhm… Well… Let’s say that the plugins are amazing but the manuals that came along are not at the same level. As well as some YT videos I’ve seen out there.
I think that having at least one default patch to play could be a good way to say “hey, we all know this is not your usual cute easy to play software but before you delete it from your computer, listen to what you can achieve!”.
I played around with CV-CC and CV-GATE today, but I’m not quite sure how their usage is intended: when clicking on a CC-number or note the display changes to “LRN”, but how can a control or note been learned from a MIDI-out?
You’re right, “LRN” doesn’t make sense on the CV-* modules. I’ve changed the label to “–”. Currently there is no way to enter note names with a keyboard on MIDI-Gate and CV-Gate, but you can edit the .vcv file with a text editor.
Rack now displays “*” in the title bar when a loaded patch is modified and unsaved.
When “File > New” or “File > Open” is selected, a confirmation dialog opens reminding the user that the current patch is unsaved. This will reduce confusion and prevent lost patches.
A lot of programs have a menu point last used documents which opens a little list were you can load one of the last used files.
Did you never use something like this?
I’m trying to figure out the factory presets thing. I tried to save a SEQ3 preset and copied it under plugins/Fundamental/presets/myPreset.vcvm
It does not show up, what I’m doing wrong?