Scruby, reverse engineer it?

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Hello all, I’ve been making music for too long and almost 20 years ago, there was a VST I would use all the time which is this one. It’s basically a sampler that randomly picks the incoming signal to a buffer and spits it out under certain criterias.

Since the plugin is in 32 bits, it won’t work on my new M1 Mac and I thought about reverse engineer it in VCV but perhaps there is something that does that already.

Its parameters are:

Seek range: I see it’s in hertz but I’m not sure what it is. Range: How much sound to grab for the buffer (or I guess buffer size). Duration: As in, how long is the output. Pitch control (Quantized): self explained Octave: range Wet/Dry: combining the incoming with the wet.

it also had a few modes such as sync to a master or not, picking notes (quantized).

I would use it to mangle percussion and it would do great at giving me so many variations, which is super useful for shakers or other. Also incredibly useful for glitches. I had a license of Crusher-X in the past which was a beast that made me forget about Scruby but now I miss it.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

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Hello, this is a newish module, which may fit your ‘scrubbyness’ needs.

VCV Library - Yokai_Holiday Taps (vcvrack.com)

See if it does the business.

Destroy FX: Source Code

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Try this, I think it does exactly what you are asking for:

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won’t do, no. It only loads samples. I need something that is an effect that can randomly pick audio. If I play a loop, it would randomly some audio. I don’t want to load samples. thanks for the tip though! It’s a fun module i used before.

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will check! thanks

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Does kind of what you’re talking about.

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Cool. I forgot to mention that it has an expander, where you can record your loops. I haven’t used it yet, but usually anything from Voxglitch is :ok_hand:.

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oh cool! i’ll have a look!

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I played with this. It’s pretty good nothing close to what Scruby does. Sound wise, it’s not exactly hitting the spot either. I had used it before and love all the Path collection but this one is my least favorite.

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Nysthi Simpliciter can take audio, sample it, slice it and loop tiny bits. There are no manuals, and it’s not currently being supported by the developer but may be worth a look.

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Just come to me, u can use jbridge [free converter to 64 bit] to get the scrubby to work in VST Host but you got to pay for that I think.

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thanks for the tip but I’d like to reverse engineer it in VCV so I can tweak it to my tastes.

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Sounds good, I would use a VCV Rack scruby as a module set up. So if you made a version, would it be as a single or many modules patch?

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I’d see it as a one module thing

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I don’t know Scruby, but this is a premium module (set) really worth it if you are into sample mangling:

Hope it helps!

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I think it would be easier to compile the Scrubby VST for 64 bits than recreating it in VCV.

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