Congrats on Pigeon Plink! It looks good and sounds great. An outstanding addition to the RPJ line and a good example of the evolution possible in VCV Rack, from Kitchen Sink to Pigeon Plink. So much to explore and learn with it. Thanks to @mosphaere for getting us started with many examples. First thing I tried was creating a bunch of polyphonic madness with Grendel plugged into various PP inputs, followed of course by some Circular Ride delay. It becomes interesting very quickly. Thank you all.
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Amazing modules. Thank you.
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Whilst adding more CV’s to my existing modules, fixing some polyphonic issues I also am working on a new module called Genie. I started it as a module containing 4 chaos pendulums (2 edges). I realised it would be fun to create a display that shows me the pendulum and I realised it would give me a good opportunity to study nanovg a bit more. So that is now an expander module for my Chaos creator.
I got it working and you can build it from my repo. I am not releasing it yet, as I will be implementing more functionalities (more chaos patterns, color configuration) and need to work on the documentation.
I also realised I could connect Causal from Vult to my display to show the internal 4 edge Chaos pendulum (see below).
Any suggestions or new ideas welcome (if you have an account, please do it on github). You can download a very early version from here: Added rotating and static · kockie69/RPJ@bf3eb05 (github.com)
I quickly made a vcv recording of Genie in action:
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This is cool. Could it be made into some kind of visualizer that could work with other modules?
Well, it can already be used by other moules, there are no 4 x,y inputs available. Go wild I would say 
But a standard visual module is exactly what my thinking is/was when I started working on it. But there are so many ways of possible visualisations of course, and the effect I have created now is not unique of course. Others have done similar things in similar environments.
Also my next thought was, does it really need to be a VCV module? Why not run it seperate, on a seperate machine that can drive a beamer during a live show? Use VCV audio and CV and midi outputs to drive the external program.
Well, true that there aren’t that many 4,x,y modules. I’m working on “Harmony” right now which has four outputs. If you consider “time” or “clock” to be x, then you just need 4 y modules, and there are probably a lot of those. I’ll have to try it and see what happens. Of course Harmony already has what I consider a nice visualizer, but still…
Not sure if I understand correctly what you mean, but you don’t need to use all the x,y inputs. You can start with row 1. That will give you 1 moving ball. Next you can add a second row that will give you a second ball etc.
I don’t know the module (yet), but I’m just saying it’s super common to make graphs with time on the x axis. That’s what “scope” is, after all. So if I can somehow feed “time” into your module for x, then problem solved.
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Instead of drawing with nanovg I wanted to see what is possible with openGL. So I implemented an OpenGlWidget and I am running projectM in it. Very surprised I got this working. We can feed audio to the plugin and it will show the graphics based on this input. ProjectM is fully in development at the moment so I will work on implementing more screens (.milk) from now. It was a big hutdle to get all of this compiled and integrated but very happy with the first results.
Examples of what is possible (156) projectM Demo - YouTube
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It will be nice to see these visualisations return to Rack. Milkrack didn’t make it to Rack 2.
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Yeah. Excuse the rant but… I find it unfathomable how much constantly needs to be re-invented in the Rack ecosystem because developers just drop their work like hot potatoes and we have no sane adoption policy. I don’t think I’ll every understand this. Sorry for the off-topic rant.
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I feel like I’m part of the problem here - I’ve not ported any of my plugins to Rack 2, simply because I don’t use Rack anymore (not that it’s bad or anything - Rack was amazing in v1, I’m sure it’s even better in v2). I’d love to have folks adopt my plugins and port them forward, including Milkrack and WhatTheRack (the only 2 I made that had any success). If you’re interested, feel free to reach out at korfuri at gmail directly. I don’t watch this forum either (but I was @ on this thread, so I happened to see this rant).
Cheers and happy to see the Rack scene is alive and well
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Good man! @netboy3 or @Steve_Russell maybe one of you are interested in porting and adopting them? That would be swell!
ProjectM has changed a lot the last years, so I don’t think porting this module is the right thing to (if at all possible). I am developing it against the latest API and have it mostly working as can be seen in the attached demo video that demonstrates a couple of the thousands presets available.
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Looks great Robert! Guess that takes care of MilkRack.
very cool!
Nice one! Now add a popout-window with fullscreen mode for secondary monitors 
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That will be one of the next challenges. But currently struggling with zoom. I also want to add some more functions that projectM provides like different playing modes. I now have a param added to control playing time for each preset. Lot of options to add. But zoom will keep me busy for tonight I guess.
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Looking good! Is the module resizable like JW Full Scope?
cool, will be very welcome!