Geodesics is at a crossroad
Short version: Geodesics is taking a new step on its road: The Geodesics collection will not be updated with new modules or new features anymore. It will be kept compatible of VCV. The Geodesics project will continue in VCV Rack in a new shape and a new team…
Long version:
Where should I begin?
Mexico, 1952, I was a young student in the archeologic expedition to the tomb of Maya emperor Pakal I. The carved lid covering its remains describes a kind of spaceship…
Maybe later: Muncie, Indiana, 1977 I can’t stop drawing double circles in my matched potatoes since the night I have seen that bright light flying over my truck…
Or a bit later: Belgium, July 2018, I made a user manual for VCV modules that didn’t exist. As most designer, I can’t make a damn thing by myself. I asked for help in the dev group and received heartwarming answers from the great community of third-party developers.
Montréal Quebec, few weeks later, The Geodesics modules started to be shaped by the most capable hands of Marc Boulé, founder of Impromptu Modular, co-creator of Mindmeld and the portable sequence concept.
Github, August 2018, some of you guys and gals found our beta version and you were publishing better pieces of music than I ever made myself. This feeling has been the most fulfilling in my musical life for now.
During these last two years, we created 9 modules, and you created much more pieces of music involving this strange collection.
We also had a lot of encouraging inquiries for more advanced modules and hardware versions.
This is the road I want to take for the future of Geodesics. Working on more powerful VCV modules, as a commercial project to help the dream of a career as musical tool designer and fund what could become a first batch of Geodesics Eurorack modules.
Marc is currently running 3 collections with the most used modules in VCV (Clocked, Mixmaster). Such an involvement in the VCV community is incredibly time consuming and so would be this new stage of the Geodesics project. Therefore, Marc understandably decided not to continue this path.
It was a real pleasure to work with Marc, who brought life to a user manual to make this crazy collection of modules! thanks to him they exist and thanks to him, they are relevant in the VCV Rack universe! If it was up to me, they would be a bunch of space related nonsenses!
We decided to leave the Geodesics collection as it is. Every donation for it will continue to be spread equally. It will be kept up to date, and who knows, maybe one day it will grow again, but it will stay alive as long as it finds a place in your music.
Thank you very much for these two years of support in any form that you made it!
July 2020, the future of the Geodesics on VCV Rack is currently being casted in the deepest abyss of Github by the darkest god of the VCV mythology… I can’t wait to tell you all about it!!