Nice patch! I love the end result. And btw I love your backgrounds.
Thatâs so nice! great patch, great song, great use of logic and counters to create a sequence!
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Hi! This is my entry to the challenge. I call it entropy, hope you enjoy it!
In my channel there is also a tutorial (english and spanish) in case you want to see how I build it, and here is my patch ready to download on patchstorage. Good luck to everyone! there are some great entries!
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This was an inspiring challenge! Itâs been some time since Iâve opened up Rack with no intention other than creating something purely in Rack. Cheers!
https://patchstorage.com/091722/
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Hereâs my entry for VCP 73. Loved everyoneâs patches so far!
Gotta say it was hard no going for my usual suspects like ADDR-Seq, NoteSeq or GATESeq 64. So thank you for this challenge, it was a lot of fun and I learned a ton!
The patch builds quite slowly, with almost no action until the 45 second mark and the melody comes in at 03:45. It still has quite a way to go - so thanks for listening to something so raw/unedited.
The rhythm relies entirely on a set of LFOs being used as clocks and gates, mixed together by the GATE COMBINE module and modulated in frequency by a couple of outputs from OCHD.
The scale is a pentatonic with major 6th added to it. I love the tension this occasionally creates while still being kind of safe harmonically for purely generative note content.
For the chords I used my favorite generative tactic which is to take notes from a melody and put them through a shift register with a slow trigger, merging some of the outputs into a polyphonic cable.
The gates for the melody come from a slope detector fed by WALK.
The âshaker soundâ is a variation on Omri Cohenâs tremolo trick with added envelope and lfo based amplitude modulation to create a kind of 5 over 4 accented pattern.
And lastly I used an envelope follower with a threshold based gate output for the higher, âfeedback like soundingâ voice.
Most of the voices use fm in some form, though I would love even more tonal variation which Iâll work on.
Best, @aetrion-music
P.S.: Will upload to patch storage before Sep 30th.
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Beautiful! One of my favorites so far
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Yeah, super nice.
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I decided to create a second entry. But I went in a completely different direction for this one.
My first entry is totally uncontrolled chaos. In stark contrast, this one has a tightly controlled melodic structure, but of course without any sequencers. The first voice is basically an arpeggio, but I felt that an arpeggiator is too much like a sequencer, so I constructed my own arpeggiator out of more primitive modules. Some variant of this design will be part of my next set of VCV Fundamental Constructs, when I finally get around to updating it.
The bass line voice is a simple descending scale created by a ramp down LFO run through a quantizer with equal note probability.
All the sequencing is controlled by ramp waves from an LFO âclockâ
I shamelessly stole Purfâs idea of adding offsets to arpeggio steps at random times. I developed a solution to the problem that never backtracks - once an offset is added, it remains until the end of a 16 measure cycle. A ramp âclockâ is compared against randomly chosen thresholds to determine when each offset is added. New random thresholds are established for each 16 measure cycle.
More detailed patch notes are available at Patch Storage.
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Hey all, havenât entered one of these before - heard about it from @blockoneproductions tutorial vid for the challenge (thanks!). Still a beginner, so donât expect anything as amazing as the other posts here.
The intrument tagged âArp1/2â (more a broken chord than an arp?) is sequenced by Frozen Wastelandâs Seeds of Change, which will repeat its PRNG sequence when reseeded. This is modulated by a second Seeds of Change (use Multiply 1 and Seed to play).
âBassâ is sequenced by a quantised LFO.
âPadâ uses Frozen Wastelandâs Probably Note quantizer to sample notes from Seeds of Change. The chord expander pads this out.
The âLeadâ (such as it is) uses Vultâs Caudal to sweep up and down the scale with some variation. Quantum is used as the quantiser here as it can send gates/triggers when the output changes - useful to trigger the envelope in the FM-OP.
âDrumâ uses divided clocks to sequence a kick, snare and hats.
An idea I did not pursue was to use a simple guitar sample and a pitch/envelope follower like Entrianâs - accompanying sequences could be derived from this.
Iâm almost certain I didnât include anything tagged âsequencerâ and almost certain I used all free modules 
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Interesting entry! Looking forward to hearing more of your patches.
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Very nice. And I am glad you used and reminded me about Seeds Of Change. I remember reading the description and manual and thinking I need to try it out, but I never got around to it. I think it is time that I do.
I have used the Probably NOTe quantizer many times and been very pleased with the results.
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Cool patch! Iâm glad my video brought more attention to these challenges, they are amazing! 
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Thatâs what I thought, so here it is:
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this appears to have been a really successful challenge. thanks everyone who participated!
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Yes! It was a fun challenge, and it was great to see/hear all the entries
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