Hi everyone, I recently bought VCV Host to do some experimenting in this way, but I realized that I threw my money away… let me explain, plugins are normally designed to be slaves to the DAW that hosts them, a vst sequencer will be clocked by the DAW automatically, for example, it will be started / stopped by the DAW, but this is not possible in Rack because Host-CV only has outputs… outputs that are not written in the vst because it is not designed that way… So I can’t send the clock to the sequencer (Hatefish Rhygenerator), but I can’t even send the clock to Rack, because the sequencer does not emit clock, it does not even emit start and stop… Or I loaded a 303 emulation and I cannot use any output, total zero, not even the gate… But that’s ok, because it must receive input, not emit output… So I wonder, why was a Host-CV input not also thought of? I understand that with Rack VST everything can be done that way inside a DAW and the Host is no longer needed, but what if someone simply wanted to get away from all traditional DAWs and use Rack as a standalone system?
You do that via the Host module inputs, not Host CV. Right click on a ‘- - -’ and select what clock you’d like, then plug your clock into the corresponding socket.
Still wondering if we’ll ever get the dark panels for Host…
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Fantastic. I thought that part was only for automated modulations… Yes, I have several VCV modules purchased (Host, Router, Mixer… and I think I will buy them all in time…) and they are all white… I hope that sooner or later the dark ones will arrive, I’m not in a hurry, but for a question of coherence they should do it.
Thanks!
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