This website allows you to easily search for individual modules of a particular tag, brand, or license type. For example, want to list all sampler modules? Simply select the “Sampler” tag.
It is not yet possible to add modules or subscribe to plugins from this website until Rack v2 is released. Use the old VCV Library to add/purchase plugins in the meantime.
Plugin developers:
Please check that all information is correct on your plugin page (e.g. VCV Library - Geodesics) and module pages (e.g. VCV Library - Geodesics Energy). If anything is missing, incorrect, or could be organized better, edit your plugin.json file and publish an update through the usual channels (library issue tracker for open-source plugins, contact@vcvrack.com for proprietary). In particular:
If your module is an authorized hardware clone, use the "Hardware clone" tag. If the name of the module/plugin is different than the hardware unit, add the hardware’s name in the module description. It might soon be linked to from its ModularGrid entry!
Make sure the plugin brand is correct. Brands are prepended to module names to produce a “full module name”, so if you’d like your module’s full name to be “Andrew’s VCO”, set the module name to “VCO” and the plugin brand to “Andrew’s”. e.g. The brand in VCV Library - Autodafe - REDs FREE TRES[AM]IGOS should be just "Autodafe".
Looks great Andrew! Everything is nicely crosslinked, searchable and filterable - this will be very useful. Only nit is as reported above - fixed row-hight layout breaks down when text is more than 1 line, and then my usual peeve: Watch out for gray, low-contrast text. Otherwise, good stuff, thanks!
This is a good idea, though I’d probably switch this around! Some of mine are fairly long and do not show all text in the web browser, in the module browser you can have any length you desire.
Shorter description for web page and longer description when clicked into. Long in Rack!
In my eyes it would be great to have a link to the module manual from this side also for more information before installation. I was told from some developers that there is no real interest for manuals per module but I still think this would be helpful for everyone!
Have a lot of manuals written over the last months for my self so contact me if you are interested to get some help here.
One little remark, autofocusing the search box breaks arrow key navigation. It’s pretty frustrating when navigating multiple pages, each page it requires de-focusing.
Seconded. Direct links to a specific module’s manual is a dream. That said, writing manuals can be a lot of work, so I certainly don’t begrudge folks who don’t have the time to make beautiful docs for each module in their package.
This is absolutely gorgeous work, @Vortico. I have a few random thoughts, which nobody is obligated to hear.
It looks like you’re rendering the same preview image that’s seen in Rack itself? I noticed that Meander has the same funky artifacts that you see in Rack’s module browser.
It would be awesome if each module’s page supported the Open Graph Protocol so that when you paste a link to a module in a discourse topic, Discourse (or Facebook, Slack, etc.) can render a preview.
How are you caching/serving the images? Are you worried about costs for hosting and serving them all?
I have one suggestion. Say I search for “Sampler” and click on one of the samplers. When I’m done learning about the sampler and wish to return to my search results, there doesn’t seem to be an option. My only option seem to be to click “Library” in the breadcrumbs which does return me to the index page but does not retain my search query.
