VCV Rack 2 teaser

[cornucopia]

what happens on november 22?

[matthew.d.gantt]

this is incredibly exciting, though as someone who used Unity as a CV utility in virtually every patch, sad to see it go!

[user80]

Guess someone is really excited to get back to work

[fractalgee]

mix works fine and there is UMIX from Bogaudio if you need a straight unity mixer, minus the inverse out…

Also, the Unity mixer is still there, just set to "hidden": true in plugin.json . Change that to false or remove line and it should appear again after Rack restart. I think that is there so old patches will not fail to load that have Unity mixer in use.

[synthi (Antonio Tuzzi)]

what’s the functionality do you need ? Maybe is just contextual menu add that I can implement in a 4MIX and associates

[fractalgee]

I am not needing anything @synthi It was someone else I answered to. And a context menu add is always a decent option for something like this…

[Jaffasplaffa]

Hey

Curious if the VCV Rack plug ins is only going to be VST and not audio unit?

I think I know the answer, but would like to have it confirmed.

[pgatt]

VST at first, but AudioUnit is set to come next.

[Jaffasplaffa]

That’s nice to know, thanks

[spyrograph]

Rack 2 is supposed to be out this month.

[LarsBjerregaard]

@spyrograph

Rack 2 is supposed to be out this month.

Correction: November at the earliest:

Rack development blog

The source code of VCV Rack 2 is now available to the public! VCV Rack Community Edition is free (GPLv3+) software that anyone can review, modify, and share. Our intention is to allow plugin developers to test and migrate their plugins for 6 weeks or more before Rack 2.0 is released, while we collect feedback about the API and finish up its features. Source code License Changelog API documentation Plugin migration guide for Rack 2 Development builds Unti…

[john_rose]

@Vortico

VCV Unity was my least favorite built-in module. The intention was a no-nonsense alternative to stacking multiple cables on an input port, which is not possible for very good reason. Beginners were asking “Why can’t I combine CV by stacking cables on an input?” I would suggest VCV Unity, but it led to more confusion because it has a VU meter (which is designed for audio rather than CV), has two channels (but they only needed one!), and has an average switch (which confused people why it was decreasing the level simply when adding additional cables, which is the point of averaging).

VCV Mix fixes all these problems, as well as offering an adjustable gain parameter for free. The panel is as narrow as possible within our internal design guidelines, and two VCV Mix modules is the same width as one VCV Unity.

VCV VCA-2 was also deprecated/hidden and replaced with the single-channel VCV VCA (which now has an exponential “jumper” available in its right-click menu). Both VCA-2 and Unity are still available when loading old patches but are unavailable in the Module Browser.

I do not see “VCV MIX” in my library. That’s when running VCV Rack Community Edition 2/git/219bbaf for Linux. I do still see UNITY (and VCA-2). Am I way behind?

What’s the maximum gain with MIX? Is it 100%, +6 dB, or something else?

[carbon14 (David O'Rourke)]

You are two or three versions behind.

[john_rose]

There’s a big piece of the puzzle.

[Squinky]

I think it’s 100%. I use two inputs to get some gain.

[rsmus7 (Stephan)]

@trevormeier

That level knob is just begging to be CV modulated

stoermelder’s modules might help here

[filete]

That’s what I was asking. An update if the release of V2 is still plan for November

[user80]

I don’t see the update happening in November… Beta 1 just came out 5 days ago and we still don’t have community modules built in or available… I’d hope we’d see a beta 2 or Release candidate with full functionality before we get excited that it will be soon to be released. My gut says sometime in 2022 unless things progress much faster from this point forward.

[thebadsectors (Keith Daykin)]

I’d rather have it late than have it broken. See console gaming for details

[steve]

@user80

we still don’t have community modules built in or available

I doubt you will see this until the release. Remember although the beta is public, it’s really meant for developers to test their plugins, not users. Developers don’t need the library and are quite happy building plugins from source. The plugin ABI has been declared stable and developers have been invited to submit their plugins to the v2 library ready for the launch.

I think there’s a good chance there will be another beta before launch but it’s really not far away now and I’d bet good money it will be this year - and it’s not completely out of the question, (although perhaps unlikely now) that it could still happen in November.