Feel free to fork it and change it. I don’t remember anyone ever requesting that before.
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The Kontakt stuff works great sequenced and played from VCV through Host and Host-FX. I did a patch a few days ago with the Electric Sunburst Guitar, Strummed Acoustic and Spitfire Audio Labs Piano Pads (look on Facebook). I’ve also done stuff with Massive, Massive X, Discovery Series West Africa, Hybrid Keys. Since I can’t play an instrument, I let VCV play them.
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I’m not even sure what that means,so I assume i couldn’t do it.
I think,based on what’s been said,that running 2,or more,intances would probably benefit anyone using AMD processors.
That’s what I’d hoped to get,but I think I’ll be getting a 10900k,now.
[Is it okay to call you Squinky,or do you like the .Labs added on ? How on earth did you think of the name,anyway ? It’s great,by the way].
I like the sound of that,Rick,especially the use of Kontakt.
Electric,acoustic and electronic/modular could be a fantastic mix. Whether or not I can pull it off is entirely another matter 
Oh, I just meant it’s open source, you can change it if you want. I have a natural aversion to “customers” (end users) implying that reason a particular feature wasn’t implemented was because the developer in question is stupid, crazy, or otherwise disabled. but I got no skin in this game…
Squinky is sort of an in-joke, slang made up by a friend maybe 30 years ago. Glad you like it!
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I just used “crazy” as a throw-away word,here. It wasn’t a loaded word,nor potentially insulting,like stupid may have been,and I certainly wasn’t “aiming” it at anyone. Just one of those instances where text is lacking in nuance,I guess.
FWIW,I think that the whole VCV endevour/adventure seems to be very openly and fairly run,from what little I know of it [eg : the Mission Statement ,and parts of some threads touching on developments/changes]. I’m not sucking up,here.I arrived here just after discovering Voltage Modular,and finding that not only were there many more Vult modules for VCV,but that many were free,and the others,much cheaper. I think the arrangements here seem much better,at least as an end user.
Anyway,I’m,literally,just starting to learn about modular,virtual or otherwise,and know nothing about programming,so there’s no possible chance of me trying to change any more than maybe some colours.[Not your blue knobs and dials,though ].
haha, nice. Well, welcome to the group!
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Thanks,Squinky.
That’s my first official welcome,so I feel all warm and fuzzy now
Also,I’m looking forward to trying out your modules - many are very appealing,and,I hope it goes without saying,not just visually - as soon as I can get a PC that will run the Rack.
They are very plain. Some people like that, many don’t. but don’t worry, they’ve been called much worse by others.
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“They are very plain. Some people like that, many don’t. but don’t worry, they’ve been called much worse by others”.
You misunderstand.I said,in an earlier comment,above - 10/30 - that I think they look great. Very clean lines,nice design and lovely blue knobs and dials.That’s what I was alluding to when I said I might change the colours of some modules,but I wouldn’t change your lovely blue knobs and dials.
I wasn’t being snarky,either then,or in my last comment. I meant that many of your modules are very appealling - they sound great,and are very cpu efficient,and are also very visually appealing. Ireally do like the clean,unfussy designs.I especially like “Formants” ,“Chopper” and “Shaper”. Also,I think Chebyshev sounds fantastic.
oh, no worries, I did not take your post negatively, although I did misunderstand a bit. I know you are kidding, but in some cases it would actually be difficult for someone to change the blue knob color, because at least one of the blue knobs I use is part of VCV, and you don’t want to tinker with the shared controls.
But it is a topic that comes up a lot. There is an active thread here called “Let’s see your custom module skins”/ https://community.vcvrack.com/t/lets-see-your-custom-module-skins
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Yeah,it seems we’re having some real difficulty with the lack of nuance thing.As in,I remember you explaining that some of the blue stuff was part of VCV,but I still think it looks great. I meant every word of the compliments about your modules.[I’m just going to leave it at that,'cause I don’t think I could be any clearer].
Re : the thread about the custom skins - Yeah,I was reading that yesterday.I wouldn’t have even known that you could change colours,let alone how to do it,otherwise.Excellent thread. Sound,and,especially music,matter most to me,but I’m a sucker for a pretty face(plate),too.
Oh,and thanks again for the welcome.Sincerely.
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I have a Ryzen 7 2700X and have a moderate amount of GAS for the upcoming Ryzen 9 5950X CPUs. Does anyone know if the Zen 3 architecture improves on the inter-core latency issues mentioned in posts above? I’m starting to find the 2700X an issue in certain situations (usually when running DAW, VCV and lots of plugins) so I will be looking to upgrade, but unsure about leaping to Zen3 or buying one of the faster Zen 2 CPUs when they drop in price once Zen 3 arrives.
As it is, it’s all moot for me until MSI makes good on their promise to update the firmware on their x470 motherboards to support the 5xxx series processors.
zen3 is supposed to have removed the problem with the ccxs and cache, that’s one of the performance improvements they quote.
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oh cool, will hang fire over the Black Friday period then
Hi.
Really interested by the way you managed this with Process Lasso, because i’m experiencing performance issues with a 3900x and 12 threads selected in VCV. Did it implied to micromanage CPU affinity attributions for each running applications (VCV / CCX 1 : CPU 0 to 2, and on the other hand CCX 2 to 4 : CPU 3 to 15 for DAW, synths, etc…) ?
Cheers
really odd to have issues with such a powerful cpu. Have you read the optimizing part of the manual? It’s got all the basics.
Choose as little treads as you can manage, it works see manual :
Threads
Sets the number of cores to be used in Rack’s multithreaded engine.
To minimize power usage and CPU resources for other programs to use, disable multithreading by selecting 1 thread. Using more threads increases CPU usage but increases the maximum number of modules you can use in the rack.
It is recommended to begin with 1 thread, and if you experience audio hiccups, try increasing the thread count by 1. Continue adding threads until no hiccups occur. The maximum recommended number of threads is the number of physical cores in your machine. For example, a quad-core machine would likely maximize the number of modules by using 4 threads.
Due to simultaneous multithreading such as Intel Hyper-Threading, you may attempt to use up to twice as many threads as physical cores in your machine, but typically this results in worse performance with higher power usage.
Also here : Menu Bar — VCV Rack documentation
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I read and applied every tip in the optimizing part and increased my buffer size from 64 to 128, but i’m stil ocasionaly getting glitches an d noises, mostly when the interface redraw while zooming (with a GTX1080). However i checked my RAM and CPU performances with Cinebench and also Latencymon and had no performances or stability issues. I can run the same heavy patches on my laptop (Intel core i9 10980K - 8 cores) without notable issues so i’m wondering if the glitches i’m geting on the Ryzen could come from this CCX latency question.
I also tried to reduce the number of threads wondering if it could lower the system stress but it didnt really changed something.
Thanks for your advises by the way.
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Has anyone tried one of the zen 3 processors with Rack yet?
I’m itching to buy one just in the hope that it solves the problem. My processor is fast enough for most things and I can run pretty large projects in Reaper but with Rack I can’t do half as much I would expect.
Wondering if I should just go for Intel but any potential gain is unknown.