Facebook is no great loss. The Discord is much better.
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Yep Facebook has been a cesspit for years, but I was saying the same thing a few weeks ago about the VCV group going downhill. It’s just people spamming links and hardly any discussion, wasn’t like that when it started. Even Reddit is probably a better option!
It’s a shame more people that use VCV don’t use this forum too.
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I’m returning with more begging, hat in hand please Mr Hetrick Don Cross and whomever feels the urge, more Nonlinear Circuits.
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yeah there used to be good patch videos and some interesting conversation on a regular basis.
many of the wizards (Artem, Omri, Jacub, Marc) from there aren’t active in the forum. I installed Discogs now and already saw that there’s an entirely different set of people on there. The Community is fractured.
The Forum should really be advertised more aggressively.
Lets pressure Omri to make a video about it 
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Host sync data exposed directly in the API! So we could write a perfect sample accurate host-synced phasor module.
That’d be awesome.
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This is very cool but I can’t get it to work. The documentation is a bit confusing, and when I choose “Tone This PanelTone",” Rack crashes.
Would anyone be so kind as to port this “XXY scope” to VCV module format? It’s the most realistic and best looking scope by a mile for “realism”
I think I may have fixed that error for the next update. Crash toggling “Tone this PanelTone” while toning is running is now fixed in the GitHub Nightly and will be in the next library update.
I’ve also made some improvements to the PanelTone docs. If I’m lucky, I’ve clarified whatever you may have found confusing.
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This is my big one, really. VCV is my most-used piece of music software by far, but some of the competitors have significantly better preset and state management. Without naming them (since I’m not sure that’s within forum rules), they have features like:
- A preset browser (instead of relying on OS file browsers)
- Preset morphing (interpolating between A/B states)
- CV control (or trigger stepping) between multiple preset states
- Preset tagging
- Factory and User preset collections
Stuff like that. My VCV project folders are a bit of a frightening mess since I’m constantly saving experiments.
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Thanks everyone, this thread was started as a bit of fun but there’s been some great suggestions.
I feel your pain with VCV project folders, I think most people are the same. I have thousands of files, some for different versions of VCV, and spread across three different computers and two backup drives. Total mess!
This can be done with Stoermelder Transit, but would be better as a built-in feature not requiring extra modules. I guess the issue with preset collections is people not having the same modules in the library.
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For me as a module developer, some sort of usage more fine-grained than “number of downloads”.
Per-module Daily Active Users would be my dream, but anything more than our current data would be more satisfying. I pour a lot of effort into these (though nowhere near what some do); some mechanism to understand what people are actually using and what doesn’t would be gratifying.
Although, I admit, maybe it is good not to have the “number go up” treadmill be too close at hand…
Thanks! Works and now i understand how to use it.
Understandable, but for me as a user I do not want modules to phone home every day to update a database. If this were implemented it would need to be opt-in only.
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Doubt it’s technically possible but I’d love to be able to dock a VCV Host plugin as a module, even if it required a lot of zooming in to see and use properly.
Expanded template support where I could choose which template to start with from a menu.
Option to save a new version of a patch with one click. Just simple incremental numbering on file names would do.
Native support for blocks of modules that are separated by a custom background. Hopefully this would mean we could separate them vertically without having to have a full module of empty vertical space.
Fixed size option so we can limit usable space for fun (ofc we can do this manually, but an option to block or disable ‘out of bound’ modules would make this much easier. Also tell us in the module browser how wide a module is to help support space limited patch designs.
More custom grouping options for the module browser than simply ‘favourites’. I want to have custom group names or perhaps that’s equivalent to custom user tags. Basically just more favourites groups than just one, and I can give them names.
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yes Santa, this —^ ,pretty please!
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Here is a very non crazy suggestion, that might not even belong here……
In the VCV Host module, when you have the UI of a VST open, it is always in front of any other app that is running (not just VCV). No other DAW has this behavior.
Oh a one of those I always-want-this-topmost thing. This kind of thing just turns into an arms race where nobody wins. Not even possible to do on some operating systems.
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Just in case I wasn’t clear, I do not like the behavior where the VST is always in front of every app, including Rack. Maybe it doesn’t work that way for everyone, but it does for me, and it’s super annoying. I guess VCV support is the proper place for this request.
Ah, I misunderstood what you were getting at. This might be OS-dependent, so make sure you mention what OS you are on in the support request.
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I’ve noticed that on both Mac and Windows actually, but it’s not a huge issue for me. There’s already a thread for improvements to VCV, the idea of this thread was to imagine if you could have any outlandish feature, no matter how unrealistic, what would you want?
Having said that, there’s been some excellent practical ideas so that’s fine too!