5 Ways Of Adding Structure To Your Patches In VCV Rack

[@markfdesimone]

Great as always! One of the things really I appreciate is that you don't disparage different techniques, equipment, styles, modules, etc. You keep things really positive, which is very encouraging to a newbie like me trying to get into such a deep, intimidating thing like modular synthesis. For example, someone who can only afford a Korg nanoKontrol shouldn't feel like they don't have good enough stuff to make real music. You also tend to keep your ideas and explanations general enough that they can apply to a bunch of different aesthetic ideas, or approaches.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I appreciate the feedback, thank you! And yes, I'm trying to show that modular synthesis can be approachable to anyone, never mind in which style or background.

[@mabba1013]

10:31 we need a sample of that "Oh Yeah!"

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Let me know if you do something with it :)

[@macronencer]

21:17 The Event Timer is what I would use if I were meditating, to fade the whole patch out after a set amount of time. Fantastic, I was hoping that existed somewhere.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Oh yes, indeed, you can even set it as an alarm clock, waking up to meditative sounds...

[@AtavistCanid]

Just changed my whole life, with the Mind Meld fade feature. You rock, Omri!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Have fun :)

[@TheMrBakedPOTato]

Ngl Omri, I've got my impression of you down to a tee; I find myself opening the menu in VCV and looking for a see-quencer xD

[@maxrose8845]

No way your impression is better than mine

[@DarknessNam]

Thank you for doing these videos. I am new to modular and vice, and your videos have been fantastic learning resources. You teach well sir! Thank you :)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's great, thanks so much!

[@rogerknights6800]

Thank you Omri for another excellent tutorial.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@opelsnest]

Tres bien monsieur Cohen. Chapeau.!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Merci!

[@MattDiamondMDE]

That was great, really good to see your functions for performance of the patch

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you!

[@damianfuentes9126]

Thanks very much your videos are amazing , i'm Novate in vcv rack but i learned so much view your videos

[@damianfuentes9126]

Hello from Chile

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@damianfuentes9126]

@@OmriCohen-Music thanks You right now i only thing in how can create a song i'm vcv but a view a video from You and i right know how yo Start thanks

[@macronencer]

18:35 When I realised that the transpose input of Quantum didn't merely add an offset but *changed the key*, snapping the voltages to new values that were still near the old ones, my MIND WAS BLOWN. Wonderful technique, that! Not the sort of thing that's easily done on a normal arpeggiator.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

There's so much to explore... :)

[@michaellane7305]

Mind blown. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Kid_Placo]

Very good advices, merci Omri 🖐🙂

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you!

[@petermican]

Absolutely mindblowing, thank you sooooo much for sharing that with us ;-)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

I've used a lot of those techniques, but there were a few novel ones in there for me to try out as well. Nice.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@ColinMakesAllTheThings]

In that first patch, how did you get everything to stop when your song was done? Did it stop the clock from running?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's a feature of the Impromptu sequencers. You can set them to stop when the song is over

[@BadOldBuzzard]

A really excellent and productive way would be to have VCV Rack for DAWs. But, that must have been just a dream I had one night.

[@pauldavisthefirst]

It will be part of the next major release. But not gratis, unlike the standalone version. That's my current understanding.

[@giddyaunt9953]

really interesting ideas - thank you. In my early days with VCV I chained lots of grayscale algorhythm's together running from the bar clock out from AS clock. so each of the 8 outs of algorhythm would give a trigger for the start of each bar. mix any two together using greyscale binary and into a flip flop to give a gate opening at say the start of bar 5, closing at bar 9. then AND that with the clock to a sequencer to get the sequencer running for those bars. It was a bit clunky and the sequencers all needed to be reset after each section using the output from algorhythm, but it did work. Need to get back to that now greyscale is back. but will definitely try some of these too

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Oh, that's a nice trick :) Let me know how it goes with the new version.

[@pureeschaap]

@@OmriCohen-Music Giddy Aunt didn't...

[@cerealboxstudios]

Content on your channel is top notch! Which module are you using to name the rows with Drums, arps, etc. ?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I appreciate it! I use the 202 module from Submarine - library.vcvrack.com/SubmarineFree

[@angelogrieco]

Finally! Thanks.. now to hardware modulation and I'm good to go!!! :)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Let me know how it goes :)

[@angelogrieco]

@@OmriCohen-Music :) I was actually asking for a video where you explain how to send cv to specific inputs on hardware synths (e.g. neutron/crave)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

@@angelogrieco Oh ok :) I'll see what I can do

[@ElectronisoundsAudio]

Thanks for this!! 😁🙏👊

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@gameboyz7497]

great video as always

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@mirosmeltemi]

Nice sound!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@bofud]

10:27 man, I love you :) always makes me smile ah, hey btw could you make a video on how you keep track of projects and stay organized? My structure is a complete mess which results in a lot of stuff just getting forgotten. cheers! :)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's a good idea, I'll see what I can do :)

[@CapitanJocote]

Nice mind blowing!!!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@trespaul]

15:50 in Linux I can hook VCV up with my DAW by using Jack which means I can run several different signal chains through VCV simultaneously. This actually makes more sense to me than to have VCV as a plugin - I like thinking of VCV as an outboard rack instead of a "plugin". If I had (were fortunate enough to have) an actual Eurorack, I'd be using it that way too. But now that I think of it, having a plugin would mean that the signal chains would not have to be recorded / bounced in real-time. I'm sure one can do this with Jack, but I haven't looked into it yet.

[@laurenpinschannels]

I've been meaning to look at the internals of jack, is it correct that jack drives vcv? or does vcv use real time in any way such that buffer underruns cause missing audio? it seems plausible to me that vcv in jack mode would be driven by the jack module, but I don't understand the interaction between the two properly. I'd love it if I could configure all of my jack software to be driven by jack, though, if that's possible - to put it another way, there should be a mode in which digital distortion isn't represented or recorded by any component of the system, and instead latency results in delays in getting buffers to the hardware out buffer but no gaps in the generated waveform. I definitely have noticed that even with jack+wineasio, driving vcv with fl studio's midi timing output does not result in tight timing. This is with low latency settings enabled on ubuntu studio.

[@michaelampm]

This is exactly what I do as well. On top of this, I send many channels of midi cc data to Rack to introduce automation. I use a vst that acts as a bridge between plugin parameters and midi cc data so that they are are DAW automatable. The result is something very similar to a vst! I can draw in envelope lanes and add more and more automation, then I record the output and repeat to introduce a new voice. I also made an OpenOSC interface on my touchscreen to control the plugin parameters easier and it makes me feel like a sound wizard. Maybe I should make a video if people are interested. I can't imagine making songs with vcvrack any other way now. The downside is like you said, you can't freeze/bounce the track faster than real time. You also need two tracks for each voice, one for recording midi keyboard input, and one for recording Vcv racks output.

[@pauldavisthefirst]

@@laurenpinschannels I am the original author of JACK. JACK is a synchronous, latency-free system (although the most commonly used version adds 1 buffer of latency by default, precisely to allow clients to fail to meet deadlines by a small margin). The current version of VCV does not feature tight coupling between the audio backend API (ASIO, JACK, CoreAudio etc.) and the VCV engine. The next major release (if I understand correctly) will do so (VeeEssTee Rack was a fork of VCV that did this, but will likely not continue post the 2.0 release of VCV). JACK+Wineasio is a crazy combination if you expect "tight MIDI timing". If you want to run pro-audio/music creation software written for Windows, use Windows. If you want to talk more about this, find me on IRC (#ardour on freenode), because YT comment threads are not the place. US Mountain Time.

[@ipoponq]

what's that midi controller you got there?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's the Midilar controller. It's a Midi controller designed for VCV but it's not being produced anymore, unfortunately...

[@ipoponq]

@@OmriCohen-Music looks cool..

[@peterhertel5307]

The Problem is that VCV-Rack not realy works with my DAW. The Audio transver via Bridge dose not realy works. It's not usable. In FruityLoops at this Time.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

But what about recording inside of VCV and then loading it in FL?

[@peterhertel5307]

@@OmriCohen-Music That must I testing. But Direct with the Bridge it is not usable.

[@jodymcdougle8810]

Happy new year, guys! I've only just discovered your channel this afternoon! Can you give any introductory tips regarding VCV? If any of you guys would like to do a split, mix, chat, or just have fun making music and sounds; here is a link to the channel the kids & i work on from time to time: Soundcloud.com/jodymcdougle

[@DrBrainsurferCH]

veeery nice....again

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@MrLIVE150]

Please Can We SAMPLE YOUR BRAIN!