Creating a slowly evolving ambient background Voice | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2

[@FlagAudio]

Love seeing Prodigal Son in the wild! Thanks for the smooth tones!

[@not-things]

Thanks! And thanks for the great modules, I love playing with them in in the wild 😉

[@ryanpemberton7056]

Have been watching your videos for a while, really enjoying the music and wishing I understood the patching techniques you're using. I was hoping for some tutorials from you and so I'm stoked to see this. I learnt a lot and would love to see you do more! Thank you!

[@not-things]

Thank you, I'm glad you got something out of the tutorial. I may create some tutorials in the future, but I'm very much still in the phase of learning and experimenting with VCV/modular myself. So it will probably be only sporadically that I end up with a part of a patch that's interesting enough to become a standalone tutorial.

[@MarkusAliasCmn]

brilliant patch, and very well explained. thanks a lot.

[@not-things]

Thanks! Happy to hear you liked it.

[@bwackv]

I'm new to music and slowly learning with VCV. My goal right now is to make ambient tracks. Your tutorial, which I just finished, was so helpful. I really appreciate your pacing and that you explain each and every step, presuming nothing. Thank you! Also, I enjoy listening to your music.

[@not-things]

Thank you, it's great to hear that you found the tutorial helpful.

[@gazzata]

Thanks so much. Really interesting tutorial. I'm a beginner and learned a huge amount.

[@not-things]

Great to hear!

[@melkesedek]

I learned a lot! Thanks for a very good tutorial

[@not-things]

Thank you! I'm glad that it was helpful.

[@bmuxbeats]

Awesome patch - everything was explained in detail. Thank you so much making me much more familiar with the techniques of modular synths. 👌🏻💯

[@not-things]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kolute]

Very cool patch Thx !

[@not-things]

Glad you like it!

[@Kyoshi2012]

Love this fat wavsound.. thnx for the trouble! Patch works like a charm too!

[@not-things]

Glad you like it, and that everything worked :-)

[@zamphzibaha]

This was great, thank you far an excellent tutorial

[@not-things]

You're very welcome!

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Great patch, thanks for sharing. Is there a way to apply a random selection (module) for the note on the Twelve-Key? Thank you!

[@not-things]

One way to randomize the notes coming out of the Twelve-Key would be to use a Sample and Hold module, send that through a quantizer and connect the result to the CV input of the Twelve-Key. Each time the Sample and Hold module gets triggered to change to a new value, also send that trigger to the Gate input of the Twelve-Key (so that it reads the input CV), and the output CV of the Twelve-Key will now send out what was received on the CV input. But if there would not be a need to also be able to select the notes manually on the Twelve-Key, you can also leave it out of the patch all together and use the quantized S&H output as new input CV for the rest of the patch. If you want to be able to have more control over the range of notes that comes out of the Sample and Hold, and in which octave(s) they are generated, you can put another Offset module between the Sample and Hold and the Quantize module, and use its Scale knob to control the range and the Offset knob to specify in which octave(s) they should be.

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

@@not-things Thank you very much for the response to my question, much appreciated! These details certainly help, I will give it a try.

[@markusfrber1515]

The tutorial again is excellent, very clear and detailed. The techniques shown are very modular. Thanks for that - I'm looking forward to more.

[@not-things]

Glad you liked it 😊

[@humn_error]

Really good tutorial, thanks!

[@not-things]

My pleasure :-)

[@s-u-m-a-i-r]

Good bro, you make it easy to understand.

[@not-things]

Thanks a lot! Glad it was easy to follow.

[@alkadroid]

brill tutorial thanks

[@not-things]

You're very welcome!

[@freelosofem]

creative and inspiring ty

[@not-things]

Glad you liked it 😊

[@chitlun]

This is excellent sir!

[@not-things]

Thank you kindly!

[@markus_knoedel]

Great!

[@not-things]

Thank you!

[@AlexVonBrandenburg87]

Großartig :D Gute Arbeit.

[@not-things]

Danke!

[@deanmoore7239]

Awesome tutorial, thank you. Just found your channel, looking forward to delving into your videos.

[@not-things]

Thanks, glad you liked it.

[@jrev4228]

Love your music, mesmerizing. I've just started with VCV rack, and was looking for some beginner friendly tutorials. This was instructive, concise and very well delivered. Hope you will do more. Thanks again for sharing.

[@not-things]

Thanks for the kind words. It's a fine line between giving too much and too little detail in a tutorial, good to hear you got something out of it.

[@airstrike5062]

this was tremendously helpful, thanks for sharing. I appreciate it's not easy to record yourself and put "instructions" out there, but believe me, this is super valuable!!! thanks again

[@not-things]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful.

[@TinyMaths]

Wow, the transition at about the 10-minute mark was beautiful.. the way it went from harsh to resonant; love the resulting sound at around 10:34. Stumbled on VCV rack about 5 years ago. Because I was a noob and didn't spend much time with it and had no idea what I was really doing, I dropped it; I didn't realize it could sound so good in the right hands...

[@not-things]

Thanks! I've had a couple of failed attempts at getting into and understanding sound synthesis in the past. It's only when I discovered VCV earlier this year that it finally clicked. A large part of that is also due to the fact that a lot of good VCV tutorials have been added to KZbin over the last few years. The channel by Omri Cohen is (with good reason) usually the first thing mentioned on forums 🙂

[@UnbekanntesSubjekt]

Love it. Great explanations. Just entered the world of ambient modular synth sounds and I'm fascinated.

[@not-things]

Great to hear!

[@greghawley7852]

Very nice. Thanks for taking the time to walk the world through this. Helpful!

[@not-things]

Glad it was helpful 😊

[@X4n1c]

omg!!! this is such a beauty!

[@not-things]

You're welcome :-)

[@MikeUIibarri]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing your patch!

[@not-things]

Thank you, my pleasure 😉

[@QuantumSynths1]

Really interesting tutorials. I’d like to see more of them if you are so inclined. :-)

[@not-things]

Thanks! I plan the occasional one every now and again when I think that something I used in a patch might be a good idea to build a tutorial video around. And the hope is that I keep finding inspiration for patches that seem to contain good ideas ;-)

[@AstrosX_official]

amazing patch , i did it right now and the ammount of flow , peace and calmness going trough my room is amazing

[@not-things]

Enjoy 😉

[@anatrax8]

Bravo pour ce tutoriel très doux. C'est très appréciable d'avoir autant de précisions techniquement pointues mises en application de manière si progressive et esthétique. Le tout pour un résultat fabuleux car cette nappe sonore peut être un excellent point de départ pour dessiner la toile de fond de nos histoires musicales. Un grand merci.

[@not-things]

Thank you! It's indeed a technique that I usually apply when I want an unobtrusive backdrop on which other voices can be layered.