Let's build ANOTHER Generative Patch in VCV Rack

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So it's been a while since the first video I made about building a generative patch, and so many things have changed since so I thought maybe it's a good idea to have a new take on this concept.
Interested in more patching techniques and ideas? Have a look here - bit.ly/3o1Q3Sg
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Here are some of the instruments I'm using - redir.love/thocf/n78qmvw2lm
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Here is the final patch - patchstorage.com/lets-build-a...
Here is the first video - • let's build a Generati...
All about Polyphony in VCV - • Polyphony in VCV Rack 1.0
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Here is a list of used modules (all can be found in the manager) :
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BogAudio - Mixer, S&H, LLFO, Walk2, FM-OP , Valley - Plateau , Squinky Labs - Gray Code, Slade , Repelzen - Re-Win, Re-Trig , VCV - VCA, Split , Audible Instruments - Bernoulli Gate (Branches), Texture Synthesizer (Clouds) , nysthi - MVerb , ML - S&H , Alright Devices - Chronoblob2 , Wiqid - DADR , JW - NoteSeq 16 , Blamsoft - XFX Wave
You can get VCV Rack here - vcvrack.com/
Thanks so much to Johno Wells and his lovely daughters for the "And Gals" samples! - johno_wells...
Big thanks to Carbonic Acid for helping me out with creating my own blank modules! - bit.ly/2y2amXe
You can get them here - bit.ly/2PNxgJx
And Big thanks to Xavier Belmont for helping me out with the various graphics - bit.ly/2ItJQL2
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** HERE IS WHAT I USE **
- Computer: Intel Core i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz, 4200 Mhz, 4 Cores,
8 Logical Processor(s), 32Gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
- ZOOM Recorder H6
- M-Audio Midisport Midi Interface
- Make Noise O Coast
- Make Noise Morphagene
- Behringer Neutron
- Arturia KeyStep + BeatStep Pro + DrumBrute + MicroFreak
- Midilar Midi Modules
- Intellijel 7U case 104 HP
- Expert Sleepers ES-3 + ES-6
- Nektar Impact LX88+
- Korg nanoKontrol 2
- Focal Alpha 65 Monitors
- AKG K121Studio Headphones
- Motu UltraLite mk4 Audio Interface
- Reaper is my DAW
- Izotope Neutron 3 & Ozone 8
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[@garyshymkiw5085]

my friends hear me watching your tutorials quite often and it's now a running joke to occasionally go "ooh yess" or "hey there guiiiise" in that way that you do and when my best friend has to dial in his guitar amp tone he likes to say "ok, time to make it squEEal" like how you did it in the Rampage video and I dunno what my point was anymore but tl;dr your voice is iconic and extremely memeworthy and your tutorials are second-to-none thank you for your hard work and keep doin what u doin

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hey, man, thanks! I'm happy you enjoy my work, and as I always say, it's all about having fun :)

[@mikeperorazio7515]

These type of videos have helped me the most when progressing and understanding modular. The mix of getting right in and creating as well as having informative reasoning on why we are doing certain things makes it the best of both worlds! love these!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I'm really happy you enjoyed it, thank you!

[@robst247]

Thanks for the very informative tutorial. I love your deeply resonant "ooh yeah" every time you get a tasty sound. ;-)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much! Yeah, I'm always surprised from the results and I enjoy the process :)

[@MrTyger19]

I missed this one when it first was published, very, very informative. Thanks a lot, Omri...

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I'm happy you liked it Eddie, thanks!

[@bonaventura_AKA_ben]

Cheers Omri! Been spending some time watching and re-watching this vid and your video on the Chebyshev VCO. Both videos have MANY great ideas for generative music. I've combined some parts of both videos and it's very pleasing. The S&H/LLFO combo is a great idea for producing a melody that varies in speed like a real person does. Very nice. I made my own version of the varying clock and I gotta say I'm getting both an appreciation and education of S&H in general. The Gray Code module is brilliant (leave it to a programmer to come up with this, especially since the original ideas came from the 1940's!) The Walk module is also stoking my imagination. Jeez dude you provide so many ideas and possibilities it is overwhelming! Merrie Xmas!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Oh man, yes, there's so much to explore, it's so much fun :) I'm happy I could help, cheers!

[@marcelomoura5597]

nice job omri, is a revolution on digital audio

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Yes, indeed. Thanks!

[@StephenBennettVocalTracks]

Absolutely awesome! Thanks so much.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

[@kilbonrobert]

I am still new to this and slowly getting the hang of it lol.

[@jjbing3]

Man, it’s so much to take in! 😑

[@macronencer]

I knew about Gray codes but I hadn't thought of using them for a generative patch. Nice idea! I have been creating wavetables for the Pigments synth using lots of mathematical functions I wrote in Java, and Gray codes came up when I was making binary waveforms for chiptune style sounds. I love all this stuff so much!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

It sounds like modular generative is for you :)

[@aSpeaker2BlocksAway]

I love it . Damn man! Thanks again and again.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@vaenson]

i had some time off, great to see your great content still growing. you got 5 times faster patching meanwhile :)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hey, thanks! Great to have you back :)

[@joenasgoldie7222]

Thank you Mr Cohen 👍👍👍

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@DavidBoura]

Let's plug this into th... wow. Now this into the OH MY!!!... ok now link the Lfo to thi... oooh amazing. Modular life is cruel.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

It's endless...

[@SyncdAlien]

Very interesting! You have a very nice channel, I am subscribing now!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you so much, I appreciate it!

[@ursbasteck]

You know this channel of yours is invaluable, right? Like, I always patch along instead of downloading the thing and this is one of the patches - not the first one, mind you - that I will likely not finish because I'm so very content with just sitting here and listening to what's playing right now, right there. Bliss.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hey, that's amazing! Thanks :) I also love building patches like these that will just run in the background...

[@ursbasteck]

​@@OmriCohen-Music You're very welcome. _Very!_ Also, I had typed a follow-up question here in this box about Gray Code, which, after some reading and thinking I'm now not going to ask, because your tutorials (plus the nature of VCV, I guess) inspire curiosity and finding out stuff. 10/10, would learn again :)

[@momorarr]

''very niceee''

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you

[@jeremyjquinn]

Hey! Love your videos - been going through a few of these older ones to try and learn generative patches. Some of the modules are no longer around, so I have been trying to replace the quantizer in this with Lazy Susan and Re-trig with CV 2 T, but not getting very good results and not sure how to fix.. any tips on updating this for modules that are no longer around?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hey, thanks so much! I will slowly go back to older videos and update the patches, but for now, I would recommend using 4 Quantum quantizers from ML. That way, you have also the gate/trig out built in. If you want and know how polyphony works, you can use one Quantum, and merge\split the signals to and from it.That way you only have to use 1 instead of 4. Let me know if it works for you!

[@Steve.Benedict]

Yeah these generative patches are the best👍. It's all I want to do now. Literally. Like instead of going to work or anything else🤣. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, would never be able to figure this out on my own. Also glad to discover your music is available through Amazon music. Makes it super convenient for me to listen too on my good sound system but wondering which place to buy that benefits you the most?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hey Stephen, that's amazing! Yeah, it's so nice building a patch and letting it play by its own. It's very soothing... And I'm really happy you enjoy my music :) On Bandcamp I have all of my albums if you're interested but yeah, my music is also on Amazon and Spotify and such. Cheers!

[@TwoThreadsAhead]

Don't get me wrong all of the patch is great, but, there is something really special about the sound at 17:37 that sparks an other worldly palette of imagination in my mind. Would you by chance be kind enough to elaborate on that specific sound a little more please and show us how we could make that kind of ambient sound ' playable ' via midi CV ?? I'm sure many of us would be eternally grateful for that

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hey, thanks! Yeah, that's Clouds... It's a beautiful module... What you can do is instead of using the NoteSeq, just plug in your keyboard and play this voice. All you really need is a polyphonic oscillator, like the Wave for example, and Clouds in granular mode. I have a few videos about Clouds if you want you can check them here - kzbin.info/aero/PLiECaNQx239tyFBcQqCyt8KWOfa-Su3Sy

[@Kid_Placo]

Master's degree in VCV Rack 🙂 (more..., perhaps)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

There is always something new to learn and experiment with :)

[@PeopleinDreams]

dr. vcv

[@shieldyourselfmusic8567]

dammmmmmm this video alone makes me wanna buy VCV! I spent 8 years in ableton and have taken a break from production due to being bored of the same processes - I have always been interested in modular and now im seriously thinking of buying - Can this be used as a VST in abelton?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Well, you can use VCV for free as stand-alone or buy the VST version.

[@xavierhackenbeck8182]

I'm having the same problem as others with Re-Trig, do you have another suggestion as to how we could trigger the FM-OP?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Well, then maybe a better tool to use will be Quantum from ML, which has built-in Gate and Trigger outputs. Will this work for you?

[@xavierhackenbeck8182]

@@OmriCohen-Music Ah yes! It makes for a more crowded rack, but it works!

[@joostvanbunnik7646]

Hi Omri, question what kinda module is needed to increase a short trigger to a longer gate?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hi! There are a few ways you can do this, but the easiest is with DGATE from BogAudio. You can set the length of the gate.

[@joostvanbunnik7646]

@@OmriCohen-Music ah perfect. I remember in one of your YT using dgate. Thank you.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

@@joostvanbunnik7646 Glad I can help :)

[@giovannifalascone]

is there any reason why my re-trig is not triggering the fm-ops envelopes? It seems like my S&H is not cv-controlling the quantizer

[@giovannifalascone]

Ok I think I figured it out: the difference in voltage that the walk generates is not enough to 'turn the knob' on the quantizer through CV. You need to augment the scale and maybe also the rate in order to create sufficient voltage changes

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Yes, you will have to make sure that the voltage has the "right" range for it to work.

[@jaysgood10]

My repelzen re-trig did not pass any voltage. Otherwise a nice patch. BTW I noticed the repelzen mixer levels have to be cranked all the way up to pass audio. ???

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I'm not so sure about the mixer, but try changing the params of re trig, maybe the levels are different in your patch.

[@sychopomp]

I'm getting the same issue. I'm patching everything exactly like the video, but the retrig is not responding properly. Everything else is working fine.

[@giovannifalascone]

same here

[@giovannifalascone]

Ok I think I figured it out: the difference in voltage that the walk generates is not enough to 'turn the knob' on the quantizer through CV. You need to augment the scale and maybe also the rate on the walk in order to create sufficient voltage changes

[@shieldyourselfmusic8567]

Has the Woldermar been taken off the Library? I cant find it anywhere

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Yeah, it's still not available. Have a look at the XCO from BogAudio.

[@Frustratia]

Was having a lot of fun with this, but the Blamsoft stuff is no longer available, and neither is Lindenberg Research's Woldemar (or any of their other modules, for that matter). The latter I replaced with ONA from Nano Modules, but I am so new to this that I do not know what a good free polyphonic replacement would be for the Blamsoft module you used. Any suggestions?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hi, have a look at this one - library.vcvrack.com/Atelier/AtelierPalette It's polyphonic and has many ways of manipulating timbre.

[@Frustratia]

@@OmriCohen-Music thanks for the advice. Palette worked out fairly well. Ona (my replacement for Woldemar) doesn't have a noise output, so I had to skip the crickets, but I really enjoyed building as much of this patch as I could. Thank you for your wonderful tutorials. Cheers!

[@Runescout_twitch]

for some reason when i right click on xfx wave, i dont see the polyphony options

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Yeah, it's not supposed to have any options. I clicked the NoteSeq for that. Is this what you meant?

[@Runescout_twitch]

@@OmriCohen-Music Oh yep that was it, thanks for the clarification

[@JakeKram]

This sounds like something from SimCity 4

[@diederikvzylab6394]

For whatever reason my Walk2 is not walking.... no movement whatsoever.... anything I need to do to get it moving?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's really weird... It should work right away without doing anything. Do you have the latest version of VCV and the BogAudio modules?

[@aSpeaker2BlocksAway]

@@OmriCohen-Music Mine is moving, but I needs a much higher rate to get the notechanges as often as you get them.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

oh ok, did you change the range and offset?

[@diederikvzylab6394]

@@OmriCohen-Music latest version indeed. upping the rates and lowering the scales like aSpeaker2BlocksAway mentioned below makes it move similar to what you have. odd that on your system it behaves like this with the default settings

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Yeah, that's really strange...