Let's Learn Eurorack (ft. VCV Rack): 01 - The Basics

[@michaeljohn1963]

RMR (Jeremy) is a real treasure. I am new to Modular, but have been watching his videos on all things electronic music for many years. I’d put RMR right up there with Loopop in terms of the two people I’ve learned the most from. I hope he knows how important he is to those of us who are curious about making music and music gear but don’t have the time, inclination, energy or smarts to dig as deep as he does. As someone who used to be a trial lawyer on huge construction projects, in which it was my job to distill complex interrelated events, engineering concepts, and damage calculations in front of sometimes uneducated juries (and judges), I know the talent it takes to distill something complex to something easier to understand without advanced familiarity while not being reductionistic (losing important details along the way). RMR/Jeremy is a master at this. His videos track fast, are dense, and yet with the magic of pause and repeat video content, never a waste of time. So, thank you Jeremy for everything you do and in this context, everything you are!

[@Larry30102]

Jeremy, I have to send a big thanks for these 4 videos. You’re a great teacher, and I’ve enjoyed you’re videos over the past. This series is tops. You seem tireless putting these up and maintaining your channels. So much appreciated. Keep up the awesome work.

[@RedMeansRecording]

You're very welcome!

[@hyperactivists9390]

absoluutely the clearest tutorials on learning eurorack via VCV

[@mjodr]

Wow, a beginner tutorial that actually is for beginners! Too many "beginner" tutorials skip into super advanced concepts in the first 30 seconds. I actually learned from this! Thanks!

[@sabakvavilashvili8239]

This is for sure one of the best tutorials out there. What I really liked is when you "failed" to make something and then proceeded explaining why it didn't work. Many "beginner" tutorials jump straight to advanced stuff without explaining terms and that makes it way harder to follow so thanks for making this video series!

[@soejrd24978]

Started with VCV when I couldn't afford eurorack. Still can't afford it, but now I have a 9u 126HP eurorack filled with DIY modules. Great hobby designing and building modules!

[@Crazyeg123]

You're a real one.

[@codarushing]

Mate. I’m only 2:41 in and you’ve told me the most valuable thing - how to download all modules from a single developer. Thank you! I decided I want EVERYTHING and it’s taken me days going through and clicking all of them.

[@andrei.grigoruta]

That button to go to the brand page is missing for me on the website.. what am I missing?

[@MrFrenzyBox]

@@andrei.grigoruta same

[@recneps8951]

@@andrei.grigoruta if anyone else is having this problem i got around it by clicking on plugins in the upper right and searching the brands and subscribing there

[@aims__8785]

@@andrei.grigoruta If you go to plugins and search for the brand you want you can subscribe there and get all the modules

[@ÉamonBréach]

@@andrei.grigoruta I had the same problem. Instead of typing in the search box like he did, click on the "Plugins" link towards the top right. That will take you to where you can search and then subscribe.

[@HansdeHeer]

WARNING: VCV Rack may be free but it is your gateway drug to actual hardware eurorack modules! ;)

[@stevep6428]

Most other bad habits are cheaper, but nobody ever died from modular (yet)

[@pureeschaap]

@@stevep6428 Are you sure? :)

[@stevep6428]

@@pureeschaap pretty sure

[@mjkelley7123]

@@stevep6428 buddy you try taking .5 amps at 12 volts and see whose boss

[@tomlavelle8340]

The first one is free.

[@Jixata]

Perfect. Looking forward to the series!

[@MrJustin8912]

I'm a complete newb to modular synthesis and I've been looking for tutorials and explanations like this, hands down the most in-depth tutorial and explanation i've come across online.. just after id spent £80 on Patch & Tweak.. :( haha Thank you!

[@petehalupka3232]

I got a Behringer Crave last month, and opened up Pandora's box. I made a couple nice sounding things, but then really hit a wall in terms of truly understanding what was happening on the synth. Then, of course, after digging into other synth work, I became obsessed with making sounds like I love in all of the ambient stuff I've listened to all my adult life. There I learned its mainly eurorack builds, and that I had to try my hand. I downloaded VCV and then realized how little I knew, in a beautiful way. This video really allowed me to dive in, pause, take notes, and really learn something I have never heard of, or understood before. It's really just been the most amazing experience, and feels life changing. It has reminded me of any other sculpture, or painting with oil, so when you begin to describe subtractive synthesis concepts 101, it kind of clicked. Once I got to the end of this video and hooked up Plateau, and then a subsequent Erica delay, it was game over. Thank you. Moving onto Part Two.

[@benbuchananmusic]

So happy to see more people diving into eurorack with VCV. Started using VCV for all my music production about a year ago and I've never been happier making sounds.

[@cardboardmusic]

Not only that, but it's meant I can introduce to my students at secondary school. Although it's a bit confusing for some (I'm talking 15 and up), but at the same time it's a real eye opener in both the music classes and the physics class too!

[@dedrumdebass07]

Thank you for talking through this in a (mostly) straight line!

[@GeorgyAlekseev]

This is the clearest explanation of modular synthesis I’ve ever seen! 💔

[@goldenthemerciless5669]

BLESS YOU, SIR 😭 I could never have understood this without such a thoughtful, clear explanation. wow, thank you so so much

[@simonhebert4089]

As a beginner for almost a month, you're blowing my mind! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us 🙏

[@bad_robot]

such a thorough video sir you are amazing

[@ajxuereb]

That plateau reverb *chef's kiss*

[@shifteleven]

I know. It just filled out things so nicely.=

[@PowerLlama]

I've had this downloaded on my iPad for years and years, and could never figure anything about it out. Thanks for this series!

[@seanet1970]

Thank you very much - THIS is the 'getting started' video I've been looking for for a long time!

[@edgarm6017]

Great tutorial. I run a modular synth residency in NC and I’ll definitely direct folks to this. Also, shout out to you for covering so many free modules in VCV Rack.

[@liquidsn]

One of the biggest revelation about voltage control is to imagine that its moving the knobs on the module. For EX. at 8:30 Imagine that LFO Sine wave into V/OCT is turning that Pitch KNOB left and right slowly. Now imaging that with any knob input. Humans can never turn the knob fast enough not to hear a ramp. that's why for example an Keyboard voltage input is instant, so you hear pitch change instantly. It's confusing until you just use VCV and vision it. :)

[@mr_xzzy]

Knew everything in here, watched it anyways because you're just so dang chipper about it. Plus there's always value in witnessing how other people route and use modules, it spawns ideas.

[@SternLX]

Finally went and picked up a USB/MIDI Keyboard controller after watching this video a couple months ago and noodling around in VCV Rack. Got a Donner DMK-25 for like 105 bux. My Gaming keyboard cost more than that thing and it's worth more than it's weight in gold. It's made me want to brush up on my Piano playing even though I been using the Sequencers in VCV quite a bit. BTW, best tutorial video for VCV ever. I tried watching some others but kept coming back here.

[@Tw0Sevenths]

immediately downloaded vcv rack when you said it was free. i've been trying and failing to fully comprehend eurorack for a while now and well, this series seems like the perfect place to start. Looking forward to more!

[@philipallen4230]

Great video, I downloaded VCV a year ago and after hours of getting nowhere I gave up. I decided to dive in again and after the first 10mins of this video it all started to make sense. You have a great ability to explain things to a beginner, something which too many KZbinrs don't seem to have. A lot of people posting videos assume a level of understanding and vocabulary that a beginner won't have or they go to the other extreme and come across as patronising. I feel inspired now to start actually making music with it, can't wait to watch your other videos 😎

[@PCorNPC]

Same here! I can relate to that. Giving it a try again and found this helpful video.

[@MattTerry1]

Great video, in an hour i've gone from feeling utterly overwhelmed by vcv to feeling pretty comfortable using it. Thanks heaps.

[@Alextibtab]

wow that's crazy I was searching for whether you'd done any tutorial videos for VCV Rack literally a few hours ago after deciding to give it a try. Thanks for the tutorial can't wait for the future instalments.

[@lunafoxfire]

One of my favorite things is how you use and explain all the terminology. I'm super excited to get into modular synthesis and VCV is amazing so far!

[@Luis-il5nb]

Yes! I have waited very long for this! thank you so much Jeremy!

[@ModePhaser]

This is brilliant! I'm looking into modular and this is just the perfect start! Thank you!

[@GabeMillerMusic]

I literally just downloaded VCV Rack 2 last night, this is perfect timing!

[@nsiivola]

Hey, wanted to say that I found this series super useful: it was my entry to VCV and now a couple of months down the line into hardware eurorack. I find your videos inspiring and useful! Thank you.

[@philbarbato]

This is so great. Thank you. I have played with VCV Rack a little and I was sort of familiar with some of the concepts. But I was missing super basic stuff like “make keyboard make notes”. 💖

[@The_soundaddict]

Thank you so much for this tutorial series! I thought I would never ever be able to grasp any of these because of how complex they seemed. My favourite part about your teaching is that you explain the terminology! You have given me newfound hope!

[@GreatSphynx]

I went from 12 years of using FL, Ableton and Bitwig at different times to just abandoning normal DAW's all together and I do everything but master in VCV now. It's not for everyone, and I definitely had a lot of synth experience before jumping in, but it fits my workflow perfectly and I've never been more creative. Also saved me thousands of dollars on actual modular gear lol. Only thing I wish existed was a Symphonion like module. Either way, always great to see more well done VCV tutorials.

[@ivanpedromuricy]

Wonderful Intro. Thank you !!!

[@kernelsandoz]

One of the best instructional video I have seen. Got me from completely stuck to moving along.

[@Wastedtrait]

After 3 days of reading and watching videos, I feel like the concepts really stuck with this one. I'm glad I found this series, thank you!!

[@cineblazer]

Holy cow, this is one of the best KZbin videos I have ever watched. You have no idea how much I'm looking forward to the next 3 parts! I've always wanted to dive into modular but have always found it too intimidating. Thanks Jeremy!

[@Tom94ness]

Seconded! The production value on the presentation is clearly evident! I'm going to share this left and right. :)

[@KnzoVortex]

For those happening upon this video a bit later, there Actually is a really great Free VST version of VCV rack available called “Cardinal VST”, simply put it’s kind of a specific open-source and free take on the VCV rack ecosystem coexisting with the $100 version, with different pros and cons, and it’s absolutely amazing to use in your music. My favorite thing to do right now is to make the VST window about the size of a normal Virtual Instrument and select a couple of modules that seem interesting and organize them to all fit on screen, and see how much I can do with this combination for a while, and then build a new one after having explored the last one for a bit. Fantastic stuff.

[@Dead-vh4kq]

the actual first video that is making me feel comfortable with euroracks and helping me realize this isnt that complicated and its actually something i CAN do. im so excited

[@ajxuereb]

OH MAN, I have been hoping you would do something like this! Lets gooo

[@stefanhansen5882]

Super cool intro. Thanks!

[@landofwaves]

Wow!! Great explanation man! Clear, synthetic and very educative. Thank you very much for your videos. Greetings from Spain!!

[@codysmith2845]

great video. just leaving this here. the oscillator is the fan moving the air. The LFO is the side to side changing direction. You have the source, then the modulation

[@AbashedStorm550]

I always wondered what those cables and racks did... Search mod synth because I heard LOOK MUM NO COMPUTERS... Then found VCV (and that it is FREE)... Search YT for tutorials... Then came here.... BRUHHHH! THIS IS NICE. I am a guitarist and have a fair idea of Digital signals (thanks to first year electronics class in Tech degree). And this helped me in understanding a lot of things I always wondered. 🎉💜❤ Thank you so much. 😊 Love from India 🇮🇳 *PS: NEED A MIDI KEYBOARD NOW*

[@chipsgarage2518]

i was following along until i realized who you were! I loved, love, and will love everything you do! Kepp going, mate!

[@krazywabbit]

Hi from the future. Going to invest some time in this series as I've opted this route vs hardware. Thank you for taking the time to provide this content.

[@thekevmeister77]

This is the most complicated thing I've ever seen in my life. Thanks

[@chris.champ302]

Learning all the basics of what everything does is a HUGEEEE help. Looking forward to the rest of these videos!!!

[@n1tr0sys09]

This is just amazing, the way you explain modulation as invisible hands, I can't think in something better to compare it. Love it man it not only shows modular but you can show almost everything about synthesis, you can even show types of synthesis as VCV (great tool btw, didn't know about it) has everything to work from the flesh. Amazing job man keep on it!

[@offroaders123]

Same, that really helped it click! The 24 minute mark I started clicking with a few ideas that could be done here, I think it was that you can use one same module to affect a different part of the sound. Say, turn the volume into a sine wave, or you could turn the pitch into a sine wave. The action is the same (you can change its parameters with the knobs too though), but you can apply it to any part of how the frequency comes across as a sound!

[@ianpopp87]

Thank you for this! I'm following along at home. Finally a way to get into synth with no prior knowledge and no fungible cash

[@alekelpragh]

Very good video! Espacially the time you took with showing what's going on with the scopes helped me a lot.

[@spectralknights2]

Thank u, I've been waiting for this

[@ClowdyHowdy]

dang, this is great. really demystifies the foundational concepts. i'm glad i found this software and your video.

[@tigrankatolikyan22]

noo waaaay.. this is going to be fire series, awesome!

[@MKelch98]

Beautiful, this is exactly the series I was hoping you’d make since you got into modular. Can’t wait to watch this and the rest of the series!

[@gatorgoforth3097]

Soooooo good! I’ll be patching alongside you videos using miRack and sitting in a hammock. I’ll share these videos with my friends. I appreciate you Jeremy!

[@static-san]

Love your approach to teaching this! I've played with VCV and kind of gotten stuck but now I can follow where you lead and see where it can take me.

[@roncannella9531]

Good job man! Only took me about a dozens times in loop mode, but I got the concepts. Ready for the next one!

[@jrgarciaole]

Your ability to teach this is amazing! I've gone through so many modular tutorials and they always make sense *as I'm going through them* but the second I'm not following, I'm lost. It's been days since I've gone through all of these tutorials and it all just clicks. I don't have to follow along. I can just create. It all actually makes sense! Thank you so much!

[@v1s10nray]

Excellent, followed it all the way through. Great tutorial. Thank you.

[@a11pu1poj]

letssss goooooo, just got the new version of VCV rack vst, excited for this series.

[@egorpanfilov]

Jeremy delivers the best learning materials, full stop. Thanks for the video!

[@julienl2211]

Been binge watching this channel for a while now. Gotta say that the content (and the host of course) is amazing!

[@salamandersm]

Wonderful presentation here- will definitely check this out.

[@krystledawne]

THANK YOU!!!! I’m brand new to this world, and I really appreciate this thorough walkthrough!!

[@faxisthefox]

SO glad you did this video - this program is very intimidating to me even after I think I know what I'm doing.

[@albert4392]

Best modular syth introduction I found so far!

[@draconianrhythms]

Thank you so much for doing this .. you taught me the OP-1, now you teach me VCV. Awesome 🙏👏

[@erichutchinsws]

Thank you for doing these! What a good thing you are doing here. Just know you are undoubtably appreciated more than you hear or even realize.

[@evangenuise7978]

Soooo looking forward to the rest of this series. Thanks Jeremy!

[@jonathanyoung6397]

This was great, I really can't wait until Part 2! I'm not a complete beginner, so I pretty much knew this stuff, but it was still a really great refresher and I did learn a couple of things (I have never used the out of the scope!). But I'm in this for the long haul :)

[@voyage2infinity480]

you are a hero amongst boffins my friend

[@dangerbird64]

This was great. Looking forward to the next installment. Thanks, J-bird!

[@sennabullet]

Wow! What an amazing tutorial to this amazing software. Your teaching style is incredibly clear and easy to understand for a noob like me. Your voice and presentation style...I could listen to you for hours! You got my subs!

[@splode7414]

This is excellent, thank you Jeremy!

[@supernatural802]

Yes!! Thank you for this series!

[@MedicatedThembo]

yes i’m so excited for this series!!

[@BrianWebb22]

Learned a lot following along with you in VCV. Excited for this series!

[@Srcsqwrn]

Oooooh my god! I did not know you made this video! I've been losing track of your videos and it makes me feel terrible. You're a gem! I can't wait to get through this with you!

[@BakerPeter]

This is so awesome! Thanks for the series Jeremy!

[@alexfletcher9915]

So much incredible info here!

[@-KingOfKhaos]

Well damn!!!! I’ve watched dozens of these VCV Rack vids trying to learn just the basics, and you’re the first one that made it make perfect sense!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!! (To be fair I could have also absorbed prior lessons via osmosis by this point and it finally just clicked, OR, you just explained the basics super well… which I think is the case actually). That isn’t to rag on the other Vids I watched… they were highly informative and I was able to make VCV operate like it should, but I wasn’t sure WHY it was working like it should. Now I know why! So again, thank you!!! Oh, and yeah, I obviously subbed as well 👍🏼👍🏼

[@reisnobre]

I was just waiting for this to pick VCV rack back again.

[@jonathonkiner7415]

I can't believe I got that to work! Thank you.

[@tablaninja]

Omg. Did not see this complete awesomeness coming!!

[@laurensplompen]

Been binging modular synth videos since I discovered LMNC, a friend told me to have a look at VCV. Something wasn't yet clicking and the control voltages were confusing me, but then when you patched your envelope output and your midi gate output onto the same scope I had AN EPIPHANY!

[@erikastjarnstoft]

Great video, some of the things I were already familiar with, others not as much, but I'll subscribe and look forward to the next video in the series!

[@PreRendered]

Just gonna leave a preemptive "like" here because I know this series will be great. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, Jeremy!

[@kristof007]

I've only seen a few of your videos with OP-1 but YT recommended this and it's freaking rad. Can't wait to follow along on episode 2!

[@whispereddusk]

this is super useful.. I always wanted to try out modular, and thanks to you - I now can!

[@_rlb]

Excellent tutorial Jeremy! Thank you.

[@JustinUrban1]

Thank you so much for these videos! I built a few modular racks in my time, but I wish I would have had this program to test out the units I wanted before shelling out the money to build what I was creating.

[@Ed-davies]

Absolutely fantastic video, just wish I could multiple likes!

[@stephanvg]

Great video, thanks!

[@pearsonbrennan6222]

I've been waiting for something like this. Thanks for your hard work. Ive been trying to teach myself Rack 2 and it's not immediately intuitive. There are plenty of advanced tutorial videos out there but not a lot of good foundational ones so thanks again!

[@clearwashere]

babe wake up new rmr video

[@growcactus]

Coolest VCV video series ever. A true gem.