Let's Learn Eurorack (ft. VCV Rack): 04 - Full Generative Patch

Let's learn modular synthesis! In our final video in this 4 part series, we'll build a generative patch from scratch using everything we've learned so far.
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library.vcvrack.com/Impromptu...
library.vcvrack.com/Valley
library.vcvrack.com/voxglitch
Get the VCV rack patch files here: patchstorage.com/author/redme...
00:00 intro
01:19 how to follow along
01:54 setting up clock
02:50 our first voice and sequencer
06:17 modulating our first voice
12:32 setting up our effect (clouds)
14:51 setting up our second voice
17:32 modulating our second voice
19:51 filtering our second voice
21:59 setting up our third voice
22:57 tuning your voices
24:06 sequencing our third voice
29:37 modulating our third voice
32:26 adding probability
33:59 adding a hihat
37:02 adding a bassline
41:45 adding an arpeggio voice
48:47 recap and outro
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[@LonnonFoster]

This has been an amazing series to work through. Over the last week, I've gone from "what the hell are all these little knobs" to "ooh, I'll bet if I throw stepped random voltage here through an attenuator, it will sound like *this*". Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole new way of thinking about sounds and about music. I'm super excited to be able to make something now that I'm happy just sitting and listening to.

[@nodz007]

Jeremy, please do more patch from scratch like this - it was so educational

[@WhirlwindAxe]

This series taught me that I now need to go and buy the ENTIRE Mutable Instruments catalogue. Amazing work

[@xTheOxx]

Quick tip for those who love the Dual Attenuverter as much as I do: look for the VCV module by AS called "AtNuVrTr". It's just like the Befaco, but with added CV inputs to modulate both knobs. I've had very satisfying results by adding a sequencer just to modulate the offset on one of those bad boys.

[@keeperofcheese]

Thanks Jeremy! This series is amazing and my SO is now super psyched about modular!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Thank you!

[@neonblack211]

This is actually hands down the best series I've seen for vcv rack at my level... really opened my eyes especially in yhe earlier vides to some things I was missing or not thinking about. Marry me. I love Omi also but these videos just seemed to be the perfect videos at the perfect time to help me out... i appreciate it

[@vigneshanil9103]

This has been THE most helpful thing I've maybe ever seen personally on youtube... I've been wanting to try and learn vcv for about 3 years but everytime I followed along to the other videos I watched, I always lost my way mostly due to my own stupidity and eventually gave up every single time. I came into the first video with just the same hope and no expectations and I ended up not even realizing how much time I spent fiddling with the things and still COMPLETELY not feeling lost even for a second and I feel like I've enough confidence to discover on my own now which is so much more than I could've asked for. thank you so much! I hope you can find time later on to continue this series

[@neonblack211]

Awesome

[@withak30]

This is an example of the most effective type of technical training IMO: walking through a real working example with just enough explanation for the viewer to follow what is happening and why, and plenty of places for someone to think "wait, what happens if I do it the other way?" before pausing and testing it out. Cudos!

[@nerradnotsnhoj1909]

A lot of effort here across the 4 vids. I am a noob of a few days and I now have a patch that acts as a synth with 4 different oscillators and 4 different effects that I can adjust and combine in an 8 channel mixer. This afternoon I made a patch that makes chill evolving music where I can choose a key and just let it all happen. This is all down to the 4 vids in this series. Thank you so much! I am having so much fun with VCV and I feel I know enough to start just trying the other modules and see what a racket I can make :) Its all a bit bewildering when you start but you showed me a clutch of combinations of modules and how to connect them up make something work - I can now build on that.

[@mrjackster]

I have ABSOLUTELY loved these. What a brilliant tutor and voice of wisdom - it's almost like meditation just watching and building along. Thank you.

[@someonewhobitthedust9124]

Beyond how educational this series has been to follow, it has also been incredibly fun and it has also saved me hundreds of dollars. Thank you so much as someone who cannot stop buying music gear.

[@treeski3410]

This series was an incredible gift so thank you for your time and efforts. I downloaded your final patch and have been using it as background music for work. I play drums and will be trying to find ways to trigger builds, mute sections and other variations using pads so I can jam along. Really amazing stuff, Jeremy. BTW - I bought VCV DrumMachine without hesitation specifically to play this patch. I hope you get a cut.

[@maxlevychoreographicworks]

this whole series is still underappreciated. it is so concise and clear and engaging. i cant believe it's still only sitting at under 30k views. Thanks so much for this series.

[@jemsophia]

just chiming in to say i’ve LOVED this series. truly never thought i’d be able to feel like i know what i’m doing with modular synths in one evening. thank you so so so much - really eye opening and i’m so thrilled to have this new tool in my box

[@briarmov]

This series is an absolutely stellar way to get your hands dirty with modular. So valuable and fun! Thank you Jeremy

[@victornascimento1048]

Thanks for your videos. I'm a programming student and I've always loved modular synthesis, I'm looking to learn vcv rack to learn about audio development and your videos are very well-founded.

[@seth.graham]

These technique deep dives are insanely good stuff, just for the different way of looking at things. When messing with modular I get pretty comfortable in my box of stuff I already know and stop exploring, having someone go "now try connecting it like THIS" really opens the creative floodgates for many hours of new fun. Every video on this channel has bits of that, but this series really took it to another level.

[@kerwinfernandes3643]

Thank you for the best series on youtube. God bless you! I surely did learn a lot and will be able to put in practice now.

[@martyfouts771]

I think you did a great job with this series. The first three were each just the right length and covered their material in just enough detail and this one serves as a great "putting it all together" video. I'm looking forward to rolling my own patches now.

[@mark_fingerhuth]

Absolutely loved this tutorial series! I feel like I finally understand what's going on and I now have a toolbox of modules & tricks that I can rely on whilst trying things myself. Thank you so much for this series. Can't wait for more like this :)

[@independentexile]

Just finished following along, had a blast! Time to reward myself by closing my eyes and drifting to some ambient I wired up myself :D . Thanks!!

[@mmckmusic]

Wonderful series, final product sounds great, look forward to piecing through this video over the weekend, thanks!

[@jozoo]

These tutorials have been so helpful and I'm so thankful for you making them to help everyone understand these things better

[@OhHeyK3vin]

Love the patch-from-scratch format and hope that you continue to do use it more and more.

[@cpgysen]

just getting into this... man this series is fantastic! i've learned so much and its very well presented. hoping you do more like these!

[@resetreboot]

I got VCV Rack 2 by chance, and toyed with it... but damn, I wasn't able to make anything worth it. Then I decided to ask KZbin if someone would guide me and, oh boy! I found this series by you and it has been SO eye opening and your way of explaining it is clear, and you also seem to be having fun with the process, which makes this more engaging and time flies, literally. Thank you!

[@lydianlights]

Yesssss I learned so much with this series! Thank you again for such a high-quality tutorial-by-example. My brain has expanded like 5 sizes, haha. I'm going to have so much fun with this as a creative outlet.

[@JoshuaMerrill042]

This has been an extremely helpful series on modular syntheses. You have helped me to understand the basics and beyond!

[@bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

this entire series was incredibly helpful, thank you so much for making it! it really helped me get into modular synthesis and i'm very much looking forward now to the journey that lies ahead

[@db_illin]

Super helpful video, thanks for making this VCV rack series!

[@ComboGod27]

wow! what a series man. thanks so much for this

[@bycorduroy8269]

such an amazing series, just got into VCV rack recently and this is going to save me from many headaches. ty bruv!

[@jukesasaurusrex]

Thank you I had a tremendous amount of fun going through this and have learned so much .

[@finitesound]

Bless you for this series. I'm already familiar with synthesis, but I so appreciate you helping make this more accessible for others. Going to watch this full series as a fresh-up.

[@davidjcartenutoiii8542]

Amazing. I downloaded VCVRack yesterday and have watched all four of these excellent vids. Cannot wait to apply what I've learned here! Thank you!

[@brandongrotzinger752]

This felt like playing a indie game in the best way possible. Really useful and SO FUN! Really hope there will be more of this. Keep up the good work!!

[@matthewdavis473]

Dude I’m so glad I found these videos. Thanks for being you

[@beau691]

I can’t wait to watch through this series! Tried to learn vcv maybe 2-3 years ago but none of the tutorials I found were very engaging or inspiring. I can’t wait to give it another try with your help! I’m sure your thoroughness will teach me everything I need. Thanks! :)

[@cured_bacon647]

I’ve just gotten MiRack for iPad which is basically VCV rack for iPad and I can’t thank you enough for this series of videos. I’ve learned so much and this final patch is Stellar and i can listen to it all day long. Shits still confusing though 😂

[@saturncake7316]

thank you so much for this series of videos, i've enjoyed and learned with it so much!!

[@oOoCPWoOo]

Nice to see vcv rack get some traction 👍 great series! Nice output from yours

[@Buson94]

Funny that you introduced the chord model in the beginning of this video because i experimented with it while checking out the last one! :D Thanks again for these videos, got a lovely sounding patch!

[@MattTerry1]

This is such a great video. Please make more. I just managed to get my deluge hooked up to vcv and it's so much fun.

[@peepopoooooooooof]

This was a great tutorial series, got myself up and running creating patches! Preferred your tutorial over other series on youtube as it had a great balance of explanation and exploration for beginners.

[@waytooslow]

sat down and went through all 4 -- maybe cover polyphony. this stuff is really helpful as I am now addicted to generative ambient patches

[@sudseh]

yep! I thought the exact same thing when I saw the series.

[@jonathanyoung6397]

Good idea, polyphony can be a bit confusing in VCV. I always struggle with gates when it’s polyphonic

[@pureeschaap]

@@jonathanyoung6397 Check the tutorials by OMRI COHEN: also very interesting.

[@jonathanyoung6397]

Awesome series, thanks for this. What makes it stand out from others on YT is your musicality, which I can only aspire to! One tip in VCV - the little green light in the cables showing when modulation is happening (from an LFO for example) will change to red when it goes negative. So if you’re not sure if that signal is unipolar and can’t be bothered to stick it through a scope, just watch the light and see if changes from green to red.

[@neonblack211]

Love all these niche tips

[@johanngrillenbeck]

This series was awesome! Thank you, Jeremy!

[@DesertNinjaX]

Absolutely love this format. Thank you!

[@weebemo1]

Great series :) thank you so much :D VCV rack is very therapeutic

[@hyperactivists9390]

god bless you for this series its changing my life. good work bro sooo helpful.

[@ajxuereb]

As someone with very little experience with modular, this was awesome. I'm personally plan on experimenting with each of the voices independently to get a better understanding. Hit all the knobs a bit more etc. It felt good at the end of the video having something on my end that sounded good. Love to see more of this!

[@BernardoLeao]

Amazing work! Well done man!

[@MisterMajister]

Thanks for this, I was so inspired I made a chillout ambient track in no time. That mixer is amazing, btw, thanks for showing that as well, game changer for me.

[@oliverbacon1660]

This Series is Godsend! Thank you!

[@feralfoods]

what an amazing, and exceptionally well done series. i am totally new a this, and i learned so much. i'm using Cardinal, and was able to follow along pretty well (cardinal does not have all the modules you use, but has most of them and variations of others). thank you so much for taking the time to create these videos.

[@Simes]

Fantastic series Jeremy, love it.

[@joshuahebert3076]

This series has been amazing thank you so much it’s time to go in I’ll see ya on the other side

[@pierresteytler9370]

I've been extremely hesitant to dip my toes into modular for a number of reasons, like the high learning curve, prohibitive cost, etc. I can't thank you enough for your hard work in putting together a comprehensive series that explains the main concepts and how to get excited by them. The only glaring problem, as far as I can see, is that VCV Rack actually gives you a slightly unrealistic view of what modular really is like since you can just add as many instances of units as you want, unlike in real life where you have physical hardware limits. Still, it's given me a lot to think about in terms of what kind of actual hardware rig I might like to build. One day.

[@veaxvoid]

Thank you so much~ This is so beautiful and inspirational

[@rajaspoorna6405]

Thank you for your whole series!! I'm going to use this to make some cool stuff! I really liked the part at the end where you feed the output of the quantizer into a resonator to make it tune in and out! That'll be super helpful for what I'm trying to do! Also, attenuverters! So that's what they're called!

[@forestine_]

this is a great tutorial i will likely be referring people to for a long time

[@wvb93]

You're amazing!!! Love these tutorials!

[@stubbieofmana42]

These have been amazing. took me a few hours of stopping and starting to understand what was happening it was really fun to build along. also my vcvrack crashed just before you mentioned the reminder to save as you go lol

[@MrNamaikisaru]

I have to re watch the other parts again. I learned that if I want to create a patch like this I have to build an extension on the house and sell one of the kids to pay for all the modules. Your pace picked up progressively with each part. I don’t think anyone else on the Tube has put out anything as comprehensive.

[@neonblack211]

Haha I'm you want to with hardware that's (kinda) true.....

[@scottkirby7068]

best VCV videos on the internet - legend

[@nexxai]

Been using VCV Rack for months and still learned tons from this entire series. My only quality-of-life suggestion is that when you're adding new modules to a voice that's already connected to a mixer, instead of disconnecting the cable from the mixer and having to scroll all the way back up to the mixer to run a new cable to re-link the new module, I just move the output cable from the previous end of the chain to the new end of the chain, and then run new cables from previous end to new end. For example, if you have a VCO -> Plateau -> Mixer and you want to add a Chronoblob between Plateau and the Mixer, add the Chronoblob module to the rack, click and drag the existing cables from the output from Plateau into the outputs of Chronoblob, and then link the output of Plateau with the input of Chronoblob. It's a simple little trick but I find it saves me a TON of time scrolling.

[@antoineguilbeault8025]

Amazing series my dude !

[@brockwuth]

Excellent tutorial.

[@allorgansnobody]

These could just keep going and it would be incredible. Especially one in which you lean a bit more into your own creative process. You're great at explaining things in a straightforward way. Especially how often you just say: "I am doing this cause I love the way it sounds," which is just so honest and straight forward and sets all us up for actually getting into the right creative mindset. But there are so many creative ways you can make these... topologies, that it is awesome just to build a vocabulary on this by watching :)

[@velcatt4713]

Absolutely incredible

[@carlomarchetti8149]

Hi Jeremy! Very usefull video, thanks for sharing that :)

[@Srcsqwrn]

I needed this!

[@sirvazo1633]

Such a great patch 😀👍

[@build_inst]

Yes it was very fun and informative thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤ Oh and the cat at the end is just 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@adroc9841]

Please keep doing these educational videos 👍

[@kalmarnagyandras]

That bass is just really yummy. That is the technical word for it.

[@GrvMUSIC4U]

SO fuckin good I have made few nice track ideas all because of you I wish you would continue this series because the pace at which you explain really helps

[@The0Stroy]

I love Palette version of Plaits cuz it changes labels of knobs depending on mode and animates modulation in real-time - a really exquisite module for free!

[@mykhailoskachkov5946]

this is insane, man. finally i started to understand and not finding myself being scared of modular

[@karolisprekeris]

helped a lot, thanks

[@lotijuay]

I have used VCV rack for about 3 years. It sounds kind of dumb but I never thought about separating the note events from the gate events. lol I have constructed for the last 3 years every patch ignoring that possibility. thanks for the little (but powerful) idea Love to see more of this! There are not many great quality tutorials on VCV Racks as I would like. It seems like every youtuber (besides Omri Cohen) only makes videos about the basics and the drops the project. Would love to see more content going in deep in different aspects :) Greetings from Chile!

[@rhampton1914]

I really enjoyed your series...Very nice...i'm sorta learning the Percussa SSP and wow, it's detailed. My next goal is to experience with VCV rack eventually. Would love to see you do a review on the Percussa SSP..That would be awesome..........

[@labils666]

than you! just found vcv rack and your tutorials helped me to wet my feet..

[@novystxr]

thank you jeremy

[@mitechko]

One of the modules I use a lot in my patches is 4LFO (and 8LFO) from bogaudio. It supplies a number of LFOs with a control over phase between the LFOs, so things can come in and out in waves. I think you might find it useful in some of these modulation schemes you build. Also, thank you for using all the "audible instruments" modules, I never really paid much attention to them, but they look super useful.

[@chitlun]

Good vid man, some interesting techniques! I love VCV and particularly now it’s also a VST. It pairs particularly well with Bitwig Studio and its Modulators. I’ll definitely be utilising a couple of the random techniques in this vid so thanks man. By the way, I can recommend Omri Cohen’s VCV videos as a source of great inspiration… Peace ✌️

[@leehumphries5706]

If you haven't already, Vult modules. Also Bogaudio. Good, solid, no nonsense building blocks. Also also, great intro series! Also also also... The ****ing tuning on Resonator!!!

[@astoss8327]

Thanks!

[@The_Sock_]

my god, you do not know what it means to me to have simple to follow videos like this as a beginner.

[@ulihorn]

This has been an amazing series! It seems though unless I have got something wrong, that the saved final patch for this video does not match the patch described in part 4.

[@Xipheruleon]

Your videos are super chill and informative man! I'm learning modular and trying to get more familiarity in general with my synth music. I followed this patch video with minor tweaks of my own and was curious if I'd be able to distribute this to my friends or on band camp as an archive for myself to refer too?

[@nelslindberg765]

Brilliant. I've learned so much. BTW the "Drum Machine" VCV module is no longer free :(

[@AlvaroCorcueraMusica]

the best!

[@kjbeats57]

Please make more of these pleaseeee

[@Zefal77]

Weekend coming up, I have some catch up to do

[@GeorgeLocke]

Mindmeld mixers are best!

[@VirtualModular]

Yep, I was going to say that. Beat me to it! Pro tip: use all four aux sends and send them to groups, then turn up the sends on all the groups to slap effects on all your effects. 😃

[@MeriaDuck]

Very nice series, you are a great teacher! Figured out the mixer; you need to click ABOVE the fader to adjust it, not try to click on the fader-knob itself. That was slightly unintuitive. -(Only five minutes in this one yet; I may have missed something; but I seem to be unable to use the faders on the 16-channel mixer. If I figure out what I did wrong I'll update this comment)-

[@Grimbakor]

OMG thank you! I spent 10 minutes debugging this before I realised I can't be the only one.

[@MeriaDuck]

@@Grimbakor My pleasure!

[@alexconroy696]

tank u am now the brain eno man

[@JustinUrban1]

Is there a possibility of expanding this series? Maybe even have videos on pro version tutorials? These videos really made me fall back in love with modular gear so thank you very much for the time and effort you put into your channel!

[@martschaefer3424]

very nice. very david sylvian...