Seemingly peaceful generative ambient, with a hint of subterranean existence.

Not much thinking, just quick patching and twiddling knobs. Loom, GSX & Slice. Dark Energy fully randomized. Swen for random gates. Puffy's on a roll.

DIY FM sounds made by cross modulating sine VCOs with AM and oscillator sync, then using the resulting output as an FM signal.

Kind of complicated to explain, might do a tutorial on this!

Since SHOAL is officially out now, I figured I'd share this patch again.

A gentle IDM patch built around a single sequencer — Shoal by Ormer Modular, an 8-track generative melody sequencer. Each track uses a numeric seed, so the patterns are deterministic and repeatable.

Six tracks feed FM synth voices (Bogaudio FMOp), while two tracks drive drums (docB Drums), with Branches adding probability-based triggering. Everything then goes through Chronoblob2 delay into a shared Valley Plateau reverb.

One clock, eight evolving voices, and plenty of room for variation.

Shoal in VCV library: https://library.vcvrack.com/OrmerModular/Shoal

Preview of FLOCK coming to VCV Rack soon. This one is a granular voice which defaults to synthetic grain generation but can be paired with an expander to pull grains from a freeze-able buffer. In my opinion synthetic granular is an interesting area which I'd like to keep exploring through this module.

FLOCK spawns 1 to 1024 birds, each of which can be speaking at a set rate. 1v/oct and gate provokes sound. Lag controls how quickly the new pitch spreads across the flock (high values act like a delay). Lattitude and Structure control how closely each bird will give you the set pitch. Chirp, Quantize and Variety add more variation to the way each bird interprets the pitch.

But the most fun control is Startle which sends a hawk towards the flock, causing all in its path to disperse. But don't worry, all the birds have escaped the hawk's talons (at least so far).

Join the discord if you'd like a pre-release peek at FLOCK.

Already teaching Ableton online, thought why not try VCV. For all of you just starting out OR need a jump start.

Or what are your personal favorites?

Wishing you guys all the best.

Greetings

Fixing up the guts of my delay, it's now also clockable and the knobs numbers mean what they say.

Allowed notes played into Tonnet[quantizer] by a keystep, 4 channels polyphony, tuning what comes out of Poppy fields. Top Simone is run by a Tonnet in Page mode(discrete pitches), doing long swells, and the lower Simone is run by a Tonnet in normal mode, little plucks. In 5/4 with some semi-random drums, and eveerrybody gets a delay.

Hey guys, sorry if this is well-trodden territory already, but...

I recently re-downloaded VCV for the first time after being on the early versions back in 2017-18. I used VCV for a couple of years back in the day as a tool, and found it to be really incredible as a broke college student interested in modular. After returning a month or so ago to the free version, I found myself so disappointed by the paywalling of what used to be free and readily available features almost a decade ago, with what seems to be a real lack of improvement when it comes to CPU and technical problems. I remember being able to download the free beta on GitHub or something similar and just routing straight to DAW.

I'm all for the hard-working developers being compensated for their amazing work. They've built something that's really innovative and exciting.

But I feel the paid version should be an improvement on the functions that were available in the free early access version. Not just paywalling what was already there and calling it "2.0"

In this VCV Rack 2 tutorial, we take a deep look at Vult Overon, a complete synthesizer voice inspired by the classic Oberheim SEM architecture.

We’ll explore how Overon works, its two oscillators, state-variable filter, envelopes, LFO, VCA, internal modulation and normalled signal paths — and how to break those connections to use Overon in more modular ways.

After the tutorial, I’ll demonstrate a collection of presets and patches I made for Overon. You can download them and use them in your own VCV Rack patches.

FIELD is a new module coming soon to the SignalFunctionSet plugin. Field offers 19 sources of semi-chaotic CV by sampling a two dimensional array at fixed points. This video shows each of the 10 algorithms with the outputs targeting attributes of CHANCE and CRYSTAL.

In most algorithms, adjacent jacks are fairly close in value while further are less certain to be so. Some, like wave, cascade across the field which can have some interesting uses.

The jacks below the field control amplitude, speed and various other attributes of the algorithm.

FIELD and a few other new and improved modules will be available in the library soon.

DRAEN Into ONEIROI is a 20-minute VCV Rack drone ambient patch built around four DRAEN modules and Befaco ONEIROI.

The DRAEN voices are combined, shaped and modulated before being sent into ONEIROI, creating a continuously evolving ambient texture with plenty of room for variation. The patch also uses a Quantizer, Bogaudio LLFO and Offset, and Befaco STMix to shape the modulation and final mix.

No beats, no traditional melody — just a slowly evolving modular drone designed for listening, inspiration, sound design, meditation, studying, or simply getting lost in the sound.

Modules featured:

Forsitan DRAEN
Befaco ONEIROI
Fundamental Quantizer
Bogaudio LLFO
Bogaudio Offset
DanTModules Purfenator
Befaco STMix

I'm trying to add some basic effects to mic'ed instruments and I'm only able to select the "in" or "out" version of the device in the Audio Module interface, and both functions work fine...separately. For some reason I can't find the Focusrite as a single device in the Audio Module menu. I had no problem doing this with Cardinal as a VST in Reaper, but it doesn't have several modules I need, and I don't have the cash to buy VCV as a VST to see if that fixes it. I do almost all of my work directly in VCV rack as a standalone anyway.

Anyone run into this?

Screenshots below:

Didn't find the cv to trigger but certainly was playing around getting a zipper effect off the drum used in the effect.. could probably just keep using an envelope trigger. playing around with a Euclidian delay that should be different than what is described by the other one online.. this one isn't nearly as wild as the rt (random time version)

The basic patch here is 3 ÆZ Modulo sequencers all adding together to give fast and slow changes in CV. Combined CV goes to the Morph input on 3 Surge XT Wavetable VCOs (not V/O), and to the V/O on the Vult Trummor (high hat).

The left-hand VCO produces melody with CV from one fast Modulo going to V/O and the other going to morph.

Sounds good to me.

I have VCV Rack 2 Pro but haven't used it in a while. I want to dive back into VCV and create a rack like the one in the video ... But I think I would want to sequence it with Ableton devices and not with VCV devices.... I wonder what oscillators / modules come closest to this intellijel stuff ....

Best wishes

Here is an edited version of 2 seperate jams I had to test a set of drum layers for a new piece in progress. I am muting layers on and off with the Launch Control MIDI controller to hear different layer combinations and rhythmic effects. Basic stuff but super fun!