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Exploring the musical world of modular synthesis through VCV Rack patches.
Hi There! I'm currently in the "learning to make generative music in VCV Rack" phase of my musical journey, hoping to eventually graduate into the "I make generative music in VCV Rack" state. But the expectation is that it will take a while until that point has been reached, so until then there will be a lot of studying and experimenting. I will be sharing the results of this experimentation on this channel. Feel free to join me on the journey!
Hi There! I'm currently in the "learning to make generative music in VCV Rack" phase of my musical journey, hoping to eventually graduate into the "I make generative music in VCV Rack" state. But the expectation is that it will take a while until that point has been reached, so until then there will be a lot of studying and experimenting. I will be sharing the results of this experimentation on this channel. Feel free to join me on the journey!
Three stable and randomized sequences | Patch from Scratch | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2
Three voices that generate their note sequences by combining a random and a more stable input signal are created in this tutorial, resulting in a full patch from scratch.
This tutorial patch was the starting point for the recently released PTWSLY patch (th-cam.com/video/Ip7A3ffyKiQ/w-d-xo.html).
Modules used in this tutorial:
- Bogaudio 4FO
- Bogaudio AD
- MindMeld AuxSpander
- Audible Instruments Bernoulli Gate
- Count Modula Chances
- Alright Devices Chronoblob2
- Impromptu Clocked
- Geodesics DarkEnergy
- Instruo I-o47
- Holonic Systems Lazy Susan
- MindMeld MixMasterJr
- Bogaudio Offset
- Valley Plateau
- FLAG Prince Of Perception
- Count Modula Oscilloscope
- FLAG Tap Dancer
- Stellare Modular Turing Machine
- Instruo Ts-L
- VCV VCA
- Bogaudio VCO
- BogAudio Walk2
- Instruo cnoc
Final patch available at: patchstorage.com/three-stable-and-randomized-sequences
___Support___
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___ Setup ___
- VCV Rack 2.5.2 on Windows
- Audio and video captured by OBS
- Voice recorded in Reaper 7.07
- Video editing in DaVinci Resolve 18.6
___ Copyright ___
All rights reserved
___Chapters___
00:00 Intro
00:31 Utility Setup
02:06 First note sequence
03:49 Playing the Randomness
05:43 Adding Stability
08:38 Effects for the First Voice
10:11 Second Voice Sequence
15:00 Soundshaping the Second Voice
17:17 Third Voice Sequence
18:54 Third Voice Playback
20:03 Third Voice Soundshaping
22:10 Panning the Mix
23:05 Outro
This tutorial patch was the starting point for the recently released PTWSLY patch (th-cam.com/video/Ip7A3ffyKiQ/w-d-xo.html).
Modules used in this tutorial:
- Bogaudio 4FO
- Bogaudio AD
- MindMeld AuxSpander
- Audible Instruments Bernoulli Gate
- Count Modula Chances
- Alright Devices Chronoblob2
- Impromptu Clocked
- Geodesics DarkEnergy
- Instruo I-o47
- Holonic Systems Lazy Susan
- MindMeld MixMasterJr
- Bogaudio Offset
- Valley Plateau
- FLAG Prince Of Perception
- Count Modula Oscilloscope
- FLAG Tap Dancer
- Stellare Modular Turing Machine
- Instruo Ts-L
- VCV VCA
- Bogaudio VCO
- BogAudio Walk2
- Instruo cnoc
Final patch available at: patchstorage.com/three-stable-and-randomized-sequences
___Support___
Want to support me? Perhaps buy me a coffee? Check out my Ko-fi page:
ko-fi.com/not_things
___ Setup ___
- VCV Rack 2.5.2 on Windows
- Audio and video captured by OBS
- Voice recorded in Reaper 7.07
- Video editing in DaVinci Resolve 18.6
___ Copyright ___
All rights reserved
___Chapters___
00:00 Intro
00:31 Utility Setup
02:06 First note sequence
03:49 Playing the Randomness
05:43 Adding Stability
08:38 Effects for the First Voice
10:11 Second Voice Sequence
15:00 Soundshaping the Second Voice
17:17 Third Voice Sequence
18:54 Third Voice Playback
20:03 Third Voice Soundshaping
22:10 Panning the Mix
23:05 Outro
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PTWSLY | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 22614 วันที่ผ่านมา
While doing some cleanup in the "unsorted" directory where I keep my unfinished VCV patches and experiments, I ran into a patch that was started last year (and not used since). Judging from the rectangular layout of the patch, I suspect it was something that I considered as a potential source for a tutorial (which I might still do now that I've rediscovered it almost 8 months later).It didn't s...
PGWHDS | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 353หลายเดือนก่อน
After getting an interesting voice using a double delay, I decided to spend some time playing with delays. After a lot of experimenting, a bunch of failed attempts and a couple of working ideas, I ended up with this patch. The voice that started it all is simple enough: every four beats, play one of the notes of the current chord through a Dark Energy module. That is sent into a SurgeXT delay. ...
TPTWTL | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 4572 หลายเดือนก่อน
If I had to describe this patch in one sentence it would be: this patch took way to long to make. I kept running in circles, so I had to stop working on this patch multiple times. I even completed two other patches first: NCPJCM (which uses no chord progressions as a reaction to the issues I had with this patch) and TPZ (which uses parts of the chord sequence and structuring as used here). The ...
TPZ | Sequenced Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 2832 หลายเดือนก่อน
I suspect that @julienrbaker isn't often mentioned as the inspiration behind a modular synth patch, but that is the case here. Ziptie, the last track on her Little Oblivions album, is such a beautiful closer (th-cam.com/video/13T7AoTRORc/w-d-xo.html). So while I was enjoying listening to it on a walk during my lunch break, I started wondering if there wasn't something I could do in VCV Rack bas...
NCPJCM | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 5783 หลายเดือนก่อน
No chord progression, just a C major chord. There are three unfinished patches on my computer. Working on them has been a bit of a struggle. Getting the chord progressions to play nicely over the different voices, looking for interesting melodic voices that go along with it, trying to figure out how to sequence everything, etc. So I decided it was time to cleanse my palate a bit. Work on someth...
Two Ideas for Generating Note Sequences | Patch from Scratch | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 1.4K4 หลายเดือนก่อน
Two different ideas for generating note sequences are combined into a single voice in this tutorial, resulting in a full patch from scratch. Once I created the patch for this tutorial, I wanted to take it a bit further. So after continuing to build on it, this turned into my earlier released FRMTRL patch (th-cam.com/video/EUVZh759hmI/w-d-xo.html) This voice was created specifically for this tut...
FRMTRL | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 8474 หลายเดือนก่อน
This patch started out with an idea for a tutorial. The idea revolves around the generation of a randomized melodic voice, based on two different note sequencing ideas. The tutorial can be found at th-cam.com/video/38-2Dzp4kO4/w-d-xo.html Once I had the patch that was going to be used for the tutorial, I wanted to try and further evolve it to see where it would lead me. So that is where the mel...
FCICM | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 7626 หลายเดือนก่อน
Four Chords in C Minor. That's pretty much the central idea around which this patch is created. This time around, I wanted to let the chord and the mood be the main focus point of the patch. Something that just moves into the background when it has been playing for a while. That is why the two voices that can try to steal the attention away from the chord progressions are only triggered every s...
BLDRP | Sequenced Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 7067 หลายเดือนก่อน
A bit less randomness, a bit more control. Instead of creating a generative patch and letting algorithms generate the music within the set constraints, I wanted to take (almost) everything in my own hands. I may have been inspired in this direction by listening to Omri Cohen's modular compositions channel multiple times 😉 (you can check it out at @MyModularMusic) There was one thing I noticed h...
SMPL | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 7137 หลายเดือนก่อน
Don't make it complex, keep it simple. That's the thought behind this patch. It started with a simple voice: the Macro Oscillator 2 (i.e. Mutable Instruments Plaits) in Chords mode into a filter and then into a wet-only reverb. The module is playing a constant pitch, but an Instruo Ochd modulates the harmonics, timbre and morph values so that both the chords that the module plays and the way it...
KTO | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 4398 หลายเดือนก่อน
A reinterpretation of the KTO patch that was previously released, this time as a long meditative ambient version. Compared to the original patch, additional reverb has been applied to the melodic voices so that they blend more into the background. More details about the construction of the voices themselves can be found in the description of the original patch (th-cam.com/video/a7XyNDiIAdE/w-d-...
KTO | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 5258 หลายเดือนก่อน
I've been trying to check out the different @instruo modules in the last couple of releases, and this patch is no different. It ended up using Instruo for four of the voices. It started with the Instruo Saïch module: an oscillator that accepts multiple note inputs and combines them in its output. It receives the root, third and fifth notes of the active chord from the Harmonaìg module. Using Oc...
Playing with Arpeggiated Chords | Patch from Scratch | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 2.4K9 หลายเดือนก่อน
The voice in this tutorial starts of playing arpeggiated chord notes and then gets some variation applied to it, both in sound and in notes that get played. This voice was created specifically for this tutorial, but since I liked the way it ended up sounding, it also turned into the inspiration for the Ranar patch (th-cam.com/video/GH9QQ-qC0Mk/w-d-xo.html). Modules used in this tutorial: - Impr...
Ranar | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 73410 หลายเดือนก่อน
It started with an idea for something to build a tutorial around. After fiddling in VCV Rack during a lunch break one day, the result was a voice that sounded interesting enough that I ended up listening to it for the rest of the day. So then I knew that I not only had a working idea for the tutorial, I also a starting point for a full patch. The core of this patch is the voice that will also e...
Maon | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 30510 หลายเดือนก่อน
Maon | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
Maon | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 62510 หลายเดือนก่อน
Maon | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Bringing some variation into LFO modulation | Patch from Scratch | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 1.4K11 หลายเดือนก่อน
Bringing some variation into LFO modulation | Patch from Scratch | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2
Second Paths | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 28211 หลายเดือนก่อน
Second Paths | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
Paths | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 52111 หลายเดือนก่อน
Paths | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Creating a slowly evolving ambient background Voice | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 10Kปีที่แล้ว
Creating a slowly evolving ambient background Voice | Tutorial for VCV Rack 2
Urban Meanderings | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 376ปีที่แล้ว
Urban Meanderings | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
Urban Meanderings | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 722ปีที่แล้ว
Urban Meanderings | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Twelve Fifths | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 504ปีที่แล้ว
Twelve Fifths | Long-form Meditative Ambient version | Ambient Generative Patch in VCV Rack 2
On the Outer Rim | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 561ปีที่แล้ว
On the Outer Rim | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Twelve Fifths | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 1.3Kปีที่แล้ว
Twelve Fifths | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Trickle | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 569ปีที่แล้ว
Trickle | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Wanderings | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 3.6Kปีที่แล้ว
Wanderings | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Hike A | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 603ปีที่แล้ว
Hike A | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
Waves A | Sequenced Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
มุมมอง 687ปีที่แล้ว
Waves A | Sequenced Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2
diving into deep sea and like swimming among the dolphins where they come and go to know you better.. :)
Thanks so much. Really interesting tutorial. I'm a beginner and learned a huge amount.
Great to hear!
Thanks for sharing this video. It's a beautiful sound, and following along with the tutorial was really insightful.
Thanks, glad it was helpful!
Very interesting tutorial, not to mention the use of the Offset module which I don't know and which is very useful. Thanks for sharing this video.
Thank you, always nice to hear when a tutorial provided useful information 👍
fascinating 😳
thanks 😁
Hi Thanks for the great tutorials, I mentioned you and linked to your youtube channel as I learnt quite a bit from your channel. Here's mine www.youtube.com/@ModularNites Your tutorials were used for 'animal magic' and modular nights v2 thanks again james ps, I tried to email you but couldn't get past human verification.
Very cool soundscape.
Thank you!
How long did you get into vcv till you were able to understand what you are doing? I watched the tutorial to this patch. And it seems you exactly know what module to choose for what purpose. As if you already have sort of a plan of what a patch should consist of. I kind of want to understand how much time I need to invest to get a good base. I follow a lot of tutorials by rebuilding the shown patches but it’s always just understanding small parts maybe. Right now this feels like math lessons in school (I sucked but survived it somehow 😅).
I also did spend a couple of months only following along with tutorials before I started experimenting on my own. And even after that, it took longer before getting more comfortable with it (which comes down to having more experience, having tried out more combinations and knowing more modules because you used them before). It probably helps that I have a background is software development, so understanding the smaller parts and figuring out how to build a bigger whole out of them kinda comes with the territory 😉. At the time of this Ranar patch, I was almost a year into my VCV journey. Also take into account that in my tutorials, I'm not inventing those patches on the spot. I first try to create a patch around an idea I have for a tutorial. And only when I get something that I like (usually after some time experimenting), I record the tutorial recreating that patch, together with an explanation of what I'm doing.
@@not-things Thank you for taking the time to answer in such detail 🫶🏻 and mentioning the time it took you to get where you were at this stage. It really helps to get a feeling for how much patience i might need🤓. But it’s so much fun and listening to your patch made me kind of shout out loud THIS IS WHAT I WANT🤩 so thank you for sharing! It’s such a motivation for me🙌🏻
Nice work!
Thanks!
Nice tuto about Nullpath!
Thanks! It's a nice set of modules with some interesting possibilities.
You are a genius brother, thank you so much for sharing this knowledge in a very simple way as anybody could understand. Keep inspiring
Thank you! Glad you found the tutorial helpful.
that's a lot of modules! Gorgeous sounds
Thank you! There were actually even more modules in there while I was trying to take some control over the blending of the voices over time. But I removed them near the end of the patch construction because it simply wasn't working as intended 😄
Very nice!were all sounds synthesized or some samples? It sounds amazing
Thank you! It's all synthesized as the patch is playing. Even the Simpliciter module that you can see in the middle of the second row is continuously recording the synthesized voice that's in front of it and then mixing in the recorded sample in reverse.
@@not-things thats amazing it sounds so good!
Sometimes you can't help wishing that certain patches were downloads - really nice piece
Thank you! I am thinking to somewhere down the line (when I find time for it) create a tutorial about how I used the delays in this patch. It won't be the full patch, but it will contain some parts of it 😉
lovely sound :)
Thanks :-)
creative and inspiring ty
Glad you liked it 😊
I don't understand ... so few likes. This is an amazing work to patch !
Thanks a lot, glad you like it 😊
A gorgeous spaghetti monster. Any tips for cleaner drones?
Thanks! I'm also still experimenting a lot to try and figure out what works and what doesn't. It's usually a case of "less is more", except in those cases where it needs a little more 😉
Excellent. How much CPU was that using?
Thanks! VCV Rack itself reports around 75% average CPU usage (Thread count is set to 2 in the Engine menu), and Windows Task Manager reports Rack.exe as using 43% CPU (on an Intel Core i7-11700)
masterful patching! And you are a masochist for using all red!
Thank you kindly! And what can I say, I like red ... 😉
Chill and lovely
Thanks!
An amazing composition. Wonderful sound and movement.
Thank you very much!
Quite complex patch and great example of know-how. Overall beautiful composition. The path to the modular synthesizer can sometimes be arduous. ♥
Thank you, glad you liked it 😊
Arduous indeed. There's live modular, which can be as simple as a few modules, and then there's this, a whole other level, this is preconfigured and highly complex, generative but controlled throughout... it's such a beauty to behold.
On the other hand, I don't think I would be able to pull off a patch that I would be happy with using just a few modules. That's an art in itself.
impressive
Thanks!
Epic!🤟💥
Thank you! 👍😁
Wonderful!
Thank you!
What beautiful and clever work. And 3 instances of ShapeMaster always gets my vote haha.
Thanks! I did have some plans for additional parameters to modulate, but ended up deciding that 3 ShapeMaster instances should suffice 😉
Absolutely wonderful! I would love to see where you might be able to go with this!
Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Really nice sound design there, well done.
Thank you Lars!
one of the best VCV songs … !
That's very kind 😊
WOW! Just wonderful 🙂
Many thanks!
Such cool sounds. Thanks for a simple yet effective tutorial. God bless you 😊🙏🏼❤️
Glad you liked it 😁
Perfection 😮
Thanks 😊
Bravo , grandiose 👍👍👍
Thank you 😁
Beautiful
Thank you!
Fantastic relaxing music to work to. Great job!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful...
Thank you 😊
Only 3 unfinished patches? I've got hundreds!!! 😉 Sounds nice though, I also like to make slightly more drone style patches like this sometimes. It's really satisfying.
There are three that are in progress and considered unfinished, I'm not taking the abandoned and/or "maybe for later" patches into account 😄
You nailed it. Well done. It must have been super satisfying once you got it all patched up.
To be honest, pretty much all my patches end with an "Ok, that has to be enough. I have to stop now, I can't keep tinkering with it" :-)
Hahaha familiar feeling! Never done 🤣
may we ask for a copy of tis wonderful patch?
This patch can be found on my Bandcamp page, and will be released on other platforms (Spotify, Apple, etc.) at the end of this month.
The miracle of C Major! Sounds great!
Can't go wrong with the classic C ;-) Glad you liked it!
very nice!
Thank you!
A very nice piece, and I appreciate the detailed breakdown in the description! The distant sparkly notes remind me a lot of space ambient genre.
Thanks, glad you like it 😁 It's always a bit of work to try and write a clear summary, but well worth the effort.
virtual objects emulating hardware emulating running digital code emulating analog, acoustic and mathematical processes... & sounding absolutely gorgeous 😍
Your description make me think "Then fake plastic trees would be good cover art for this", so now I'm listening to Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead 😄
A worthy addition to the "save game room" genre. Peaceful and makes you want to stick around.
The goal was to create something that you can have playing in the background without it getting either annoying or boring, so I guess I succeeded? ;-)
@@not-things yes not meant as an insult at all, this is great
Thanks! And don't worry, I didn't read your initial comment as a negative one.
I'm attempting to do this, sorta of slow wash effect ,with vcv ❤🙏🙃
I'm sure that there are (many) other ways to achieve this in VCV/modular, but I'm using the "Reverb" cheat code to get those slow washes 😉 A long (almost) wet-only reverb, and then it's a matter of looking for the right sounds to send into the reverb. Usually it's a matter of "less is more" 😊
@@not-things i trying to achieve this but not for actual music but more alien sounds to give a organic feel like this. sorta like a sound painting , an alien world back drop.
awesome❤🙏🙃 reminds me of a dream
That's a very nice compliment, thank you 😁
Great pads! I think I agree with you on the polyphony comment -- being able to create lush pads like this would take quite a lot of rigs in order to get right :)
Thanks! The additions that VCV has given when compared to a physical rig have really spoiled us ;-)
One of the most beautiful patches I ever heard in VCV Rack, thank you for sharing so many great ideas. Subscribed.
Thank you, much appreciated.
Awesome patch - everything was explained in detail. Thank you so much making me much more familiar with the techniques of modular synths. 👌🏻💯
Glad it was helpful!