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Thank you @collinstump9706! I've been having a lot of fun making videos. I made a spreadsheet similar to the one you mentioned in another comment and I've been using it a lot lol. Thanks for that suggestion! I showed it in The Beauty of Mathematics video and gave you a shout-out ✌️😁 if you haven't seen it yet. Thanks again!!

Hey The Great Assyr! Thank you for the comment and for explaining your cable color coding technique. I like it a lot! I might start using it 😁. Your video is great. I never thought about removing the cables and then hitting Ctrl+z to automatically replace them in a new color. So slick. It would be super fast to shift+click the cable to delete it and then Ctrl+z. Thanks again for the information and for the kind words ✌️😊 and I'm glad you like the content so far. I'm working on an update to the VCV Rach Cheat Sheet which should be posted soon. I'm excited about it!

Right on, @markfelps2269 I'm glad you like the content and thank you for checking it out! Many more videos to come. ✌️😁

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Great question! I pulled it up right now and it looks like the micro runs hotter, but it is super minimal. I would say there is a negligible difference. I do like how the little one looks. I prefer small modules. 😁 Thanks again, @robilotte11

Glad this video helped! Check out what CatFish said in the comments about this too. I don't have much MIDI equipment but the fills with 24ppqn sounds interesting. I have to check it out.

No problem, @The_Sock_! I'm glad you enjoy the content and find it useful 😁

CatFish always coming in clutch with the advanced techniques! 😁 I wish I had more midi gear. I'll have to pick some up and try this out. This is a good excuse haha.

@@yourpalrob I stumble bubbled into the discovery, while attempting to clock the sequencer with an external midi clock signal. Kept having to crank the resolution to not have the sequencers way out of time. And upon further experimentation, I learned about the extras hidden between the 4ppqn drum hits inside the 8 and 24 ppqn resolutions. Mostly rapid fills on the snare and hihat channels.

@CatFish107 What midi controller do you have?

Sweet, definitely need a copy of that fart patch 😁

Lol! It's a complicated setup with many advanced techniques. 😁

@@yourpalrob I hope my machine can run it!

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Thank you, @xat9259! I'm glad you found it useful and I appreciate the feedback :) I practice shredding with this synth build a lot lol.

Haha! With so many free modules, there has to be one for that right?

Thank you for the comment, @burningpaper I'm glad it was useful to you 😁

Hey James! Thank you for the question. It is the stock calculator that comes with the Kubuntu flavor of Linux 😁

@@yourpalrob Thanks. It’s been a while since I checked out a GNU / Linux distribution. Looks good.

Thanks again, @TheVoltar100! 🤘😎

Dude!! You're so right. That is the slickest way to use the math input along with calculating pitches. Thank you for pointing that out! I totally missed it lol 😁

Lol! Microtonal music is insane. I really enjoy it, but I have such a hard time making it. I'm much better at the "no wrong notes" mentality but I'm locked into 12EDO.

@@yourpalrob Hmm, I wonder how Jazz would sound like with 31EDO. 🤔 31EDO Giant Steps, the Dark Souls of Dark Souls of Jazz.

Haha, you would need a special instrument or the entire band playing trombones.

It's a great feature! It doesn't work on every oscillator, but all the ones I tried worked fine. 😁

I haven't messed with it much, BUT! If it can take variables, then it could be powerful. You could put like (VCO1 + 300) or something to the tube of that and it would play 300Hz higher than your first VCO. That might be cool!

Yo CrusaderGeneral! Thanks dude. I appreciate it! 😁

Oh! That's a great technique! I'm going to use that lol.

Oooh, I wonder how open the functionality of inputting math on the pitch knob is? Can you input functions? Thinking some backdoor fm, possibly? Will it execute arbitrary code? Lol.

Lol! I haven't messed with it much, but if I had to guess I bet it is pretty open.

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I like that! Cicada's are cool. I think I'll start calling it that too 😁

Stealing this for sure

Thank you, @TheVoltar100! I appreciate all your comments!

Haha! They are so nice. I would love to have the physical one. The sound is HUGE! High on my list of modules to get IRL.

Thank you, @zamphzibaha! I'm glad you like the videos! I have a good time making them too and I'm happy that people find them useful 😁

Thank you, @dpbennett! I appreciate the encouragement 😊

Thank you, @letmefeelthevibes! I like this VCO a lot too. Top 5 on my frequently used list :)

Haha! So true. Need that GAS therapy after seeing one of these.

Thank you, @TheVoltar100! You're awesome too! 🤘😁

Hey, @VirtualModular! Thank you for the comment. Haha! It is pretty old! The hardware version is not polyphonic so I was happy to see that the software one is. Blamsoft and Surge XT have such great modules in their kit. I'll have to make some videos on them. I have the XFX Wave set up for a horror drone and I love it.

@@yourpalrob yep that one can get quite atonal, especially if you mess about with the harmonics. Shame that can't be modulated!

You're spot on! I think the tuning is weird too. I always add a tuner when I use the Black WaveTable because the frequency knob is unconventional. If you switch between fine and coarse as well, the manual tuning becomes slightly flat. So odd, but it is kind of a fun quirk I guess. I usually just feed pitches through the v/oct and it ends up working fine 😁

Thank you, @samigumiran6174! I could easily spend an evening with the Black WaveTable VCO too haha. Up next we have a math related video and then I've been working on a big update to the VCVRack Cheat Sheet so I will showcase that. I'm excited for the release! 😁

​@yourpalrob Suggested swerve for April fools or whenever you want to have a vid that's way different: 4 hours of you manually tuning a piano, with the only vocals from a noisy tape recorder placed inside the piano, consisting of mumbling and muttering curses. (Distant voice, almost dominated by sympathetic piano vibrations) "Ouch!, stupid f@^*ing wrench." Camera only showing close up of the hammers.

Haha! I just saw this comment. So funny! April fools 2025 here it comes. 🎹

Thank you, @zamphzibaha!

Thank you, @seangarland! I'm glad you've been enjoying the content so far, and thank you again for the support! You rock! 🤘😎

Awesome! That sounds like a great patch, @MeditativeInstruments. Drone patches are so good. I really enjoy listening to evolving ones with swelling harmonics. It sounds like your patch is one like that. Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you liked the video! :)

@@yourpalrob I'm really excited about some of the new changes that have happened in VCV Rack. I make some really large patches, because I use VCV Rack as a DAW for live performance (mic'd acoustic flute w/ VCV drone). I was hovering at 75% CPU usage until a recent update, where suddenly the same patch is running at 34% CPU. I don't know what they optimized, but I like it!! 😇

I noticed that too. I think some of the major modules were updated recently as well to optimize CPU usage. A lot of my big patches are slick now too and I love it. I can add more to them now haha. I've been wanting to try a live setup. Your live flute and drone setup sounds sick! I'm going to try to make something similar but for harmonica.

@@yourpalrob I've been building and incrementally improving a really big patch I call the "RackDAW." It mimics some features of a DAW like Ableton or Bitwig. One of these days I'll get busy and release it on Patchbay with a video on how to use it. The current version is a virtual audio-engineer's console, integrated with the studio microphones (using the VCV Audio-8 module). Microphone arming, transport control, channel & master volume & panning, and manual chord selection is mapped to a LaunchKey49 controller. Mic input, sample recorder, and multiple sample playback thru one "Mic Submixer" (I like the Venom modular mixers). A 2nd 4-channel submixer for background loops & VCV patches is sent to a side-chained compressor (sidechain input from Mic Submixer), then on to a master mixer. All mixer channels controlled by the Launchkey faders & pan/mute controls. The "RackDAW" doesn't make any sounds on its own. It's just the audio engineering infrastructure. I export all my good drone sounds as "Clips" instead of saving them as patches. I run the RackDAW as the actual patch, then import a saved Clip to add a saved soundscape. Clips don't need to be wired to an audio-output module. Instead, I wire them to a Venom 4-channel mixer strip before saving the clip. Then, from within the RackDAW patch, I can simply import the clip I want, wire its output to an open channel, then with the controller keyboard, unmute it and set the volume levels. I use the Record/Play section of the Launchkey's transport control section to manage microphone arming (Record button), loop reset (Stop button), loop clear (Undo button), etc. I like the "Lilac Loop" module for live looping. I plan to make a video of my RackDAW patch and publish it on Patchbay, but at the moment I'm deep in the middle of an audiobook project.

@@yourpalrob yeah man! Do it! Show us what you got!

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Thank you, @mikecurley3070 🤘😁

No problem, @aleksdizhe! Thank you for the comment 😁

@yourpalrob thank u for making video with using only default modules :)) would be great to see more of such videos :)

Right on! I'll totally make some more with just the defaults. In all of my videos, I only use free modules so if you see any you like you can always download them from the VCV Rack Library. 🤘😄

Haha, thank you for the comment, @IwatoHyena!

@@yourpalrob Thank you for your diligent efforts. Years ago, I created a few animation tutorials on my sister channel, iamYork, so I am acutely aware of the significant time investment and the often minimal rewards involved in producing these types of videos. As a hobbyist in modular synthesis, a professional sound designer, and a film editor, I greatly appreciate your articulate and easily comprehensible explanations, which make for a truly enjoyable experience. Your conceptualizations of modules alone inspire numerous ideas for my own setups. Keep up the outstanding work. I am an avid admirer.

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it! I've been having a lot of fun making these videos, even though it sometimes takes me a while to create them. It's really nice to know that folks have found them useful 😁. Many more videos to come!

@yourpalrob looking forward to them

Thank you for the comment, @AB-wf8ek! You totally can just use the μMap's offset and scale; however, I find the additional attenuverter easier to dial in than the μMap alone. μMap's controls are very sensitive in my experience so having a module with a little more wiggle room helps me. If you want a slick minimal module set up, you should totally skip out on the redundant modules :)

@@yourpalrob Nice, okay just checking if there was something I was missing. Thanks for the reply!

Haha! Yes, 😂

Thank you, @psychrockvinyl! I'm glad you like the content so far!

Totally right! It would be a good one with the sounds set to gentle modulations.

Solid! Thank you for mentioning this. VCV Rack is awesome.

Right on! I'm glad they are useful to you. Those are my favorite videos to make too! 😁

Thank you, @TheVoltar100 😁

Lol! Thank you for the comment @czesc_xyz! This module has a big update since this video and it has an expander now too. I need to make an update video.

Right on! Thank you @aaronrosenthal5310! I'm going to work on a math video 😁