What if VCV Rack was real? // VCV Random by NANO Modules
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- In an interesting full circle turn of events, VCV Rack that emulates Eurorack hardware how now come to life as Eurorack hardware in the new VCV Random module from NANO Modules.
VCV Random is a Eurorack hardware version of the VCV Rack Random software module. It's a flexible and modulate-able multi output random generator with some novel features, namely, a step shape control that adds increasing numbers of steps between random values and a 'RND' crossfade control that crossfades the sampling of internal noise and the output. The latter resulting in a unique way to control voltage changes per step and one that can modulate over time.
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TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS
INTRO
00:00 Hello & patch previews
00:47 What is the VCV Random + feature run down
FEATURE DEMONSTRATION
03:12 Rate control & probability
03:46 Linear, exponential & smooth outs & shape control
04:37 Step output & shaping
05:24 RND control, in/out crossfader for range control
PATCHES
06:20 Twin melodies - step shaping as a counter melody
07:31 Random probability triggers - techno excitement
09:20 Musical accents & FX throws - one of my favourite techniques
11:20 Sampling LFOs for arpeggios & melodies
13:02 Self modulating smooth loveliness
13:56 3 voice polyphonic generative ambience - a ‘musical Krell’
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One of my favorite modules in VCV. Everyone says you can never have too many VCAs, but in my opinion you can never have enough random sources.
Very true, if I include Ochd then I've about 6 different ones.
It’s deffo switches you can never have enough of.
I’ve been off VCV since getting into the hardware but I agree! Controlled random is one of the most musical things to mess with. I’ll have to check this out at least on VCV Rack if not in the real.
your perfect random module, your quest has finally come to an end!! ;-)
I always liked Vult Caudal (12 smooth random outs) and Sheight (8x S&H).
Then I realised I could stick Bogaudio's Polycon into Walk and get 16 random outs with two modules. Same with Count Modular Super S&H which is also polyphonic. That's one thing you can't do with shiny hardware 😂
I feel like in some time NANO Modules will become ubiquitous in the Eurorack world. Their modules are useful, *extremely* intuitive, nice looking, and relatively inexpensive. I'd gladly build a NANO-only system.
Thank you, I really appreciate your words 💛
I agree, their Font filter is my favorite filter in Euro so far.
Font is fantastic. Nice size and still playable.
This 100%... Keep doing what you're doing @nanomodules1098 !
As a VCV user I think that is one the most interesting random source that you can have in this size. Good for VCV and thanks to you for your excellent demo, saludos desde Buenos Aires.
Thank you, likewise I've used it a load in VCV (I mainly stick to default VCV stuff when I use it).
VCV Random in hardware form. Nice collaboration!
Yeah it's been good fun.
I'm only halfway through the video but I already feel like I finally understand what this module can do. Playing with it a bit in VCV Rack and reading NANO's web page didn't help! Great job as usual
Glad to be helpful, thanks!
woow you really made it sing!! I like how the slew time (and step time for step out) is always relative to the clock so it always goes to the sampled value no matter how long is the slew! that's quite great for no random source sapling as well. thanks for this inspiring video!
Assuming it is the same as the VCV module, that only works when using the internal clock. If clocked by an external signal, then it uses the time between the last two clock triggers to determine the rate for the slew. If the actual external clock rate varies, then things are thrown off - all to be expected really. But when using the internal clock the slew always remains in sync, even if the internal clock rate is modulated.
@@DaveBenhamMusici know tides 2 and probably a few other MI modules can learn 8 step trigger sequences.
Hi Ben :)
This isn't the first VCV module to be ported to hardware. I believe that the Vult - Vorg filter was the very first one and it's funny because it was a virtualization of an analog filter from the MS20 which at the end became a real analog filter (a very good one!) Then other Vult modules were re-created: Freaks, Fuser, Feigen, Wolf, Anima and Caudal were all first made in VCV Rack by Leonardo Laguna Ruiz, then he brought them to real life. ..and thanks lord Vult our beloved Filters God, infinite the Vultiverse is ! ha ha.. Great video as usual !
I know it's not, Vult was the first I believe and it's been nice to see them take their ideas into hardware (not had chance to try them though).
"Vultiverse" hahaha brilliant! This is a good reminder that those are things I need to check out, both in soft and hardware.
this is a really sweet and not that expensive module 👍
couldn't make the prem so will have to leave a HARD SYNC here
hard sync! Thanks
Lovely use of modulation, its things that i do but I sometimes get lazy and don't do it!
Yeah I have to remind myself to do things sometimes, usually to good results when I do. But some habits are just fun and work each time that its easy to lean on them.
lmao "you can just about hear that lblblblbl"
haha I do enjoy a silly vocalisation from time to time.
I could listen to this patch for a very long time... 13:10 I hope you recorded a good chunk of that. :p
thank you and yeah I have a lot of that. Sat a composed/produced that to use as a nice bed for processing in video demos. So I can go back to that in DAW project if I want.
Refreshing to see sanely priced modules. At my Perfect Circuit this would be 189usd, not exactly Behringer cheap but not insanely high like Teenage Engineering. Early adopter (ver 0.3) of VCV rack here, and I’m eager to see what Nano modules does next.
I think it's fair to say NANO push for affordability with what they do generally, likewise I'm looking forward to whatever is coming next.
I totally agree. Nano is good quality too, I love my Quart module.
@DivKid It's starting to freak me out that so many people into modular are also named Ben. 20/20 needs to look into this.
@@robachmusic haha well it’s my given name, as Bonaventura is my actual name ;)
JFC i want this sooooo badly, but then remember I have a hybrid system with an ES-8 so I can just run multiples of all these for days in VCV tied to my IRL rack bits.
hit that duplicate and enjoy the sweet nirvana of endless random!
Joking aside it's definitely a powerful thing to have multiples of this in a hybrid set up.
So let me double check the timeline:
1) Hardware random modules are created
2) Virtual analog random sources are created
3) VCV rack creates a software eurorack random module called VCV RANDOM
4) NANO modules creates a hardware version of VCV RANDOM
5) NANO modules creates a VCV version of VCV RANDOM based on the hardware version of their own module that is an emulation of VCV RANDOM the software module.
Sounds about right, we just need a VCV Rack emulation of the hardware VCV Rack and the circle is complete. :)
This is all really cool, but how do you copy and paste a second one?
With your wallet.
Yep, i often have 3 or 4 in VCV. And 5 scopes.
With the same machine that duplicated all your versios 😅
And infinite mults, and polyphony, and and and..... I am sure that most of my VCV patches would require about the price of my whole hardware rig only in cables lol.
Glad I have both !
I won't cmd+D like I'm used to! haha
I really want a hardware version of the Valley Plateau reverb. It's so good!
CZcams doesn't like links in comments, but someone just did this as alternative firmware for the Noise Engineering Versio platform.
@@burdickjp oh neat! Thanks!
I think this opens a lot of ideas for porting ideas across. Some easier than others and some outright not really doable I suppose. I don't know enough VCV modules to really get into which I'd like to see.
Do links not show in comments at all now? I'm happy for you to share VCV links, Noise Engineering stuff, all related etc.
@@DivKid I haven't been able to figure out the pattern. Sometimes my comments with links are rejected, sometimes not.
VCV rack got me into modular. After seeing all the brand name stuff, when I went to buy my first real module, I searched for Hallucigenia for a while and was very disappointed. Someone make Hallucigenia real, please!
I don't know what that is, but I'll go check it out in the VCV library.
Hmm, the STEP out behavior at 04:37 is odd. It does not match the manual description, nor does it match the behavior seen in VCV with the original VCV Random, nor the NANO Random. In VCV, the STEP output is the same as the other 3 when SHAPE is at 0 - instantaneous jump to the new value. I wonder if the behavior in the video is due to an early release of the hardware. Either way, it is very cool to see a VCV module implemented as hardware. I have always liked the VCV Random - very versatile.
I confirm, both VCV and nano software version's step out give one step per trigger when shape is at zero. My hardware unit has this problem as well
Hello! Yes, we noticed it just a few days ago because Divkid told us, we weren't aware of that behaviour. No problem, we will take a deeper look onto it and we will fix it in software, the module could be easily updated by anyone :)
UPDATE: We have fixed the issue, we will update the manual and put online the last firmware revision soon :)
fantastic turn around time on fixing that one NANO, well done.
Surely what someone should make is a hardware module that can run any VCV rack module
4ms MetaModule
@@Hikove 🙀🤯
the problem is the interface, though the mentioned 4ms Meta will host whole VCV patches.
@@DivKid Yeah. it would have to be a big touch screen I guess.
I have been wondering for awhile if there is a eurorack module that can do things similar to the virtual sequencer module SEQ:TWEAK on the eurorack modular app HEXEN..?
thank you for your help in advance..
I don't know SEQ:TWEAK so I can't comment on that one.
@@DivKid ..np.. thank you for your quick response Professor..
Silver faceplate plz 😋
Unlikely from NANO Modules.