That's a nice way to describe it, thanks! 😁

Great to hear!

Thanks, glad it was helpful!

Thank you, always nice to hear when a tutorial provided useful information 👍

thanks 😁

Thank you!

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🙌🏻

Thanks!

Thanks! It's a nice set of modules with some interesting possibilities.

Thank you! Glad you found the tutorial helpful.

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 😄

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!

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 😉

Thanks :-)

Glad you liked it 😊

Thanks a lot, glad you like it 😊

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 😉

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)

Thank you kindly! And what can I say, I like red ... 😉

Thanks!

Thank you very much!

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.

Thanks!

Thank you! 👍😁

Thank you!

Thanks! I did have some plans for additional parameters to modulate, but ended up deciding that 3 ShapeMaster instances should suffice 😉

Glad you enjoyed it :-)

Thank you Lars!

That's very kind 😊

Many thanks!

Glad you liked it 😁

Thanks 😊

Thank you 😁

Thank you!

Thank you very much!

Thank you 😊

There are three that are in progress and considered unfinished, I'm not taking the abandoned and/or "maybe for later" patches into account 😄

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 🤣

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.

Can't go wrong with the classic C ;-) Glad you liked it!

Thank you!

Thanks, glad you like it 😁 It's always a bit of work to try and write a clear summary, but well worth the effort.

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 😄

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 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.

That's a very nice compliment, thank you 😁

Thanks! The additions that VCV has given when compared to a physical rig have really spoiled us ;-)

Thank you, much appreciated.