Need help on first rack

Need help on first rack

Hello everyone! Been playing around in VCV Rack for a while, and want to begin moving towards a physical setup with real knobs that I can turn and perform with. Most notably, I use modular stuff for textures and ambience in indie folk, experimental folk, and death metal. The main way I play with VCV is by feeding signal from a guitar or banjo or something into it, and then using it sort of like an FX processor. However, I also will create a generative patch when the occasion calls for it. In VCV I have as many modules as I want, and I never have to think about rack space or multi function units. For a real unit, I’d like to be able to play it via an instrument or MIDI keyboard, and have it integrate with my existing guitar pedalboard. The Starlab is the module I’m most excited about, as I got into modular via Andrew Sarlo and his production work with guitar driven eurorack setups.

This is a first pass at what I think I should be building towards, starting out with just the case, input, output, and Starlab and building from there as I can afford.

From a more experienced perspective, does This setup have any glaring flaws or gaps? It’s more of a texture and ambience generator than anything else, but I don’t know if I’m over or underestimating my need for utility modules to drive the core sounds. I have some open space left to fill, which I was considering filling with another oscillator.

Free open source bass plugin, alternative to Neural DSP

I’ve been loving the open source ethos of Neural Amp Modeler, and using it heavily for about two years now! It's replaced almost all of my digital amps for guitar and bass, but I got tired of the workflow friction of splitting a bass signal, compressing the low end, and distorting the high end. Ended up building a free, open source plugin over top of NAM that emulates the workflow of some of the more modern bass processing plugins for heavy music with split band processing, built in compression, and distortion. All the distortion is handled via loading NAM captures. It's working great for me, so I put a little documentation on it and wanted to share it with the community in an attempt to give back. There's two plugins in the repo (the other is an IR loader with static and dynamic blending), and a folder with some of the IRs and NAM captures I made from my own gear that I use regularly.

https://github.com/gianni-cappelletti/October-Production-Co

u/great_northern_hotel — 3 months ago

Open source bass plugin built on NAM

Been loving NAM and using it heavily for about two years now! It's replaced almost all of my digital amps for guitar and bass, but I got tired of the workflow friction of splitting a bass signal, compressing the low end, and distorting the high end. Ended up building a free, open source plugin over top of NAM that emulates the workflow of some of the more modern bass processing plugins for heavy music with split band processing, built in compression, and distortion. All the distortion is handled via loading NAM captures. It's working great for me, so I put a little documentation on it and wanted to share it with the community in an attempt to give back. There's two plugins in the repo (the other is an IR loader with static and dynamic blending), and a folder with some of the IRs and NAM captures I made from my own gear that I use regularly.

https://github.com/gianni-cappelletti/October-Production-Co

u/great_northern_hotel — 3 months ago