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https://vcvrack.com https://vcvrack.com - is pretty cool.

• smoldesu 6y ago
  +1 for VCV rack, but it's really only useful when you know exactly what you need. I still lose my mind over inconsequential stuff like linking my envelope to my VCA, or mixing up some routing in a massive project.
  • LegitShady 6y ago
    It's a modular synthesizer emulator with a ton of free modules available - it's very useful for all sorts of sound design and experimentation when you don't know anything at all about what you want. Sometimes I will spend an hour just to learn something totally new about a module, or re-arrange module orders and get a different sound, etc, or experiment with a new idea with no particular song or goal in mind. You have limitless 'room' in your case - I would recommend thinking of modules in blocks as if each group was a small synth with a goal - these modules are your drone, those modules are your lead, those modules handle percussion, etc. It also greatly simplifies thinking about routing between these groups. If you want to sync two groups of modules you need to figure out what's acting as the clock for both groups and make sure its the same or synced, etc. There are modules that let you leave notes and put labels on things as well, so you can remember what you were trying to do and what was plugged where. I love it. I would guess I spend 3x as long in VCV rack just trying new things out as I do with a particular goal in mind, and its all productive time.