![]() ![]() Someone suggested that Holonic Systems had an OSC module - and sure enough, they do. Eight might be enough for most musical purposes, but I’d be wasting most of the screen space on the iPad. This works, but it has only eight outputs, and I was completely unable to get multiple instances of the module to receive messages at the same time. My first attempt to get touchOSC messages into VCV Rack used the Trowasoft cvOSCcv module. Filter sweeps? Nah, that would be boring. I have, as yet, no idea what I’m going to do with it musically, but that’s how modular synthesis quite often works: You set up some stuff and then start fiddling with it. here’s what my first control surface layout for the iPad looks like: With touchOSC and the cross-platform touchOSC Editor program (available from ) you can configure several panels of knobs, sliders, and buttons and then upload them to the touch-screen device. This app can send OSC - that’s Open Sound Control - messages to your computer. Well, you can.The key ingredient is a $5 iPad app (also available for Android devices, I believe, and for the iPhone) called touchOSC. Wouldn’t it be great if you could play VCV Rack using a multi-touch surface such as an iPad? Essentially, this is playing the instrument with one finger. Most musicians need all the fingers they can muster.Īnd then we start making music on a computer, perhaps with VCV Rack or some other modular instrument, and we’re reduced to using the mouse as a performance interface. And then there was Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in World War I and convinced Ravel to write a piano concerto for the left hand alone. Along the bottom are the control modules and the ride cymbal.ĭjango Reinhardt, the Gypsy jazz guitarist, had only two usable fingers on his left hand. The drums are along the top, the vaguely piano-like chords are in the middle, and the moving sequence is in the 3rd row. ![]() ![]() The patch (with the actual patch cords blunked out, which is how I usually work, because it’s just too much of a visual hodgepodge otherwise) looks like this: In addition to N.E.W.S., I used the Nysthi Jooper and Janneker to organize the switching of instruments in and out. If the built-in player doesn’t work for you, you can use this direct link. I don’t know whether all of the results of this patch would be in 4/4, but this pattern was, so I started adding other modules…. Sampling an input is involved, and I discovered that if I use an oscillator as the input and then sync the oscillator to one of the outputs, I get a repeating rhythm pattern. It sends trigger signals out of a grid of jacks based on some sort of algorithm that I don’t pretend to understand. I was playing around with a module called N.E.W.S., from a programmer who goes by the name Qwelk. But if you just follow your nose, and if you have a reasonable grasp of the tools, there may be some chemistry. You do have to understand some stuff about modular synthesis - this is not Garageband we’re talking about. One of the fun things about messing around in VCV Rack is that you never know what you may come up with, or discover. ![]()
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