Let's Learn Eurorack (ft. VCV Rack): 04 - Full Generative Patch

Let's learn modular synthesis! In our final video in this 4 part series, we'll build a generative patch from scratch using everything we've learned so far.

Subscribe to these makers on VCV rack to follow along:

00:00 intro
01:19 how to follow along
01:54 setting up clock
02:50 our first voice and sequencer
06:17 modulating our first voice
12:32 setting up our effect (clouds)
14:51 setting up our second voice
17:32 modulating our second voice
19:51 filtering our second voice
21:59 setting up our third voice
22:57 tuning your voices
24:06 sequencing our third voice
29:37 modulating our third voice
32:26 adding probability
33:59 adding a hihat
37:02 adding a bassline
41:45 adding an arpeggio voice
48:47 recap and outro
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[LonnonFoster]

This has been an amazing series to work through. Over the last week, I've gone from "what the hell are all these little knobs" to "ooh, I'll bet if I throw stepped random voltage here through an attenuator, it will sound like *this*". Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole new way of thinking about sounds and about music. I'm super excited to be able to make something now that I'm happy just sitting and listening to.

[nodz]

Jeremy, please do more patch from scratch like this - it was so educational

[xTheOxx]

Quick tip for those who love the Dual Attenuverter as much as I do: look for the VCV module by AS called "AtNuVrTr". It's just like the Befaco, but with added CV inputs to modulate both knobs. I've had very satisfying results by adding a sequencer just to modulate the offset on one of those bad boys.

[withak]

This is an example of the most effective type of technical training IMO: walking through a real working example with just enough explanation for the viewer to follow what is happening and why, and plenty of places for someone to think "wait, what happens if I do it the other way?" before pausing and testing it out. Cudos!

[WhirlwindAxe]

This series taught me that I now need to go and buy the ENTIRE Mutable Instruments catalogue. Amazing work

[nueldotpw]

What a great crash course. Two days ago I was looking at VCV like, how am I ever going to understand these complex patches everyone's doing and now -- I just looked at your Patch From Scratch video over on RMR Modular and nearly everything you were doing made sense! Absolutely amazing. You're the best.

[HeionTheCoffeeGhost]

Thank you for continuing to be my go to educational resource for the things I’ve been curious about. From synthesis in general, to the Dirtywave M8, and now VCV Rack, you have taught me so much in a relatively short amount of time. I appreciate it!

[nerradnotsnhoj]

A lot of effort here across the 4 vids. I am a noob of a few days and I now have a patch that acts as a synth with 4 different oscillators and 4 different effects that I can adjust and combine in an 8 channel mixer. This afternoon I made a patch that makes chill evolving music where I can choose a key and just let it all happen. This is all down to the 4 vids in this series. Thank you so much! I am having so much fun with VCV and I feel I know enough to start just trying the other modules and see what a racket I can make :) Its all a bit bewildering when you start but you showed me a clutch of combinations of modules and how to connect them up make something work - I can now build on that.

[eydeen]

You are the Bob Ross of electronic music production

[WhiskersSocial]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of these tutorials! I feel so much more confident as a newbie to all of this modular stuff. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤❤❤❤

[someonewhobitthedust]

Beyond how educational this series has been to follow, it has also been incredibly fun and it has also saved me hundreds of dollars. Thank you so much as someone who cannot stop buying music gear.

[neonblack]

This is actually hands down the best series I've seen for vcv rack at my level... really opened my eyes especially in yhe earlier vides to some things I was missing or not thinking about.

Marry me.

I love Omi also but these videos just seemed to be the perfect videos at the perfect time to help me out... i appreciate it

[MikeKSmith_music]

Really enjoyed this series - thanks so much for sharing it. Trying to learn more about VCV Rack, and it was great to see you deconstruct how you make sounds and textures...

[independentexile]

Just finished following along, had a blast! Time to reward myself by closing my eyes and drifting to some ambient I wired up myself :D . Thanks!!

[mrjackster]

I have ABSOLUTELY loved these. What a brilliant tutor and voice of wisdom - it's almost like meditation just watching and building along. Thank you.

[resetreboot]

I got VCV Rack 2 by chance, and toyed with it... but damn, I wasn't able to make anything worth it. Then I decided to ask YouTube if someone would guide me and, oh boy! I found this series by you and it has been SO eye opening and your way of explaining it is clear, and you also seem to be having fun with the process, which makes this more engaging and time flies, literally. Thank you!

[pierresteytler]

I've been extremely hesitant to dip my toes into modular for a number of reasons, like the high learning curve, prohibitive cost, etc. I can't thank you enough for your hard work in putting together a comprehensive series that explains the main concepts and how to get excited by them. The only glaring problem, as far as I can see, is that VCV Rack actually gives you a slightly unrealistic view of what modular really is like since you can just add as many instances of units as you want, unlike in real life where you have physical hardware limits. Still, it's given me a lot to think about in terms of what kind of actual hardware rig I might like to build. One day.

[nexxai]

Been using VCV Rack for months and still learned tons from this entire series. My only quality-of-life suggestion is that when you're adding new modules to a voice that's already connected to a mixer, instead of disconnecting the cable from the mixer and having to scroll all the way back up to the mixer to run a new cable to re-link the new module, I just move the output cable from the previous end of the chain to the new end of the chain, and then run new cables from previous end to new end.

For example, if you have a VCO -> Plateau -> Mixer and you want to add a Chronoblob between Plateau and the Mixer, add the Chronoblob module to the rack, click and drag the existing cables from the output from Plateau into the outputs of Chronoblob, and then link the output of Plateau with the input of Chronoblob. It's a simple little trick but I find it saves me a TON of time scrolling.

[vigneshanil-music]

This has been THE most helpful thing I've maybe ever seen personally on youtube... I've been wanting to try and learn vcv for about 3 years but everytime I followed along to the other videos I watched, I always lost my way mostly due to my own stupidity and eventually gave up every single time. I came into the first video with just the same hope and no expectations and I ended up not even realizing how much time I spent fiddling with the things and still COMPLETELY not feeling lost even for a second and I feel like I've enough confidence to discover on my own now which is so much more than I could've asked for. thank you so much! I hope you can find time later on to continue this series <3

[jemsophia]

just chiming in to say i’ve LOVED this series. truly never thought i’d be able to feel like i know what i’m doing with modular synths in one evening. thank you so so so much - really eye opening and i’m so thrilled to have this new tool in my box