#500

Clouds 2 confirmed by Émilie.

This is interesting in a lot of ways more than just a new granular module. Clouds spawned a cottage industry by itself–it’ll be interesting to see how Clouds 2 will affect the Clouds clones and their makers.

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#501

I love how the thread over on the Mutable Instruments forum where the first hint was dropped had a handful of excited posts… and then went right back to giving advice that the OP asked for. :slight_smile:

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#502

Magus Instrumentalis, a small company I started is releasing VCV rack modules. I was directed to this thread vs starting a full thread for what we’re doing. Here’s the teaser I put together for our first suite of modules–out October 23rd:

You can find out more here: https://magusinstrumentalis.com/

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#503

Émilie deserves all the success, all the love, and all the appreciation this community can muster. She’s a remarkable all-around talent who has made the world a better place for her being in it.

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#504

So there were some breadcrumbs (or maybe not?:slight_smile: from Émilie that it can be called Birds or something birds related, and now is this! (but maybe totally wishful thinking!:slight_smile:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CF5F3i2h4hz/

#505

Congratulations. These modules look really useful. Thanks.

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#506

Thanks for the comment. I’m really glad you think so. We have another suite of modules coming out based our programmer David Kant’s simulations of David Dunn’s chaotic circuits. I have been working with them to adapt these to eurorack, so we will have some choatic oscillators, LFOs, Vactrol Simulations, etc. out in the next few months. I’ve heard both of them perform together and I wasn’t able to tell the difference between the analog circuits and his simulations of them. I know that people say things like that all the time, but there has definitely been a lot of effort to model the idiosyncrasies of the electronics. I’m really excited about that as well.

One thing has been really nice is that lately, we’ve been getting feedback from outside our pool of beta testers as we start sending these off to folks for review, and we’ve been able to incorporate many features and suggestions fairly quickly. The intention is to continue to develop these, as well as develop a base of code that can easily be applied to hardware if that eventually happens.

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#507

Thanks Mangrove. Quick David Dunn google search, looks fantastic. VCV to get more great modules.

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#508

These look awesome! Will they be open source or premium modules?

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#509

In order to continue to support the modules, develop new products (including hardware) we are not making the modules open source and a charging for the set. This includes the modules themselves and anything we include as updates to the set. With that said, most of the underlying technology we are creating will be made open source. The idea is that that folks should be able to access much of the back-end tech for research or developing their own work, but the final designs will be our own proprietary technology. Most VCV Rack companies are typically just one person, so in order to continue to develop this with three people, even though it is a passion project, we had to charge a small fee (this also allows us to offer support in the form of direct communication and a website with manuals, video tutorials, example patches, etc.).

We agonized over this, but given the current climate of piracy and exploitation by bad faith actors (for example mutable clones that are intentionally under-pricing the modules they make to sink their competitors, people selling clones before emilie sells out the first the release-her only request, and the ever-present threat of behringer), we decided make the module suite a commercial release. I have been requested not to list prices (which is fair because this board is about discussion, not selling products), but we have intentionally made the barrier of entry low. You can find out more about pricing on our website, or by sending me a message.

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#510

DD is a great guy, and a really underrated composer. The first time I heard his music (a piece where he was communicating with/irritating birds) I knew I wanted to study with him. The system we’re simulating for our next suite is the same one he’s now using to drive invasive bark beetles insane. Insects beware!

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#511

I am totally understanding (as a developer myself) of financial support for development! I was curious about whether the underlying tech would be open source, and I am glad to see it will be :smiley:

Cheers, and best of luck. I am excited to try them out when they’re available.

Editing to add I didn’t see the pricing on the website from mobile until I went to the store tab. My mistake!

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#512

It seems something coming from Novation and Aphex Twin later this month. Previously Novation added the patch per key functionality to the Bass Station 2 based on an Aphex Twin concept, and he also had something to do with the Korg Monologue’s microtuning functionality. It’s not clear if this is a new Novation synth or another firmware update to an existing product:

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#513

Oh! This is interesting! RDJ had mentioned having been busy with another hardware project which kept him from adding too much as a consultant to Polyend for their Tracker. I’m thrilled to see that it’s something truly coming to light, because he mentioned in an email to a fan who asked his level of involvement with Polyend, and as it wasn’t an official statement, you never know.

Very very curious to see what they cook up!

#514

Oh, interesting if Novation have something coming out soon. The latter half of this year sure is seeing a lot of releases. It’s getting hard to keep up. Given that the teaser mentions a circuit board, my guess would be a new thing, vs. a firmware update. Did the monostation go out of production? Maybe it’s another iteration of the circuit?

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#515

This is a thing that’s on Kickstarter, and I’m pretty hyped about that thing. So I guess this is the place to post it? Looks like a very well thought out piece of kit:

Looks like the realization of Aalto-in-a-box. It’s also interesting in that I have literally every discrete component in my eurorack setup… but I still want one.

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#516

Some new info on the MASCHINE+ thing:

As per the CMD article that I saw the vid on:

To your frequently asked questions – yes, you can actually run Reaktor ensembles and Kontakt patches, provided you have desktop licenses of those two. I’m getting into details on that. No, you can’t run anything like Reaktor Blocks though – not yet. (You want to nag them on that? I can nag them on that, too.)

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#517

And I can (it matters A LOT) vouch for the new clip updates which makes the whole maschine workflow much more meaningful and flexible now, it completely changed my relation to it and I’m having more fun using it now.

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#518

stimming gives it a good review here:

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#519

Winterbloom Castor & Pollux is the one module I’m most excited to see released. Waiting eagerly for the pre-order

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