@lazzarello Somewhat on that note, but I think I saw you mention OSC integration in one of the Github threads.

Have you seen any more development on that front? Would be so exciting to send VCV modulation out into Max, etc. as OSC! (or maybe OSC into VCV from like a Kinect or something)

Here’s the thread I’m following

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yep! think this is the one I was keeping an eye on, too. Trying to wrap my head around the fork that came out of it - this is a rebuild of VCV that opens up individual params of the “built-in” modules to OSC control?

Feel like it would be really slick to just have one or two modules, not unlike the “core” MIDI->CV ones that could receive MIDI, so essentially an OSC->CV and a CV->OSC thing. I’m not too well versed in whats happening under the hood, dev wise, but I wonder if that would be a way to implement without having to open the door to the confusion of making every new module OSC compatible?

Don’t worry i make the same mistake with the es8 :wink:

Hope OSC support lands in core and not just the fork, would be very useful!

Another interesting issue to watch:

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The thread is here: WW+MP+ES in VCVRack

My plan was to have the binary releases ready when the VCV Rack package manager was released.

But the package manager came out a little earlier than I expected, and I spent the holidays dealing with a whole bunch of home improvement projects (first winter in a 200-year-old house…) instead of working on code, and then the Rack package manager had to be disabled because dealing with a complex mess of third-party contributed packages turns out to be a time sink.

So that plan didn’t work out, sorry. Hopefully soon!

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I also recommend the podcast with Andrew, only listened to the first half so far but it’s great.

Hi everyone, thought this would be of interest; very early along – it’s a module that lets you use a $8 RTLSDR usb dongle to receive FM radio – https://github.com/WIZARDISHUNGRY/vcvrack-rtlsdr

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Here’s “state of the module”

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That’s a great idea!

Anyone have any VCVRack modules they’re particularly fond of? I’m especially interested in randomness / ‘chaos’ as of late. Anything anyone has found that’s particularly worth a look?

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i rly love the NYSHI Source of Uncertainty clone! also the Befaco Rampage is the closest I’ve gotten to MN Maths in software land.

The Vult LPG is nice, also ganging up a bunch of Seq8/16s and combining with 8vert and Unity mixer from the fundamental kit

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This is super cool! I was thinking of doing something like this with WebSDR to pick up weird global numbers stations, but a hardware dongle is probably a more practical approach. Can you get the full frequency spectrogram from the dongle?

GQRX lets you see a waterfall spectrogram across a pretty wide region of RF space. Unfortunately GQRX is backed by GNU Radio, which I figured integrating into would be more difficult than librtlsdr. I think it would be theoretically possible to multiplex multiple audio outs from a single receiver or to display the adjacent spectrogram in VCV…

FM tuner binary plugins available for Windows and Mac finally.

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There was a big bruhaha the other day in the VCVRack community when someone cloned Maths (“Floats”) right down to the faceplate design and charged $35 for it. Tony Rolando (Make Noise) was (rightfully) angry and mentioned that the author has been ignoring his messages.

Extremely bad vibes jacking Make Noise’s panel design and certainly poor taste to jack functionality! I believe there’s also a decent DUSG clone already.

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I kind of like the interface so I’m trying to make a MPE to CV (1 channel first) module so I can use my continuum with it.

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Do you have a particular USB FM device you’d recommend?

whatever costs $8 on amazon to start with

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Well it looks like tony got him to change the panel design, but $35 for a softsynth DUSG when there’s crazy amounts of free plugins is still nuts.