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Did someone play with VCV Rack and Buzz using the VST bridge? I just downloaded it, seems to be great with buzz, many modules...
https://vcvrack.com/
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Just checked out the site. It looks really interesting. Love the visual modules and how they look like physical rack mount modules. I think I might download it & play around with it. Thanks for sharing Tinga!

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I'd love to try it, but it seems to just be showing a black screen when I open it. According to the docs, this is some kind of OpenGL problem, which is strange because I had an older, pre-bridge version of VCV running on my old laptop with a far less powerful graphics card.

I do love me some modular on my modular though, and I recently picked up some second-hand licenses for both AAS Tassman 4 and Softube Modular, each of them both wonderful and frustrating in different ways. It would be fantastic to get VCV in there and have all three systems talking to one another in some kind of massive CPU-imploding patch. How easy is the bridge to use? Can you modulate everything via peer control?
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I've been using the VST version of this the past couple of days. https://github.com/bsp2/VeeSeeVSTRack has about 350 of the opensource modules baked into the VST, and its being (very) actively developed. You can have multiple instances, but the dev warns you shouldn't have the instrument and effect dll's running at the same time. Not tried the bridge version yet.

It's a lot of fun :) I can't manage to get it to see note and midi stuff from PVST yet, so if anyone cracks that, please let me know!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/keofi56gbux31 ... e.mp3?dl=0 is what i managed to get out of it last night/this morning
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It's a lot of fun :) I can't manage to get it to see note and midi stuff from PVST yet, so if anyone cracks that, please let me know!
By Lucky Chance I stumbled along an article in a german MusicMag. Perhaps it helps. They say for the Exchange of midi-data they used a driver called LoopMIDI by Tobias Erichsen. After the Start of LoopMIDI the driver is available as Interface in the MIDI-to-CV-Modul of the VCV Rack. When you choose the relating Port as output of a MIDI-track of your DAW right now, you should be able to control the VCV-Rack with a sequence of the DAW.
Hope it helps ....
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Buzztler wrote:
It's a lot of fun :) I can't manage to get it to see note and midi stuff from PVST yet, so if anyone cracks that, please let me know!
By Lucky Chance I stumbled along an article in a german MusicMag. Perhaps it helps. They say for the Exchange of midi-data they used a driver called LoopMIDI by Tobias Erichsen. After the Start of LoopMIDI the driver is available as Interface in the MIDI-to-CV-Modul of the VCV Rack. When you choose the relating Port as output of a MIDI-track of your DAW right now, you should be able to control the VCV-Rack with a sequence of the DAW.
Hope it helps ....
will give that a shot, but i've seen other daws send the midi into VeeSeeVST without resorting to a loopback (which adds latency). i've used loopMIDI before though, it's pretty good!
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Ah, the 64bit thing is finally starting to exclude me. Ah well, at least I've still got Blok.
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theres a 32 bit version too now. still stuck on the midi input, but will upload a bmx with a clock buzz->vcv hack tomorrow if anyone wants it.
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Whats the advantage compared to using the normal version and VST bridge ?
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mantratronic wrote:theres a 32 bit version too now. still stuck on the midi input, but will upload a bmx with a clock buzz->vcv hack tomorrow if anyone wants it.
Happy days! I'll have another look then...
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ags wrote:Whats the advantage compared to using the normal version and VST bridge ?
not tried the bridge yet, but from the git site, its mainly that you can save patches in the daw and have multiple instances. (and put them on different cpus)

i'm getting pretty frustrated i cant get the midi to work, so will probably try the bridge soon. i forced the bpm to link with cheapo dc going from fffe to 8000 offset every beat and using an audio input as an external clock cv->a clock module, but thats it as far as proper integration. the vst wont receive any midi data in buzz for me, whether its coming from pvst, pxp, or an external source like a midi keyboard or loopback, but i can get pvst to learn parameters and then control them as normal.

it's still being improved every day, but so far the midi changes haven't effected buzz.

this is two veeseevst's and the cheapo dc trick for bmp, with me playing the chords via the pc keyboard
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my post above was a little unclear.

There is an unofficial VST around. :-)

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2018/0 ... nofficial/
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The vst version works great with buzz now, takes midi inputs, and parameter learning is just as normal. Don't need the clock trick i was using as you just put the notes and parameter changes in the pattern as normal. BSP also removed the limitation of having only an instrument or an effect, both work in a song without crashing now. You can make some amazing pads in it!
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