End of year video with community highlights

Hard to pick one, but I've enjoyed using Fate in various ways to add unexpected events...great for adding variation e.g., in sequences, but also to expand generative patches in broader ways

I really like Vults Opulus Retro Fm Operator! Very cool for sound explorations, for example plucky and metallic sounds!

Only recently new to this, but most recently, I've discovered the utility of the Re-Win quantizer by repelzen. I love the 'scenes' feature, i've been using the scenes to basically fill them up with related 5-note scales and switch between them with some sort of modulation like sample and hold. It really brings some life to patches and sequences that could otherwise get monotonous or repetetive. Plus, having 4 separate inputs/outputs means that you can generally use only one to run your whole patch (or 2 for bigger patches with lots of voices). It's only a basic utility module, but I'm in love with this thing.

I can’t say just one, but a category of modules. I could not live without the small utility modules like Count Modula’s Scaler, Bog Audio’s dgate rgate, S&H and computerscare’s Soly Pequencer (not just for the joy it brings me whenever I see its name). These little guys make my patches what they are, I could not do much without them!

MindMeld ShapeMaster(pro). Versatile and visual. As a beginner, it feels almost like having cheat codes for VCV.

For me, Zoumai, despite the difficulties of writing it properly.

I find CAUDAL being a complete masterpiece for ambient patches. Simple, compact, super powerful. Just random voltages, yes, but it’s much more than that. It’s “random” voltages that correlate to each other. It’s not the same as an LFO since its voltage doesn’t go from one precise point to another (-5v to +5v) and repeat itself. It’s also not the same as a random smooth LFO such as WALK, since modules like this are completely random, and sometimes, due to probability, they just get stuck in one place for way too long. CAUDAL simulates the movement of a 4 pivot pendulum (PENDULUM mode), and most of the time it behaves as a sine wave LFO but without going to the same end point each time, example: starts in -4 and goes all the way up to +3.5 then goes down to -3.2 then up to 2. I find this voltage behavior SUPER powerful for ambient. Having 12 outputs of this behavior in just a tiny module with cv attenuverters for speed and energy makes it a must in my ambient patches.

I use enCore quite often. Probably too often. BOGAudio S&H second place.

I only joined you guys half way through this year and for me the best module is the scope, you (omri) use it really well as a teaching tool

Bogaudio's WALK2 features in many of my generative patches (sometimes more than once!); a drunk walk is one of my favorite modulation sources.

Dexter by Valley for me

Vult Dopamine, my favorite generative module. You can definitely perform with it by moving the knobs manually but to me the magic really happens when I connect Dopamine to uMap and then Shapemaster. This allows me to automate the Dopamine knobs via Shapemaster. Specifically the Defects, Offset and Range knobs. I've also found with Dopamine that if you change the Steps to 1, you can get some really frenetic, driving sequences. Going back and forth from 1 to longer sequences as you change the Defects knob creates some very cool sonic, sometimes melodic, textures.

JW-Modules NoteSeq16 is my go to when playing with new voices, fast easy way to get some random gate/voct when adjusting/creating a new sound.

Muxlicer for me.

I think of all of the modules, Spork from Path Set has to be my favorite. Combine it with Vult Send, and you can bring it in to taste.