May Q&A

Hello Omri! I hope You are fine ! My question is a perennial question about the LATENCY..I'm having real trouble with it when working with eurorack and VCV and Ableton! I wish there was a solution forever ;( In ableton you can time-shift individual tracks and adapt them individually to the VCV (Euro).. But if you have adjusted one and add a few more tracks then the global latency increases and you have to adjust it individually again... and it takes a lot of time and patience, then I lose my "flow" and I'm annoyed and then I don't want to keep making music... it's frustrating... maybe you have a solution What is the best way to do this between VCV and Eurorack (I use ES-3, MOTU) Are there tools in VCV where I can shift the latency and what is the best way to work so that I don't lose my nerves? ;) But probably there is no right solution, right!? And second small question (or comment): Have you noticed that the VCV cannot be used well with a touch screen!? For example Softube Modular or Chery Audio, you can control it very well with a touchscreen. But with VCV, before you can turn a button, you have to touch it once and then again, only then can it be turned and the buttons can be turned don't press because you have to double-press every time (like with a mouse) before what happens... I've already written to the developers but didn't get an answer... That's very, very, very sad... because VCV is for that as if made to operate it with a touchscreen... that's a big minus... What do you say about that Omri... maybe something can be done about it or maybe contact the developers from VCV!? I was just thinking that you have more influence and authority than us and maybe they will listen to you if you share this issue!? can you do it I would be soo grateful and I think many other users too! ;)) Ok Omri..Thank you again for your great work and for everything you do for us !!!!! Without you we wouldn't be where we are now..With your help we learn modular much faster!!! Stay healthy !! cheers

I’m trying to figure out sync between my friends computer running Ableton and my PC running VCV standalone. Maybe a tiny bit advice on this scenario.

Hey Omri! If am correctly informed you dont perform live (like in front of a crowd or something like that). So maybe this is the wrong place for this question but lately I am struggling a bit with getting a setup together that is flexible and also not too complex (by that I mean intuitive). I play together in jamsessions with other musicians a lot. But everytime I prepare myself for it I feel a bit lost. I prepare vcv patches and sometimes even grab my hardware rack with the es-9 to expand it but it feels like I am so limited to the patch I developed. All the voices I prepared sound cool but sometimes I am having a hard time to integrate them into the current mood of the jam. I feel like it would be easier to grab a keyboard and play a vst synth instead (and not a complex organism). Anyways do you know some combinations in vcv that are pretty flexible and live compatible with a midicontroller and keyboard (genres can be ambient, IDM, noise music in generell but also techno). Looking forward for your answer, Tobias

Hi Omri, thank you for all of your lessons and tutorials. It helps me immensely. I am a classically trained pianist and love generative music. I would like to create a generative patch that switches from major to minor or vice versa while maintaining some sort of resemblance of a song. An example would be Beethoven's 3rd Symphony. It goes from Eb major to C minor, and back to Eb major. I would like to have it evolve over time, hit record and see where it goes. I hope that makes sense. Thanks again for all your time and help. If you ever get to Nashville, breakfast, lunch, and dinner are one me! Take care, Jason

Hi Omri! I am really fascinated by the Buchla-like modules from Nysthi: Soy Model Sou and Sou Utils. I wonder if you can show some cool combinations with the two modules together with VCOs, filers and envelops! All the best!

Another quick question, more into music theory I guess. I'm a big fan of nu-jazz, a subgenre of jazz that utilise a lot of electronic elements (drum sequencers, electronic textures or synths) in addition to common jazz instruments. Music in the vein of Bonobo, The Cinematic Orchestra or Jaga Jazzist. Do you know any tips/tricks to create some jazz harmony? And in the context of VcvRack using Chords and scales? Thank you!

Hi! Is there anyway to process an audio signal to transpose it live? I have been experimenting using VCVrack to process audio signals from a mic (in a similar fashion as Sarah Bell Reid uses VCVrack), and what I want to do is sing in to the mic a C note and transpose this signal to a E to create harmony. It would be interesting to use it for synths too. I have been trying to use STACK by Bogaudio or QuadSteppedOffSet from LifeFormModular but they seem to only work for stable pitch information.

Hi Omri .I was and still am a fan of ( ´70) sympho-rock music like ; Yes , Camel and Genesis and want to use some non standard time signatures and tempo changes in my music. Can you show us how to use ¨non standard " time signature like 7/8, 5/8 and how to combine this with 4/4, 3/4 and others..in sequence? . And how to use accents in rhythm? Using tempo changes, would also be nice to explain /demonstrate. Would be great.

Hi Omri, thanks for your brilliant works! Is there any way to use MPE with VCV rack and which could be your suggestions on it?

Do you still use touchdesigner for visuals? Do you ever think about doing more tutorials with TD? Or have you found other softwares that interface well with Rack? Cheers

Hello Omri! I just want to give a little background before I ask but I will keep it brief. I use vcv rack mostly because it’s just something that works well with the way my brain works, having all that fine control over everything in a system I design and therefore know (my brain cannot comprehend standard timeline DAWs for some reason). I know a reason a lot of other people go for this program is to get into generative music, which I do think could be a fun side thing but my main ideas tend to be more of the structured nature (think the hardcore family of genres). I would like to figure out how to make something with that many different kinds of layered and nonlayered components may be put into that “performance patch” setting you talk a lot about. Might you have any expertise on how I might design a system of sequences for genres with less layering parts on top and more gracefully transitioning from one part to the next (dareisay more “horizontal” than “vertical”)? Thanks! Apologies if you have already covered this, I’m rather new to the community.

Hey there Omri! Wanted to ask you about your opinions and workflow surrounding mastering, track/patch titling, and album sequencing; the "presentation" and "encapsulation" of music production and composition, if you will.