Eurorack

Projects related to Eurorack modular synthesis hardware and workflows.

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WaveStack desktop app screenshot showing a 3D wavetable view, the frame strip, and the frame editor with pencil, line, curve and harmonic tools

WaveStack

· Software

A desktop wavetable builder. Draw and shape single cycles, sweep a whole table from keyframes, import Serum and Surge tables, and export in the format your synth or module expects.

#software

Flock In title card: the module name over a stereo in for Flock descriptor, with the narrow expander panel alongside a Flock

Flock In

· VCV Rack

An expander for the Flock granular voice in VCV Rack. Patch audio in and the birds sing grains of it instead of sines, with envelope, reach and freeze controls.

#plugins #vcv

Flock title card: the module name over the line 1024 noisy birds, 1 hungry hawk, with the panel alongside showing the flock drawn in perspective

Flock

· VCV Rack

A microtonal granular voice for VCV Rack built on a real flock. Up to a thousand birds fly as a murmuration, every call is a grain, and height in the flock is pitch.

#plugins #vcv

Field title card: the module name over a 19 tap algorithmic random voltage array descriptor, with the panel alongside showing the hexagonal grid of jacks

Field

· VCV Rack

A random voltage source for VCV Rack. Nineteen jacks on a hexagonal grid read one smooth random field, so neighbouring outputs are related by geometry.

#plugins #vcv

PolyKit In title card: the expander panel alongside a Kit, showing the matrix of thirteen input columns by eight instrument rows

PolyKit In

· VCV Rack

An expander for Kit in VCV Rack. Every input of every instrument as its own jack, thirteen columns by eight rows, for racks patched from eight sources rather than one poly cable.

#plugins #vcv

Spool title card: the module name over a 4 channel tape instrument descriptor, with the panel alongside showing the four coloured tape lanes

Spool

· VCV Rack

A tape instrument for VCV Rack after the Mellotron. Four short tapes played by gates, with varispeed pitch, and a tape that never rewinds when you stop.

#plugins #vcv

Kit title card: the module name over a physically modelled drum voice descriptor, with the panel alongside showing the drawn head and four rows of trimpots

Kit

· VCV Rack

A physically modelled drum for VCV Rack. Eight instruments on one panel, each a struck membrane solved mode by mode, from tom and timpani to gong and tabla.

#plugins #vcv

OP MORPH title card: the module name over an algorithm morphing descriptor, with the expander panel alongside showing the slot field and routing matrix

OP MORPH

· VCV Rack

An expander for Operator in VCV Rack. It puts the DX7 operator routing on screen as a matrix, and gives you a field of sixteen of them to travel across.

#plugins #vcv

Sigma title card: the module name over an additive synth voice descriptor, with the panel alongside showing the spectrum display and macro controls

Sigma

· VCV Rack

An additive synthesizer for VCV Rack after the Crumar GDS. Up to 64 sine partials, with velocity morphing between two complete spectra.

#plugins #vcv

Trace title card: the module name over the line paint with your CV, with the panel alongside showing four coloured curves on the paper loop

Trace

· VCV Rack

A drawn-CV sequencer for VCV Rack. Four brushes write onto a moving paper loop, and four read heads play the shapes back.

#plugins #vcv

Wheel title card: the module name over a hurdy-gurdy drone voice descriptor, with the panel alongside showing the wheel render and the six string columns

Wheel

· VCV Rack

A hurdy-gurdy drone instrument for VCV Rack. One rosined wheel bows six strings at once, and the trompette's buzzing bridge keeps time.

#plugins #vcv

Slice VCV Rack module panel, a stereo buffer slicer with a waveform screen, EFFECT and RATIO knobs, and a row of CV inputs

Slice

· VCV Rack

A stereo buffer slicer for VCV Rack. It cuts incoming audio onto a grid and reworks one slice in every N: cut, swap, delay, shuffle, reverse, stutter, or pitch down.

#plugins #vcv

Chime VCV Rack module panel, an eight-note resonating drone machine

Chime

· VCV Rack

An eight-note resonating drone machine for VCV Rack, after a xylophone whose resonator tubes rotate beneath the bars. Each note blooms as its tube swings through centre.

#plugins #vcv

Crystal VCV Rack module panel, a 3D crystal echo chamber with quad outputs

Crystal

· VCV Rack

A 3D echo chamber for VCV Rack shaped like a real crystal. Stereo in, quad out, with sixteen crystal habits traced by ray casting and four listeners standing inside the shape.

#plugins #vcv

Fill VCV Rack module panel, a self-playing eight-channel drum machine

Fill

· VCV Rack

A self-playing eight-channel drum machine for VCV Rack. 343 built-in pattern sets across three banks, pressure that builds and vents as fills, and a PHRASE control that sets the fill frequency.

#plugins #vcv

Key VCV Rack module panel, a four-channel patch-wide quantizer

Key

· VCV Rack

A quantizer for VCV Rack that takes its key from the patch. Read one Root and Scale and every module follows the same key change, with sub-scales, Scala import, and microtonal support.

#plugins #vcv

Loom VCV Rack module panel, a coupled eight-string physical model

Loom

· VCV Rack

An eight-string physical-model voice for VCV Rack. The strings share one bridge, so a struck string rings its neighbours, with a continuous hammer, pluck, bow, and wind exciter.

#plugins #vcv

SLIDE XP VCV Rack expander panel, eight per-string jacks for Slide

SLIDE XP

· VCV Rack

An expander for Slide in VCV Rack. It puts the eight strings on eight jacks, each with a gate in, velocity in, and level trimpot, so every string can go to its own destination.

#plugins #vcv

Slide VCV Rack module panel, an electric lap steel physical model

Slide

· VCV Rack

An electric lap steel for VCV Rack. Eight waveguide strings stopped by a steel bar, with bar slant for chords, rate-based glide, a volume-swell pedal, and ten steel-guitar tunings.

#plugins #vcv

Arrange VCV Rack module panel, a song-form sequencer with eight phrases and four per-instrument clock buses

Arrange

· VCV Rack

A song-form sequencer for VCV Rack. Eight phrases hold your song's sections (bar length, key, tempo) and four per-instrument clock buses drop each instrument in and out as the arrangement moves.

#plugins #vcv

Beat VCV Rack module panel, a single-voice drum sequencer with eight patterns of sixteen steps

Beat

· VCV Rack

A single-voice drum sequencer for VCV Rack. One Beat is one drum: eight patterns of sixteen steps, each step with velocity, accent, and probability, all edited on-screen.

#plugins #vcv

Chance VCV Rack module panel, a generative melodic sequencer that walks a seeded line through a scale

Chance

· VCV Rack

A generative melodic sequencer for VCV Rack. You don't program notes: you set a key and a few probabilities, and Chance walks a line through the scale. Every decision is seeded, so a pattern is a fixed, repeatable melody rather than noise.

#plugins #vcv

Meter X

Meter X

· VCV Rack

An expander for Meter. A 24 PPQN clock, a run gate, and bar-multiple triggers out to 128 bars, each with a pie chart showing how far through its cycle you are: structure that unfolds over minutes, not beats.

#plugins #vcv

Meter

Meter

· VCV Rack

A time-signature-aware master clock for VCV Rack. Six musical subdivisions with per-output swing, swung and grid jacks side by side, CV over the time signature, and external clock sync.

#plugins #vcv

Note VCV Rack module panel, a pitched CV/gate sequencer with a scale-quantized pitch matrix

Note

· VCV Rack

A pitched CV/gate sequencer for VCV Rack. Beat's melodic cousin: eight patterns with per-step velocity, accent, and probability, plus a pitch matrix quantized to 19 scales including just intonation and Gamelan tunings.

#plugins #vcv

Play VCV Rack module panel, a polyphonic multisample player for .sfz and DecentSampler instruments

Play

· VCV Rack

A polyphonic multisample player for VCV Rack. Loads .sfz or DecentSampler .dspreset instruments into a 16-voice engine with velocity layers, round-robins, loops, and per-note tuning.

#plugins #vcv

Record VCV Rack module panel, an auto-sampler that captures a voice across notes and velocities to an .sfz instrument

Record

· VCV Rack

An auto-sampler for VCV Rack. Point it at any voice in your rack, press record, and it plays that voice across a range of notes and velocities and writes a complete multisampled instrument to disk: WAVs plus an .sfz.

#plugins #vcv

OP ENV VCV Rack module panel, a standalone DX7 operator envelope generator with per-stage rate and level offsets

OP ENV

· VCV Rack

A standalone DX7 operator envelope generator for VCV Rack. Loads a voice from a .syx bank and turns its carrier envelope into a gate-driven CV, with per-stage offsets.

#plugins #vcv

Operator VCV Rack module panel, a 6-operator DX7-style FM synth voice with voice selection and polyphonic output

Operator

· VCV Rack

A 6-operator FM synth voice for VCV Rack in the Yamaha DX7 lineage. Loads DX7 .syx cartridges, plays them polyphonically, and ships with classic Brian Eno patches.

#plugins #vcv

Cycle VCV Rack module panel, a bar-synced quad LFO with four channels, morphing shapes, and clock and bar inputs

Cycle

· VCV Rack

A bar-synced quad LFO for VCV Rack. Four channels lock to your song's bar grid with morphing shapes, per-channel depth, and clock-quantized staircases: built to pair with Meter.

#plugins #vcv

Band VCV Rack module panel: harmonic bandpass bank with four colored bands and a spectrum display

Band

· VCV Rack

A harmonic bandpass bank for VCV Rack inspired by Suzanne Ciani. Four narrow filters lock to integer harmonics of a shared fundamental that auto-tracks the input.

#plugins #vcv

Gravity VCV Rack module panel: 30HP chaos and motion engine with a large circular display and a mandala of CV/gate jacks

Gravity

· VCV Rack

A 30HP multi-mode chaos and motion engine for VCV Rack. Six engines drive a moving point read out as bipolar X/Y CVs, six sector CVs, and six boundary-ray gates.

#plugins #vcv

Muse VCV Rack module panel: recreation of the Triadex Muse with eight sliders and a tap-state LED column

Muse

· VCV Rack

A VCV Rack recreation of the 1972 Triadex Muse by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky. Eight sliders tap a binary network to generate long, structured algorithmic melodies.

#plugins #vcv

Shift VCV Rack module panel: 4-output CV shift register with per-lane delay, divider, and mode controls

Shift

· VCV Rack

A 4-output CV shift register for VCV Rack. One signal in, four outputs each with its own delay, divider, and parallel-or-cascade mode, plus a jumbled bonus output.

#plugins #vcv

Vac VCV Rack module panel: semi-stable attack/release envelope generator with per-stage stability controls

Vac

· VCV Rack

A semi-stable attack/release envelope generator for VCV Rack. Per-stage stability controls introduce musical cycle-to-cycle variation, like a real vactrol drifting.

#plugins #vcv

Meter, Beat, and Note VCV Rack modules patched together as a master clock and dual-voice sequencer system

SignalFunctionSet Sequencer System

· VCV Rack

A modular rhythm and pitch sequencer system for VCV Rack. Arrange holds the song form; Meter is the time-signature-aware master clock (with Meter X for long-form structure); Beat sequences drums; Note sequences pitched voices.

#plugins #vcv

Swell VCV Rack module panel: ping-driven envelope generator with delta, rise, fall, and curve controls and a scope display

Swell

· VCV Rack

A ping-driven envelope generator for VCV Rack. Each trigger adds a soft-saturating rise; the envelope decays back toward zero with linear-to-exponential curve shaping.

#plugins #vcv

Intone VCV Rack module panel: formant synthesis voice with five formant cells and vowel morph slider

Intone

· VCV Rack

A formant synthesis voice for VCV Rack based on the IRCAM CHANT project. Five parallel FOF cells with vowel morphing, audio excitation, and trigger modes.

#plugins #vcv

Tine VCV Rack module panel: pingable 3rd-order resonator based on the Pygmy Gamelan circuit

Tine

· VCV Rack

A tunable 3rd-order pingable resonator for VCV Rack based on the Gamelan Resonator circuit from Paul DeMarinis' Pygmy Gamelan (1973).

#plugins #vcv #maxforlive

Phase VCV Rack module panel showing dual sample loopers with waveform display, drift controls, and stereo output

Phase

· VCV Rack

A dual sample looper for VCV Rack inspired by Steve Reich's tape phase compositions. Two loops drift against each other to generate evolving phase relationships.

#plugins #vcv

Overtone VCV Rack module panel: additive synthesis VCO with eight harmonic toggle switches and waveform display

Overtone

· VCV Rack

An additive synthesis VCO for VCV Rack that builds waveforms by toggling individual harmonics of the overtone series. CV-controllable mask and filter inputs.

#plugins #vcv

Intro to Synthesis workshop title slide: Synth Library Portland header logo on a teal background

Intro to Synthesis

· Workshops

An interactive workshop on the fundamentals of subtractive synthesis. Build a classic synthesizer voice in VCV Rack from oscillator to VCA, then take it apart, with live Web Audio on every slide.

#workshop

Fugue VCV Rack module panel: 8-step harmonic deviation sequencer with three voices and per-voice wander controls

Fugue

· VCV Rack

An 8-step harmonic deviation sequencer for VCV Rack. Generates three voices of evolving counterpoint from a single melodic sequence using interval offsets.

#plugins #vcv

SampleStack desktop app screenshot showing the sample library, collection editor, and preview pane

SampleStack

· Software

A desktop sample manager for Eurorack and hardware samplers. Organize, browse, convert formats, and transfer sample libraries without the painful CLI workflow.

#software

Granular Synthesis Workshop poster artwork: orange cloud-like granular texture with workshop title

Granular Synthesis Workshop

· Workshops

Workshop materials on granular synthesis: interactive timeline, curated mixtape, and historical notes from Fourier to Mutable Instruments. Run at Synth Library Portland.

#workshop

GSX VCV Rack module panel: real-time granular synthesis with grain density, duration, frequency, and spread controls

GSX

· VCV Rack

A real-time granular synthesis module for VCV Rack inspired by Barry Truax's pioneering GSX system. Grain density, duration, pitch, and spray under full CV control.

#plugins #vcv

Drift VCV Rack module panel: 4-channel chaos LFO with shape, stability, frequency, phase, center, and spread knobs

Drift

· VCV Rack

A 4-channel chaos LFO for VCV Rack with independent phase offset, per-channel scaling, and waveform morphing from sine through chaos. Built for generative patches.

#plugins #vcv