I was using Voltage Modular prior to that, and bought a few bundles there so felt “invested”. Lovin it so far, and haven’t really explored beyond the wonderful Mutable modules, which frankly I still cannot believe are offered free! Likewise Rack itself, amazing! Big thanks to the developers for such a great gift to us music makers. I’d love a Traktor Deck as VST in either Ableton or VCV-rack for scratching and synthablism, but so far only Cross-DJ has a vst and I haven’t gotten round to give it a try. The final step is to also integrate my DJ setup more closely (right now it integrates via Ableton Link and just sending audio out an interface into my DAW interface). As this will also become available as a VST, I still see Ableton as the main brain (recording, arranging, mixing, mastering). I also use Endlesss sometimes as a sort of DAW, but actually I’m seeing it, much like VCV in a way, as another non-traditional way to streamline the process of spontaneous music making and inspiration. That last step could be replaced by Jack, but I’ve been having enough issues already (stability, latency) so I’ve not integrated Jack yet (also because it will become superfluous once Rack for DAW is out). I use LoopMidi to send midi from Ableton to VCV, I use my ES-8 to send CV to my Euro, Audio from my Euro into VCV and the processed audio goes back out of the ES-8 into my DAW audio interface. VCV is also the bridge to my (small) euro system. I definitely use VCV besides my DAW (Ableton). Being on Linux I’m a bit skeptical that a VST plugin would work well for me. (If you’re interested: I use Ardour (6.3) and route with Jack. I guess me question is: is this perception right? Do many of you use a traditional DAW with VCV, and if so, what kinds of things do you offload to it? I will also structure the song at that point I tend to work in generative ways, so that’s when I tend the garden to see what’s grown and give things a little TLC. I’ll use VCV to generate the sounds, but all the mixing/mastering kinds of things (which as compression, equalization, mixing, etc.) I do in the DAW because I find it easier. With my workflow I’ll do what I like to call “sketches” – quick, DAW-less VCV patches, (aspirationally the kind of thing that one could whip out in a day) – but when I come up with something that I want to explore further I bring the DAW into it. I do, and I guess that’s why I find it a bit surprising. I see that there is some excitement about technologies coming (soon?) that’ll make it easier to integrate a traditional DAW with VCV (such as VST plugins), but it seems like a lot of people don’t use one with their VCV patches. I’ve been browsing the forum for a little while, and I’m actually a bit surprised by how many people use VCV as as DAW, and not in conjunction with one.
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