Cherry Audio Voltage modular

[pekbro]

Anyway, let's talk about technique: In eurorack an easy way to create drone's is with an LFO. Since
any oscillators are always on, you can use an lfo or envelope with a really long cycle to modulate the
osc pitch with long rises, falls or swells. I'm talking a really long cycle, like 30 mins and up.

I don't see anything like that in VM. Vult's caudal is the closest thing I've found so far.
Anyway, what do you guys do to make generative drones in VM?

Benard has a few so called sloth LFOs, you set the period in seconds/minutes with a maximum of 166,67 minutes for one cycle.(minimum 0,1 seconds so a pretty big range to choose from).

And as mentioned there are a few Benard modules from Benard apt for drones, for instance check out his Breakpoint oscillator and modulate that with a polyphonic LF Noise for constant movement. Remember to increase polyphony. The module is monophonic but uses polyphonic modulation input to control 16 breakpoints for waveforms in continuous motion.

Ahh ok thanks, I was wondering if there was something like sloths, sounds like it. I'll
have a look. I haven't really looked at that stuff much as it's such a huge collection.

-Cheers

[Gone soft]

Ahh ok thanks, I was wondering if there was something like sloths, sounds like it. I'll
have a look. I haven't really looked at that stuff much as it's such a huge collection.

-Cheers

If it's within your budget check out the Mega collection 2 which includes several sloths, the Breakpoint and Boolean drone oscillators (and the Square Noise when filtered can also make nice drones) and a Fixed filter bank which does a nice job at giving peculiar characteristics to drones. Tip: try to patch the poly sloth LFO or the regular poly LFO random output through a poly glide/slew module and let that control the Breakpoint osc for continous change. Also if you can make sense of the Quantussy cell I'm sure you can put that to good use, it did my head in personally and I've kind of let it rest... https://store.cherryaudio.com/bundles/mega-bundle-vol-2

[pekbro]

@ Gone soft, thx for the tip...

Anyone know how to get the free version of the designer and SDK? I was going to have a look
at them, but it seems like only the commercial version is available.

[rollasoc]

https://cherryaudio.com/voltage-module-designer

Is an option to add it to your library. Though when you click it, it displays the buy it for $99
Not sure if it adds it to you library or not. I added it a year ago.

[pekbro]

https://cherryaudio.com/voltage-module-designer

Is an option to add it to your library. Though when you click it, it displays the buy it for $99
Not sure if it adds it to you library or not. I added it a year ago.

Yeah it doesn't add anything, only a link to buy it.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Looks like a bug on their site.

[pekbro]

Looks like a bug on their site.

Yea I guess, I'll shoot them an email I suppose...

[crystalmsc]

the 'Y2' additions are so good it is now irresistible (the Y2 stuff is good enough to be stand alone VST IMHO).

Yes, that's the most interesting to me as well. Was surprised the first time playing with FM Station, the sound is so rich and alive. Providing me those FM Kling and Twang, with a clarity and beefy tone hardly found on others. Simply my best sounding FM for now. It sounds big and full just by using 4 Ops. Would be cool if they release Year Two Presets, especially combining FM with Vector/Analog. Both of my TG77/33/Wavestation can be jealous

Sure they will do some of the best VSTs, especially with all the modules combined. With a fancy UI, when being released under a more commercial company, it simply can be a lot more expensive. No VST combining FM/Vector/Wave Sequecing with Arp/Juno/Moog emulation with such audio quality.

CA is indeed deserves more attention and would be cool if more people join the Wagon. So the development can be even greater. What I mostly enjoy is that they keep the timeline exciting, so everyday is like waiting for another candies to drop. The updates are useful and mostly based on the user requests, with freebies here and there. That's including the very communicative, fun and friendly partners.

[gentleclockdivider]

What’s the difference between fm station and poly fm station , same goes for the eg’s ?
I thought every module in cherry mod was polyphonic by.nature so why offering a poly version ?
Unless I am missing something .

[Gone soft]

What’s the difference between fm station and poly fm station , same goes for the eg’s ?
I thought every module in cherry mod was polyphonic by.nature so why offering a poly version ?
Unless I am missing something .

Modules have to be polyphonic modules to be easily patched polyphonically, many come in monophonic versions only and are not polyphonic by nature.

[WatchTheGuitar]

What’s the difference between fm station and poly fm station , same goes for the eg’s ?
I thought every module in cherry mod was polyphonic by.nature so why offering a poly version ?
Unless I am missing something .

Modules have to be polyphonic modules to be easily patched polyphonically, many come in monophonic versions only and are not polyphonic by nature.

VCV Rack allows the same module to be either monophonic or polyphonic depending on the source of the signal - visually you see a thin cable for mono sources or a thick one for a poly source. There are pros and cons to both ways. I like strongly typed code so generally prefer the VM way of doing things, but as VM stuff is mainly pay-to-play and VCV free you don't so much get the annoying situation in VCV that you can in VM where you have bought the mono version of something, usually as part of a bundle, and then have to buy the poly version separately.

[gentleclockdivider]

It does feel a bit odd you have to purchase a mono and a polyversion of essentially the same module .
Unless the poly verson also handles mono signals , so no need to buy the monoversion then

[Gone soft]

It does feel a bit odd you have to purchase a mono and a polyversion of essentially the same module .
Unless the poly verson also handles mono signals , so no need to buy the monoversion then

If I remember correctly they started out mono only, then polyphonic patching was sort of strapped on later and the way they did it required new sort of polyphonic modules. If you're patient enough you can use several instances of the poly to mono module patched to X number of monophonic modules for X voices polyphony. And generally bundles containing mono and poly versions are quite reasonably priced, and most devs are good at giving great discount when launching a poly version later for those who've already got the old mono version.

[WatchTheGuitar]

It does feel a bit odd you have to purchase a mono and a polyversion of essentially the same module .
Unless the poly verson also handles mono signals , so no need to buy the monoversion then

The poly version doesn't handle mono signals, but bundles that don't include both usually include just the mono version and there are free utilities in VM that will convert mono to poly and vice versa.
The input visibly helps in poly sources because it looks like a DIN socket rather than a hole for a plug.

[Warpticon]

I picked Ignite up from the Humble Bundle deal and I'm curious how things are working as of now. What's the best way to upgrade right now in terms of value? I've tried a couple of the earlier links and they either don't have the deals listed or they just flat-out don't work at all.