Best Cardinal modules

[swilow11]

Just started to play with Cardinal and am super impressed by it. I am, however, slightly overwhelmed by options. There are like 1000 modules included.

So hoping that knowledgeable folks could point me in the direction of where to start..obviously the Audible Instruments stuff is fantastic but who else?

If you could point out your favourite;
- VCOs
- Filters
-Utilities (splitters/mergers/attenuators/slew, etc)
-Modulators
-FX (less interested because I've got plenty of VSTS for this)
....That would be so helpful.

And anything really unique and interesting, please share.

Also not sure if there are any repositories of patches/presets but if so, let me know.

Thanks in advance.

[resynthesis]

Have a look at Omri Cohen's YT channel. He's put up a lot of VCV stuff and lots is based around free modules so should be available in Cardinal.

[Shabdahbriah]

That ^^^

[swilow11]

Have a look at Omri Cohen's YT channel. He's put up a lot of VCV stuff and lots is based around free modules so should be available in Cardinal.

Nice, thanks for the suggestion...

[Ah_Dziz]

There are a ton of them. I like lot's of the bits of Surge that were made into modules. There are tons of good fm/pm modules that all alias in slightly different ways that can be useful. It very much depends on whether you want to use the "built in" polyphonic mode as all modules don't support that. I haven't found much cool in the delay and granular end of things though I'm sure it's there. I just go elsewhere rather than searching forever if I can find something rather quickly but I'd be amazed if there wasn't an all purpose buffer in there somewhere.

I've found that one of the most important factors, for myself, is efficient use of the GUI space.

[DRMR]

lots is based around free modules so should be available in Cardinal.

Most of the "free" modules are not in Cardinal, because 1) they have to be open-source 2) they have to be "gpl-3.0-or-later" compatible license 3) as said there are already a lot of modules included and we can't add more endlessly.

We try to keep the focus on quality over quantity. There is still a big list of potential modules, but we only want to add the best and unique ones: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/wik ... to-include

Even though I've added a lot of the currently included modules I still haven't even used all of them!

The `WTH` modules can be a nice way to add random new modules to try. Sometimes I just let them add a bunch of random ones and see what I can patch with em

[swilow11]

I guess I'm trying to reduce decision fatigue as much as possible. I've basically narrowed it down to (this is somewhat arbitrary) Audible Instruments for all the cool vco stuff, Bog Audio for 'generic' utilities and stuff, and then having a look at Valley and (maybe wrong name) JW stuff... Please tell me any extra cool stuff to check out!

Gotta say, I'm super impressed with Cardinal. Somewhat easier to use than Reaktor, less resource intensive too. Still probably find Bitwig grid to be the most straight forward modular but can see Cardinal getting used a lot.

[Dznwpplp]

Cardinal is great, really.
My approach is this - fortunately, I can take advantage of these benefits of the eurorack world without spending $ on cables, enclosures and all the necessary stuff to fire it up at all - only to find out 5k later that I honestly don't give a sh$t at all and blips and blops making doesn't interest me. People have different hobbies, when GAS hits they call themselves collectors - I get it, their money.

In a DAW I mostly use Cardinal as fx. Sometimes as a synth. It's just a tool. And fortunately a tool that doesn't call home.

For me the most useful modules are Distrho, Valley, Impromptu, Bogaudio.