I haven't tried MUX but it looks much less modular from your screenshots, that's more like using the channel routing in reaper than modular synthesis, although it is still modular in a sense. Taking two sequences and outputting the min and the max from them to create two more sequences for example is quick and leads to stuff you would never have manually programmed. I like how easy it is to come up with some unpredicted sequence with just a few modules. In fact, I was in a rut and bored with what I was creating but I gave VCV a try and, after a lot of videos and learning, I quickly found myself glued to it at home and thinking about it at work. I find vcv rack very easy to come up with interesting and inspiring things. So my questioning is oriented, although I'm not so sure it is oriented around laziness Obviously others do come up with very creative sounds using the VCV Rack. Jonetsu wrote:The above made me ask myself a question: why is it that such a truly modular synth like MUX makes it so easy to explore sounds whereas the VCV Rack seems of not so an easy approach as far as coming up with potent sounds is concerned ? In my case that is, although I'm certain many also share this experience of finding VCV Rack not so inviting. In which case moving the window much slower to put it to its new place seems to work. When I leave the UI zoom at the default 100% the windows behaviour is much better, although even at the default size, having many opened windows (editing a sound) and then moving a window quickly around can provoke some of that UI instability. UPDATE: I immediately adjusted the UI size to 150 before using the synth. I consider it as an FX reverb, especially when using the filters, and not as a reverb for regular audio processing. unless some wine/linVST specific config is used ? Sound with good potential, but UI is not stable and this system. Can't be done for every sound that's browsed. The UI needs to be minimized then brought back for a resizing to happen. The other thing is that each sound has its own user interface, which is very neat in a way but, the main plugin window will not resize according to the sound patch changes (Bitwig 2.4.3). Other windows popping up as a sound is edited and modules are opened also brings display problems. It will resist dragging it in full view a few times then it becomes possible. For instance, opening the edit window from any sound will make a window appear partly, down in the right bottom corner of the screen. Good sounds in there, but the windows are behaving erratically on Xubuntu 18.04 wine-4.5 (Staging), and linVST from git. *One of the small preset display panels opened up beneath the synth displayĪnd faked me out for a few seconds. Saddled with msoft want to give it a try. So can go on a usbstick as you move about, in case band or family members Recommend testing in linux, but if you have a modern graphics card/driverĪnd a spare few minutes, you might get lucky. I've tested the daw several times over the years, and never had results where I could Some fiddling about opened a nice step sequencer, so I keyed in a seq,īut had to ctrl-alt-F5 to a new user, and record the running output from there. I also tried the MuLab daw, but it opened fullscreen and largely unresponsive. The developer is easy to find, with a kvr dev forum to chat in.Ī free reverb, MUVerb, is probably worth checking. It is a locked part of the full version, without some complex reg scheme. The demo makes some average white noise at times, and is not too loud. The controls seem to work fine, and are big enough so stress is not invoked The oscillators have a handy submenu with options to modify the sound. I loaded the excellent LaGrange granular delay plugin There is a preset selector, with load/save options. The modular view is off by default, and is opened by clicking a widget,* a lot like patchage So a woodblock may have a small panel with a few basic controls, while a complex synth sound may have dozens. Lots of docs:Įach preset opens a gui suited to it's complexity, (categories are color coded) Tons of categorized presets to launch out from. Must be one of the easiest to useĪnd most flexible 'deep' synths around, as others have mentionedĪlso, it's colorful and fun. To try it out in Mint 18, generic kernel, in the latest wine-staging.Īnd what a great instrument it is. I've read lots of good comments about MUX Modular from experienced users, so took part of the holiday
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