I’ve been off VCV since getting into the hardware but I agree! Controlled random is one of the most musical things to mess with. I’ll have to check this out at least on VCV Rack if not in the real.
I always liked Vult Caudal (12 smooth random outs) and Sheight (8x S&H). Then I realised I could stick Bogaudio's Polycon into Walk and get 16 random outs with two modules. Same with Count Modular Super S&H which is also polyphonic. That's one thing you can't do with shiny hardware 😂
I feel like in some time NANO Modules will become ubiquitous in the Eurorack world. Their modules are useful, *extremely* intuitive, nice looking, and relatively inexpensive. I'd gladly build a NANO-only system.
As a VCV user I think that is one the most interesting random source that you can have in this size. Good for VCV and thanks to you for your excellent demo, saludos desde Buenos Aires.
I'm only halfway through the video but I already feel like I finally understand what this module can do. Playing with it a bit in VCV Rack and reading NANO's web page didn't help! Great job as usual
woow you really made it sing!! I like how the slew time (and step time for step out) is always relative to the clock so it always goes to the sampled value no matter how long is the slew! that's quite great for no random source sapling as well. thanks for this inspiring video!
Assuming it is the same as the VCV module, that only works when using the internal clock. If clocked by an external signal, then it uses the time between the last two clock triggers to determine the rate for the slew. If the actual external clock rate varies, then things are thrown off - all to be expected really. But when using the internal clock the slew always remains in sync, even if the internal clock rate is modulated.
Hi Ben :) This isn't the first VCV module to be ported to hardware. I believe that the Vult - Vorg filter was the very first one and it's funny because it was a virtualization of an analog filter from the MS20 which at the end became a real analog filter (a very good one!) Then other Vult modules were re-created: Freaks, Fuser, Feigen, Wolf, Anima and Caudal were all first made in VCV Rack by Leonardo Laguna Ruiz, then he brought them to real life. ..and thanks lord Vult our beloved Filters God, infinite the Vultiverse is ! ha ha.. Great video as usual !
I know it's not, Vult was the first I believe and it's been nice to see them take their ideas into hardware (not had chance to try them though). "Vultiverse" hahaha brilliant! This is a good reminder that those are things I need to check out, both in soft and hardware.
Refreshing to see sanely priced modules. At my Perfect Circuit this would be 189usd, not exactly Behringer cheap but not insanely high like Teenage Engineering. Early adopter (ver 0.3) of VCV rack here, and I’m eager to see what Nano modules does next.
Yeah I have to remind myself to do things sometimes, usually to good results when I do. But some habits are just fun and work each time that its easy to lean on them.
Hmm, the STEP out behavior at 04:37 is odd. It does not match the manual description, nor does it match the behavior seen in VCV with the original VCV Random, nor the NANO Random. In VCV, the STEP output is the same as the other 3 when SHAPE is at 0 - instantaneous jump to the new value. I wonder if the behavior in the video is due to an early release of the hardware. Either way, it is very cool to see a VCV module implemented as hardware. I have always liked the VCV Random - very versatile.
Hello! Yes, we noticed it just a few days ago because Divkid told us, we weren't aware of that behaviour. No problem, we will take a deeper look onto it and we will fix it in software, the module could be easily updated by anyone :)
JFC i want this sooooo badly, but then remember I have a hybrid system with an ES-8 so I can just run multiples of all these for days in VCV tied to my IRL rack bits.
hit that duplicate and enjoy the sweet nirvana of endless random! Joking aside it's definitely a powerful thing to have multiples of this in a hybrid set up.
And infinite mults, and polyphony, and and and..... I am sure that most of my VCV patches would require about the price of my whole hardware rig only in cables lol. Glad I have both !
thank you and yeah I have a lot of that. Sat a composed/produced that to use as a nice bed for processing in video demos. So I can go back to that in DAW project if I want.
I think this opens a lot of ideas for porting ideas across. Some easier than others and some outright not really doable I suppose. I don't know enough VCV modules to really get into which I'd like to see.
VCV rack got me into modular. After seeing all the brand name stuff, when I went to buy my first real module, I searched for Hallucigenia for a while and was very disappointed. Someone make Hallucigenia real, please!
So let me double check the timeline: 1) Hardware random modules are created 2) Virtual analog random sources are created 3) VCV rack creates a software eurorack random module called VCV RANDOM 4) NANO modules creates a hardware version of VCV RANDOM 5) NANO modules creates a VCV version of VCV RANDOM based on the hardware version of their own module that is an emulation of VCV RANDOM the software module.
I have been wondering for awhile if there is a eurorack module that can do things similar to the virtual sequencer module SEQ:TWEAK on the eurorack modular app HEXEN..? thank you for your help in advance..