Learn how to arrange your modular tracks with VCV Rack, Ableton Live

It’s one of the first challenges with any modular – you get a wild banging groove, but then… you’re stuck with it. One new video tutorial suggests a way to arrange your modular with Ableton Live and free VCV Rack software. Live’s real-time arrangement and triggering features have always been part of its appeal – […]

VCV Rack hits 1.0; why you need this free modular now

Software modular VCV Rack just hit a major milestone – it’s now officially version 1.0, with polyphony, full MIDI, module browsing, multi-core support, and more. And since it’s a free and open platform, you don’t want to sleep on this.

Peter Kirn - June 19, 2019

How to make a multitrack recording in VCV Rack modular, free

In the original modular synth era, your only way to capture ideas was to record to tape. But that same approach can be liberating even in the digital age – and it’s a perfect match for the open VCV Rack software modular platform.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2019

VCV Rack nears 1.0, new features, as software modular matures

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2019

Ethereal, enchanting Winter Solstice drone album, made in VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2018

You can now add VST support to VCV Rack, the virtual modular

Peter Kirn - November 27, 2018

Eerie, amazing sounds from tape loops, patches – like whales in space

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2018

Get your Marbles: VCV adds free Mutable Instruments module

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2018

Patchstorage is a friendly site packed with free visual and music patches

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2018

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