Can I incorporate VCV rack into my small 'digi' home setup?

g0nz0uk · 2022-12-02T12:52:17.543Z

Hello,

I have an Elektron Digitakt, Digitone and a Typhon Dreadbox which I love, especially for ambient music. I use the Digitone as the master clock and it also sequences the Typhon. All my audio comes out of the Digitakt due to it’s compressor.

I’ve been wanting to add some Eurorack gear to my setup for effects and also for some nice arpeggios and movement to my setup then I found VCV which I’ve been learning for a couple of days.

Is there a way I can connect my HW and VCV together? If so what extra gear would I need to accomplish this please?

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Thanks

slicetwo · 2022-12-02T13:03:07.040Z

It depends on what you want to control VCV. If you only want one Digi box to control VCV, then just plug that one into your computer via USB and set it to MIDI OUT via USB in the settings.

If you want multiple devices, get a USB hub and plug all the things into there via USB, then they can all talk to VCV.

g0nz0uk · 2022-12-02T13:41:32.515Z

g0nz0uk:

Hello,

I have an Elektron Digitakt, Digitone and a Typhon Dreadbox which I love, especially for ambient music. I use the Digitone as the master clock and it also sequences the Typhon. All my audio comes out of the Digitakt due to it’s compressor.

I’ve been wanting to add some Eurorack gear to my setup for effects and also for some nice arpeggios and movement to my setup then I found VCV which I’ve been learning for a couple of days.

Is there a way I can connect my HW and VCV together? If so what extra gear would I need to accomplish this please?

Thanks, I’d like to hit play on the Digitakt which currently causes the other gear to play to also hit play on VCV and for VCV to use the clock on the Digitakt? Do you think that is even possible?

Thanks

slicetwo · 2022-12-02T13:51:02.130Z

100%!

Have the Digitakt hooked up to your computer via USB. Set it to receive clock and send transport. Set VCV to send clock and receive transport.

chaocrator · 2022-12-02T14:04:45.980Z

short answer: yes if you manage to handle VCVRack’s latency.
(which depends on procesing power required by a particular patch)

g0nz0uk · 2022-12-02T14:23:27.927Z

When you say patch is this a term for one of the modules?

g0nz0uk · 2022-12-02T14:24:19.887Z

I wonder if I need to use their Overbridge for that.

slicetwo · 2022-12-02T15:21:42.502Z

Nope! It’ll work just as a MIDI interface! Overbridge is only if you want to have individual control over Elektron parameters from your computer, OR you want to record individual stems.

chaocrator · 2022-12-03T08:45:53.970Z

i’m talking about the whole patch.
latency introduced by one particular module is rather negligible, but when we got a bunch of interacting modules – that’s different story.