‎miRack, VCV rack ported to ipad

Not that I can tell. I’ve been patching it a lot waiting for my cases to be built. I’ve not seen a way to do custom scales or adjust the gate length/length randomness.

As for pitch transpose, I assume you mean a quantizer? I can’t think of any offhand but I’ve only been patching the modules that I have hardware versions of. I just have no case yet is the reason why.

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I’m not sure. So if I want to transpose the pitches of what Marbles is sending from X, can I do that with a quantizer?

Correct. A quantizer while constrain pitch to a specific scale or set of notes. You can get a list of all quantizers in miRack here. Just scroll down to the ‘Quantizers’ section for an overview of each quantizer module.

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Edit: I found one that might do the trick. Thanks.

Without the ability to enter custom scales in miRack Marbles you would need a module to transpose or quantize the output. There’s no other way to do that on Marbles unfortunately. But it should be easy enough.

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Yeah it’s not exactly what I’m looking for as, for example, if you put the Spread at 12 (chromatic) it’s still quantized to a key/scale.

It’s too bad the extended functionality doesn’t work.

Agree. I’ll be leaning heavily on custom scales. Specifically, microtonal stuff. I was hoping to test some stuff in miRack but it will have to wait until I have case and modules setup.

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Anyone tried using miRack (or VCV rack) Midi out to control Digitakt?
I had the idea to send S&H LFO from DTs midi track out to miRack as note values, and then quantizing those and send back to Digitakt, to a audiotrack. Basically having randomized notes within a scale. But I ran into problems, and after troubleshooting in miRack and VCV rack, I came to a conclusion that for some reason, the notes Digitakt is receiving are many octaves too low, and some 4 semitones too high. I tested this by playing just individual notes from rack, without outputting any midi from DT. Any ideas why this is happening? My guesses are that either I don’t understand Midi CC properly (Very high probability) or there is some problem with Rack -> DT communication. I also tried using the CV-Midi but didn’t get any reaction from that in DTs end.

Here’s the setup I used for testing this out. This way I was able to get a C3 note on Digitakt. But when doing this, it jumps from D to E, so D# is E and everything after that is half step off. When dropping one octave down (C2 -> on DT), it works at it should.
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I’m trying to work on integrating miRack with AR so I’m not sure our interests coincide but I’m interested in your findings.

Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried the “midi output” module to send to the DT?

If you mean by midi output module the CV-Midi and CV-CC, those are the two I’ve been using. CV-CC was the one that was very wonky. CV-Midi I didn’t get working originally. But after reading bit more about Digitakt’s midi note system, and sending midi notes from Ableton to DT, I tested it again. The reason why it didn’t work, was that DTs notes start from C0, and VCV and Ableton start from C-4 or something like that. So now that I had the CV-Midi sending out notes an from third octave of the sequencer, DT was actually registering them. So using the same sequencer as in the picture above, I set the octave to 2 and note to C, and now DT plays that as C3.

TL;DR: miRack/VCV Rack has to play notes one octave lower than intended, when controlling digitakt via CV-Midi out. In Rack, C4 is the highest note that DT will play, as C5.

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Has anyone experienced MIDI dropouts / hiccups when sending MIDI out of mirack (hosted in AUM)? I am sending 6 channels of MIDI from two Marbles (“random sampler”). Every so often - especially when I make a lot of changes to the patch - it just drops pretty much all functionality. I am trying to locate the source of the issue - I have a lot of connections - and from what I can determine it’s either on the iPad itself or with the E-MU USB-MIDI converter.

Anyone had any similar experiences?

Spent a happy morning messing around with miRack on my MacBook Air, building a few things, loading in stuff from Patchstorage and trying to understand what on earth is going on. Can’t recommend it enough for someone thinking of getting into Eurorack. It has thoroughly cured me of any delusion I should dip a toe into that particular money pit. Potentially saved my £1000s I can spend on kit more suited to my personal limitations :smiley:

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Some what begrudgingly getting an ipad for work (best tool for the job it turns out)

Late to the party as usual, but I just found out about miRack. I’ll be getting this, turn my not stoked business purchase into a noise toy.

Im certainly not going to get sucked into real life modular. I did enjoy patching stuff in reason 4 years ago, loads of weird places to explore.

There seems to be a lot of plinky plonky mirack videos, and unwatchable youtuber tutorials.

I’m more interested in heavy distorted noise drones and this kind of stuff

Anway, awaiting ipad stock to land in Oz…

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I would highly recommend picking up a stylus. If you’ve nabbed an iPad Pro 2018 or newer, the Logitech Crayon is less than half the cost of the Apple Pencil. It makes interfacing with things infinitely better. Pissed that I lost mine.

Logitech’s keyboard folio case is also far less than half the cost of Apple’s keyboard thing. Durable as fuck.

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Thanks for the tips :slight_smile:
Im going to get a stylus anyway for work.
Good info on the logitech keyboard case thing.

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Not sure how many organs I would need to sell to build this in real life, but enjoying this very much. Never thought I’d get into MI stuff (the aesthetic kinda puts me off) but seeing past that, damn this stuff rules.

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Woah… 2 BOG LFOs, cross patched into the scale, pw, and sample, then sent to what ever inputs on a free running oscillator.

Mind blown.

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Any audio example? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yeah can do. After dinner maybe

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No hurry. Just interested