Messing with an audio field recording in VCV Rack.

VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!

Various LABS instruments and a couple of Hainbach plugins in Reaper.

VCV Rack patch with LABS instruments.

This December was more somber and complicated than usual, so just I threw some ambiguous chords into an old VCV Rack patch and didn't bother trying to track down or fix the discordant foghorn tone that crops up a couple of times. I wish I could…

It finally dawned on me that I could use the faders and knobs on my MIDI controller to control channel volumes and plugin settings in Reaper while recording live, so I fired up a bunch of instances of Hainbach's excellent Noises plugin, tweaked…

Yet again with the Petrushka chord... Maybe one day I'll learn another one! This time, I threw those notes into some plugins in Reaper.

As has become a habit, I threw together a VCV Rack patch at the last minute based on a couple of YouTube tutorials.

Ran the Petrushka chord through a bunch of modules in VCV Rack.

Messed around with the Petrushka chord in VCV Rack, then added a couple more effects in Reaper. (Thanks to Omri Cohen for creating a neat VCV patch and Ben Levin for his recent video on that chord.)