Your Instructor
- My Other Free Courses on Udemy
- About the Instructor
- A Comprehensive Content Guide to Sound & Design
- VCV Rack 1 and 2
Key Concepts of Modular Synthesis in VCV Rack
- How this Section Works
- Starting From Zero with Modular Synthesis and VCV Rack
- Top 10 Modular Synthesis Modules
- Starting with the Starter Patch
- East Coast vs West Coast Synthesis | a bit of history
- Adding Plugins to VCV Rack
- 100 Starter Modules Reference & Plugin Documentation Matters
- Voltage Control Visualization
- Gates and Triggers
- Gates and Envelopes
- Visualizing Polyphony Arrays
- Cabling Conventions | a user interface note
- Attenuverters
- 8VERT
- Triggers and Gates from Clocks
- Clock Output Signals
Quick Reference Demonstration Videos of Key Concepts
- How This Section Works
- Unipolar Voltage demonstration video
- Bipolar Voltage demonstration video
- Control Voltage (Large Values) demonstration video
- Control Voltage (Small Values) demonstration video
- Using the SCOPE for Voltage Visualization
- Opening and Closing Gates with MIDI Note Events
- Gates vs Triggers
- MIDI Retriggers
- Triggers vs Gates w/ the PULSES module
- Visualizing Polyphony Arrays
- Mixing Polyphonic and Monophonic Signals
Synthesis Recipes and Case Studies
- How this Section Works
- Define Your Template
- Kick Drum Synthesis
- Three Layer Kick Drum
- LFO Ramps
- Gritty Bass Sequence w/ moving filter cutoff
- Modulating Vowel Formants
- Vowel Formant Oscillator Modulation
- Playing & Slicing Audio Files
- Two Sampler Modules
- Sample and Hold
- Sampling & Triggering Control Voltages
- Semi Autonomous Patches
- Semi Autonomous Composition
- Stereophonic Noise and Crackles
- Noise Texture
- Geodesics' Pulsars
- Automated Crossfading
- Chaotic Modulations
- Chaos Modulated Texture
- Sequencing with Piano Inspiration
- Sequencing w/ Musical Reference
- Visual Modulation
- X Y Pattern-Based Modulation Source
- Grid Sequencer with Delay Types
- Amassing Tones with Delays and a Sequencer
- Playing a MIDI File + Octaves & Voltages
- MIDI Driven Note Events
- Driving VCV Rack with Max
Compositional Techniques
- About this section
- Transitional Sounds: overcoming the blockiness of your blocky composition
- Making Upbeat Music Out of Sad Keys
- The Single Chord Progression Song
- Delayed Onset Melodies and Downbeat Avoidance
- Chord Sweeteners
- Evolving Drones as Song-Structural Mix Glue
- Separated & Sequentialized Density | an orchestration strategy
- Deep Melos | a chord progression strategy
Miscellaneous Topics
- Understanding Digital Audio Signals: a beginner’s intro
- Basic Concepts in Video Synthesis
- Other Apps
