This is a thread for modular enthusiasts to discuss using modular systems with REAPER. The purpose is to open up discussion around using either hardware modular systems such as Eurorack, ad hoc hardware chains, or modular software systems such as VCV Rack, Reaktor, Voltage Modular etc.
As background, I have recently begun to explore VCV Rack. In my opinion, modular systems are fun, and are a good way to geneate musical ideas, which you might not come up with using more conventional methods. The danger is that it all comes out sounding like 'modular music'
A modular system is kind of a studio or DAW or in itself and using it in conjuction with REAPER has raised some philosophical questions for about how much I should be doing within VCV Rack and what and when to export to REAPER for further processing.
In this thread I would like to hear how others are using, or would like to use modular systems in their music creation:
What are you trying to achieve with your modular system?
Do you use it exclusively, or with other more conventional instrumentation?
Do you use generative methods, and how?
Do you record the entire output from the modular system as a finished work, or output sections for further processing and/or arrangement?
Many other things I haven't thought of, I'm sure.
Please feel free to post links to examples of your work. To start with, here's a link to a sketch for a new track I made using VCV Rack. This is a direct output of a semi-generative patch. I did press a few mute buttons on the mixer to shape the arrangement a bit -
https://soundcloud.com/thewastersoft.../s-NzsEPyT0xL0