I won't convert VCVs yet too much job on the oto.ini part I might convert under request, and even more if I already have such VB in my mom's laptop (I DL'd quite a bit). SukoTei (sorry for requesters, it's in the rules) Ruko (make and female, respectively requested)įorbidden voicebanks under any circumstances: Tony Lite? (Erm, just get him in the Skyloids site) Missing converted VBs (I know they're online, but lost the links): Rook (I'm not sure if I can keep his romaji converted VB online, his clause is confusing the heck out of me can someone find a way to contact Rook's author? ☊°' Dun wanna cause problems!) Teto (has some conversion errors, though) - Converted by Skull IF ANY OF SUCH ACTIVITIES ARE ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN BY THE AUTHOR, THE VOICEBANK WILL NOT BE CONVERTED/TAKEN OFF!ĭefoko/Dehuo/Utane Uta (otoless) - By Lucky? I ONLY CONVERT AND REDISTRIBUTE THEM/LINK TO CONVERSIONS. THEY ARE BY THEIR RESPECTIVE PRODUCERS/VOICERS. WARNING: NONE OF THESE VOICEBANKS ARE DONE BY ME.
But I suspect the biggest influence on potential improvements in VCV Rack will be the success of the new commercial version of VCV Rack 2 Pro.Because some people simply can't install the locale, no matter what. While we wait projects like this put a tiny bit of pressure on Mr VCV Rack to get his house in order and get the features working as needed. Like other VCV Rack forks (see miRack before it), there has to be a really compelling reason to use it, but history has shown us that patience is the best solution to VCV Rack’s shortcomings.
So this project offers us a use case of providing a better performing VST3 plug-in and native Apple M1 support for free (again beer) in exchange for a boat load of compromises - mainly it leaves behind the community that creates the bulk of the value that is VCV Rack.
The VST plugin of VCV Rack Pro 2 is not open source, nor is it free. The stand-alone version of VCV Rack is free (as in free beer). That’s the only reason that projects like Cardinal exist. “Cardinal is of course free and open source whereas VCV Rack is not.” There are some instructions but ultimately just copy them to your Vstplugins folder and you’re away (hopefully).
The Windows build is quite huge and extracts into all sorts of plugin version folders and doesn’t have an installer.
Open-SourceĪs with many things open-source and stored on Github it can take a bit of searching and wondering to find the software and then work out how to install it. While the work they’ve done to improve the plugin experience is admirable it would be interesting to get some clarification on the relationship and how they’re able to do this. There does seem something odd about Cardinal taking a paid-for feature from a commercial product and releasing a free version of it. Cardinal is of course free and open source whereas VCV Rack is not. On the other hand, Cardinal has none of the support offered by VCV Rack. Cardinal adds VST3 support, LV2 support for Linux and support for Apple M1, ARM and BSD systems. You can’t load external modules or commercial ones. These are the stock modules and some of the other free ones. The main differences are that Cardinal only supports the modules that are included in the build of the plugin. Ultimately the idea seems to be the desire to give us a free plugin version as opposed to having to pay for the pro version of VCV Rack 2, and one that works better. The makers of Cardinal fully acknowledge that it wouldn’t exist without the fine work done in VCV Rack 2 Pro and wish it no ill will. These are not the sort of things I can verify VCV Rack 2 Pro seems to work fine on my system, so we’ll have to take their word for it. There’s also talk of jitter issues and MIDI problems that Cardinal has gotten around. They claim that as it’s a self-contained plugin it suffers from none of the conflicts or crashes that people have experienced with v2 of VCV Rack Pro running inside a DAW. The developers say that Cardinal exists as a way to have VCV Rack as a proper “open-source audio plugin.” By this they mean one that works with multiple platforms and operates more efficiently than the current VCV Rack V2.