New plugin: Robot Boy, featuring a four-playhead looper, a Mutable Beads emulation, and three colorful filters

Hey all, I’ve been working on this for a while: Robot Boy plugin for VCV Rack and MetaModule

It contains eight modules, specifically:

  • Loooop: A stereo looper with four independent playheads based on Cutlasses Gloop, and its smaller sibling Löp.
  • Particules, Retours, and Ondes, which together recreate Mutable Instruments Beads.
  • Filter modules based on the Korg MS-20, the EDP Wasp, and the Formanta Polivoks.

These are all designed with the MetaModule in mind. If you make any music with them I’d love to hear it! Please report any issues on this thread.

Get it from the MetaModule plugins page now. Hopefully it’ll be in the VCV library soon — until then, you can download the VCV plugin here: release v2.0.0

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This looks amazing !!

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Those filters look fantastic! Can’t wait to try them. TYVM!

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If you’ve checked out Loooop you might have noticed that (a) there’s a lot of controls, which can be annoying to map to MetaModule knobs, and (b) the playhead colors match the first four colored knobs on the MetaModule.

Here’s a patch that turns your MetaModule into an intuitive looper, with color-coordinated volume knobs:
Loooop.vcv (1.5 KB)
Loooop.yml (13.0 KB)

Use inputs 1 & 2 and outputs 1 & 2 for the audio. Gate 1 is the record input, Gate 2 is the Clear input.

The first knob set is your master mixer:

  • A, B, C, D — pan for the Red, Yellow, Blue, and Purple playheads (note that the knob colors match the playhead colors)
  • u, v, w, x — level for the Red, Yellow, Blue, and Purple playheads (again, matching)
  • E — Grid
  • F — Dry/Wet
  • y — Clear
  • z — Record

Knob sets 2 through 5 — Red, Yellow, Blue, Purple — give you hands-on control of one playhead at a time:

  • A — Size
  • B — Position
  • C — Speed
  • D — Jitter
  • E — Pan

In all those sets, u, v, w, x are still the same four playhead levels, y and z are still Clear and Record, and F is always Dry/Wet — so you can balance the mix or change the loop without switching.

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Merci Beaucoup for these splendid modules which in an instant shift the 4ms Meta into becoming a full bore bad boy sound mangler par excellence. Chapeau!

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Retours > Vespid > Retours :slight_smile:

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Retours > Vespid > Lop > Retours - giving me John Carpenter Prince of Darkness vibes :smiling_face_with_horns:

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Ah I gotta try this.

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks from a Gloop enjoyer who can see from that image of Loooop that you have taken it to a new wonderful place.

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Thanks! Let me know if there’s anything you’d like to do on Loooop that you can’t do at the moment.

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