Suggested plugins to use with external audio?

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Dear all,

I got the MetaModule to use it as the heart/brain of a little FX box I’m building. The problem is, I am overwhelmed by all the options and plugins out there.

I guess many of you have played around a lot more with VCV rack than I have, and was wondering if anyone has suggestions of modules to work together with external audio? (I am using the Befaco Instrument Interface together with the MetaModule, mostly for vocals.)

I would be interested in trying really simple bread and butter patches such as a bit of compression, eq, reverb, delay, as a starting point. Then adding filters etc, etc. No need for oscillators, sequencers, etc.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :blush:

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i too am using one of the mm’s as an effects box. its quite overwhelming the number of effects we have to explore, especially in the airwindows brand. i have really enjoyed and gotten some success recently out of the following modules:

DELAY-
texture synthesizer (aka clouds) - this one is like a holy grail. it also has a nice reverb built in, and could be pitch controlled by a keyboard
kocmoc DDLY - very cpu friendly so i can use a whole lot of them!
airwindows tape delay - has a nice tone imo
4ms DLD - very powerful and i don’t fully understand it yet, but it seems great for doing live looping

REVERB-
airwindows galactic - very cpu friends for a stereo reverb, i usually put this on the end of my chain. you can do really big reverbs with this one.
plateaux - uses a lot of cpu but it sounds really nice when you want to play with the various knobs on it (whereas galactic can be a bit glitchy when you are turn it’s knobs).

EQ-
i dont feel there are a lot of good options, but ive used the following:
bog seq
bog PEQ - i haven’t really messed with this one much, but it seems useful?

COMPRSSION-
i also dont feel there are yet a lot of great sounding options in this category
bog LMTR - its not the cleanest sounding one when you really push high volumes into it bit it works ok for a brick wall limiter
bog CMP - same story as the LMTR

CREATIVE/MANGLING TYPE FX -
4ms pitchshifter- you could control the pitch of this with a midi keyboard
4ms detune - this can create a nice warbly vibrato
airwindows glitchshifter - does cool things to the sound! but maybe a bit too glitchy sometimes
again want to mention texture synth/clouds is such a great granular mangler
for tremolo, we dont have a lot of options, i think there is one by airwindows but i usually just put a bog LLFO into the fundamental VCA for tremelo effect.

FILTER-
bog LVCF - nice cpu friendly
4ms bfp - very cpu friendly bandpass one
nano font - a nice cpu friendly feedback style filter

DISTORTION-
i don’t know if ive found one that i really like, but the airwindows drive is decent. air windows has a ton, i really need to research these more.

UTILITY-
bog walk - creates really nice smooth random lfos. i use this all the time to control the parameters of various fx ones

ones i haven’t tried but have heard good things about:
bog PEQ14 vocoder - kind of a cpu hog, but seems like it could be great for vocals?

sorry that’s all probably tmi, but those are the fx modules i really have enjoyed exploring and running various sound sources through recently.

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Oh wow thank you so much for taking the time to write this! This is really super useful. I’ll make sure to post if I make any progress :slight_smile:

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How many separate audio paths have you been able to do effects on at one time with the MM (without loading the CPU too much)? My goal is to replace a set of four stereo effects chains I have in my cabinets now. It will have to wait for the I/O expansion module of course to get that many output channels.

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That’s a great list! For EQs, don’t sleep on Cloned Instruments’ Multi-Filter, a.k.a. Mutable Shelves.

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Or MI Warps for vocoding, wave folding etc - can’t remember what the ‘cloned instruments’ version is called though.

Feeding signals through Rings and Elements can sound fantastic too.