Tracker for upcoming plugins?

Looked around for any threads on this but is there some kind of tracker of plugins on the way?

Maybe more like a roadmap with no actual dates but gives an idea of who’s working on one even considering?

Not sure if it’s practical but could be exciting to see…

this would be useful. the only modules ive heard of (over at the modwiggler thread) that are actively being ported to mm are the vult ones. having all those on mm would be really quite insane

Fantastic, I didn’t realize Vult was coming! Seconded on a thread that can be updated with any information people might have

Any news on the Vult ones? Bought those especially for use on the MM.

I have not seen any update since the original post on FB in early September (Vult). The post stated “I’m testing some of my models in the 4ms Meta module.”. Nothing about if, when and/or how the plug-ins might be made available to MetaModule owners. Since many of the Vault plug-ins are premium (not-free), that may be a potential roadblock that might need a solution before the plug-ins are made available to MM owners. I know there is a lot of excitement here (including me) that Vult may be coming on board, but I don’t think it is a sure thing at this point without hearing more from Vult.

I am disappointed that since the release of the MM, only a few new VCV developers have made their plugins available for the MM. I was hoping for a much better response from the VCV developer community.

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Give it some time. At the moment only early adopters have a Meta Module, so the addressable market for plugins is small (especially compared to VCV Rack which is available free to anyone with a computer). If the MM is a success and shows up in more people’s racks, it’ll be a more attractive target for development.

Fortunately the modules that are already available make the MM a very cool and worthwhile product. It’s possible for platforms to run into a chicken-egg problem where the platform has no users because there’s not enough software, and no one writes the software because the platform has
no users. I think 4ms have successfully avoided that by porting so many great open-source collections before launch.

As someone who is new to VCV and not very familiar with what all is out there, I’m pretty satisfied with the 800 or so plugins we already have.
I surely wouldn’t complain if there were more, and would even pay for ones that seemed especially cool, but I’d honestly be OK if we never got any more.

I expect this is a function of the fact that most VCV Rack plugin developers do it in whatever spare time they have and they don’t get much in return for the large amount of effort that is required to make quality modules. It’s also possible that many of them don’t have access to a MM on which to test their code.

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Yes, I agree that’s probably the case. We sold out quickly and the initial units marked for early developers are now all shipped out. (We just got the second batch in today, though).
Also, I think creating more developer tools (like for debugging), and more detailed docs would help, something which I will work on after the expanders are in production.
Another thing is that the plugin SDK has been changing a lot in the 8 weeks since MM was released. In retrospect it might have been more fair to call the original SDK a “beta” version, with “version 1” being the upcoming release that includes raw MIDI streams, text displays, right-click menus and other quality of life things.
I’ve intentionally been not pushing to port more modules until we get some more cool features up and running.

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Back to the original question… Yeah, it’d be a good idea to have an offiical place for tracking progress. Short of that, I can summarize our internal list here as of now:

Impromptu, Venom, BaconMusic: Some initial tests re-compiling the original code as MM plugins. Mostly successful but still just in the initial phases.
Sapphire: We ported several modules fully (Galaxy, Frolic, Glee, and Hiss). Most of the others work in some way but need some changes to make them more suited for MM. Elastika in particular “works” but is very CPU heavy and needs optimizations.
Prism: Plan to help port.
Surge XT: on the wish-list (no developement done yet)

Several other developers are working on plugins, too, including Vult and Unfiltered Audio.

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Awesome work as ever Dan!

ty for this info dan! and amazing to also hear about unfiltered/impromptu/surge/prism… some really tops modules in those bunches