Comments on: Cardinal Is A FREE Modular Synthesizer Plugin By KX Studio

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:40 +0000

The fact that you can’t add some of the most popular module plugins totally kills the appeal. Open source can be like a religion for some folks, but making stuff takes time and time is money. Open does not always mean better. Sometimes it means a project is run by hackers with ADHD who give up 6 months later because, guess what, you have to go off and make money somehow. It would be better for these guys to submit patches to VCV Rack if they have suggestions or improvements instead of trying to compete with the VCV Rack team.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:54:53 +0000

In reply to nine. More like a fork to give people an up to date VCV Rack VST version that is open source. Remember, VCV Rack is still an open source project thus doing an unofficial VST port is as fair as it gets. Futhermore, the team has taken their own spin on it in many ways; they could have matched VCV Pro much closer if they wanted.

By: Daniel C

Daniel C — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:51:24 +0000

In reply to Jed. JED, definetely. Voltage Modular is a marvel. I prefer it to VCV.

By: Michal Ochedowski

Michal Ochedowski — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:53:55 +0000

In reply to OldDoGO. Thanks for the info.

By: OldDoGO

OldDoGO — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:35:24 +0000

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By: Jed

Jed — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:56:08 +0000

In reply to nine. Should we purchase Voltage Modular too?

By: nine

nine — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:03:42 +0000

This seems like a fork to give people features of VCV Rack Pro without having to compensate the developer. Please consider purchasing the paid version of VCV Rack to support the person that’s done such good bringing modular synth goodness to so many people.

By: MRG

MRG — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:40:42 +0000

“Cardinal is heavily influenced by VCV Rack” …understatement of the millenium.. :P
It’s nice to be able to use in a simple way VCV Rack inside a DAW. Especially since while I kinda like the idea of modular for the sound, I was never really a big fan of hardware sequencers.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:22:46 +0000

Great! Thx!

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:00:36 +0000

In reply to Rafael. Yeah, not yet covered in the BPB news section, but it definitely deserves a place here. Fantastic plugin!

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:54:06 +0000

I was sure BPB had already posted about Cardinal before, I may be mistaken. Also anyone interested, beware that when James says “self-contained”, he really means it. ALL plugin settings, including favorites, are on a per-instance basis, so be smart about it if using built-in VST presets (.vcv file presets/selections you import on Cardinal itself don’t suffer from this). This is by design, to make Cardinal as portable and unintrusive as possible, but it does have drawbacks.

And be mindful that there’s a lot of untapped potential of running modular as a plugin, people barely use it as a plugin rather than just “VCV inside something else”.

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:19:59 +0000

This is FaNtAsTiC!