This repository contains some "secret" VCV Rack modules from Chowdhury DSP.
- ChowBell: an 808-style cowbell emulation
- MetalFace: the most expensive guitar distortion in VCV Rack?
git clone https://github.com/Chowdhury-DSP/ChowDSP-VCV-Secrets
cd ChowDSP-VCV-Secrets
git submodule update --init --recursive
export RACK_DIR=location-of-rack-SDK-or-source
make -j distChowdhury DSP has a set of "non-secret" modules which can be downloaded from the VCV plugin library.
These modules were developed as a separate plugin originally to avoid a conflict with VCV Rack's C++11 requirement. However, as C++11 is no longer a requirement for VCV Rack plugins, we're trying to figure out what to do with these modules next...
At the moment this code is in a very early state. If you're feeling adventurous, you can try downloading the build artifacts from the CI pipeline, or try to build the modules yourself. We might do some "tagged" releases in the future, but in the meantime, it's probably best to be patient and wait for a bit more development to take place.
Possibly. These modules might be integrated into the rest of the ChowDSP modules, or they might be released as their own plugin.
We haven't decided yet whether to continue using the same design pattern used by the official ChowDSP modules, or if we should do something new/different. For now, the panel designs are just "blank" with the default VCV components for the knobs and ports. If you have opinions on what these modules should look like, feel free to chime in with a GitHub Issue.
So Chowdhury DSP spends most of our time developing audio plugins (VST/AU/CLAP/...) often with the JUCE framework. We also really enjoy creating VCV Rack modules, but have found it a bit trickier to work on recently. Often we have some DSP code from our existing library that we wanted to re-use, but couldn't because it was dependent on JUCE. We recently made it possible to compile a good amount of the DSP code from our library outside of a JUCE environment which opens up some exciting possibilities, including using the library to write DSP code which can run on Arduino devices or in VCV modules!
ChowDSP Secret VCV Modules (both artwork and code) are licensed under the GPLv3 license. Enjoy!