VCV Rack – Open-source virtual modular synthesizer
This is gorgeous. I love how simple and clean the UI is; so many music and audio tools are just skeuomorphic hell (and don&#x27;t support scaling so are even worse on HiDPI displays). This looks great without trying to look like a real device. It very effectively simulates a modular synth experience, without the limitations. It even simulates the quirky waveforms found on analog synths in a pretty convincing way. This is just impressive as hell on many fronts.<p>I don&#x27;t see how to use it as a VST, though I see VST mentioned in the docs as a thing that will be implemented as a plugin, so I guess it&#x27;s on the radar. It looks like it&#x27;d be possible to hook it up to an existing sequencer&#x2F;DAW as a MIDI device, though I don&#x27;t currently have any MIDI software or hardware on my Linux system, so can&#x27;t test that theory.<p>All around, though, I can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;d never heard of this. It&#x27;s a great piece of work and sounds great (&quot;great&quot; in the sense of, &quot;it&#x27;s fun to tweak the knobs and the sounds that result are roughly what I would expect based on my experience with real analog synths and modular synths) in the few minutes of tinkering I&#x27;ve done. I love it.