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Stupid title. It would also let you create 2018 Electronic Music.

Been using VCV rack for a bit and its fairly awesome (Usually over MIDI sequenced via BitWig).

That seems an odd complaint? Any music made this year is 2018 music, but what people might not know is that you can faithfully reproduce the sounds of analog synths that largely defined vast swathes of the music landscape of the 70s and 80s.

(If you've been active in digital music for a while it's easy to forget how little the general public knows about stuff like this, and a title that goes "did you know you can do X with Y?" is better than a dry factual title)

i'm with timc3 on this one. at this point every dude with a beard and a modular suitcase has a standing gig in the park making gurgly noises for people, and every gamer who watched deadmau5's twitch has a bunch of mutable instruments modules. it's folk music for the 2010s. and the music of the 70s wasn't, for the most part (yes we can point to the exceptions but that misses the point), bleeps and bloops, it was keith wakeman in leather pants. by the 80s these were collecting dust (so that we could buy them for cheap in the 90s!)

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