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BlokDust VS VCV Rack

Compare BlokDust VS VCV Rack and see what are their differences

BlokDust logo BlokDust

Join blocks together to build sounds with this web-based music making app.

VCV Rack logo VCV Rack

A cross-platform modular synthesizer.
  • BlokDust Landing page
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    2021-12-14
  • VCV Rack Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-11-06

BlokDust videos

BlokDust - First Test of Self-Playing Environments

More videos:

  • Review - BlokDust - Quick Test of using MIDI controllers
  • Review - BlokDust - Making a Vocal Sampler (for MIDI Keys)

VCV Rack videos

VCV Rack vs Hardware: is there a difference? Testing Mutable Instruments Clouds, Rings and Elements

More videos:

  • Review - 10 awesome FREE modules in VCV Rack (Review with techno patches)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to BlokDust and VCV Rack)
Music
100 100%
0% 0
3D
0 0%
100% 100
Audio & Music
100 100%
0% 0
Music Generation
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, VCV Rack seems to be a lot more popular than BlokDust. While we know about 112 links to VCV Rack, we've tracked only 1 mention of BlokDust. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

BlokDust mentions (1)

VCV Rack mentions (112)

  • Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
    > It’s haven’t bought any Modular’s yet but I’m really looking forward to getting into other on the new year. http://cardinal.kx.studio https://vcvrack.com/ The former is libre and gratis, runs as a standalone or plugin and in the browser!! and is based on the latter. Ther former has a libre and gratis standalone version, the plugin version is non-gratis. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
  • Ask HN: Whats the modern day equivalent of 80s computer for kids to explore?
    A music synthesizer. It's a pathway to learning electronics, music, and the nature of sound. There are cheap kits, cheap synths, lots of kinds of synths, and there are much more complicated and expensive systems you can grow into. You can get software synths also, VCV Rack is a free though complex one: https://vcvrack.com/ However I'd recommend an inexpensive hardware one with real knobs you can turn, like one... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • I love synthesizers, but I suck at synthesis and sound design?
    What really opened my eyes was the Nord Micromodular; it taught me what I just described. It showed me how limited other synths were - but that limitation was a trade-off because it's much faster to make something on a fixed-structure synth than on a modular, in most cases. Nowadays, you can use https://vcvrack.com/ instead of a small limited box that needs Windows 98 to run the editor on. Source: 10 months ago
  • Long time Cubase user who is leaving a more traditional electronic workflow to modular hardware... Bitwig seems to be the DAW more for this style possibly? Any opinions first hand?
    Also I would suggest the paid version of VCV rack which works as a VST too ( the free version is just stand alone ) Expecially when experimenting with modular ( believe me, it can save you a fortune whilst you learn what different modules do ) I would also recommend Omri Cohens Youtube channel for learning this too. Source: 11 months ago
  • Recreate boutique pedals in DAW?
    Would be way easier with VCV rack than a DAW as there's already almost 3k modules including a lot of granular and other complex ones that blow away a lot of pedals: https://vcvrack.com/. Source: 11 months ago
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SynthEdit - Visual programming software to build your own synthesizer.