Cardinal: The Amazingly FREE Modular Synth Plugin
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Howdy! Today we're going to dive into Cardinal - a free and open source modular synth based on the legendary VCV Rack that runs as a plugin in your DAW!
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0:00 Howdy
0:48 Some Dope Books About Modular
2:14 Getting Started With Cardinal
3:21 Building A Synth
5:57 The Magic Of CV
7:13 Finishing A Synth Patch
12:01 Building A Generative Sequencer
15:36 Building A Modular Audio Effect
18:45 Closing Thoughts
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Great video!! I had a good time with the first part of the tutorial and was able to produce the same results. I followed step by step on using Cardinal as a sequencer but I'm using Ableton as a DAW. I set up vital on another midi channel and linked it's input to the Cardinal out channel. I cannot hear the sequencer producing any output to vital, although I set it up as I always do, transport running, in outs correct
. Tried 5x to rewatch and compare to what you did in Bitwig. I'm confused. LOL. And fascinated.
Thank you.
This was a great video, really informative. I'm curious: Any idea on the difference between Cardinal and miRack? (They seem to be the same?)
THANKYOU FOR SHOWING ME THIS!!!! I've been wanting to use vcv rack in my daw for so long! tyty
Cool stuff, thx!
Here at JW-Modules, we are making life worth living one module at a time.
Legend.
Thnx for all the great modules!
You should put a dark-mode in them yourself some day ;)
Indeed
The GOAT
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Finally someone who treats me like the idiot I am with modular! I actually learned a lot from this vid. Thanks Cameron!
Hey, Cameron. I've been subbed to this channel for 2 years now, and I rarely comment, but I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you. You don't do the same stuff as other channels. And that's the part that has kept me watching your stuff more than the others that I started with when I was first learning. Even your videos about getting over writers block and your philosophical, and personal stuff is unique, and lets me know that a real human being that honestly cares about others is right here. You probably won't catch this comment, but by the off chance that you do: Thank you, sincerely. Your hard work is appreciated. And so, I'm taking a moment to let you know that. I hope others do too.
Well hey I appreciate it! Glad to know all the work that goes in doesn't go unnoticed. Cheers! 🤠☕
One of the Cardinal devs here. AMA.
You are a Cardinal dev?
@@irishmossdubwise That's what I said, yes. Got any other questions about the project?
@@_DRMR_ i couldnt seem to get cardinal to send a midi signal to another synth track in ableton like Cameron did with bitwig. But i do it with others. Im confused what is different. I followed instructions 3 times but no go. I put a good 5 hrs in on cardinal today and made some progress though. I love it. Id love to see a users group for Cardinal. I noticed the presets i got from the site i downloaded cardinal from don't work in it. Oh well.
@@irishmossdubwise Ableton doesn't run on my computer so I can't test this. Sorry.
@Polo polo pollo again, there is no such module. You are spreading misinformation. Cut it out.
I have no words to thank you for finally help me understand how these amazing sounds and music are made. Blessings from Mexico
I really appreciate this introductory look at Cardinal and modular in general. Thank you! :)
Super impressed with you as an instructor and Cardinal, very impressed that you have imparted some of your knowledge, very cool. Please do more. Thumbs way up.
This was excellent information, thank you. I downloaded Cardinal based on another video of yours and now I'm ready to go down the rabbit hole, lol. What a great way to learn and experiment with moduler and synthesis. Thanks for your great videos, they are by far the most helpful in getting started with synth, sound design, etc. that I've found. I appreciate you, this is what the internet is good for. I'm headed to your Patreon soon (after Christmas lol). Thanks again!
This is some world class educational content. From the explanations, through the flow coated by your perfect diction and pronunciation.
Amazing Job!
Great video and I would love to watch more on this subject. This is exactly the getting started tutorial I needed for modular synth. Thanks
This program is sooo much fun. Thank for the presentation! Only been patching for a couple hours and am down the most beautiful rabbit holes I've bee down in a long time. 🙏🕉
This is one of the best channels ever in my production journey learning. Thank you so much.
This is great. I was planning on using Cardinal in September to replace VCV anyway, and this gave me some good ideas about how to 'splain it in class. Thanks!
I understand your sentiment regarding modular tutorial videos. I'm pretty addicted to Omri's channel especially since im just getting my head in the modular game(learning vcv rack for about 1 year.) Though the time it must take to make a thorough modular tutorial must be a seriously insane undertaking.
Even though I'm hooked on his channel I have to say it's hardly a good day without my morning coffee with Cameron!
And as such I wanted to wholeheartedly Thank you from the absolute bottom of my heart for all the time that you put in on the regular as well as the love that you always put in your morning episodes❗️❕️❗️
I just want to say thank you so much for making this video. I didn't understand a lot of it yet it is new info to me.
i think i followed along ok and learned just so much and also now have this free synth to mess around with so big win! It is overwhelming when you see all of the items in the inventory - the entire screen is wall to wall components!
So thanks, i do think your videos are great and we are lucky to have access to stuff like this. Thanks again and cheers!
such an under-subbed channel. you should be in the millions, considering your massive brain power, clear and concise teaching capabilities, and wicked dry sense of humor. thanks for what you do cam
He's one of the higher sub count music production channels
@@BeersAndBeatsPDX i guess youre prolly right. its weird how some nonsense channels have millions, and their content isnt as helpful or entertaining to justify so many subs. guess what im just trying to say is this guy does what he does well :)
@@cuezaireekaa From a greater perspective Cam does very niche videos. At over 100k he's doing rather well and def in the area to be making a decent living from UA-cam.
@@BeersAndBeatsPDX thats good to hear. he deserves it
No doubt one of the best channels for music production.
This is fabulous! I love the book recommendation and am looking forward to working with Cardinal. Thank you!
love the video. I am using cardinal as a plugin along with vcv as a standalone audio input. The combination works so well together.
Awesome video, Cameron. A full review *and* a great modular tutorial. Many thanks.
Amazing how you can simplify the visuals, concepts and overviews in your videos. What a tremendous resource you are for sound designers, composers, and producers. Thank you...
Thanks bro, you honestly bring so much value to this world and I'm so appreciative of that. Cheers Cam !
I love Cardinal so much! They have Aria Salvatrice's plugins too. A tip I got from her is using a square wave AS a gate.
I can always depend on you showing me new interesting synths Cameron! Thanks for this video, I’m downloading Cardinal right now 🙂
I appreciate seeing you give Cardinal the love it deserves. It's usually a mediocre choice for "basic" setups like using it as a typical synth or filter, but it really shines when you need that extra, personalized touch that your other plugins can't give you; one of my favorite uses is building effects that react to MIDI input.
Also, it's beautiful for just messing around and experimenting, you can learn lots of new ways to make noise with it, and even create your own synthesis method if you feel like it.
After years of thinking I'll never be able to grok modular, I've started up the first steep slope of the Dunning Kruger curve. Thanks Cameron & Cardinal!
That is the best tutorial ever! i downloaded and followed your steps. suddenly learning a lot more!
Thank you so much for making this! I've known about VCVRack for ages but never bothered with it because I couldn't afford the pro version for DAW integration which I needed. And I've avoided modular synths for all the long time I've made music because while I know synth signal flow in general, I never felt like figuring out all the modular-synth-specific idioms. Thanks for making it simple and fun! I'm gonna start playing with Cardinal a lot more. Your channel is an absolute gem, always. 💜
THANK YOU!!! Awesome video as always man and I had no idea about Cardinal! Great book suggestions too dude ✌🏻
Thanks for the share, have been considering adding modular to my current set up, this will definitely help me see if it fits my workflow.
Again, a great video tutorial. Following you for some time. I'm just running a brand new Windows 11 based PC and Studio One 6.6 Pro. In the past on my old PC, I had some performance issues with Cardinal, so I never used it. But now, I just installed it and works great! Never went into the Modular world, because setting up a hardware based environment, cost some money, and second, it didn't really worked on my old PC. But now I'm in. For me, this video is a great start to use Modular concepts, in this case Cardinal. Well explained and clear. Thanks!
Amazing how quickly you pick these things up and make useful
Thanks Cameron for another awesome video. I love that so many of these companies give us free instruments/effects and other tools to use, it so cool and thanks to people like yourself, you make it easier to understand how to use some of them. Thank you for another cool helpful video.
It was always insane complicated to me, I almost went thousand times on and off on modular rack, but sir how you explained this thing so smoothly is something really appreciable, thank you so much, at least now I know where to start and will keep watching your videos for more knowledge.
Fantastic vid! Would love to see more Cardinal content! :)
Clear, professional, good vocal timbre. Kudos!
This is now in my top three channels. Love this content. Learning more here than I though possible on UA-cam
Same
What are the other two?
@@fastlearner292 philosophy tube and D4Darious.
A film score friend of mine turned me on to VCV 1 last year but it was so overwhelming I didn’t get into it. This helps so much and got me excited to try it out. Thank you for the tutorial.
Thank You! Would love to see more Cardinal content! :)
I was happy to see you doing some modular content. I made sure to watch the whole thing even though and I understand why the lesson was not as advanced as I would enjoy from you. Would still love an advanced poly patch with some of that ambient goodness you are more than qualified to teach.
Thank you for all you do Cameron, blessings to you! Killer good little tutorial man.
You are extremely talented on what you do, this material is great and I cannot add anything more that is not said before in comments below, thank you so much! 🙏
I've been waiting for this video. Very helpful
I have "Push Turn Move" myself and I absolutely love it. I also learn something from every one of your videos.
Super-excited to discover this and to easily get Cardinal running in Reason. Thank you.
Thank you very much for this, a very good tutorial in how to get started with modular! Best wishes from Devon UK.
Awesome! I was really hoping to see more eyes on Cardinal, and am glad to see a video about it here! Definitely look into BespokeSynth as well c;
I allways enjoy your amazing videos. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks bro! I've been looking for a video that was going to help me for quite some time
Venus theory can read my mind
The other day I was feeling really uninspired and you uploaded that video which caused me to write over three songs now and started on the 4th. And yesterday I was train sound design stuff on Cardinal and was looking for resources on UA-cam and couldn't find a good one. And today you upload this.
just how man
any way thanks a lot
love the videos 😀
OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU i just downloaded this!! I thought VCV was amazing but this comes preloaded with 1000 modules!! Holy moly i wanted something like this SOOO BAAAD 😭
Love these videos! Great job buddy
You really are an excellent teacher!
Slowly I am understanding this more and more. Venus Theory is the best!!!
By my calculations I was starting download right as you posted 👌🤣 Was looking for a “starter” video and here we go. Fresh as can be.
amazing thanks! been hoping someone would review this soon. I installed it and was like 🙃 so hopefully this will help me get up and going 🙏🏼
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
wow dude! thank you! great introduction to modular!!!!
Anyone whose ever mucked about with VCV rack knows that the first iterations weren't exactly a no brainer when it comes to DAW integration. Your step by step from signal generation to daw hosting are absolute pearls... cant wait to swoop Cardinal...thanks for the gold!👌
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!! Downloaded and installed Cardinal because of this channel and was so lost, and now I have a much better idea of where to start and how
This is INCREDIBLE. A deep dive that I ACTUALLY understand, holy crap, thanks a ton! :D This will be incredibly handy for me! :D
No joke, he doesn't just explain how to get started, he goes into details about why the output sounds the way it does. Understanding these concepts really helps for continuing with this beast.
This is a game changer for me. I have just bought Bitwig Studio, so as a VCV Rack user this is exactly what I needed. Now I can just use Cardinal and save everything in the Bitwig project. Fantastic :)
This is the best introduction to modular synthesis on UA-cam!
I just got this and love it. Works in FL flawlessly. 💪🏾
i was looking for this omg i love you, can you use cardinal effects for sounds creared with other plugins?
This helped me so much with patching basics .. thank you sir
Thank you so much! That was a wonderful class!
You are an EXCELLENT teacher!
That was really cool. I spent the whole day messing around! you can't stop! It would be awesome if you did more videos on how to use the modular synth. Thanks for all the great videos and hard work!
Awesome video, I missed this before and would definitely use it with my live host and DAW setups.
Thank you so much for this video. VCV Rack doesn't work on my PC, but Cardinal do, and I'm so happy to play with it😊
"musique au beurre" good one 👍👍 ----- thanks, I learned a lot from this video about modular synth with Cardinal !
Thanks!! I suggested this and am glad to see it!
I find that a lot of content, like this,l by independent broadcasters are done in more professional and informative way than most of the content on traditional terrestrial TV.
That was exeptionally informative! Thaks, man with a mustashe!
I was recently given Synth Gems 1 for my birthday. It is a great book! I intend to purchase more of their books. They might be expensive, but they are worth it.
So helpful/useful. All the basics of Cardinal/VCS in on super informative video.
I love the quality of your videos.
Nice! It's like a way of visually programming your own instruments and effects, for free, in any DAW.
Wow! This is such a good surprise, for me. For I just wanted to know better how all of those contraptions work together, to really understand that. A great means for my education. Thanks. :)
Dude. Duuuuuude.
This has completely blown my fucking mind. I've been using Cardinal nonstop for the past 12 hours. I feel like I've learned so much, and I've gained so much inspiration. I've recently been so frustrated with music and just trying to stay on my grind. I feel like this has finally made it all worth it.
Finding JW's tree module inspired by LOGO also seemed like some stroke of fate (I'm super into creative coding, generative art, etc. and a MASSIVE fan of LOGO).
I feel so lucky. Thank you so much Cameron.
I'm right there with you. It's a daw within a daw. The effects this comes with are so powerful, it basically makes half my plugin library irrelevant. There's everything for granular to x y gestures in here. Also, I've heard that the airwindows vcv module is likely coming to it as well. ALL 300 odd airwindows plugins in one module.
this is a cool channel. it tells me about stuff i need to look at and play with.
I love how you said you have standards - to be honest you're my fav. youtuber for ambient sound design music theory and composition - you're on point, your humor is spot on, you're content gets straight into it, you offer skips for sponsors due to chapters in YT - you have the highest quality period of story keep to exactly what you're doing as I'm sure you understand, no need to copy others - that's what makes you awesome your content is point from the heart and original! Thanks for all of the vids on the plugins as well, esp free vst/i stuff. Stay healthy and look forward to your next video, it's always right on point with what I want/need to watch to grow as a composer! Thank you so much! P.S. you're teaching style is perfectly on point, slow enough to cover ALL of the steps but fast enough to not get boring, the pace is timed perfectly! P.P.S. what's the difference between cardian and VCV rack? interface looks similar, is it just a fork w diff library of modules? It sounds amazing!
Your question about Cardinal has been answered several times in the comments below.
Do your own research ™
@@_DRMR_ Would you please remember to keep the vibe chill, none of my message was negative, 'twas a simple question after a long thank you, teach instead of gripe, if you could "copy" it into your comment that would be great; no sense in being hostile friendo and also I was wanting to hear VT's thoughts on the matter, not just any ol' description, thank you for your input have a wonderful day
@@lebronzejames9738 Yes it does make sense.
Frequently asked questions are not fun to keep answering when people don't even do the bare minimum to find out the answers.
Late to the party here (as is usual for me). Just got into Cardinal as I was never that interested in the stand alone version of VCV. This was an incredible video, even by your enviable standards. Thanks so much for making this all understandable and fun.
I got this plugin recently to practice modular, but I didn't really get into it because it seemed too overwhelming. The timing of this video was perfect for me. You present everything so clearly, and I'm very grateful for that
There is an element of patching in Reason Rack it's kinda the same.
@@HOLLASOUNDS Sherlock,-
@@MikkelGrumBovin Who?
sick dude really love this tutorial.
Thanks for letting me know!!! I will try it for sure!!! 🔥
Great content, as always!
That was very good. Thanks.
For Logic users, a workaround is to use Blue Cat Patch Work. Pick your instrument (in this case Pigments) and load patchwork as a MIDI FX on that same track and then within patch work, load in the cardinal component or vst. Then it works just the same way as what Cameron is doing here. Load in the synth version of the plugin, not the FX. I didn't try the FX, but I know that the synth works.
Thanks for the books link - You are hooping right now!!!
Thanks so much for the mention :)
Thank you for doing the lord's work all these years haha
Yoooo, thank you for this man.
I have only discovered your channel very recently. I have found your videos very useful, and you have a really cool radio voice. I would love to see more of your tutorial videos. Thank you for the good work! 😀
Great vid - esp the Pigments mash up. Man I'll have to watch it again to see how that's done. Perhaps pretty please you could do a similar vid but for making beats - even euclidean beats with Cardinal. My ind is still blown - only discovered Cardinal today lol
this plugin is all i‘ve ever dreamt of and the fact that it’s free almost kicked me out of my chair 😂
this is fantastic.
thanks for this, it's my new modular learning bible. never heard of cardinal, and about to get feet wet with eurorack, so this is literally exactly what I needed to see.
You uploaded this video the day after I had to spend hours wrestling audio out of VCV into Ableton :')
Thank you for this :D
Exellent video, very nice introduction that made me curious…😊👍🏻
Awesome. Should I ever get back into music production I will try this, and those books look cool!
I bet it has!😂
Only your explanation could make a dummy like me understand synthesis