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HOUSE OF BEATS VCV Rack 2 bundle: CLOVE DELAY, GINGER VCA, SAFFRON VCF, CUMIN ADSR, NUTMEG LFO

HOUSE OF BEATS · VCV Rack 2 · v2.1.0

HOUSE OF BEATS VCV Rack 2 Bundle

Analog-modelled HOUSE OF BEATS Eurorack modules for VCV Rack — the same panels as our DIY hardware kits.

Paid$50one-time · perpetual · no subscription

Five analog-modelled modules for VCV Rack 2: a bucket-brigade delay, a dual linear VCA, a 4-pole OTA low-pass filter, an analog envelope, and a three-wave LFO. One-time purchase, yours forever. Not part of the membership or Academy bundles.

  • — Platforms: Windows x64
  • — Mac and Linux: not available yet.
  • — VCV Rack 2.6 or newer
  • — Not included in membership or Academy tiers

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Patch demo

The modules

CLOVE DELAY module panel
CLOVE DELAYBBD delay · 12HP
GINGER VCA module panel
GINGER VCADual linear VCA · 8HP
SAFFRON VCF module panel
SAFFRON VCF4-pole OTA low-pass · 10HP
CUMIN ADSR module panel
CUMIN ADSRAnalog envelope · 10HP
NUTMEG LFO module panel
NUTMEG LFOTri / square / saw LFO · 8HP

Install guide

Install HOUSE OF BEATS

VCV Rack 2 plugin. Price: $50 one-time, perpetual license. Platforms: Windows x64 (this release). Brand HOUSE OF BEATS, slug HouseOfBeats.

Built against the VCV Rack 2.6.6 SDK. Use Rack 2.6 or newer.

Modules

ModuleHPRole
Clove Delay12Dual V3207 bucket-brigade delay, about 10–150 ms. Feedback can self-oscillate. Tone sits in the loop. An LFO swings the clock. Send is the wet signal. Return is normalled to Send.
Ginger VCA8Dual linear OTA VCA. Full gain is half open; a positive CV opens it the rest of the way. IN 2 is normalled to IN 1, and CV 2 is normalled to CV 1.
Saffron VCF10Four one-pole OTA stages in a ladder. Expo cutoff, 1 V/oct, and a CV attenuverter. Resonance climbs until the filter sings. Bass drops as resonance rises; there is no passband makeup gain.
Cumin ADSR10Envelope with gate hysteresis (on above about 1.9 V, off below about 1.1 V). Attack ends near 9.84 V. OUT is the envelope, INV is the same shape inverted. The right-click menu can switch the pots from the hardware linear law to a log curve. It ships linear.
Nutmeg LFO8Expo rate, Slow and Fast ranges. Triangle is ±4.8 V. Square is inverted against the internal Schmitt. Saw rises twice per triangle cycle. The LED is on while the internal square is high.

Binaries in this package

HouseOfBeats-2.1.0-win-x64.vcvplugin is a zstd-compressed tar, not a zip. The folder inside is HouseOfBeats/.

FileOSIn this package
plugin.soLinux x64No (not in this release)
plugin.dllWindows x64Yes

macOS is not supported. This release ships the Windows x64 binary only. Linux is not included yet.

Install on Linux

Plugin folder:

~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64
zstd -dc HouseOfBeats-2.1.0-win-x64.vcvplugin | tar -x -C ~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64

You should end up with:

~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/plugin.so
~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/plugin.dll
~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/plugin.json
~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/res/CloveDelay.svg
~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/res/GingerVCA.svg
~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/res/SaffronVCF.svg
~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/res/CuminADSR.svg
~/.local/share/Rack2/plugins-lin-x64/HouseOfBeats/res/NutmegLFO.svg

Linux loads plugin.so. Quit Rack if it is open, then start it again.

Install on Windows

Plugin folder:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Rack2\plugins-win-x64\

That is usually C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Rack2\plugins-win-x64\.

Extract the archive so HouseOfBeats\plugin.dll sits in that folder. With zstd and tar (Git Bash, or Windows 11 tar after zstd -d):

mkdir -p "$LOCALAPPDATA/Rack2/plugins-win-x64"
zstd -dc HouseOfBeats-2.1.0-win-x64.vcvplugin | tar -x -C "$LOCALAPPDATA/Rack2/plugins-win-x64"

Restart Rack. Windows uses plugin.dll from this package.

Load the modules

Restart Rack. Right-click an empty rack and search HOUSE OF BEATS. The five modules are Clove Delay, Ginger VCA, Saffron VCF, Cumin ADSR, and Nutmeg LFO.

One patch that shows the set: Nutmeg’s triangle into Saffron’s CV (turn CV amount up a little), a oscillator into Saffron’s input, Saffron’s output into Ginger’s IN 1, and Cumin’s OUT into Ginger’s CV 1 with Ginger’s gain down and the CV knob up. Gate Cumin. The filter sweeps and the envelope opens the VCA.

Clove Delay’s right-click menu has Compander (SA571). It ships off, matching the hardware, which left the compander unpopulated. Cumin’s menu has Log timing curve, also off, matching the linear pots.

If it does not show up

  • The folder must be named HouseOfBeats and must contain plugin.json next to plugin.so (Linux) or plugin.dll (Windows).
  • It must live in the plugins-<os>-<arch> directory above, not in Rack’s program folder.
  • Rack 2.6 looks under ~/.local/share/Rack2 on Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Rack2 on Windows. If your Rack was installed a long time ago it may still be using ~/.Rack2 or Documents\Rack2. Check Help → User folder in Rack and put HouseOfBeats in that folder’s plugins-… directory.
  • An older install that only contained Clove Delay should be replaced with this package. The plugin version is 2.1.0 (Rack 2 rejected the earlier 1.1.0 package).