README.md

VCV Rack

Rack is the host application for the VCV virtual Eurorack modular synthesizer platform.

• VCV website
• Manual
• Support
• Module Library
• Rack source code
• Building
• Communities
• Licenses (HTML)

Acknowledgments

• Andrew Belt: Lead Rack developer
• Pyer: Module design, component graphics
• Richie Hindle: Rack developer, bug fixes
• Grayscale: Module design, branding
• Christoph Scholtes: Library reviews and plugin toolchain
• Translators
  • German: Stephan Müsch, Norbert Denninger
  • Spanish: Kevin U. Cano Guerra, Coriander V. Pines
  • French: Pyer
  • Italian: Alessandro Paglia
  • Chinese (Simplified): NoiseTone
  • Japanese: Leo Kuroshita
• Rack plugin developers: Authorship shown on each plugin's VCV Library page
• Rack users like you: Bug reports and feature requests

Dependency libraries

• GLFW
• GLEW
• NanoVG
• NanoSVG
• oui-blendish
• osdialog (written by Andrew Belt for VCV Rack)
• ghc::filesystem
• Jansson
• libcurl
• OpenSSL
• Zstandard (for Rack's .tar.zstd patch format)
• libarchive (for Rack's .tar.zstd patch format)
• PFFFT
• libspeexdsp (for Rack's fixed-ratio resampler)
• libsamplerate (for Rack's variable-ratio resampler)
• RtMidi
• RtAudio
• Fuzzy Search Database (written by Nils Jonas Norberg for VCV Rack's module browser)
• TinyExpr (for math evaluation in parameter context menu)

Contributions

VCV is unable to accept outside code contributions, but if you wish to contribute to the VCV Rack software, you can:

• Request a feature or report a bug to VCV Support.
• Learn about Rack and answer questions in the VCV communities.
• Develop your own Rack plugin, or help maintain an existing plugin.
• Apply for a job at VCV.