Four tempo-synced rhythmic effects for VCV Rack. A rhythmic gate, a ping-pong delay, an 8-step pattern delay and a crossfader — feed them a clock and everything they do locks to musical time, from two bars down to a 1/32. Pull the clock and they run free. CV over the controls that matter.
Also in the VCV Library — search Rikoshet in Rack and click Add.
Patch a clock and every module snaps its motion to musical subdivisions — two bars down to a 1/32, with dotted and triplet values. No clock? They run from their own tempo knob, so they work standalone or in a patch.
These are effects that move in space as well as time — stereo offset, ping-pong cross-feed, alternating tap panning and width. They stay out of the way harmonically and put their character into timing and the stereo image.
Every module exposes CV over the controls you'd actually want to automate — rate, time, feedback, mix, depth — plus click-free parameter glides so sweeps and modulation stay clean, and dry-through bypass on every one.
A tempo-synced amplitude gate — tremolo to hard pattern gating. Rate picks from 14 musical subdivisions; Shape morphs a hard square to a raised cosine; Pulse Width sets the duty cycle; a Stereo Offset slips the right channel for width. CV over Rate, Shape, Depth and PW, plus a gate-envelope output.
A stereo delay with cross-fed feedback that bounces repeats between channels. Spread offsets the right-channel time for tumbling echoes, Cross sets how much feedback crosses sides, and low- and high-cut sit in the feedback path so repeats darken naturally as they fade. Sync or free time.
An 8-step delay across a tempo-synced window. Per-tap level sliders place the hits, alternating L/R panning with Spread opens the stereo image, Decay tapers the taps toward the end, and Feedback recirculates the whole pattern — darkening a little each pass through the high-cut.
A stereo A/B crossfader with input drive and an equal-power curve. Blend parallel chains of Rikoshet effects into one rhythm, or use it as a dry/wet control around a serial chain. CV over Mix and Drive — the small utility that ties the family together.
Free, open source, and built to be played. No account, no nag screen.
Search Rikoshet in the VCV Library and click Add, or download the plugin directly and drop it into Rack's user plugin folder. It appears under the SHLabs brand. Source is on GitHub under GPL-3.0 — read it, build it, or send a fix.