This is an implementation of Jonah Senzel's Pet Rock module for VCV Rack.
Most code, imagery, etc. is heavily based on, or directly copied from Jonah's original open source Pet Rock repository!
For info on how Pet Rock works and the ideas it represents check out petrock.site and the manual in the original pet-rock repo.
The software version works exactly the same as the manual states, including fixed 8V outputs.
Like the hardware version, Pet Rock's VCV clone doesn't have options, buttons, or menus, and there is no easy way to change the internal date.
Why did I design the module to limit choice? When choice is endless and vast, oddly enough we start to make the same choices over and over again (part of ‘blank canvas syndrome’) A system with lots of choices needs something to work against; a problem. A problem puts us on our toes, forces us to experiment and squeeze through tight spots. In the exponentially configurable and open world of modular synthesis, this module seeks to provide a problem - a fun problem, which asks to be dealt with - molded and kneaded
– Jonah Senzel, Pet Rock Field Manual V1.0
You can, but it's changed...
It frustrates me that devices turn off. It spoils the illusion that they're real. There's a forest behind my parent's house and a thicket of thorns. When I leave it and return things change, things have grown, and died. When I turn on my synthesizer it performs exactly as it did when I last used it, frozen perfectly in time, switched off. I want the synthesizer to show that it still lives when out of my line of sight I want it to have object permanence. That way it will be real. Then I can come to it, and wake it up, instead of turning it on, and ask it what it has to give me. It will serve me what it wants. It will act differently than it did before. The living device allows me to see past the turning of knobs, the idea that I have ultimate control. It speaks and I listen, and it has moods, and phases. Devices need not be static, they can have lives of their own, changing with the passage of time, sitting in a drawer and thinking, acting differently when taken out.
– Jonah Senzel, Pet Rock Field Manual V1.0
If you like the module and want to buy a hardware version, or send support to the creator check out Pet Rock on synthCube!
If you liked this VCV rack implementation and want to support me making more modular stuff send me a coffee here
This repo is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. For full details see LICENSE.txt