VCV Rack is a virtual modular system with user-submitted modules, I was just being a bit edgy posing it as alternative to Volcano. Please don't get the OG Drumbrute it's huge and unusable hahahah but I love it all the same.
I do agree, it is inspiring to have real instruments. I have blown cash on them at times, instead of like getting new trousers and stuff. Eurocrack is one hell of a drug. And getting a setup plugged is its own dark art.
The thing about the Neutron's rawness and lack of memory, to me that is actually a strength - it IS a modular synth after all, if a basic one. Throughout the jam it was my main track starter alongside the SQ-1.
I actually also was too much in-the-box these days, this jam brought me back to cables and hands-on performance.