Followed an excellent howto youtube by Omri Cohen showing a fairly complex generative patch in VCV and replicated most of it – holy moly this sounds good, but it's bringing my laptop to its knees :( Hence the the drop outs and crackle…
This is a completely new ballgame for me - I'll need to start from ground zero to get an intuitive feel for how some of these modules work as modulators and work my way up to being able to build anything as complex as this