Hi all,

A great analogy from Bakis. Some interesting replies from Zoe and Ikke too. My thoughts on the comment from Ikke "....It doesn't feel like a whole.....like an instrument......like a unity...." is that it places the onus on the Euro modular owner to create and evolve the module fit to make it more suited to his/her method of working i.e. you can make the instrument fit around you.

Judging by Bakis's sales and purchases, who is clearly one of the most prolific players/users, that this is a constant evolution :) . I love the fact that I can buy at least three different kind of quantizer (A-156, Quantimator, uScale) that all do the same basic task quite differently and have different features (I need to own them all!).

There is nothing to stop you using different modulars side-by-side and together - I have just delivered my first Euro-Buchla CV interface module (with orders for more) to a client (check out http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php t=53024) .

For me, I use my Euro system and Roland 100m modulars together; like children I love them equally because of their own special characters (no matter how much I have spent on synths my kids have cost me far more haha).

Cheers
Tony
Synovatron Electronic Music

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Bakis Sirros <synth_freak_2000@...> wrote:
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> some thoughts on the various modular systems, after 12 years using them (owning a big euro/A100, a big Serge and a 'not that big' Buchla system)  :
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> no matter how much praise the Buchla and the Serge seem to get, in my
> opinion, a big Euro/Doepfer and Metalbox/Blacet Frac monster wall is (at
> least!) up there with them in limitless creative potential. 
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> within euro/A100, you just
> have to have patience, knowledge and dedication to put all the little
> 'lego' modular sonic pieces together to create fantastic aural worlds.
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> in detail: Buchla and euro have different design philosophies.
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> if Euro/A100 is Lego then Buchla is Playmobil. what i mean is that, in euro, you have small building blocks to sculpt your sound (just like Lego), but, in Buchla, you have big modules that will serve well as ready-made ideas. two different philosophies. no one is better, just different.
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> so, in order to replicate a Buchla module, you need 5-6 euro modules of similar functions. in the end, the value of these 5-6 euro modules are basically the same as that one Buchla module. so Euro is not cheap, compared to Buchla! its just Lego.
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> Serge is somewhere in between: more Lego than Buchla, more playmobil than Euro/A100. the good thing about Serge is that many parameters have a huge modulation range.
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> so, do value your Doepfer/euro modular system: it can do amazing things that are exactly up there with the results of Buchla and Serge. you just have to work with it differently and with more dedication and more patience and you really need to know your modules inside out!
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> bottom line: with the current insane variation of euro / A100 modules, a big euro system is practically unrivaled today IMHO.
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> i would even say that it gives so many insane possibilities that are more 'out of this world' than Serge and Buchla!
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> and i am serious about it.
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> just few thoughts...
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