Hello

Am 29.01.2015 um 22:44 schrieb Jonathan jss9h@... [Doepfer_a100]:

> Interesting how many "conventional" synth manufacturers are getting into Eurorack these days....

There are good arguments from the makers side:

A module is not sold as a complete device, but as an accessory. So you
don't have to care for the CE-compliance test. This test costs a lot of
money.

A model can be sold for nearly the same price (or even the same) as the
complete device. But the producer does not have buy the powersupply and
the casing (the most expensive hardware parts in a synth). Imagine a
Waldorf Rocket. It costs 210 Euros at Thomann. Now imagine, how much you
would have to pay in modules, to get a polyphonic oscillator with
arpeggiator, an analog VCF, a tricky little Decay Envelope, an LFO. If
they'd put out the Rocket for 350 Euros as euro rack module many of us
would buy it.

Also a modular system is creating the demand at the customer. A customer
that buys one module, soon will buy another one and this other module
will make him buy the next, and so on. A complete synth doesn't work
like this.
Modular synth gear works like a loose leave edition: you'd never buy a
book for 100 USD, but no one cares if you start to buy a loose leave
series for $2 each week. And do that thorough one year...

Florian