Yes all true. I was thinking about the price for "one oscillator" versus the not much more for a whole Blofeld synth with polyphony etc.

In a way I hope the big manufacturers don't get into the modular world too much. If Korg, Yamaha etc got into modulars I could see that squeezing the more boutique manufacturers out and I def don't want that.

David

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> On 30 Jan 2015, at 10:35, Florian Anwander fanwander@... 1 < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
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> Hello
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>> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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
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