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Eurorack Knob Idea

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312 points po | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 13:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.289s | source
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JKCalhoun ◴[25 Apr 25 14:13 UTC] No.43793774[source]▶
It's interesting. I haven't been sucked into the Eurorack thing though — do people want not just patch cables all over their mixing desk but knobs as well?

Eurorack (and modular synths in general) seem like funny things. Like guitar pedals, I sense there are a lot of enthusiasts that do a lot more tinkering than actually playing them. Watching Rick Beato and guests on YouTube ... seems like a lot of musicians are looking instead for simplicity. Like a few good sounding pedals that, ideally, each have just a knob or two.

Maybe the synth-heads are in a whole different headspace though.

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1. geerlingguy ◴[25 Apr 25 15:41 UTC] No.43794791[source]▶
Watch some episodes of LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER for an example of the kind of tinkering/creativity some people at least love to have available in the physical realm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw

A lot of the music is made just playing with different parts of the sound, and having all the controls exposed to be messed with can lead to more creativity.

IMO, kind of like how I enjoy Linux configuration files, in a way, more than I do a GUI that covers up 90% of the guts of an application or server software.