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Eurorack Knob Idea

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311 points po | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 13:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | 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. kgwxd ◴[25 Apr 25 17:07 UTC] No.43796087[source]▶
I got sucked into it a little over a year ago, it's starting to wear a bit thin for me already though.

> I sense there are a lot of enthusiasts that do a lot more tinkering than actually playing them

It's called "sound design" :) Can't start on a song until the timbre of my never-quite-done-this-way-before saw tooth bass is juuuuuuust right.