We are the music makers - producers?

Dramatic_Hammer
That said, it's hard to find modular demos which show something usable in a conventional sense and aren't just semi-random bleeps and bloops.

EB
^ farts in space. expensive farts in space. I get the slight gear fetishism of modular, and the randomness, but for musicality.....

I agree. Firstly I hate menu diving. If you're buying modular (which ever format frac/5U/5M/Euro) just to make a traditional...say, trumpet sound then you're making a big mistake as a digital synth can do that piss easy and for much less dough.

However modular not only encourages you to fiddle with knobs and plugs, you're forced. Theres something appealing about not being able to save patches. Make it, use it, sample it, move on.
It makes sense if you're about experimentation. The best are those that have a foot in both worlds.

Don Buchla is the absolute daddy of instruments. Your mate must be MINTED. It is mad seeing how many manufacturers have jumped onto Euro...When I got my first bits early 2000s, you could count the number of manufacturers on one hand. Now....I can't keep up. Even Roland are on it. Korg will be next ::taps nose::

What marks the above modular out is that all of the main features across all 4 of its channels are accessible by hand as well as having a screen (which is essential to see exactly what is going on IMO). None of the others euclid boxes are as dedicated and require doing it blind or all via 1 knob.

https://youtu.be/QpLPBW8JfhM

https://youtu.be/_HsiztgvuXw

More Euclid:
https://vimeo.com/33225395