I never used them but I got the impression Euroracks were going out of style from the huge spike in electronic musicians talking about them around COVID to only rarely a few years later. Musicians love a good trend to dump money into.
Or maybe it's just the nature of social media to latch on to trendy new toys until they run out of content and move on to the next thing.
Funny enough I was just looking at the Erica Synths github the other day. There's been a few synth and audio posts on HN the past few months. Pretty cool to see it.
I don't think it's going out of style at all, there was a huge spike of chatter about Eurorack during COVID because many people's lives revolved around consumerism.
I still see plenty of acts using modulars, artists are just playing them instead of posting videos of jams on social media.
There's many more options of makers and modules than ever before, I think people are just making music instead of showing off. A quite nice change if I'm honest.
Not surprising that shop links are broken, the whole point of open sourcing was that those products were getting discontinued.
I hate when companies erase any traces of legacy products from their website. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. They made a git repo containing more technical data than available before and products can still be found on their website if you open the "discontinued products" section of shop or search in support page. That's a lot better than what many consumer electronic manufacturers do.
From what I understand these were DIY kits from the beginning so schematics were always available. Gerber files and cc licensing are the main addition.
I never used them but I got the impression Euroracks were going out of style from the huge spike in electronic musicians talking about them around COVID to only rarely a few years later. Musicians love a good trend to dump money into.
Or maybe it's just the nature of social media to latch on to trendy new toys until they run out of content and move on to the next thing.
> Musicians love a good trend to dump money into.
If I get just one more thing my music will sound good :)
Euroracks will not go out of style in any serious way, in the same way guitar has not gone out of style over the years even though there were fads.
A few months ago I bought a https://www.dreadbox-fx.com/erebus-reissue/ (semi) and within an hour I decided modular was cool.
Funny enough I was just looking at the Erica Synths github the other day. There's been a few synth and audio posts on HN the past few months. Pretty cool to see it.
I don't think it's going out of style at all, there was a huge spike of chatter about Eurorack during COVID because many people's lives revolved around consumerism.
I still see plenty of acts using modulars, artists are just playing them instead of posting videos of jams on social media.
There's many more options of makers and modules than ever before, I think people are just making music instead of showing off. A quite nice change if I'm honest.
Lot of broken links on that page.
Not surprising that shop links are broken, the whole point of open sourcing was that those products were getting discontinued.
I hate when companies erase any traces of legacy products from their website. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. They made a git repo containing more technical data than available before and products can still be found on their website if you open the "discontinued products" section of shop or search in support page. That's a lot better than what many consumer electronic manufacturers do.
From what I understand these were DIY kits from the beginning so schematics were always available. Gerber files and cc licensing are the main addition.