This is great and all, but I just don't get the fascination with modular.<p>I keep trying to understand, but all the demos that I hear are either just random blips and bleeps, simple arpeggios, or boring minimal drones. Never anything particularly musical, and even when I have heard musical ones it's never anything I don't think could be more easily done with any basic VST or hardware synth. I had a play with Reaktor and it's ok but seems overly complex in the back for the sounds I'm hearing out of it.<p>I've generally heard more compelling sounds from "normal" synths (Serum/Pigments/Omnisphere/whatever hardware). Modular just seems to add complicated wires and extra complexity between the items for no real gain. Maybe it's just the kind of music I like is not suited to it, I love dancey electronic music, but not the more experimental stuff.<p>Some people seem irrationally obsessed with modular and I can't help but wonder if it's just like people collecting mechanical keyboards for the sake of getting a good feeling from buying stuff. I have mechanical keyboards, am very particular about the type I like, and swear by them myself. But they're a tool for me and I don't see the attraction in having 100 very similar ones save different color keycaps.<p>It just seems ridiculous to spend thousands of dollars, give up desk space and have a rats nest of messy wires for what ends up being a basic dual oscillator synth.<p>Having said that, I'd much rather use VCV rack than the mess, hassle and expense of hardware modular.<p>Not having a go at people, I like tinkering with stuff as much as anyone, but I just don't see what I have to gain from modular. Please educate me.