Talk:Eurorack

Doepfer

This is scandalous that Eurorack page redirects directly to Doepfer company system. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of Eurorack developers, including indie developers and more just enter market. This is product placement if not outright scam.

This page should contain: - General concept of Eurorack - a standard for modular synthesizers - Eurorack physical and electrical specification - (Long) list of module developers - Probably some live acts, videos, events DJWarmonger (talk) 16:11, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

• I disagree. The Eurorack specification was made by Doepfer and they are still the primary source for it. The article needs to point to the specific technical documents (Technical Details and Construction Details) not attempt to be some other source of authority. I have re-arranged the specific technical section to do this.

• Apart from these two documents, I agree that links to specific products need to be examined sceptically in case they are marketing. I just removed what appears to be PR fluff about Arturia, for example. On the subject of the mentions of Arturia and Moog, I think the current wording misses the interesting trend: that past manufacturers of different formats have switched to Eurorack: this would be Roland and Moog in particular. Otherwise, there is no point in mentioning their products.

• I think a list of module developers can only be unfair: there are module makers coming and going every day, and DIY. (And, I just tried to make a page on Australian Synthesizer Manufacturers, only to have it deemed of too little interest to be a page.) So perhaps just a better link to ModularGrid might do a lot of the work.

Rick Jelliffe (talk) 05:08, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

3U

It might be worth mentioning that Döpfer based his Eurorack standard on an existing 3U subrack standard used for scientific equipment. His innovation was to use that standard for a modular synthesiser. It might also be worth mentioning API's (apparently originally Aphex's) lunchbox format, which is also a 3U subrack standard. It seems that miniaturisation had meant that by the 90s, 3U subracks of studio equipment were a good idea whose time had come.

ZoeB (talk) 20:10, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Photos

It would be helpful to include a photo showing the inside of a case without some/all modules, to illustrate how the modules are mounted and how power is delivered. I visited this page hoping to understand how people put these things together and how flexible the module geometry is, and was largely unable to answer the question. Moppet (talk) 04:13, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

1) Agree that an internal photo should be include. 2) The first two references at Eurorack#Specifications has information. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 08:22, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

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List of manufacturers?

Currently the article links to a list of general synthesizer manufacturers. Would it be desirable to create a list of Eurorack specific manufacturers? Some of these companies have been around for two decades at this point (2024) K1angumwandler (talk) 08:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)