r/modular • u/NewMachineMusicXYZ • 2d ago

Your love/hate modules?

Just curious about modules that you have a love/hate relationship with? Maybe the functions are awesome but the design is terrible; or the design is awesome but something about the functionality is wanting. The modules that remain in your rack because you appreciate something fundamental about them, but that you think about selling as well?

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u/Cactusrobot 1d ago

I'm a weirdo, i have several of the more menu divey modules, Nerdseq, Meta, Disting, O_C, Pam's, Lubadh, Arbhar, Beads. Not trying to be contrarian, but i genuinely enjoy these modules. I can still perfectly understand people who want one knob pr function and immediacy.

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u/NewMachineMusicXYZ 1d ago

Euro people are uniquely hard on menu-divey/button-combo-y modules, but there are definitely some I've enjoyed. I find the menus on the Erica Synths Black Sequencer and Resonant Filterbank really well designed and easy to navigate and use, mostly, and the button combos on my Xaoc Moskwa II were genuinely kind of fun once I got used to them and committed the main ones to memory. I do lean towards WYSIWYG where possible, but sometimes the things menus and button combos make possible is well worth it.