HOW TO GET STARTED WITH MODULAR: Best value modules, why hardware is better, cases, power, and more!

Summary by Krater

Andrew Huang introduces modular synthesizers for beginners, explaining why to go modular and recommending specific Eurorack modules across categories like oscillators, filters, effects, utilities, VCAs, noise tools, and random generators, while giving away a starter system and keyboard.

From the video

Answers: What are the best modular synthesizer modules for beginners to buy first?

• Eurorack modular synthesis basics
• Why choose modular synthesis over computers
• Modular synthesizer module categories
• Oscillator modules for beginners
• Filter modules and sound shaping
• Effect modules for delay and reverb
• Utility and function modules like Maths
• Voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCAs)
• Noise tools and sample and hold
• Random generators and probability modules
• Clock and rhythm sequencing modules
• Pitch sequencing and quantization modules

What it concludes

• ALM Busy Circuits MCO is a great tiny module for sweeping between digital chip waveforms with sub and pulse wave outputs.
• Mutable Instruments Plaits offers a wide variety of synthesis types ranging from synths to percussion and vowel sounds.
• Tiptop Audio Forbidden Planet is the best value filter that can run lowpass, bandpass, and highpass simultaneously and self-oscillate.
• Erica Synths Dual FX provides a lot of delay and reverb algorithms and utility in a compact two-channel module.
• Make Noise Maths is the most popular Eurorack module for envelopes, LFOs, offsets, signal inversion, combining signals, and slew limiting.
• Chaos Tallin provides great analog overdrive circuitry and volume modulation for audio and CV signals alike.