Modular Products Suck (2025)

That is a grand statement That must be specific to some specific product that the author has used and can not be a general statement.

What is modular? parts that have been separated to allow for exchange or modification . Lamp that can be detached from the the light fixture. For music speaker, amplifier, tuner, receiver.. etc; Battery that be changed. For furniture, modular allow for flexible configuration. For cell phones, not allowing the battery to be changed is a crime that has not gone unpunished. Even reactors are going modular where components are plugged in to increase the output or whatever.

> Electronic musicians get excited about modular synths, but hardly anyone uses them to make good music in practice. The opinionated microKORG (right) has beaten Eurorack chassis sales (left) by an estimated 100x.

Quotes like this really beg the question of whether or not the author knows what a microKORG sounds like, and why musicians refuse to discuss it today. I expected more from a competitive philosopher.