Review reports of Eurorack modules

Holy Batman, Garfield!

Such a magnus opus on modular reviews you have achieved with the reviews! I think you should publish a book on modular reviews and so forth. Your writing and research is quite excellent. Perhaps you could partner with Chris at LearningModular on this to share efforts? He did write the Patch & Tweak book on modular with Bjorn. I have the SEM filter as it came with my Doepfer A100 Basic system that got me started in Eurorack modular world two years ago. Love it. Makes me yearn for a Prophet 6 or OB6 keyboard hardware synth to make retro 80s new wave music.

Hi Sacguy71,

Thank you! :-) Interesting idea about writing a book, I keep that in mind for a possible (far) future idea/project. Let me create some more review reports first then I will chew on that idea :-) Kind regards, Garfield.

Thanks Garfield,

Also since I am a published author for books, I'd be open to contributing in the future.

Hi Sacguy71,

Oh that's great to know! Thank you very much for your kind support. Let's see what and how the future brings us together regarding that book idea :-) Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Everyone,

I have added some more free downloadable review reports of Eurorack modules in PDF format on my website, please refer below my signature for the link:

ACL: Multi II
ADDAC: 200b Buffered Multiples
Doepfer: A-106-5 SEM filter, A-110-1 VCO, A-124 Wasp filter, A-130-1 Linear VCA, A-131-1 Exp. VCA, A-140-1 ADSR, A-145-1 LFO and A-180-3 Dual Buffered Multiple
Erica Synths: Black 8 Mult, Pico Multi v1.2, Pico Switch and Black VCA v2
Frequency Central: Dual XVCA
Hikari Instruments: Quad Switch
Intellijel: Audio I/O
Make Noise: Multiple and STO
Patching Panda: Punch v1
Waldorf: DVCA1
Xaoc Devices: Tallin and Warna II

Quick guide: Read chapter 2, that's all you need to know if you suffer from TL;DR symptoms ;-) Or read the entire report if you don't. For those who want more detailed information on the parameters and characteristics used in these review reports you can go to my website and at the top right click on "Other documents" then click on the latest Review_report_appendices_version link to download the Appendices, the Glossary and the Change Log that goes with the above mentioned review report.

Kind regards, Garfield.

-- if you do get to a format that is faster for you to complete, how about spending dedicated chunk of time trying to cover the more interesting modules available in one segment (e.g. sequencers, complex oscillators, etc.)? Then your detailed work would basically line up with and support a bunch of the summary findings given in lists like Doudoroff's (https://doudoroff.com/sequencers/). And after you cover one "cluster" of interesting modules, then you could move to a next interesting cluster. If out of ~8000 modules there are 10-20 interesting subgroups and you cover 5-10 most interesting modules in a group, then its
Feel free to use or ignore any of my comments above. I hope at least some of this is helpful to you!
-- nickgreenberg

Hi Nickgreenberg, All,

It took me a while but I since a while I am following up on your above mentioned idea. I am not following it up for 100% but as good as possible though. The way how I follow up on your idea is that I take a bunch of modules with the same functionality that I review and then move on to the next functionality. I finished multiples and VCAs for the moment, till I get perhaps another interesting multiple or VCA and moving on now to the next functionality, which is audio interface modules.

I have made "comparison" tables of functionality as well as tables where parameters & characteristics used in the review reports have been "bundled" in tables to compare the modules against each other from different angles and aspects. I have collect all those tables and reflected them in one PDF that's downloadable from my website in the "Other documents" tab, it's called "Review_reports_tables_20220508" whereby the date indicates the version or latest update. Here is the link to that:

https://garfieldmodular.net/index.php/other-documents/

Thanks a lot for your feedback that I finally managed to use in my updated way of reviewing the reports :-) Kind regards, Garfield.