Eurorack Modular Synthesizer
Eurorack is a modular synthesizer format originally specified in 1995 by Doepfer, Doepfer Musikelektronik. It has since grown in popularity, and has become a dominant hardware modular synthesizer format, with over 15,000 modules available from more than 600 different manufacturers ranging from DIY kits and boutique, cottage-industry designers to well-known, established synth mass-manufacturers like Moog Music, Moog and Roland Corporation, Roland. Compact size, Phone connector (audio), 3.5mm mono jacks and cables for patching all signals, and lack of a visual or sonic aesthetic defined by one manufacturer sets Eurorack apart from other modular synthesizer formats, and these factors have contributed to the popularity of Eurorack among both manufacturers and musicians. History Before Eurorack, in the late 1970s, several modular systems based on the industrial “Euro” card frames appeared: * Elektor Formant (3U or 6U × 7HP, 3.5 mm jacks, 31-pin bus, ±15 V) * BME PM10/A ...
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