The discussion whether TAL-Mod is modular or not, and thus whether the name is misleading or not, may not be fully on topic, but I can't leave this uncommented because I've been using VAZ Modular for 25 years. That wasn't just one of the most overlooked softsynths at the time it got to v3, it also eschewed patchcords in favour of drop-down menus and it was distinguished from its lesser versions, VAZ Plus and VAZ 2010, while *each* of them was patch-programmable to various degrees. Just because a synth has programming options doesn't mean it's modular. Modular means that for each patch you get to choose your own module assortment from what's available or even that you can decide yourself how many instances of each module *are* available, with limitations only being imposed by practical factors like space, cost or (in software) memory and CPU, but not by the *designer*. In the hardware world, early programmable non-modular synths like the 2600 (patchcords), MS-20 (patchcords), Easel (patchcords and storage card) or VCS3 (pins) are called semi-modular, and that's the maximum one can attribute to TAL-Mod without being wrong or misleading.
Statistics: Posted by Sound_Bear — Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:02 am