Oh dear, What have I started here!
Moogulator - if I read your last message correctly, then I'm seriously flattered that you think paying 2k€ would be worth it
The next few paragraphs are to be taken lightly, with no offence intended
It's true, anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, can build this modular if they had the
time and
inclination, and you certainly don't need to wield a soldering iron like a Light Sabre, or have a Degree in Sub-Quantum-Micro-Electronics to do this. I haven't been anywhere near a resistor for 20 years!
Usually, I
would flash my Credit Card in the general direction of a particular piece of equipment I want - althouh the last thing I bought, a Prodyssey ASB, turned out to be a lame duck. Not one single music store here in the UK had one for me to try, so I took a risk of ordering one without listening to it - as a DSP based "analogue" synth, it's not bad... but as an Odyssey emulation, it just doesn't sound right, and there are bugs that will now, probably, never get fixed.
Any way, I digress... the point is, if you have the money to buy the equipment you want, that's fine - what I object to is the lack of value you can get for your hard earned cash.
All the "Commercial" modular synths I looked at, Doepfer, Analogue Systems, Analogue Solutions etc. just weren't worth the money (IMHO!). Even a basic single rack with one pitiful oscillator can set you back over 1,000€.
Sure, I've given up 5 weeks of writing to do this project, but what I write isn't commercially viable and I certainly don't make any money from it (
www.myspace.com/solarmaxxuk)... see how I sneaked that in, Moogulator, feel free to delete that link if you think it innapropriate to this discussion.
So, what have I lost compared to what I've gained - I now have, if I may be so bold and thoroughly unmodest, a fantastic Modular synth in my studio, of which I'm seriously proud of
Andy.
so I'm expanding the cabinet and adding a further 2 x AR envelopes and an extra oscillator, so the finished synth will end up more as 2 fully patchable Odysseys rather than a 2600 "clone". 
