I’ve also owned pretty much every one of their modules at some point… But I have a very ambivalent opinion about Frap Tools. I love their care for details and the quality is just amazing. I think plenty of their modules fall into the “best of its kind” category (Brenso is for sure the most amazing complex oscillator in Eurorack, Sapel is just the perfect take on a musical random source, Fumana… just wow), but I think there’s also a lot of valid criticism directed at just how small everything is on their modules.
I personally don’t mind the legibility, even though I think it’s quite bad. I just don’t care about being able to read panel text or see symbols, because I tend to learn my modules very carefully and then just know what everything does. But some switches are nigh impossible to operate when the module is densely patched and I really wish they’d use a bit more space on their modules and add a few more full sized knobs instead of trimmers. Then again, I do understand the pressures of the Eurorack market - at least to me it seems to me like most people want things to be smaller if they have the choice instead of larger.
For some of their modules, I couldn’t live with the smaller UI and sold them. Falistri is such a case - I really wanted to love it, but I got into too many situations where I couldn’t actually perform the gestures I wanted anymore once it was a bit patched.
But I still love what they’re doing. The aesthetic is great and it’s easy to tell just how often they iterate over each module they design to make it as perfect as it can be.
By the way, I think everyone should have a 333. It’s relatively cheap and small enough to fit most systems and it really surprised me in just how useful it is. 3 unity mixers into 3 buffered multiples, each normalled into the next - it just has so many musical applications.
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