Eurorack for Home Studio

Hello Forum,

A humble request for advice with some context:

I have a home studio with midi keyboard, Native Instruments Maschine, and a bunch of guitars. I also bought a couple of behringer synths to try and figure out why people prefer physical synth hardware to the DAW life. (It turns out they are both excellent approaches for me).

As a hobbyist, I really enjoy the speed of being able to experiment with software synths in my music and now use my midi keyboard to play analog synths. Now for Eurorack...I would like to buy secondhand gear to augment what I can do with Maschine, Kontakt, Logic, and (a very little so far) ableton. I have done a ton of research and am now asking for feedback...**If I want to augment native instruments software suite and record into my computer, is the following sufficient to generate musical, interesting stuff?

Thanks all for any insights you can provide.

P.

Hi,
welcome! I'll start by asking: are the two hermods a mistake, or were you planning to put both in your rack?
Secondly: do you plan to use eurorack on its own, or in conjunction with your other gear? If so, I think hermod is unnecessary if you plan to use it as a simple midi to cv converter. It is an extremely powerful sequencer, but it's overkill if you only plan to use it for conversion for sequences coming from live/other external devices.
Lastly: do you also have an outboard mixer, or other gear of some sort that you can connect your modular to and bring it into your daw (that also accepts modular level)? If not, I think an output module is also needed.

What you have shown here is absolutely enough to begin your journey. What is and is not interesting is extremely subjective, especially in modular land. Personally, I would add another simple basic analog oscillator, and some more hands on modulation/random. A turing machine and/or the simplest step sequencer you can find. For me, especially in modular land, interesting is very often closely related to unexpected. That's when modular is not a collection of modules, but becomes an instrument in the more traditional sense of the term: something that you have a conversation with, and it has to be able to talk back and not just execute instructions.