Probably Ann Annie and Murcia Parker influenced me the most to try eurorack during the pandemic. After spending a few thousand on modules, I decided I’d rather just have a synth with presets I can recall on stage. Good composers can make anything sound good but I prefer to use an A4 and DN and OT and they work better live for my kind of music.
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I know what you mean and that in itself is a good reason to get into modular. Sorry for being really bad at talking you out of it 
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It makes sense to go all in on modular. It is its own thought process and benefits from following the same logic to perform and compose. Personally that’s not for me, and I think the joke about losing your family friends and dog is almost true when I’ve done it - its a very isolating activity in terms of the addictiveness and thought process, it certainly made it harder to bathe and sleep and work and keep up with people and communicate. But it’s a lot of fun. I still have a 2 row case, I just don’t buy/sell anymore and focus on composing with drum machines/samplers and polysynths.
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What are some of your favorite modules and what kind of stuff do you do with your rig(s)?
Don’t do it! I went deep into the eurorack hole and while modular is loads of fun, I prefer using a good modern hardware synthesizer with sequencer to sketch songs out and use modular for more experimental stuff or to sample and reuse. Like if I want to make a dance song, it’s way easier for me to do it on my Virus or Rytm in few minutes and save as a patch for later use than to patch dozens of cables and have to memorize the setup or leave in place on the modular.
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There have been moments where I’ve loved my disting and there are moments where I subconsciously refuse to use it
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That’s why I love my Elektrons and Virus so much! Super immediate workflow and easy to record to a DAW. Don’t get me wrong, modular is tons of fun and I like using mine with samplers in live jams and to do sound design.
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ALSO no beer, cheese sex* or crisps during this period
*porn is ok… you can look but you can’t touch see
Have you got what it takes !!!
Cheese sex?
Keep your kinks to yourself, there’s other forums for that.
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That number must be ignored at all cost - it will give you nightmares! Luckily they have an option to turn it off in the settings or else I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
If money and time were no object, this is the system I’d build.
All in all I’d be looking at about 6 or 7 grand for all that, which is basically a (very flexible, but still…) three oscillator monosynth and a drum voice.
That’s bonkers.
Bonkers.
Also, I’ve specced that using the Arturia rackbrutes, which I’m not 100% sure would be able to power the fusion modules, because you don’t know anything in Eurorack until you find out it doesn’t work.
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Needs more filters.
I know, but what are you gonna do?
Buy another case…
One of the many reasons I got out of modular.
Fucking spaghetti.
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As someone who can barely keep a Digitakt under control, I STILL look at this modular stuff and think it’d be great to have some (loads)… But I know how it’ll go (x=infinity):
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Here’s mine, only $2800 or so…
And it will sit in the 19” rack under my Barp, CV driven from the Force
Edit - or maybe this can’t decide…
I took a lot of inspiration from The Unperson on YouTube, his videos and various setups are great. Bought all my stuff second hand, set a bunch of alerts on the local E-bay type site and found some bargains. First got Pam’s (it came with the expander which clocks my Digitakt) and a cheap Plaits clone, Doepfer case (84hp), found a Streams clone for 60 euro, Clouds clone for 65, Pico Input (so I can put samples and other synths through it), a filter and some utilities, and recently got Beads. I already had a Keystep, which converts MIDI to CV and allows sequencing from the Digitakt.
It’s not finished but already quite flexible and getting various uses. Sound design, FX rack, synth, sampler. Maybe it’s not ‘proper’ modular but I like it and it avoids the many pitfalls.
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Not sure if it’s been recommended yet, but start off with a Moog 60HP powered case and stick it in a 4-tier stand with the other Moogs 
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This is exactly what I was thinking of when I read your first post. I think “not ‘proper’” is actually doing it right.
“Proper” is the path of least resistance for wet farts, spaghetti, and negative bank balances. You know you’re in trouble if the phrase “Serge-style self patching” makes you salivate.
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