Synthesizers.com Brings Big Modular To 2025 NAMM Show
At the 2025 NAMM Show, large format synth maker Synthesizers.com has a booth, where they are showcasing a large Studio System modular synthesizer.
This is the first time that Synthesizers.com has had a presence at NAMM. The company’s founder, Roger Arrick, started in 1999, with the goal of reviving Moog format modulars, and one of his strategies for keeping his modules relatively affordable was to sell direct and avoid advertising.
Arrick retired from the company a few years ago, and since then, the company has been trying new approaches to raising awareness of their systems. This has included expanding their Youtube presence, partnering to distribute their synths in some brick and mortar synth shops and, now, presenting at NAMM for the first time.
Their booth is featuring a customized Studio-110 rig, above, with one of their modular CV/Gate/MIDI control keyboards.
The company offers pre-configured 22-, 44-, 66-, 88-, and 110-space systems in Walnut cabinets, but many owners build completely custom system, using modules from a wide range of manufacturers.
In addition to the traditional Walnut Studio Systems, they offer rack-mount options, traditional Moog-style portable cabinets and modern compact cabinets.
While the Synthesizers.com system looks like a Moog modular, the modules are original designs, with the main exception being their 960 sequencer system, which is a full-size clone of the classic Moog step sequencer.
When Arrick started the company, he methodically reviewed what was good and bad about classic Moog systems, and he tried to update Moog’s standard, keeping the large-format usability and feel of Moog’s systems, but modernizing everything else. This included updating the power system, using 10V peak-to-peak signals to reduce noise levels, standardizing panel sizes to ensure complete modularity, minimizing module depth to allow modules to be mounted in shallow cases, and standardizing gate/trigger signals, so that all signals are passed using the same cables and jacks.
The ‘dotcom’ update of the Moog format has become a standard that’s now supported by dozens of manufacturers, second only to the Eurorack format.
Here’s a video from the show floor, via Sonic State:
Synthesizers.com systems are available now, starting around $2,000 for a compact modular rig and topping out around $21,500 for a 110-space monster synth like the one that they’re showcasing at NAMM. Individual modules are also available.