I have no statistics or guesses about the way people in Behringer forums use the classical re-issues. But for all the music friends I have using Behringer gear, I can't confirm the overall picture: none of them is using that gear like collected Pokemon cards. They are rather happy to get analog gear at very affordable price tags for musical everyday use.burningbusch wrote:I belong to the Behringer Synth Users on FB. Most of the posts are requests of Uli/Behringer to please, please remake this or that synth. It's more about collecting and posting photos of their setups. It's like when my kids collected Pokeman cards. "Look what I got!" The music side of things seems to be a distant second. So yeah, Behringer is putting out some fun synths and its fans are having fun collecting and showing them off their studios to others. Some even are making music with them. One of the problems with these mono analogs is that it takes work to get anything but the most cliched sound out of them. If they use patch points it's worse. No preset recall.Liviou2004 wrote: Unless I'd be wrong, synths are made to play music ! Don't you think ?
Yet, in a final mix, I'm not sure there would be many people who would be able to distinguish if a Minimoog sound comes from an old real Minimoog, a new generation Minimoog, a sampled Minimoog or even a Beghringer Model D or a VST.
Just compare an old ARP Odyssey, a Korg Odyssey and the Behringer Odyssey : the output signal levels may be different but the tone results are exactly the same.
In the early 90's, when I was a musical gear seller, Behringer produced very low cost and quite medium or low quality gear. But these times are over, for years.
Nowadays, we should stop considering Behringer produces as only "fun" gear as you do.
If they want to survive, the great old brands as Korg, Roland, Yamaha Music should consider Behringer as a real and serious competitor, be on an amateur or professionnal customers target. That's my opinion.
BTW, I own a DeepMind 12.
Busch.
Wouldn't collectors rather collect something with the original name and outlook well visible, like the Korg Arp 2600, than anything with Behringer written on it - and a more or less changed design, like the coming Behringer 2600? I would prefer the latter for price and form factor, as long as the sound character is convincing for my use, but I guess collectors hardly would.
I own and use a Behringer Model D sounding really great, besides my Moogs. The haptic experience is not the same as the original, but the difference is not worth ~3000 bucks to me. I would only spend that amount of money for advanced analog functionality, like in my Moog Voyager (with preset memory, full ADSR and other enhanced functions).
Korg not bothering about the Kronos heritage any more in any meaningful way, since several years now, and about a decade after initial release, completely alienates me from this this company - on top of the year long Prologue tuning desaster. I would not have hesitated to pay a high price for a worthy Kronos successor, and kept mony for that purpose. But that ship has sailed now. Thankfully, there's an incredible amount of both great hard- and software out there to compensate for that.
