The All-New Behringer Keyboards 'n' Stuff Thread

[ManFromGlass]

Jah ist very good
Love the ending.

[Arpangel]

I was in a band that owned a TR808 in the early 80s when the only serious alternative was the LinnDrum. It may not have sounded much like "real drums" but that sound was on just about every single Hip Hop and Electro record released at the time. About once a week someone from one of the local rap and break dancing crews would show up at our rehearsal room clutching the latest US electro release and asking us to fill one side of a C90 with our version of the rhythm track. Turned out to be a reasonable earner side-line while our band was still trying to find it's sound.

I can remember in about 89/90, I turned down an 808 and a Thorens TD160 turntable because it had a few scratches on the lid, they were both........£100 each.

[N i g e l]

round about that time I turned down a Moog Source for £220.

[The Elf]

...and I once turned down a trio of keyboards in a bundle for (AFAICR) 400 quid.

ONE of them was a Jupiter 8...

[IAA]

ONE of them was a Jupiter 8...

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[Arpangel]

...and I once turned down a trio of keyboards in a bundle for (AFAICR) 400 quid.

ONE of them was a Jupiter 8...

Don’t go there, one of mine was a VCS3.

[The Elf]

I did buy a traded-in MiniMoog from a local shop for 150 quid though!

[Arpangel]

The agony continues, I sold a Pro 1 and a Wasp for £70 each...

[IAA]

I did buy a traded-in MiniMoog from a local shop for 150 quid though!

I wonder if the original owner thought it broken being monophonic?? - Ive heard such stories from a certain caped virtuoso

[ken long]

(They might have a battle with Forat, who owns the copyright on the Linn samples, though...)

Interesting. I didn't know that but would explain why Bruce sent me a Linn Drum disk when I asked for a 1200 OS years ago.

[The Elf]

I did buy a traded-in MiniMoog from a local shop for 150 quid though!

I wonder if the original owner thought it broken being monophonic?? - Ive heard such stories from a certain caped virtuoso

Yep, that Mini came from Jack Wilde! When he realised it wan't broken at all Rick did offer to bring it back, or pay a more suitable price, but Jack said it was no use to him if it only played one note at a time!

I'll never know how I dropped so lucky on getting my bargain. I already had one Mini (the one I still have). I went into the local music store and the manager said "I've just got something you'll be interested in - make me an offer." I offered 150 and he took it!

Late 1980s, IIRC.

Eventually I sold it to friend who stripped it out of its case and did unspeakeable things with it.

[DGL.]

...and I once turned down a trio of keyboards in a bundle for (AFAICR) 400 quid.

ONE of them was a Jupiter 8...

Don’t go there, one of mine was a VCS3.

I remember watching a tour of Scooter's studio (from the DVD Encore (the whole story) and seeing a VCS3 just sitting on a filing cabinet in the hallway, FFS who just has a random VSC3 just sitting there (well maybe JMJ, he has to put them all somewhere!)

https://youtu.be/CD2jYpvL1eA?t=20

[Agharta]

The agony continues, I sold a Pro 1 and a Wasp for £70 each...

I don’t recall how much I bought or sold my Pro 1 for, but I do recall buying an OSCar MIDI in Bristol for about £150 which was cheap even at the time.
Just took a look and they sell for 4 to 5k. Yikes!

[Arpangel]

The agony continues, I sold a Pro 1 and a Wasp for £70 each...

I don’t recall how much I bought or sold my Pro 1 for, but I do recall buying an OSCar MIDI in Bristol for about £150 which was cheap even at the time.
Just took a look and they sell for 4 to 5k. Yikes!

I wouldn’t mind buying things back, but it hurts too much for two reasons, they cost tons more than I paid for mine in the first place, and it makes me realise how stupid I was to sell mine.

[ManFromGlass]

They say love is blind!

[The Elf]

With one small exception (K1r) I can honestly say that I've not regretted selling *anything*.

It's rather like people who are embarrassed about the music they liked, or the clothes they wore as a kid - I have not one regret, and nothing that I liked then that I don't still like now.

If I bought a piece of gear it was for good reason - and if I subsequently sold it it was because it no longer fulfilled that reason. I don't think I will ever regret selling anything!

[BJG145]

If I bought a piece of gear it was for good reason - and if I subsequently sold it it was because it no longer fulfilled that reason.

Q) Who has pointy ears, a high-tech control room filled with dials, buttons and glowing lights, and a mindset that is ruled ruthlessly and efficiently by logic?

A) Elf

[ManFromGlass]

Live long and prosper!

[The Elf]

When you work in a space as tight as this it tends to concentrate the mind on the absolutely essential!

[BillB]

...or the clothes they wore as a kid - I have not one regret, and nothing that I liked then that I don't still like now.

Flared trousers... Platform shoes... ? I still shudder when I see photos from the mid-late 70's.

[The Elf]

Platform shoes, Jupiter-8, Ford Capri... Had 'em, enjoyed 'em, don't regret a moment!

[Wonks]

You obviously haven't seen photos of The Elf in his 1980s Spandex and poodle hair phase.

[BillB]

Obviously not. I'm wondering, aren't we overdue a 70's style revival - it was 40+ years ago!

Or did it already happen in 2011 and mercifully passed me by...

[The Elf]

What do you mean... 'revival'?

[DGL.]

A little sort of update by amsynths/Rob Keeble on GS about what the B2600 is modelled on/what variant of 2600 it is based on.

Hi,
Let me explain the design ideas I brought to the B2600. Rather than recreating a 1977 synth with 301 op amps and tired caps, why not try and recreate the 1970 version, as it was originally imagined with high speed and accurate op amps and with matched transistor pairs and the best caps.

ARP did this in the blue marvin but had to compromise component selection to achieve reliable mass production.

So thats what we made with the defects of the original design removed and the precision of the original thinking.

You cant adjust any trimmers to make the sound less tame. The sound is meant to be precise not wobbly not like a KARP, you need to detune the vcos and add some modulation and push the levels into the vcf. Its a world away from a 1977 version..its new.

Its about replicating the original 1970 version, and the ideas at ARP when they started out. A blue marvin not a late model, no character has been lost its actually been regained.

Basically it's a 2600 made to what ARP wanted to make in 1970 but reliability forced them to change the design, using worse spec but higher reliability parts, now what they would consider high quality back then is standard now and as such you don't have to make any tradeoffs.
Oh and if you are on GS he's willing to answer questions about the B2600 which is excellent.

And lastly a new RD-8 firmware is out today with a few new features, update using the synthtribe app.

The RD-8 journey continues with another firmware update (Version 2.0.6). Thanks for all your valuable input.

New features:

1. In STEP mode, hold TAP/HOLD then press RECORD to set pattern auto save on or off.

2. Pattern length menu displayed in SONG and PATTERN mode.

3. Push LENGTH, then hold TAP/HOLD and push >> (right double arrow beside LENGTH) to
immediately duplicate the contents of the current length, this is very useful when you are working
with for example a 3/4 pattern with 12 steps.

4. When STEP RECORD is enabled, the display shows “auto” or “manu” for 1 second to indicate the
save mode.

5. Recall stored pattern by holding TAP/HOLD + STEP button of the pattern you wish to restore. This
only works when you are in Pattern mode and set to manu (manual) save mode.

Improvements:

1. Improved sweep erase function.
2. Improved note repeat to the MIDI out.
3. Fixed the behaviour of auto fill. Now replaces the end of the pattern with the amount of steps
programmed in the auto fill pattern if less than the current pattern playing.