The All-New Behringer Keyboards 'n' Stuff Thread

[YashN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vilbNl8Pk9w

That's their 'Full Overview' of the K2700. One of the most advanced and powerful synths ever to be put under the hands of Man. Where's the V.A.S.T. editing/programming? Where's the KDFX Section (more powerful than even their flagship KSP8 rack multi-effects) editing and programming?

I wouldn't trust them at all (I'm not in the UK so I'm not directly affected).

[Arpangel]

Yet another case of one of my posts being taken so literally.

[ken long]

And going by a comment form Behringer on FB the Bi-Phase is still going to be properly released but under the name Dual Phase instead.

Had the Bi-Phase (it's definitely called that!) here for a few days. It's OK. No more, no less.

I A-B-ed it with the bi-phase in my Helix. Close enough for rock'n'roll, I'd say. Makes me wonder how either would hold up against the original, but my curiosity is sated.

Yes, like the MS-101 was re-branded. There's a few bi-phase badged units out there like the ones Bax was selling.

At that price, "close enough for rock n roll" will satiate many appetites.

[t-sun]

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2022/05/beh ... itakt.html

LM drum prototype photos have a digitakt display? No idea what to make of that.

[Drew Stephenson]

Come on Behringer, where's your BCR32?
My BCR2000 is getting increasingly sketchy.

[MarkOne]

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2022/05/beh ... itakt.html

LM drum prototype photos have a digitakt display? No idea what to make of that.

Photoshop hard at work?

[DGL.]

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2022/05/beh ... itakt.html

LM drum prototype photos have a digitakt display? No idea what to make of that.

Photoshop hard at work?

As I understand from GS the UI designer is a contractor who has previously done UI design for Elektron.

[Arpangel]

Where’s my VCS3?

[t-sun]

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2022/05/beh ... itakt.html

LM drum prototype photos have a digitakt display? No idea what to make of that.

Photoshop hard at work?

As I understand from GS the UI designer is a contractor who has previously done UI design for Elektron.

Well, the functionality matches up so I guess it’s fine to reuse it depending on the contract the contractor had with elektron.

[DGL.]

New video from Synth King on the UB-Xa, primarily to show off what he calls the "excellent keybed and polyphonic aftertouch" rather than the raw sound.

This little piece of music showcases the superb keybed of the UB-Xa. It provides velocity sensivity and polyphonic aftertouch enabling you to play your music with extraordinary expressivity. In this split performance filter frequency, volume, LFO speed and intensity of the upper preset (in unison mode employing only one voice) is controlled by poly aftertouch. Moreover volume, VCF and VCA attack is also controlled by velocity.

The lower pad sound uses OB-8 “second page” functions such as LFO rate delay here controlling panorama position. Furthermore LFO rate is influenced by poly aftertouch as well.

This music genre beggs for delay and reverb. I´ve used two Lexicon PCM 70 connected to my main mixing desk as send effects . Everything is played life and recorded in one take without any edits or further audio processing.
Enjoy the music!
Bernd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm-v_ls-5So

[Martin Walker]

New video from Synth King on the UB-Xa, primarily to show off what he calls the "excellent keybed and polyphonic aftertouch" rather than the raw sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm-v_ls-5So

Now that's far more encouraging!

[The Elf]

I'm dismayed by some of the horrible stereo voice panning (looking at you, Andertons!) on these videos. Apart from that (and, thankfully, it can be disabled) - it sounds very appealing to these ears.

[t-sun]

With that sound and those features at (supposedly) under $1500, it's definitely interesting.

[Hugh Robjohns]

The poly-AT keyboard and control circuitry will carry over to the DS-80 too, so things are definitely looking up!

[DGL.]

The poly-AT keyboard and control circuitry will carry over to the DS-80 too, so things are definitely looking up!

And as this is their platform for all their big polysynths supposedly, it's gonna get very intresting indeed.

[Arpangel]

I’m wondering, how many of these clones filter down into eminent hands, high profile users, do they buy them?
Whenever I see a band, at a concert, on TV, they always seem to be using a Nord, Yamaha/Roland, of some sort.

[N i g e l]

They are ubiquitous on TV but those big modern synths are probably more versatile for a live show than a synth clone with only 70's style abilities and no preset recall.

[MarkOne]

Whenever I see a band, at a concert, on TV, they always seem to be using a Nord, Yamaha/Roland, of some sort.

That's because they're all part of the Roland/Nord/Yamaha endorsement programmes*. And on the rare occasion they actually have to buy some gear it's a genuine tax deductible business expense.

It's only mere mortals like you and I who actually have to shell out any real hard cash on gear, so obviously it's only mere mortals who don't have much aforementioned cash who consistently look for the biggest bang for the buck.

*Though I bet you'd be amazed how many of those shiny Nord/Roland/Yamaha keyboards are actually just being used to drive a MainStage rig being managed by the keyboard tech!

[DGL.]

Whenever I see a band, at a concert, on TV, they always seem to be using a Nord, Yamaha/Roland, of some sort.

That's because they're all part of the Roland/Nord/Yamaha endorsement programmes*. And on the rare occasion they actually have to buy some gear it's a genuine tax deductible business expense.

It's only mere mortals like you and I who actually have to shell out any real hard cash on gear, so obviously it's only mere mortals who don't have much aforementioned cash who consistently look for the biggest bang for the buck.

*Though I bet you'd be amazed how many of those shiny Nord/Roland/Yamaha keyboards are actually just being used to drive a MainStage rig being managed by the keyboard tech!

Quite, not everyone's cup of tea but if you watch the videos on YT of Scooter at the first clubland live you can see all their synths appear to be Roland as thats what it says on the back of them, even the one that looks suspiciously like a Virus kb (although in these videos the synths are just for show and not actually being played I understand).

I bet the only keyboards that nobody got for free were the DX5/1, Fairlight, Synclavier, CS-80 and GX-1.

[Arpangel]

Whenever I see a band, at a concert, on TV, they always seem to be using a Nord, Yamaha/Roland, of some sort.

That's because they're all part of the Roland/Nord/Yamaha endorsement programmes*. And on the rare occasion they actually have to buy some gear it's a genuine tax deductible business expense.

It's only mere mortals like you and I who actually have to shell out any real hard cash on gear, so obviously it's only mere mortals who don't have much aforementioned cash who consistently look for the biggest bang for the buck.

*Though I bet you'd be amazed how many of those shiny Nord/Roland/Yamaha keyboards are actually just being used to drive a MainStage rig being managed by the keyboard tech!

Quite, not everyone's cup of tea but if you watch the videos on YT of Scooter at the first clubland live you can see all their synths appear to be Roland as thats what it says on the back of them, even the one that looks suspiciously like a Virus kb (although in these videos the synths are just for show and not actually being played I understand).

I bet the only keyboards that nobody got for free were the DX5/1, Fairlight, Synclavier, CS-80 and GX-1.

I hired a Prophet 5 many years ago, and the hire guy asked "are you going to play it?" he said that a lot of the time these things are just props, and we can hire out non-working ones.

[Rich Hanson]

I remember a time many moons ago when I noticed that bands with keyboard players on Top of the Pops all used a suspiciously similar looking Jupiter 8 for a while...

[BigRedX]

IIRC some actually complained to the BBC about all the apparent free advertising Roland were getting from TotP and after that the backs of JP8s were covered up.

[DGL.]

Whenever I see a band, at a concert, on TV, they always seem to be using a Nord, Yamaha/Roland, of some sort.

That's because they're all part of the Roland/Nord/Yamaha endorsement programmes*. And on the rare occasion they actually have to buy some gear it's a genuine tax deductible business expense.

It's only mere mortals like you and I who actually have to shell out any real hard cash on gear, so obviously it's only mere mortals who don't have much aforementioned cash who consistently look for the biggest bang for the buck.

*Though I bet you'd be amazed how many of those shiny Nord/Roland/Yamaha keyboards are actually just being used to drive a MainStage rig being managed by the keyboard tech!

Quite, not everyone's cup of tea but if you watch the videos on YT of Scooter at the first clubland live you can see all their synths appear to be Roland as thats what it says on the back of them, even the one that looks suspiciously like a Virus kb (although in these videos the synths are just for show and not actually being played I understand).

I bet the only keyboards that nobody got for free were the DX5/1, Fairlight, Synclavier, CS-80 and GX-1.

I hired a Prophet 5 many years ago, and the hire guy asked "are you going to play it?" he said that a lot of the time these things are just props, and we can hire out non-working ones.

To add to that the only time I've ever seen someone use an Akai AX analogue synth on a live performance it was just being used as a controller, I'm guessing due to the nature of the concert (it was A-Ha performing at the Oslo/Utoya memorial) and the fact that is was black was probably the deciding factor.
And of course in later concerts Rick (scooter) just used the Fantom X8 (and Virus TI) as a controller for mainstage.

[Rich Hanson]

IIRC some actually complained to the BBC about all the apparent free advertising Roland were getting from TotP and after that the backs of JP8s were covered up.

Ah yes, I remember that too - lots of mysteriously unbranded keyboards.

I also remember Johnathon Cohen, the piano player on Play Away having a Prophet 5 on top of his piano, and Brian Cant in some sketch saying to Cohen "I wouldn't want to damage your Sequential Circuits!".

Strange the things that stick in the mind, I was probably only about 10!