The All-New Behringer Keyboards 'n' Stuff Thread
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Roland have had more than long enough to satisfy the demand for this one, yet have chosen to not only ignore it, but even belittle the idea as 'chasing ghosts'.
This is one I can definitely get behind.
This is one I can definitely get behind.
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And I though it would be wrong of me not to post this but Behringer seem to be on a roll... Looks like Dave's got some competition
It appears to be a 16 voice Prophet 5 clone, guess it will be a fair bit cheaper than even the 5 voice DSI/Sequential Rev 4., wonder which revision it will clone or if it will be switchable?
Behringer FB wrote:Prototype completed. Firmware development in full force.
It appears to be a 16 voice Prophet 5 clone, guess it will be a fair bit cheaper than even the 5 voice DSI/Sequential Rev 4., wonder which revision it will clone or if it will be switchable?
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DGL. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:47 pm And I though it would be wrong of me not to post this but Behringer seem to be on a roll... Looks like Dave's got some competitionBehringer FB wrote:Prototype completed. Firmware development in full force.
It appears to be a 16 voice Prophet 5 clone, guess it will be a fair bit cheaper than even the 5 voice DSI/Sequential Rev 4., wonder which revision it will clone or if it will be switchable?
OK, I’m going to be severely challenged in the smuggling department soon, a VCS3, now this Prophet, my partner keeps wondering why my friend is loaning me so many keyboards.
My modular, thanks to Behringer, is growing like our garden in summer, it’s getting difficult passing modules off as "been in storage" where? she keeps saying.
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But it's not an original, and you have told us many times that you won't buy anything but the original of so much gear - why is this one different? (Let's save you some money)
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Elf, I have the Reissue Pro 5, but this is sixteen voices, and that’s more, so it’s better obviously
I’m going to get the Berry, just out of curiosity, if it’s that good, I may sell the Reissue, in fact, that can be my excuse from now on "out of curiosity"
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I really hope Focusrite fight this one.
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Me too. Despicable business practices IMHO.
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Pretty much, yeah. Why not at least come up with your own styling if you’re going to build something ‘inspired’ by someone else’s idea? The Prophet 5 and 10 are current products available to buy new today from the original manufacturer.
B……. have some talented people working for them. Surely they could cobble together a different external design. They choose not to though because they know they’ll make money based on the fact that their synth looks like the original. All of the marketing has been done for them already.
Having said all that, this sort of practise happens in lots of industries so it’s not just B……..
I sometimes wonder if it’s any different to plugin developers using the same graphics as the gear they are emulating.
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Some extra info from FB about the Pro-16, circuitry of all 3 revisions inside!
Behringer FB wrote:For all of you who are technically interested, you can easily witness the incredible complexity of the PRO-16. This synth uses over 6,000 components! Not only did we employ the original circuitries of all 3 revisions, we also added many features such as 16 voices, multi-timbrality, LCD display and a lot more. We started the ideation of this project around 5 years ago and it has since grown into an incredibly powerful flagship synth.
We still need many more month to finalize the firmware, but we’re confident that it’ll be much faster than the UB-Xa.
We’re hopeful to share some sounds with you in the near future.
Are you as excited as we are?
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Dan LB wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:34 am
Pretty much, yeah. Why not at least come up with your own styling if you’re going to build something ‘inspired’ by someone else’s idea? The Prophet 5 and 10 are current products available to buy new today from the original manufacturer.
B……. have some talented people working for them. Surely they could cobble together a different external design. They choose not to though because they know they’ll make money based on the fact that their synth looks like the original. All of the marketing has been done for them already.
Having said all that, this sort of practise happens in lots of industries so it’s not just B……..
I sometimes wonder if it’s any different to plugin developers using the same graphics as the gear they are emulating.
Dan
To be honest, the plugin developers are much worse in this than Behrenger is.
The Prophet design is so integral to the actual functionality of the instrument and how one uses it that if they applied their own design to it, then it wouldn't actually work in a similar way and wouldn't achieve the desired results. This generation of synths tended to use off-the-shelf components (which is why Behrenger can keep churning these out, obviously) and therefore really differentiated themselves by how they were used in the design usage of the components and the implementation of the interface. If you change the interface around, you get different results because you approach it differently due to the different limitations and strengths of what was made available. I agree that it doesn't need to ape the graphic design exactly, but that's playing to the market.
Plugin interfaces, on the other hand, are completely useless affectations that often get in the way of actual programming. As far as I'm concerned, with most of them the interface is there to try to create a bridge effect that makes the user think the plugin is a more accurate emulation of a specific vintage synth, so they can sell it for a premium, instead of just being yet another synth plugin. The interface itself makes the plugin worse and more difficult to use, and serves no real purpose.
Anyway the current Sequential isn't the original Sequential, they're cashing in on the surging market as much as Behrenger.
DGL. wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:05 pm Some extra info from FB about the Pro-16, circuitry of all 3 revisions inside!Behringer FB wrote:For all of you who are technically interested, you can easily witness the incredible complexity of the PRO-16. This synth uses over 6,000 components! Not only did we employ the original circuitries of all 3 revisions, we also added many features such as 16 voices, multi-timbrality, LCD display and a lot more. We started the ideation of this project around 5 years ago and it has since grown into an incredibly powerful flagship synth.
We still need many more month to finalize the firmware, but we’re confident that it’ll be much faster than the UB-Xa.
We’re hopeful to share some sounds with you in the near future.
Are you as excited as we are?
Welp, so much for affordability then.
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That was good to read
Much as it's clear that Behringer did the right thing here I still think it was cheeky of them at best to register the Oberheim trademark in the first place.
Still, a good thing is a good thing. I'd like to see more of it!
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Interesting development:
Apparently a successor to the BCR2000 is on the cards. Preview here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/0 ... sequencer/
... and this time it looks like Behringer is actually working with the designer of rather cool sequencer firmware for it..
Apparently a successor to the BCR2000 is on the cards. Preview here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/0 ... sequencer/
... and this time it looks like Behringer is actually working with the designer of rather cool sequencer firmware for it..
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Nice, indicative RRP £110, which is good as BCR2000s have been selling, or at least listed, for silly money in recent years. It also looks like a nicer-shaped box - a simpler flat rectangle. The BCR2000 is a clunky beast - I say that as an owner.
And it has a display which, although tiny, can actually tell you something more than 3 digits. It will probably make a lot of people happy and hey, they are at least cloning one of their own products!
And it has a display which, although tiny, can actually tell you something more than 3 digits. It will probably make a lot of people happy and hey, they are at least cloning one of their own products!
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Don't care about all the sequencer stuff but as a replacement for my occasionally-dodgy BCR it's looking like a suitable price point. Hopefully there'll be a decent midi-mapping tool for it as well.
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Similarly I have zero interest in the sequencer (I wonder if Behringer have been blind-sided by a few vociferous enthusiasts in that direction?), but it should be a flexible option to suit many purposes.
I would need an overlay to remove a lot of that very confusing text!
I would need an overlay to remove a lot of that very confusing text!
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