Yes.
That’s an easy one. I’m not going to lie – when you look at someone’s synth collection and it’s mostly or all Behringer, it’s a lot like looking at someone’s home arcade and noticing that they’re all Arcade1Up machines. When I see that, I think two things:
- It’s cool, but these are cheap machines compared to the real thing, and
- Good for them.
You can’t copyright a circuit design, and Behringer are within their rights to copy old classic synths that now cost a fortune and usually aren’t being made any more.
We’ve got a photogenic memory of the Juno 106. When it came out, no one I knew lusted for one. They bought it because it was the “cheap” synth, the one they could afford. It only had one regular oscillator. These days a Juno 106 goes for 2 grand. So it’s the same price as a Hydrosynth Deluxe. Only the Juno 106 is like an old car that could die on you. Old synths have components go bad all the time.
C’mon, Behringer. The market has been BEGGING for a $700 Juno 106 clone. I’d buy one.
Back to the topic. “All your synths are Behringer” is an online putdown. An elitist, stupid putdown. But even I would want an all Behringer collection. You’ll have to pry my Yamaha MX88 out of my cold, dead hands. Or it’ll die and I’ll buy a really good 88 key controller.