Love them or hate them, but Behringers clones of classic synths are all over the place. For many synth enthusiasts they seem like a dream come true. Not only are the dream machines from yesteryear brought back in what seems to be faithful hardware recreations, but they are often MUCH more affordable than even the most beat up classic synth you are lucky enough to find ‘cheaply’ second hand.

As always, when things seem to be to good to be true, people get skeptical and start to look for the catch in the matter, and starting from the fact that ‘evil’ Behringer is doing these clones, to claims that they don’t sound like the ‘real thing’ to a ton of other complaints and objections, Behringers clones end up being surrounded by controversy.

In this video, I will try to explain why Behringer went all in on cloning and how going this route isn’t all that cheap and easy as critics often claim. Also, as I hope to show, it’s our own behavior as consumers, that keeps Behringer from pushing all new and innovative products.

Of course, and to make this a balanced analysis, I will also have to have a look into some of the more questionable business decisions, Behringer is notorious for, like ‘borrowing’ designs from other manufacturers.


The background music for this video is, you guessed it, done almost entirelydone with Behringer gear, here’s a link if you are interested:

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Sharing is caring, you can download animations I create for my channel on my new sub channel Rejected Synths Recycling Center:

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Playlist:

0:00 Intro
0:19 Introduction
1:14 Chapter 1: Love it or hate it
1:36 Chapter 2: The origin Story
2:25 Chapter 3: Getting started
3:12 Chapter 4: No innovation?
5:02 Chapter 5: How it’s done
6:24 Chapter 6: Fan service
8:27 Chapter 7: Legally cloned
10:29 Chapter 8: Gone too far?
11:43 Chapter 9: Cloning the future



Credit where it’s due, here are the links to the stock videos I used in the intro:

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