It is weird. I had few Behringer synths and eurorack modules on my shopping list but I don’t feel like buying them any more. I am happy with Arturia’s V Collection versions of those synths. I can save some space. Unless I buy Arturia’s Polybrute instead. That won’t take as much room as Behringers I planned to buy. It is like I am destined to not have Behringer’s synths. I preordered Deepmind 12 but Behringer decided not to sell to store where I preordered it from. Poly D got to Helsinki but delivery guys didn’t have phones and I didn’t want to take taxi to get it from delivery company’s warehouse. I tried four times with different addresses until I gave up. I believe delivery guys never even visited the addresses I gave to them.
I was for Behringer making new versions of legendary synths which are expansive at the moment. Companies who made original haven’t made reissues even after customers have requested them. Roland has made digital versions which are not the same. Behringer was delivering customers what they wanted when original companies didn’t want to do it. But then they announced Swing which is copy of Arturia’s Keystep. Only the color seems to be different. Keystep is on the market and Arturia is making it. You can’t justify making it with different name by saying original company doesn’t make it anymore.
I wanted those synths but I can vote with my wallet. I don’t need those synths. I can support companies who don’t rip-off other companies. So far Behringer has released only two new designs. Neutron and Deepmind. Out of those Deepmind is what Roland Juno 106’s successor could have been if Roland still made analog synths. Everything else is copy of older synths. I don’t want them to start copying new synths and killing companies who have designed those synths.