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Behringer CRAVE Paraphonic Analog & Semi-Modular Synthesizer w/ 3340 VCO Expired
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Adorama has Behringer CRAVE Paraphonic Analog & Semi-Modular Synthesizer w/ 3340 VCO (000-DPX02-00010) for $164. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Selman for finding this deal.
Features:
Thanks to community member Selman for finding this deal.
Features:
- Analog synthesizer with legendary Prophet 5 VCO design allows for insanely fat music creation
- Pure analog signal path based on authentic VCO, VCF and VCA designs
- Super-rich oscillator with pulse and sawtooth wave outputs for ultimate sounds
- Classic Moog 24 dB ladder filter with resonance for legendary sound performance
- Switchable low/high pass filter mode for enhanced sound creation
- Modern and easy-to-use 32-step sequencer with 64 onboard storage slots
- Advanced Arpeggiator with wide patterns for great sound effects
- Dedicated and fully analog triangle/square wave LFO
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Adorama has the Behringer Crave Analog Synthesizer for $164. It's essentially a rearranged knob MOOG Mother-32. It has a built in sequencer, so it can be played as a standalone intrument, and the patch bay is generous enough to trigger it with a sequencer or to integrate it with modular synths. If all that sounds alien to you, fear not as this is a wonderful first synthesizer.
The tuning is known to be not quite as stable as the MOOG, but the tone is nearly identical. Unlike the Mother-32 is doesn't fit into a modular rack, but MOOG Mother-32 units, even currently on sale, are $599. The build quality has been almost unanimously praised.
This is not a super deep discount, but it's lower than it cost to buy a used unit shipped from Reverb or eBay, so you won't lose much if you play it 3 years and sell it. MOOG is now effectively out of business as the conglomerate that bought them out laid off almost all of the R&D staff, so there isn't as much ethical issue about the IP theft. The biggest competitor to the Crave is still Behringer with the much more feature rich Neutron. You could play this for a couple years, sell it for a $30 loss, and then hopefully get a deal on a Neutron when they do a future blowout.
There's free 2-day shipping until 10/23/2023. You can use a Chase Freedom Flex credit card through PayPal for another 5% off.
https://www.adorama.com/becrave.html
The tuning is known to be not quite as stable as the MOOG, but the tone is nearly identical. Unlike the Mother-32 is doesn't fit into a modular rack, but MOOG Mother-32 units, even currently on sale, are $599. The build quality has been almost unanimously praised.
This is not a super deep discount, but it's lower than it cost to buy a used unit shipped from Reverb or eBay, so you won't lose much if you play it 3 years and sell it. MOOG is now effectively out of business as the conglomerate that bought them out laid off almost all of the R&D staff, so there isn't as much ethical issue about the IP theft. The biggest competitor to the Crave is still Behringer with the much more feature rich Neutron. You could play this for a couple years, sell it for a $30 loss, and then hopefully get a deal on a Neutron when they do a future blowout.
There's free 2-day shipping until 10/23/2023. You can use a Chase Freedom Flex credit card through PayPal for another 5% off.
https://www.adorama.com/becrave.html
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I can't wait until the BS-80 comes out (LOL OK maybe someday) so I can listen to the cope from synth YouTubers who will berate us for not saving up $80,000 to buy a used one, or for not just using a VST, rather than give our business to Behringer.
Adorama has the Behringer Crave Analog Synthesizer for $164. It's essentially a rearranged knob MOOG Mother-32. It has a built in sequencer, so it can be played as a standalone intrument, and the patch bay is generous enough to trigger it with a sequencer or to integrate it with modular synths. If all that sounds alien to you, fear not as this is a wonderful first synthesizer.
The tuning is known to be not quite as stable as the MOOG, but the tone is nearly identical. Unlike the Mother-32 is doesn't fit into a modular rack, but MOOG Mother-32 units, even currently on sale, are $599. The build quality has been almost unanimously praised.
This is not a super deep discount, but it's lower than it cost to buy a used unit shipped from Reverb or eBay, so you won't lose much if you play it 3 years and sell it. MOOG is now effectively out of business as the conglomerate that bought them out laid off almost all of the R&D staff, so there isn't as much ethical issue about the IP theft. The biggest competitor to the Crave is still Behringer with the much more feature rich Neutron. You could play this for a couple years, sell it for a $30 loss, and then hopefully get a deal on a Neutron when they do a future blowout.
There's free 2-day shipping until 10/23/2023. You can use a Chase Freedom Flex credit card through PayPal for another 5% off. Cashback sites offer at least another 1% off.
https://www.adorama.com/becrave.html
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That layoff is shameful and should not have been done, but it doesn't make any better the ethical issues of B copying a contemporary, in-production sequencer like the Mother-32, which is widely available. And purchasing this probably does make the jobs of the Moog R&D staff a little more at risk.
This looks ok as well...
This looks ok as well...
Ok. Fair enough. I guess I got caught up in some of the rabble rousing in the dozen or so youtube videos I watched. I guess the facts are that in 2015 they were an employee owned company, and now that's dead. I also think it's a resonable argument to say the original company ceased production in 1981, and the 2014 company necessarily would have been different. US production staff has been laid off. There are reports of legal maneuvering to prevent reports in the true scale of layoffs. Multiple sources are speculating on R&D layoffs though they don't seem to be confirmed.
And yeah, I thought Moog was employee owned as they advertised, but it turns out they were 49% employee owned so the employees, collectively, couldn't block the sale/acquisition. Going forward I suppose we have to make sure that a business is majority employee owned if they say, "employee owned" before we believe them, otherwise that "ownership" doesn't make much difference in terms of employee control over their futures.