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Adorama has Behringer CRAVE Paraphonic Analog & Semi-Modular Synthesizer w/ 3340 VCO (000-DPX02-00010) for $164. Shipping is free.

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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
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Too many people (and particularly whining synth YouTubers who get so much top-tier gear sent to them for free) hate on Behringer lately, but to be honest I would never pay $599 for a moog Mother-32 with a single oscillator when I could get a 4-oscillator Poly D for less money. Moog dug their own grave by remaining "bespoke" in a terrible economy where normal musicians are finding it harder than usual to even earn a living. Kudos to Behringer for bringing clones of old gear to the masses at great prices.

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.
You can approximate the sound with the filter, but this is a monosynth, and can only play one note at once - so only one note per chord will be in its right place Embarrassment
This is the original info since it got buried by the generic feature list:

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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10-21-2023 at 11:22 AM.
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Too many people (and particularly whining synth YouTubers who get so much top-tier gear sent to them for free) hate on Behringer lately, but to be honest I would never pay $599 for a moog Mother-32 with a single oscillator when I could get a 4-oscillator Poly D for less money. Moog dug their own grave by remaining "bespoke" in a terrible economy where normal musicians are finding it harder than usual to even earn a living. Kudos to Behringer for bringing clones of old gear to the masses at great prices.

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.
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10-21-2023 at 01:49 PM.
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Too many people (and particularly whining synth YouTubers who get so much top-tier gear sent to them for free) hate on Behringer lately, but to be honest I would never pay $599 for a moog Mother-32 with a single oscillator when I could get a 4-oscillator Poly D for less money. Moog dug their own grave by remaining "bespoke" in a terrible economy where normal musicians are finding it harder than usual to even earn a living. Kudos to Behringer for bringing clones of old gear to the masses at great prices.

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.

I'll never badmouth Behringer after getting an XR-18.
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Can I get "everything in its right place" sounds on this?
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Can I get "everything in its right place" sounds on this?
You can approximate the sound with the filter, but this is a monosynth, and can only play one note at once - so only one note per chord will be in its right place Embarrassment
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10-21-2023 at 05:31 PM.
This is the original info since it got buried by the generic feature list:

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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Too many people (and particularly whining synth YouTubers who get so much top-tier gear sent to them for free) hate on Behringer lately, but to be honest I would never pay $599 for a moog Mother-32 with a single oscillator when I could get a 4-oscillator Poly D for less money. Moog dug their own grave by remaining "bespoke" in a terrible economy where normal musicians are finding it harder than usual to even earn a living. Kudos to Behringer for bringing clones of old gear to the masses at great prices.

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.
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…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.
Please don't share disinformation. Moog is not "effectively out of business". I haven't heard of any R&D staff being laid off. InMusic laid off Moog's US production staff, presumably to manufacture the synths overseas.

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.
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There was a time not many years ago where I would've asked, "what does this thing even do?". Now, I'm in the rabbit hole.
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Please don't share disinformation. Moog is not "effectively out of business". I haven't heard of any R&D staff being laid off. InMusic laid off Moog's US production staff, presumably to manufacture the synths overseas.

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.
Competition in the marketplace is good, actually.
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Too many people (and particularly whining synth YouTubers who get so much top-tier gear sent to them for free) hate on Behringer lately, but to be honest I would never pay $599 for a moog Mother-32 with a single oscillator when I could get a 4-oscillator Poly D for less money. Moog dug their own grave by remaining "bespoke" in a terrible economy where normal musicians are finding it harder than usual to even earn a living. Kudos to Behringer for bringing clones of old gear to the masses at great prices.

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.

It's easy to hate on Behringer when you have a piece of their equipment fail during a live show. At least it makes it easy to diagnose when you have a problem, you look at the rack and see if there is any Behringer equipment being used and you can pretty much guarantee that is the source of your problem.
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Please don't share disinformation. Moog is not "effectively out of business". I haven't heard of any R&D staff being laid off. InMusic laid off Moog's US production staff, presumably to manufacture the synths overseas.

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.

To be fair there have been many anecdotal report of layoffs in R&D, but they must be signing nondisclosure with severance because it is hard to confirm. It's fair to say MOOG as we know it is over, and inMusic MOOG is a new thing that will be different with different management, goals, and constraints on production.
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