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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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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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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 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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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
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Agreed.
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