I had read a lot Of stuff about how Beh make good alternative with a Kind Of stuff cheap but good ans reliable.

I bought ms01, then After satisfaction I Said myself : here We Go

And bought 2600, Poly D, Rd6, Pro one and DeepMind...

Time goes fly and its now 3 Years later so... What Can I Say about Fiability ?

- Arp2600 have a lot Of problèmes
- Ms01 Is almost Died (chips are fail)
- Proone have midi problèmes
-polyD have hiss and horrible crackle
- DeepMind was the onlyone working properly

Thoman help me very well on two Of them. Other go go trash because I register on music Tribe too late.

Is it B the Garbage Company? I prefer buy now vintage traversant stuff than make money on cheap garbage synth ! Expérience and Time talks

A friend of mine has the same issues with his Barp 2600 and Barp 2500 and Boog modules for his modular setup. Poor build quality, not reliable.

You get what you pay for. In Behringer's case, you buy cheap, you get cheap.
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I've had pretty good luck. I have a V-verb Pro from like 15 years ago. Outputs very scratchy volume all over the place, took it apart and the "foam" was completely flat allowing contact between the board and metal casing, once I insulated it, there is NO noise.

I have a Wasp that still double triggers, did not register it soon enough for it to be repaired.

Strange...I have a friend who has a Barp2600 and an RD 8 and has had no issues with them at all. I've had an RD6 which worked 100% after the last firmware update, and a DM12 which was also pretty solid.

The only Behringer gear I have is an FCB1010 foot controller. I bought a second one as a backup and never used it. Seems bulletproof.

Pan_work = MKS lover

Sounds like you have dirty power. Buy a Power Conditioner.

Yes but vintage because that is always reliable, or buy a Moog One, make sure you read the thread here first to see all the issues first on your $10,000 synth

Maybe buy the Prophet 5 reissue that was released with the wrong components because the only quality control was Dave Smith who had hearing issues playing some random units off the line

Maybe by a Korg product, they never have QC issues, or Arturia, or any other company for that matter

Behringer has a fantastic warranty on all their products, buy them from a reputable dealer with a return policy and register the warranty immediately

In the meantime enjoy your synth that 99% of the buying public has no issues with, and if you do, return it or submit it for a warranty claim

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Maybe it’s be a good thing for the handful of very noisy people with mental health issues relating to Behringer have a single thread to unload. I guess this is as good as any (though perhaps a move to moan zone would be sensible).

Thank you so much. It's an honor.

Thank god you recently registered and saved this valuable information for your first post! You may now collect your free DeepMind7

Dave is the Dirty Harry of synth nerds - he hates everyone

Good luck so far. Boog used for bass duties (though sounds pretty vintage Model D if I want it to on higher parts). I even spilled a full glass of water on it and a couple days later it came back to normal. Wasp for alternative nastiness is great as a second mono lead. Hope the solina I ordered is good. Not interested in anything else.

As far as Behringer synths go, I have had a little Boog for 5 years already, and no issues with it whatsoever. Recently I added Poly D and Toro - I hope they also last, but we'll see.

Besides, over half of my "studio" rig is Behringer stuff. MX9000 and SX2442 analog mixers, XR18 digital mixer, UMC1820 soundcard, pair of MDX4600 quad compressors, BBD-320, B2030A speakers, DSP-1000, some pedals - CC300 and 2xVP-1 - and so far the only ones with issues are the ancient MX9000 which suffers from some scratchy switches - but I use it only when I work with tapes, and DSP-1000 with faulty encoder.

Maybe I just got lucky, but so far it works

Been using the same X32 for close to ten years now professionally. It hardly ever leaves the back of the truck, now that it's August it's probably 120 degrees (50c) in there, in January drops into the teens (-5c)

Been bounced around a quarter of a million miles (402,000km), has tens of thousands of working hours on it, several thousand gigs

Still going strong with absolutely zero issues. The only thing ever replaced was new plastic caps on the faders a few times as like all fader caps they get dirty and nasty after a while, and it's easier to spend $20 on a new set rather than spending hours trying to clean them

During that time our company has had several Yamaha digital consoles that cost significantly more fail, usually by getting dead fader motors, or getting the jitters where the faders start to jitter up and down on there own which becomes audible changes in sound volume during the show

Nah, might be AudioInsult or whatever alias he goes by now

You mean he works for respectable companies with an actual heritage

When you can't coordinate attack properly or invent things fast enough

I'm yet to hear about actual 2600 problems from actual owners.

I got a 2600 from the first batch. Its rock solid.

My main mixer is a cheap behringer xexnyx 1202fx mixer. Had it for for over 10 years and never had an kssue.

My mate has a moog grandmother where the cut off knob failed though.

No behringer unit has ever failed me. In fact, the mdx2600(compressor) that I bought in 2003 has been in ordeals worse than my mackie vlz pro (dropped, stored in extreme humidity, heat, cold)and works flawlessly. Only a couple of led buttons don't light up when pressed but it was fixed.


Same goes for synths(model D, pro 1, td3). I forgot by mistake my TD3 on and playing the same sequence for almost a week(I was away) a year ago and everything works like a charm. All of my gear is on a permanent 'on' or 'ready to jam/record' state so they all see loads of action every week.

I don't know how their more 'digital' stuff performs, but so far I see the X32 almost everywhere.

I must say that many 'historic' brands have caused me a lot more headache than behringer ever did. My Avalon M5 pre arrived without the metal logo on the faceplate(a 3k unit back then), and I am sure you can see very quickly here on the website how 'good' of a tech support they have. My AMS Neve 1073N arrived with a bad power supply sending sparks all over. My Aphex 204 from the beginning had stuck buttons. My Novation K station LCD screen backlight died after not that much use. If my Arturia Keystep is not used for a week, 4-5 keys stop working and I have to open it up and clean it with isopropyl alcohol. More than I used to clean my Otari MX5050 deck! And the list goes on, PTHD hardware, AKAI, etc Thank god I never had an unsolvable solution or doorstop situation, but I must say that in cases like these it is true what they say that capitalism has solved these problems. Bigger company-more advanced production line-better QC/QA-better consistency in the final product.


I'm sorry to say that but it seems to me that behringer haters fall in to one of mostly two categories

-Older people with midlife crisis that usually have more disposable income available for premium brands that want to prove something to themselves/or that their branded unit is magically better/ or to show that they have some sort of 'high moral values'(at the same time that they use smartphones/clothes/computers etc that are made in sweatshops and possibly in worse conditions than behringer)

-Younger people that do so in order to look good to the above category(peer pressure) or because they also want to 'show they care'(who are even worse than the above category since they are the first ones to upgrade their macbook/iphone/galaxy of barely a year old to the next best thing, and generally succumb to consumer culture)

When apple decided to glue the batteries and RAM on the 2012 macbook pro, do you remember the EPEAT greenwashing story?
Many(obviously not all) of the 'B' haters have some sort of apple products on the background lurking.

What about Roland and Korg and price fixing?

What about Yamaha and Fender?

My Behringer experience;

Had a XR12 mixer. WiFi stopped working. Garbage now.
Had Turbosound (Behringer company) floor monitors. One speaker died. Repaired under extended Sweetwater warrantee.
Had SX3242FX Mixer. Two channels got fried due to a mishap with another manufacturer's crap gear (not Behringer's fault here). No repair parts available though. Got a refund under extended Sweetwater warrantee.
Had a Deepmind 12. Pitch bend wheel reverse direction. What was up was down and what was down was up. Fixed under Behringer warrantee. Sold it soon afterwards.
Had a K2 and Neutron. No issues with those. But sold them after loosing faith.

I will admit, I don't like the ethics of Behringer and prefer to support companies that are creating rather copying innovation.

I hear that a lot, but just don't see it in the real world

In the real world it takes quite a bit of innovation to bring back classic instruments made with modern components

It takes even more innovation to be able to do so at the price point Behringer sells their products for

As for ethics there is not a single synth manufacturer that is not engaged in cutthroat business practices

We are not buying products from monks living in a monastery

Within the past two years:

-Bi phase died in 2 months. Sweetwater gave me a refund and they didn’t seem surprised.

-Monopoly stopped sending output to headphone, factory reset resolved the issue.

- SF300 and UV300 both stopped working within 6 months. I never reached out for warranty but I should have.

Needless to say, I’m completely out of the B sweepstakes from now on.

We really couldn't understand what's going on if it wasn't for you explaining all this in simple terms to us morons.

These monks?

Another one of those threads but I’ve had more problems with apple , rockit and Waldorf , Roland , malekko, than behringer.

Happy to help

I'm sorry, but I totally disagree.

I doesn't take innovation to replace the designs of others with the cheapest and lowest quality parts available. It doesn't take innovation to claim something is just as good as a prior new ground breaking design and paint it to look like that prior design. It doesn't take innovation to attack other's who don't subscribe to these notions.

Most synth manufactures of barely making a profit. They aren't doing it to become rich. They're doing it because they love the music. There are plenty of career paths for gifted engineers and designers to take to make them much more well off financially. Yet, they choose to work in the music industry. God bless them. I support their efforts with my wallet to help insure they will still be around to move the music forward. Every dollar/euro/yen/etc that goes somewhere else leaves a hole that needs to be filled if we are ever to see the next ground breaking music gear.

YMMV

The market doesn't want to move the music forward and it doesn't want ground breaking music gear

It wants vintage old technology and vintage old style instruments that makes vintage old style sounds

Not just Synths but guitars and amps also

Why are you blaming Behringer for that?

No one looking for ground breaking instruments is buying clones of Synths from the 1970s and 1980s

Maybe you're on to something there . . ?