They clone a lot of old stuff (no issue with that) but they also clone a lot of current production stuff, including stuff that they know the company whose IP they’re stealing isn’t going to sue them over because they’re too small and Behringer have infinite money for a legal fight. B can make stuff cheap not only because of economies of scale but because someone else does the R&D for them. They’re basically parasites.
But there’s plenty worse stuff than that on their rap book, if you Google for 5 seconds. Ad hominem attacks, bullying, antisemitism, promising to donate loads of synths to disadvantaged children that never materialised, etc.
Their replicas vary in quality. Eg their 606 is way off, their 808 really doesn’t sound like an 808 and their 303 needs modding to sound right. But it seems the simpler they are, the more likely they are to nail it, the Model D sounds very good and their Pro-One clone is actually excellent.
They clone a lot of old stuff (no issue with that) but they also clone a lot of current production stuff, including stuff that they know the company whose IP they’re stealing isn’t going to sue them over because they’re too small and Behringer have infinite money for a legal fight. B can make stuff cheap not only because of economies of scale but because someone else does the R&D for them. They’re basically parasites.
But there’s plenty worse stuff than that on their rap book, if you Google for 5 seconds. Ad hominem attacks, bullying, antisemitism, promising to donate loads of synths to disadvantaged children that never materialised, etc.
https://youtu.be/p5RSIWbZ6Vc
Tl;dr: fuck Behringer. But I don’t blame anyone for buying their stuff, because it is really, really, cheap.