Why Behringer is so bad!? NEW TD-3-MO

dont care what people say. Im not a rich guy and im just trying to make music, and behringer helps me with that.

IMO as long as Roland refuses to actually build full-size original instruments, Behringer is totally fine to keep re-releasing them. Personally I don't care whether they're digital or analog, as long as they're actually fully sized and as long as they SOUND GOOD. But Roland can't seem to grasp the idea that we don't want to pay $500 for Volca-sized contraptions.

Roland decision to remake digital version of its classic gear left the market wide open for someone to make analog remakes.

Behringer makes a lot of functional meat and potatoes gear, and their recent expansion into classic analog type instruments have been really impressive. I like the brand. I get what people criticize about the company - I just don't care, myself.

The Behringer synth stuff works. They are pretty solid. Honestly... the quality of the musician behind the gear is all that really matters.

My whole take on Behringer is it’s just like any company in a capitalistic society: if you can make comparable products at a cheaper price point then have at it. There’s cheap knockoffs in every industry, clothes, toys, generic store brand foods etc. Some that just want to crank out products and some that actually care and have more attention to detail to be real similar to the original. Behringer is trying to fill a niche gap and are providing decent quality synths at affordable prices. I have no problems with that. There’s no one pointing a gun at your head to buy Behringer. If you have the money and want to be a "tone purist” buy your Moogs, Roland’s etc. most are out of reach for a lot of people. Drink a few glasses of wine and wax poetic on how your Moog sounds so much better…others will sip their beers and create music on their Behringers…to each there own. I just don’t get why people act like they’re taking a moral high ground and talk shit about Behringer ripping companies off. What you’ve never used generic prescription drugs in your life? You’ve never bought that store brand knockoff cereal or Mac & cheese? Only big name motor oil in your car? Really? Get over it.

Do people really forget that ASM is basically just a new brand of a Chinese manufacturer that makes instruments and parts for quite a chunk of the music equipment industry? Behringer seems to have made some PR blunders the last couple years and they really need to improve their website design and stop overusing the same images in product descriptions. But I agree they seem to have made some great stuff. I plan to get the CAT desktop synth in future, maybe a Deepmind 12 too. Though for my first hardware synth I will likely go with a Hydrasynth Deluxe.

Everyone bashing Behringer are usually synth snobs. Its good cheap usable gear that allows more people into the hobby/industry.

My first desktop mixer was one of the Behringer Eurorack 4 channel units maybe 15 years ago. Paid $40 for it, eventually sold it for $40, and it never once had any functional issues. My only complaint was the overall fidelity of the output, but for a $40 mixer that could be dropped off a cliff and still work, it honestly wasn’t THAT much of a step down from a small mixer in the $100-200 range from any of the other mass produced brands.

A bit off topic but have you ever used/owned an Oberheim Echoplex and is there any effect pedal that comes close to it? Thanks in advance.

Yeah, I got pretty tired of the hate. I'm sure they make the odd piece of duff gear but my own experience with Behringer, as someone with a limited budget, has been nothing but positive. I have the original TD-3, the Poly D, and recently bought a bunch of FX pedals: it's all great - no problems whatsoever, and sounds fantastic. Contrast with my uncle's experience: he just bought a Moog One which is, what, £7K? £8k? It has a raft of build quality issues, ships with a broken sequencer due to a still unfixed bug in the firmware (delete a note from a sequence and listen as everything else on the track is corrupted), and after a month of ownership has developed a fault where it literally won't stop playing and reboots at random. I got to have a quick play with it at the weekend and it sounds lovely but I also noticed that, as well as the "won't stop playing once a note has started" problem, it doesn't respond to some of the controls either - he described its behaviour as unpredictable, which I think is quite kind. He's waiting for it to be picked up for repair or replacement. Granted, Behringer have the advantage of manufacturing at scale (presumably using lots of automation, which generally yields predictable high quality when applied properly), whereas Moog are more of a boutique outfit but... come on... it's an £8k synth: for that money it ought to be just about perfect.

'Behringer doesn't break, it's already broken' - I wept with laughter. 'Big mouth, nothing behind it' - Equivalent English saying - 'all mouth, no trousers'. I think I still have that Behringer compressor from the 90's in my garage.

I will be getting the TD-3-MO as soon as it's available through Sweetwater in the US. I personally have a few Behringer products myself. I have the Poly D, Deepmind 12, MS-1-RD, TD-3-RD, RD-8, RD-9 and RD-6. I even have their UMC1820 + ADA8200 interfaces, a few pedals, compressors, patchbays even their B-1 mic. I have no complaints and they all work as they should. Behringer will continue getting my money regardless what anyone has to say about the coming. They are the only company who is listening to our wants and needs and they are delivering without breaking our bank accounts.

I’ve only owned 2 Behringer products so far, but I have no complaints and I think you get good quality for the money. If you can afford Roland or Korg or Moog or….etc. then good for you. Just realize that the equipment won’t make you a better musician. You’re limited by your own creativity.

Say what you want about them, they're doing what Roland refuses to; Recreate vintage music equipment that accurately reflects the original in look, feel, and sound.

I had a terrible Behringer mixer in the 90s and was sceptical of what was a budget brand. But their latest range of analogue repopped units is fantastic. The quality for price is incredible and I never thought I’d have a studio full of lovely analogue gear 20 years later at a fraction of the equivalent vintage price. Their sequencers are really intuitive and I find them the best on board sequencers of any brand (esp. Korg). The MO has blown my mind recently and the RD9 is about the best drum machine think I’ve ever used. People can hate on Behringer, the rest of us will be admiring them

Mate i need ur help, 1 year ago i change my audio interface, since that i had a ground noise, my old interface was firewire connection and now its USB, i think this is the problem "USB", how can i fix it? , my synth is roland se-02 and i connect by USB and 1 "3.5" to 2 "6.2" cable... Thanks

I've made the exact same experience - not one of my Behinger synths has failed me, while many more expensive manufacturers had issues. Especially my beloved Moog Sub37 had 3 defects in the first 4 years...

I’ve heard sweetwater stopped selling behringer products for a while because they’re gear was garbage. Sweetwater now is an official Behringer vendor again which shows improvements in quality.

how did you turn off the internal leds in each corner that flash every note when playing a pattern?