Behringer today introduced the Waves Eurorack module, a clone of the Mutable Instruments Tides.
Like Tides, Waves is designed to provide a wide range of audio and modulation functions, including envelope generator, LFO, VCO and more.
Features:
- 3 Generator Modes: Choose from AD and AR envelopes plus looping VC-LFO/VCDO modes for endless modulation possibilities.
- 4 Output Modes: Explore a range of shapes, amplitudes, times, and frequencies to add depth and movement to your sound.
- Shape Control: Seamlessly blend linear, exponential, and sinusoidal segments for custom modulations.
- External Clocking PLL: Sync up with other VCOs to create rich (sub)harmonics that evolve with your music.
- High-Resolution CV Control: With up to 16-bit CV accuracy, WAVES brings ultra-precise modulation control to your Eurorack setup.
Behringer Waves Demo Video:
Pricing and Availability:
The Behringer Waves is shipping from their factory, with a street price of $99 USD.
Very nice keep ’em coming
at least they got the LED colors right on this one. i have four Tides 2 already great module.
I’m blown away by the potential!
They finally started using 1v/oct?
yes, the 3 volts per tritone just wasn’t that popular after all.
What’s next to it?
a ripples clone on the right and a Prophet VS wave’cycle’ module on the left.
Uli bought a massive production facility in south east Asia to single-handedly disrupt the Etsy mutable clone market. This is game changing shit.
yep. this is one point why i avoid buying Behringers-stuff… killing small (and big) manufacturers buisness is not nice. But people seem to support this…
etsy mutable clone market? lol! oh no, think of the children!
he should have taken the opportunity to buy a few designers at the same time. The Behringer modules look like Trabants tuned by a 15-year-old in the throes of goth craziness.
These graphic horrors border on insulting E.Gillet.
They do look incredibly s*it!
I’m just excited about the savings!!!
Since it’s an unoriginal clone with no changes or improvements, just a cut-throat price facilitated by geographic arbitrage, there’s not much to do here other than criticize the baffling aesthetic decisions they made to conceal their low-effort opportunism.
Let’s start with the name. WAVES. Is it possible to come up with a less inspired name for a synth module? Our focus group consisting of three influencers who regularly get free stuff from us loved the name, so buzz off. Next, grab some Pro-One style knobs, because nothing says Mutable Instruments like mimicking early 1980s Sequential Circuits hardware. Now let’s hire a freelancer from Fiverr to design some arbitrary background graphics that look like a generic tribal tattoo, because our market research showed that men with generic tribal tattoos are our core market. Oops, we hired a designer from Bangalore but he quit the project when we asked for a design revision that used Arabic numerals instead of Devanagari. I guess he thought we wanted to erase his culture or something. Wait, you’re telling me that the original Tides also used Devanagari numerals? I thought Mutable was from Paris, dude. Ah, forget it, I’ve got a meeting with Uli in 10 minutes to talk about our next Korg knockoff. Give the guy from Bangalore a 1-star review, then it’s time to ship this thing.
Behringer is an utterly bizarre company, and that’s not a compliment because doing things differently isn’t automatically a good thing. I’m sure they’ll sell a ton of these because, like the guy above who wrote “I’m just excited about the savings,” there are plenty of people who only view their equipment as a means to an end. They don’t care about the people who make the equipment, the conditions that allowed that equipment to be made, or the ethical compromises that were made to put that equipment on the shelf at their online retailer of choice. But it’s obvious that Behringer epitomizes the “enshi*tification” of the music tech world. I hope they never make something that actually tempts me to pull out my wallet and temporarily overlook the myriad negatives of their soulless brand.
Behringer’s entire business is built on the fact that a lot of musicians are happy to compromise on design and build quality to save money.
Its pretty obvious, too, that lots of people don’t see or care about these things. Behringer is there to meet their needs.
But yes, their front panel designs are a crimes against humanity.