Behringer shared this hands-on demo of the new Behringer Wave synthesizer.
The Behringer Wave copies the PPG Wave 2.2, a pioneering digital/analog hybrid synthesizer from the ’80s. Like the original, the Behringer Wave combines wavetable oscillators – which offer a much wider range of waveforms than traditional analog oscillators – with analog VCFs and VCAs.
Check it out, and share your thoughts on the Behringer Wave in the comments!
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first couple of seconds of keyboard sounds great though. i’m in.
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Let him cook, he’s having a lot of fun and clearly knows his way around. I’m not a PPG fetishist but I get a good idea from him of why people like it and can guess a lot of his favorite artists/songs.
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This thing is cheese-tastic and the presenter genuinely seems to love vibing with this. What’s not to love here? I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I might actually be interested in one of these
It definitely has a winning sound and an amazing array of jacks you’d normally expect on a much pricier synth. It also allows for 64 user wavetables, so you could easily add some personal power to it. I’m sure it won’t bother the company if it becomes a sleeper hit.
Everything this company does is to trigger people and insight controversy. Clearly that’s the primary goal. And the blogs are all to happy to oblige because it creates traffic and ad revenue. A genius strategy since quality, ethics, support and reputation are not how they are gonna get attention
Yep. And here you are, yet again, commenting on another Behringer post.
Creating that ‘traffic and ad revenue” with every post. Ker-ching!
Exactly, their primary goal is controversy, not money. Also, great example of a banned Reddit user comment, the rhetoric is eerily similar.
Who me? I’ve never used Reddit
Or…there’s a lot of haters online who get mad when they see someone having a good time with a musical instrument. ‘Uli Behringer’s minions selected this particular demonstrator specifically to annoy people, specifically me’ is some next-level digital narcissism.
What’s the trumpet sound at 9:10? Sounds nice. I don’t remember that in the PPG wavetable, does this one come with some custom ones, or has he uploaded it himself?
If we’re talking about the presentation style, the only painful thing for me was that he’s playing a keyboard from a chair with arm rests. Love the enthusiasm.
Are people seriously criticizing this dude for having a BLAST playing a keyboard? That’s like poking fun of a child for being too ecstatic when playing with his firetruck. Just because your an adult doesn’t mean you cant have…joy? lol what is this world
I suspect those people have never had that much fun with their own stuff
I think you could leave “with their own stuff” off the end of that sentence and it would still be accurate.
I understand the impulse to go full troll but come on, he’s a based dude just having fun. I bet $10,000 trolls dont have 1/4 of his keyboard talent.
At $599 (for the moment), the price ain’t so far from that of Boutiques and Minilogues. It feels a little weird to consider that much money as “disposable” income, but if it goes belly-up until you smash it with a brick and join the haters club, well, its not as if this was about a $3-4K instrument. I hope it holds up. Its cheap enough, but its still a large wad of a newbie’s lawn-cutting money.
In my synthesizer fantasy, B charges 20% more, their gear holds up dependably, people have this under their Nords and they aren’t partly known as being corporate-skeevy.
I have had the Behringer Odyssey, Neutron, and Model D for years and use them often and have had zero problems with them. This last year, I picked up the Wasp and Pro-800.
The Behringer Wave looks like a nice synth and sounds great. As an Ultravox fan, I wouldn’t mind picking up a Behringer Wave next year when they are available in the US so I can be like Ultravox back in the day, LOL. For those musical acts that could afford a PPG Wave 40 years ago, the PPG must have seemed like an amazing, otherworldly new musical tool. Here’s an interesting vintage clip that includes the PPG Wave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HamjCnXjOyk
Although the Pro 800 build quality is fine, and it sounds great, I was a bit surprised by the loose ends in the operating system. I thought the industry generally would have that kind of basic thing nailed by now (Midi control, menu interfaces).
Nothing especially crucial and quite a lot was fixed quite quickly. Not complaining, just surprised. I would be waiting to hear whether everything is ok on the Wave software, which is considerably more complicated.
Tim, how dare you bring positive facts into the debate that force me to lighten up on my “B-hate??” 😛
Actually, I have no dog in the hunt, as I went all in-the-box before B was more than a fringe player. Uli’s touchy behavior has put me off, but clearly, a lot of people *world-wide* are happy with their instruments. I can’t argue against someone jonesing for a PPG-alike.
Synthesizers were horrifyingly costly early on. If B is providing a decent “gateway drug” at a reachable price, its hard to argue against people having tools for making music. Nothing is 100% bullet-proof. I had a Prophet-600, so I hope your Pro-800 holds up. Its a solid design.
After reading and watching my brother (not genetically, but oh, so definitely soulfully) jamming (yes, he is jamming some seriously awesome sauce), it seems truly repugnant that any serious musician would go on demeaning him or his delivery, or the instrument based on this awesome video. Compared to any television commercial (yes, he is promoting the instrument – duh!), this cat is slammin’ it hardcore, with a pizzazz unseen in most promo deliveries ever created. Vince of Sham-Wow fame is in awe, no doubt (and taking notes, I hope). How childish and immature (jealous, much?) anyone can be to attack either the instrument or the promoter’s technique is beyond me.
I’m buying one, got a pre-order with Sweetwater in already. Not just because I loved the PPG3 vst Waldorf made 20 years ago, and that I already loved the history of the PPG, but homeboy done sold my cynical butt on this reproduction with his irresistable (and damn funky) promo of its great sounding potential.
Gracias, new Behringer pitchman, you have delivered the goods as was hoped for, and I will soon have one in my home.
Sorry, 3rd wave, I ain’t got the jing for your shtyle ($5k??? wtfurniture?) – maybe next time – good luck.
Funny how the haters all seem to ignore the repros from others, just Behringer – mmkay!
This is amazing and so much better than the 3rd Wave for a much fairer price.