Certainly the secondhand market for original instruments like the Roland SH-101 and even the Minimoog Model D must have been affected by Behringer’s launch of highly convincing tribute editions of these instruments for a few hundred dollars. Initial skepticism about Behringer’s plans to bring out a whole series of reproductions of classic synthesizer designs-in parallel with their original designs like the DeepMind, Neutron, and Crave-has rapidly given way to delighted surprise, not only about the quality of the instruments, but also about the incredible price points the company is achieving. Does Behringer’s tribute edition measure up to one of the great monosynths of the 1980s, the Sequential Circuits Pro-One?
