Say what you will about Behringer, but if other makers didn’t offer that option, that’s on them. The Neutron and its ilk made an obvious entry level for selling people up to more modules. Also, Behringer have a leg up that even Roland didn’t have with their own modular additions – I suspect a lot of people will do exactly what you see in the video, and couple Behringer’s rack-mountable, patchable desktop synths with these modular add-ons. But of course that would mean a higher price tag, and it might not fit as readily into a Eurorack system.īut these should be expected to be solid sellers, even before knowing the price – because Behringer have done a complete set, and it looks like fit and finish and so on are dead-on. (The Behringer clone here does a decent job of shrinking the more pedestrian 100m.) Even Roland aren’t attempting that. On some level, it’s a shame no one is copying the charming look of the original System 100 – or its distinctive keyboard hub. But there are useful utility modules, a particularly interesting phase shifter, and all the other features that made the Roland system popular in the first place.
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Roland oscillators are … well, pretty vanilla now given other options. The original 100M, from 1979, sold through the early 80s. But they’ve also done almost exactly what Roland did recently when Eurorack-ing the same series, with some variations (see below). The original looked like this – basically, Behringer have just collapsed some of the empty space and down-sized some of the controls to scale so it fits in your rack.
#Behringer s 16 archive#
There’s even an archive of a 1995 Sound on Sound review.
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It’s just been scaled down to make sense as Eurorack and (presumably) to keep the price down.
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There’s not a lot to say, because spec-for-spec, this is the same as a 1979 System 100m.