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kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Tue Jul 30, 2024 3:38 am

From what they're saying, they're going to base their polys all on the UBXa platform. Which'll mean Jupiters, Neptunes etc will be full midi and poly keybeds. Which is quite a quantum leap up for them. TBH it stuns me how much the UBXa does for the price - I don't personally use aftertouch so it's wasted on me, but it's there and it's polyphonic

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Constructed Identity · Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:38 pm

kritikon wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 3:38 am From what they're saying, they're going to base their polys all on the UBXa platform. Which'll mean Jupiters, Neptunes etc will be full midi and poly keybeds. Which is quite a quantum leap up for them. TBH it stuns me how much the UBXa does for the price - I don't personally use aftertouch so it's wasted on me, but it's there and it's polyphonic .

Aftertouch isn't a game changer, I wouldn't buy a keyboard just because it had aftertouch, but I'm loving using it on my 3rd Wave for pads and now that the Prologue is right above I can use it on that and it's great.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Fri Aug 02, 2024 4:37 pm

Very sad news but Dan Clarke, who demonstrated a lot of Behringer products sadly passed away.

https://synthanatomy.com/2024/08/dan-cl ... y-rip.html

Aliens · Post by **Aliens** » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:19 pm

Absolutely brutal.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:45 pm

egbert101 wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 4:37 pm Very sad news but Dan Clarke, who demonstrated a lot of Behringer products sadly passed away.

https://synthanatomy.com/2024/08/dan-cl ... y-rip.html

the young feller?
damn

rip.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 7:57 am

Behringer PolyOsc:

https://synthanatomy.com/2024/08/behringer-polyosc.html

Now if only those digital oscillators had wavetable capability like the GForce software version (we can dream).

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 1:53 pm

kritikon will be pleased

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 4:11 pm

Unfortunate that they’re departing from the UB-Xa paradigm. I was hoping we’d be getting poly AT on everything from now on.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 7:57 pm

So it has their keystep copy keyboard (which I don't mind) but also has a screen. Could that screen possibly be for wavetables? Will it be true polyphonic (I hope so). I would just like wavetables and effects, is that too much to ask? I guess so.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:50 pm

yay! and yah boo

Obvs a polyOSC makes me moist, BUT it looks like a very cut down version of an OSCar. First impression is it needs way more knobbage to be a decent emu. Yes a poly version is a great idea but not if it loses so much hands on control. Sequencer could be a great idea on an OSCar but menu diving on a screen...no. Just no. It would likely be a decent emu - Behringers usually are IMO. The screen is likely to make the additive part easier, but I could always leave the OSCar's additive side- rarely used it tbh - still don't on impOSCar. Wavetables can f**k off too. If it was cheap enough I'd get it for nostalgia, but as it stands that doesn't do it for me.

I'm almost decided on getting a PWM Mantis as a modern OSCar replacement. More expensive but it has all the OSCar uniqueness, the dual filters, a lovely drive, true Chris Hugget DNA and a shitload more goodies that give greater value than more polyphony imo. Every tidbit I've seen/heard of Mantis screams the spirit of OSCar to me. I am ready to be parted with my poorly-earned money.

That Boscar should make me very moist but for various reasons it's dried me up. Black'n'green is the new black'n'yellow

silikonanswer · Post by **silikonanswer** » Mon Aug 19, 2024 7:47 am

Am I the only poor and pathetic soul that is waiting for the Hirotribe?

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Mon Aug 19, 2024 1:58 pm

To date, I just think every Behringer synth with a keyboard is really ugly, except for the Poly-D, which is...ok looking actually. For the rest, it just feels like the real-world equivalent of taking a JPEG of a classic synth and doing a really poor job resizing it so the dimensions are all off and distorted. I wish they spent 25% of the years they spent on the UB-Xa just figuring out how to make their poly synths look a little nicer.

Maybe it's just me.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Aug 19, 2024 4:07 pm

Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 1:58 pm it just feels like the real-world equivalent of taking a JPEG of a classic synth and doing a really poor job resizing it so the dimensions are all off and distorted.

+1

Maybe that's why the Poly Source looks so good, that's the only one they exploded rather than compacted.

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Mon Aug 19, 2024 4:16 pm

Uncle E wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 4:07 pm Maybe that's why the Poly Source looks so good, that's the only one they exploded rather than compacted.

No keys on that one though right? If they did, they'd probably have stretched it vertically in a really bizarre, ugly way.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Wed Aug 21, 2024 3:28 am

I thought UBXa was fugly in pics & vids, but was a bit surprised to find that IRL I actually think it looks quite good. An awful lot better than I expected. And Monopoly is an improvement on the original IMO, though obvs a bit smaller. So they're not uniformly wrong-looking, just randomly wrong-looking

I hope if they deliver a Polyvoks that they keep it chunkily Soviet like the original.

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