Behringer 2600 [2020 – ]

Another case of Behringer cloning a piece of synth history, the ARP 2600. The original was on my wish list, the one you know will never happen. So Behringer really did a lot people happy by bringing this one to market. It’s a r-e-a-l-l-y nice semimodular synth, endlessly tweakable. Loads of patch points and, best of all, sliders! Sliders are so much more fun than knobs. Too bad they let in more dust into the units, but you can’t have everything. This is one of those sit-down-and-tweak-and-at-four-o-clock-in-the-morning-consider-going-to-bed-as-the-alarm-will-go-off-in-three-hours kind of machines. Again, hard to resist with the Behringer pricing.