BehringerMODEL D Authentic Analog Synthesizer with 3 VCOs, Ladder Filter, LFO and Eurorack Format, Compatible with PC and Mac, Black

Nothing beats that feeling of trying to get different analoge synths in tune with each other - it's part of the charm. Impressive range of sounds from this little guy though. Lots of tutorials out there, but print yourself out some patch sheets if you ever want to get almost the same sound twice!

Great buy!No calibration issues with mine. Worked perfectly out of the box, sounds fantastic!Tip - good to switch the larger tuning knobs with the filter ones, so you don’t alter the tune accidentally.⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏻⭐️

Forget the grime about the Behringer label, this is a fab little synth. It sounds brilliant. If you're after a hardware synth or looking to play with synths for the first time, this will fill the gap perfectly.Don't dally, buy.However.......As this is old tech revisited, it also has old tech issues.Like tuning.Don't get me wrong, tuning is easy to do but mine was unable to reach the pitch of A on osc 1.To counter this I tuned the synth to 'G' (hold A on midi keyboard and tune to G) and the once done, used the primary tuner knob to hit pitch. First world problems eh?Again, it is a great synth, tuning is simple - there are many vids online and behringers own is good enough in order to do this - just be aware that some, like mine, may not be perfect.If it went bang, I would buy again.

As near as possible the sound and capabilities of the real thing for a price I can afford. In fact, the capabilities are more than the original, with MIDI, USB and extra patch points. There is also an app which allows you to set note priority and legato/retriggering.Some controls are slightly out of calibration, but the important things, like the octave switching, are spot on. OK, there's no keyboard and walnut cabinet but the cheapest the original ever cost was £700 back in the early 70's!

Behringer has a reputation for selling cheap clones of popular equipment, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The Model D is a slavish copy of the Moog MiniMoog at around a twentieth the price of the real thing. It's forgivable because it sounds great.On a technical level it's very simple. It's a monophonic three-oscillator synthesiser that uses real analogue circuitry to generate its sounds, so there's no aliasing noise. It has a choice of waveforms, including several pulse waves, but it doesn't have pulse width modulation. It has filter and amplitude modulation, but it doesn't have ring modulation or any built-in effects, beyond a simple overdrive.It has an external input so you can use it to process your own sounds. It also has trigger inputs for the filter and amplitude envelope and so, with the right cables, you can use it as an external filter for other synthesisers. Apart from CV/GATE it also has MIDI and USB MIDI (it's class-compliant, so you don't need special drivers).There's no arpeggiator, no multi-timbrality, no patch memories, no splittable keyboard etc. You have to tune it every so often. Original MiniMoogs are well-made but the Model D is built down to a price, in particular I'm suspicious of the MIDI ports. They're very tight. The controls poke through holes in the front panel, but they aren't anchored to the case, so I'm worried that eventually the soldering holding the ports onto the circuit board will break.As with the MiniMoog the Behringer D has a limited bag of tricks, but - again, as with the MiniMoog - it sounds great, and that's what counts. The filter has a lovely warm tone, and even with a single oscillator the Model D doesn't sound harsh and electronic, it sounds cute and twinkly; if you turn on all three oscillators at once it sounds huge. It's very good at deep bass noises and smooth leads. The lack of PWM makes it less suitable for strings. If you have a DAW it's trivially easy to tweak the tuning slightly and layer several sounds on top of each other, in which case it sounds massive.It adds a few things to the MiniMoog spec. There's a separate LFO (you don't have to use OSC 3), an A440 tuning oscillator, and you don't have to physically patch the output into the input to use the overdrive effect, you just turn up the external input control. One oddity is that the filter and amp envelopes have separate gate triggers, so if you're using CV/gate you need a way to send two gates to it if you want to use it as an external filter, not just one. The outputs are unbalanced. MIDI support is essentially note on, note off, and pitchbend. Nothing else. You have to use the knobs.Use the knobs. The Model D is particularly useful if you have a DAW setup, but you want to add some analogue sounds. Compared to e.g. the Korg ARP Odyssey or a modular synth it's a lot less flexible, but if you want squiggly acid noise and thwumping 1970s Parliament / Funkadelic bass tones it's great. You can apparently chain several of them together to make a polysynth, and the box also comes with components to rackmount it, but it's very compact as it is.And that's the Model D. If you have no other synthesisers, no DAW, no other equipment you might be disappointed (unless you're a keyboard wizard - and perhaps you are - it works best as part of an ensemble). I'm also worried about its longevity, but if I was a gigging musician it would probably be cheaper to buy three of these for redundancy's sake than a single MiniMoog.

At this price point you won't get much more

Product arrived but did not come with a UK plug. Anyone have any advice?

Excellent and lives up to the hype and reviewsButThere are a lot of people I know who say should I go Model D or go Neutron. I now have both, so my advice is - if you want to play amazing lead synth solos or add overdubs to your programmed sequences, then go Model d. Think one handed keyboard solo. If you tweak twiddle and modulate and think what happens if I put this in here, think Neutron. A simplified review of course.