Getting this out of the way, yeah, Behringer. I know. I feel plenty bad.
Over the past years I’ve picked up most of these B2500 series modules, but was always…uncomfortable with mixing them in with other stuff. I love the work the industrial designers did on the series, and they do work well. Somebody at Behringer really loved this project and it shows.
Instead of keeping them on the shelf, I wanted to unify them in their own case. So I continued the frugal route with a Behringer Go case with 2x140hp and an adequate power distribution layout.
(I also suspect that the 2500 series is out of production and some B2500 modules might start getting scarce.)
So this will be my August build. The Mutant Brain gets me polyphonic midi and clock, and the Doepfer quantizer tames the sequencer to real notes. The four Doepfer 182-1 switched multiples is my cheesy 16x8 matrix switch substitue.
I’m cautious when using passive multiples, but if they were good enough for Al Pearlman, they're good enough here.
It’s missing some things. It doesn’t have a noise source, and a quad VCA would have been nice, but there’s no more room. It’s a very meat-and-potatoes synth build. Nothing exotic or esoteric, but that’s always been the essence of the 2500.
Looking forward to sitting in front of it and playing. Should be a pretty thing.
What do you think?
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