After decades of absence, the resurgence of analog sound synthesis is perhaps the most exciting development in electronic music since the digital revolution. As players rediscover the unlimited freedom, glorious sound, and unique experience found only in old-school analog technology, vintage-style, semi-modular analog synths have found a permanent home in the modern world.
Whether you are revisiting or newly discovering the world of analog synths, what could be a better place to explore than the beginning? The Behringer Model-D is a faithfully re-visited version of the one that started it all-- Not only the first commercially available and portable synthesizer but also the first legendary-status mono synth.
The Behringer Model D can deliver all the sounds made famous by Jan Hammer, Rick Wakeman, Chick Corea, super producer Georgio Moroder, and anything your imagination can conceive. Moreover, Model D provides what vintage “Mini-D” players often describe as the “joyful” pursuit of seeking, discovering, and tweaking unique new sounds.
True to the 1971 Icon, Behringer’s Model D is loaded with vintage-accurate transistors, JFETs, and precision 0.1% PPS caps, just for starters. Loved for its bold sounds, Model D features the same analog VCF, VCA, and 3 VCO design, a fully analog triangle/square wave LFO, and the vaunted 24dB low-pass “ladder filter.” The 3 highly flexible VCOs can generate 7 different wave shapes over a 6-octave range with an additional white/pink noise generator.
Presented in a convenient, desktop-sized, Euro-rack-ready modular package, the Model D is even more compact than the original “mini," with a far, far smaller price tag, ta’ boot. The nearly “identical to the original” control surface features 29 knobs and 19 switches, but don’t let that intimidate you. You’ll soon discover how intuitive and even fun the Model D is to operate. Thanks to the addition of modern MIDI, DIN, and USB connectivity, match your favorite controller or combine multiple synthesizers for up to 16-voice polyphony with the Polytrain feature.
