Looking back, Music Tribe has done a lot of growth by acquisition. Midas as for instance. Acquiring Cool Audio from Intersil in 2000 ( 25 years back ) was an important enabling tschnology that has made a lot of the internal Behringer synthesizer growth possible, if not inevitable.
Cool Audio itself has grown, for instance adding the vacuum tube technology, that has now popped up as a series of important Behringer audio products.
I won’t list out all the acquired brands that are part of Music Tribe now, but it is extensive.
The addition of the clean room part on the new Music Tribe factory bears the same significance, even though we don’t yet know the details and specifics of this technology, like whether this is for silicon fab, or for something very different.
We can also expect will see vastly improved and expanded factory automation coming on line as well. At it’s extreme this sort of factory automation promises low-cost custom ( even one off ) manufacture. Whether Music Tribe would actually make this sort of fine grained manufacture a regular thing is another matter.
Will the Behringer synth business now expand via acqusition as well ? They reportedly were offered the opportunity, and examined the chance to acquire Moog and turned it down, leaving it to inMusic. Other makers have been available and will be available in the future, i think of Modal as a good example. But to the present Behringer has chosen to grow internally, rather than grow by acquisition. We’ll see if that holds.
They have many times offered to do business with startups to manufacture innovative ideas, but i haven’t seen concrete results for this so far. To some extent the contracting of design experts, like AMSynths, for example, has filled the same function. They seem to have this as a way they will continue for now.