The Behringer Gear-in-progress Thread

They are taking feedback on whether to do a rare one, the ARP Avatar. Interesting choice.

The final synth from ARP ( other than if you consider the Chroma as being from ARP ), that while Odyssey like, was intended as a guitar synth, included a pitch to voltage converter and a hexaphonic pickup connector. This presents a challenge to engineer properly to get it dependable, but a lot easier than when this synth was originally made in 1977.

Behringer could consider making a hexaphonic guitar to sell with this. Obviously you can add / modify this sort of pickup onto many electric guitars, if you are careful to get good separation.

The Avatar could also be used without a guitar, like with a keyboard.

The synth part of this is very much like the Odyssey, so Behringer have a leg up on that already. I suppose this could mostly be done with a good guitar pitch to MIDI converter and a regular Odyssey as well.

I’m thinking the Avatar might not be the synth to recreate, but as a place to start from with some new ideas added, that might be interesting.

Hmm ? Polyphony ? MPE or poly-aftertouch MIDI ? A different synth engine ? Lots of possibilities for variation here.