Ah, Lyar. The remake of the Lyra-8.
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Its not a funny joke. In bad taste.(Lynn sticker)
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You all an call me every bad word possible. I deserve it for I have finally caved.
As for drums I’m buying the RD-8 MK2 & RD-9 this month. The RD-78, LMdrum & BMX when they’re out. As for synths I’ll be going for the MS-1 MK2, UB-XA Desktop & Neptune-80 (desktop) if it ever comes out and sounds close.
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thought this was kinda funny. not sure what the explanation for this would be other than astro turfing reviews.
the two most recent reviews for the Edge on Sweetwater are basically the exact same content but with the order switched up. down to the weird muscle car comparison. and from the same location, but different names. maybe its just two buddies making a joke, its a funny idea if thats the case.
Look and feel copyrights are difficult to get and difficult to enforce.
ADDED : This is in reference to the LM Drum.
I can’t stop laughing, a volca clone
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Oh the irony. And talk about littering the planet with unnecessary garbage…
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I thought maybe I’m wrong and the volca keys is no longer in production for 60 years and people miss the nostalgic sound but I checked and it’s in stock for $149 on sweetwater, so yeah, cloning existing product just to knock off $50 is crazy…
for all the dreamers that always wanted a volca and never could get one I guess…
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Can anybody explain the phara-o branding? I’m missing something here.
they wanted to have a twist so cloned the OT medieval marketing thing into egyptian lingo I guess?
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Behringer though, entirely avoids all accusation of trade dress or name infringement with the Phara-o Mini. So they’re completely in the clear in that regard, at least.
You can legitimately ask why they bother when they’re only 33% less expensive. But so far we don’t have a complete picture yet on features, nor sound quality, or a true comparison. And far be it from me to critique Behringer as to what sells, and what people want – they have been doing a damn good job with that along the way.
Here’s another “cloned” product ( quotes on that for accuracy ) that, i at least, wonder about customer interest for. It’s a new product from Dübreq Stylophone – the Stylosette Keys.
Here’s a video, to get an idea of how desirable the Stylosette is as an instrument. Yes it is only 40 dollars/euros.
I called it a “clone”. Here’s the Microkits Synth-a-Sette.
This may very well have been done ( perhaps likely has ) as a straight up legitimate business acquisition. But the question still can be, why ? And again far be it from me to critique Dübreq on what sells. They also are 33% less expensive.
This while Dübreq has delays in production with other products. ( By the way, those sorts of walk and chew gum criticisms are often bogus. )
This isn’t a “what about”, but a reality check for what we critique in real world product development and marketing.
Side note : I was considering a new thread for the Stylosette, until i watched the video. This post will do for me. Someone else ( you maybe ) can start a new product thread.
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The day Behringer clones the OP1 (by jamming a bunch of open source code for Plaits modules into an aluminum enclosure and adding a digital four-track recorder) will be the day I buy my first Behringer product. But cloning a Volca Keys has the same energy as stealing a 2002 Kia Rio. Just why bother? If you’re going to do it, choose something better.
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Pharaoh is just capitalizing on Make Noise aesthetics and kind of hamfistedly dumbing down their vague hieroglyphics. They should have gone a different route and made it look Art Deco or something, there’s a history of people drawing on this in design to wonderful effect
I don’t care about copyright or clone wars but I see how this kind of cheapens the make noise brand. Volca keys looks better so that’s a win for korg
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That’s a joke, right ?
Man building with Integrated Circuits :
Obviously all electronics have been copied from Ancient Egypt. From List of Hieroglyphics on Wikipedia.
I didn’t realize that Hieroglyphics are unicode characters.
It’s decoration.
ADDED : This may be an actual message.
GRIND – The Behringer Grind obviously !
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well, i got the bro one and its great
i wont pay 2500 bucks for a flimsy box with cheap pots and a crappy keyboard
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Just bringing this over from the LMDrum thread. This is some really aggressive spin doctoring.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they have a couple “out of work” political strategists on their payroll. I mean people who are already upset will be incensed by this, probably not as much as Linn himself, but still.
I can’t help but laugh at the utterly cavalier, paparazzi-esque guerilla marketing rebrand of a complaint into a feature request.
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You’re reading way to much into this. The suggestion for changing the tuning of all samples came before what Linn said, it may also have been suggested by a beta tester. Behringer has been very good in general at supporting their products, even perhaps annoyingly so doing hardware upgrades sooner when that is necessary.
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You are averting your eyes from the truth.
It doesn’t matter when they started working towards implementation, they’ve just found a way to affix Roger Linn’s name as having suggested it as an upgrade to the fact that they’re already implementing it.
That’s the spin. I’m reading it as it’s written.
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No i read what you write. You’re reading too much into this.