Synthesist Tom Noise shared this ‘shut up and play’ style video demo of the new Behringer Wave synthesizer:
The Behringer Wave is a knockoff of the classic PPG Wave, a hybrid wavetable synthesizer from the ’80s.
The Behringer Wave copies the PPG Wave 2.2, a hybrid synth, originally released in the early ’80s. Like the original, Behringer’s copy combines wavetable oscillators, which offer a much wider range of waveforms than traditional analog oscillators – with analog VCFs and VCAs.
Pricing and Availability:
The Behringer Wave is now shipping from the factory, with a street price of $599 USD.
Note: It typically takes at least a month, after it starts shipping, for new Behringer synths to be available at its ‘super partners’ retailers.
It seems like it has no preset names (judging from the display), much like the original did.
Though I’d be surprised if there isn’t a preset name somewhere in the menus.
I could never understand that on the original 2/2.2/2.3 – Palm gave way for more or less not so useful information for normal use on the display, like MIDI, tune (440Hz) and cassette status (even 15 characters or so on the 2.3 reserved to say it was in 2.2 or 2.3 mode!), which could IMHO easily had been a different menu item.
Not something that’s gonna keep me awake at night, just an observation, though.