Behringer JT-4000M Micro Hybrid Modeling Synthesizer Adds MIDI In

Behringer today announced the JT-4000M, an upgraded version of its JT-4000 micro synth that adds a MIDI input.

The original JT-4000 supported USB/MIDI, which limited how it could be used. The updated version lets you control it via a standard DIN MIDI connector, greatly expanding its compatibility with decades of MIDI gear.

Behringer JT-4000M Intro Video:

The JT-4000M is a micro synth based on the synth voice of the Roland JP-8000, the source of many of iconic sounds of the ’90s.

 

Features:

  • Programmable 4-voice hybrid synthesizer with 2 analog modelling oscillators per voice
  • Analog filter for warm and natural sound
  • Reproduction of the JP-8k sound engine with Supersaw waveform
  • Additional 2-operator FM engine
  • Authentic 12-bit DAC for classic sound
  • 16 touch-sensitive keys for great playability
  • 32 memory presets, expandable via SynthTribe app
  • Arpeggiator with 3 patterns and hold function
  • Individual envelopes for filter and amplifier
  • 2 LFO’s to control filter and oscillator tuning
  • 6 function buttons and OLED display for easy and immediate parameter editing
  • USB Type C allows powering via smartphone, power bank or computer
  • USB/MIDI implementation (including CC control of all parameters and bulk load/save)
  • Standard 3.5 mm MIDI connector plus DIN adapter cable included

Pricing and Availability:

The Behringer JT-4000 is priced at $49 and is shipping now from their factory. Based on previous history, it could take an additional month or two for it be available via retailers.

20 thoughts on “Behringer JT-4000M Micro Hybrid Modeling Synthesizer Adds MIDI In”

  1. I’m not in the market for this sort of tiny device, but it’s a lot of synth for under $50. Perhaps I should pick one up for travel.

  3. This is an amazing synth to play, it can sound woody, warm, snappy, greasy and rubbery, but can also sound creaky, zappy and spindly and sits in the mix amazingly well. When I was hanging out with Uli at behringer head office a few weeks back, and all the lights were off…er…I thought I was playing a real jp8000. Uli told me behringher are gonna start cloning some digital synths from the 90s staring with the cs1x and some cool lesser known stuff like the resound Elevata, 29.99 euros Inc. Shipping direct from China!Amazing times we live in !

  5. very aggravating the original unit doesnt have this feature, since i already bought one and then later realized it was missing

    hard to complain at the price, but i think i will manage

  6. How small can you go? I guess I’m just cold on the idea of mini-synths you have to play with a stylus. Still, I’ll take four of these: two for ear rings, two as nipple clips.

    1. Me too! And other places south of the border! I drilled a small hole in the bottom right side of the case and inserted a standard metal key ring. This in turn is threaded through my existing pierced appendages…

      I always knew there were others as weird as me 🙂

    1. …what about: BCx2000 series, FCA202, Deepmind, Neutron etc, ???…there is this new amazing tool called the internet where you can search before making such a bokd statement brother 😉 !

      1. 99.9% of the time, they copy others. From Mackie mixers to Genelec/KRK, microphones, and accessories, they knockoff anything that’s been successful. This is the base of their business.
        I’ll admit the DeepMind/Neutron was something special they created around 2016 with the Midas designers. However, you really push it hard with controllers and $50 audio interfaces from 2005, which shows how difficult it is to find something original from them. It’s clear to everyone, including Behringer, that they “cannot make something without copying other stuff.” This is the guilt whoever buys into them has. If you’re a fan or customer, wear it with pride 🙂

        1. Behringer’s lawyers are designing their products, as much as anyone.

          Uli has tasked the company with making a knockoff of any successful electronic music product. So the lawyers tell them what they’ve got to change in order to make their knockoff legal, and that’s what they go with.

          or every original design like the Neutron, they literally have released a hundred knockoffs.

          1. I don’t think that’s true. Boutique manufacturers usually want to avoid court because of the costs. B know that, and with SLAPP acts in play, it’s very possible they even welcome the idea of being sued, it creates controversy and that can be great advertising for them.
            I think no one wants to deal with them, and they simply don’t care.

            1. Who cares if it’s a knock off or if it’s small. Just hook up u your MIDI controller and pay a few bucks to Behringer and woohoo, I got that 90s Roland sound I was so fond of but could never afford!

          2. It’s funny. I’ve never heard the same complaints from guitarists about companies who make cheap stratocasters and telecasters and les pauls. They seem to be fine with companies coming in and offering cheap knock-offs to premium brand instruments. Everybody knows they’re not going to offer the same quality as the original, but everyone’s fine with them being there to provide the option of something “close enough” for those who don’t have fortunes to spend, or are just starting out and simply aren’t willing to spend thousands of euros on their first exploration of a new hobby.

            But in the synth culture, there’s quite a large contingent of whiny purists who think this is immoral behavior. Just be glad there’s the option. Am I going to buy a hundred cheap behringer clones? No. Would I have loved this stuff to have been available when I was 15 and skint? Ehm, yeah. Would sure have beat the hell out of trying to make do with Rubber Duck and Rebirth.

            Now would I be happy if I was the 6 year old chinese kid having to build it for 6 cents an hour? No. Which is one of the reasons I try to avoid buying them. But having cheaper options available seems like the way any instrument market has worked for at least the last hundred years. It’s really exclusively the synth market where there’s this huge debate over whether what Ulli is doing is ok or not.

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