Poly D : Amazing synth for the price.

6 years ago

Essentially the Moog clone but with extra features, such as the Juno style Chorus, sequencer and distortion.

I've played the real thing and honestly unless you are nit picking about the exact shape of the filter or waveshapes (and I have seen youtube videos of people that have) you are going to be happy with this unit.

The first thing I did was change the pitch wheel down to a tone from it's default octave setting, and it was a breeze to interface the unit with the software, I had a quick look at the sequencing side with the software and that all looks great, though I don't really use it for that.

I wasn't expecting the distortion setting to sound that great, but actually it's pretty good for the unit. The chorus is a fairly faithful representation of the Juno 60 chorus (I have one and tested them against each other). It has the same character, but the stereo modulation is way more prominent in the Behringher, I feel like they overdid it a bit, perhaps on purpose I don't know.

The unit's midi in & out are all good, I noticed another user mentioned it not working, but that must be a one off or user error as that's all good.

Build quality feels great, the polyphonic glide is SO COOL.

If you have trouble keeping the oscillators in tune, yeah that happens with the moog as well. I honestly don't know why they didn't go a bit further and add a coarser tuning feature that would have been able to go up to a 5th, but I guess they are trying to keep it as close to the original as possible.

I'm using this thing ALL the time, a VST just doesn't come close to having a real unit like this!

Image Behringer Poly D

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Behringer
  • Released in 2019
  • Average price : $804
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