Now you can pre-order the Behringer D Mini within the EU for €99, providing you a Minimoog Mannequin D-inspired efficiency.
If you understand something about Behringer lately, you’ll know that I’ve made moderately informal use of the phrase impressed within the header.
Once I say impressed, I imply cloned to inside an inch of trademark infringement (generally an inch over).
Whereas the performance of digital circuits is sort of unattainable to guard from copycats, Behringer constantly walks a really skinny line on the sting of compliance with parts that different producers can shield, like trademarked names, logos, and designs.
A lot in order that the corporate has been sued pretty repeatedly over the past couple of a long time, together with the authorized motion taken by BOSS/Roland, Mackie, and Klon.
Mockingly, Behringer’s guardian firm, Empower Tribe, countersued BOSS for patent infringement associated to the PolyTune polyphonic Tuner.
Lawsuit documentation said of Roland, “it determined that as a substitute of making a polyphonic tuner itself, it might merely knock off Empower’s patented machine as a substitute.”
There needed to be a room full of individuals considering, “Are you ******* kidding me?”
Anyway, again to the story at hand.
Behringer introduced the D Mini at NAMM 2026, and now you may pre-order it from Musicstore.de for €99 (inventory is anticipated round mid August 2026).
It’s not new territory for Behringer; the Behringer Mannequin D is a reasonably profitable copy of the long-lasting Minimoog.
The D Mini has six voice modes, together with polyphonic (three-voice paraphonic), unison, and ring modulator.
Different key options embody:
- VCA with six waveforms (triangle, sharktooth, sawtooth, sq., and two pulse variants)
- Noise generator
- ADS envelope for filter/VCA
- 24 dB lowpass filter
- Arpeggiator
- Step sequencer with ten patterns
- LFO with 4 waveforms
- Movement sequence (recording controller actions)
- Sync in/out
- MIDI in
The step sequencer is an attention-grabbing addition, and positively provides one other layer of worth to this small synth.
Fairly than a typical keyboard, you get 27 contact keys, much like Arturia’s MicroFreak. When you aren’t used to that type of capacitive keyboard, it may really feel fairly unusual and fewer expressive. However you may at all times use one other MIDI keyboard.
If we all know one factor about Behringer clones, together with earlier mini fashions, just like the CZ-1 Mini (Casio CZ-1) and JT Mini (Roland Jupiter-8), it’s that they usually get remarkably near the unique sound.
Not each patch is ideal, however as a rule, it’s very shut with slight variations that you could work round to get nearer to the unique sound.
It’s honest to say that Behringer’s clones have improved over time, too.
I can’t think about getting lower than €99 worth out of the D Mini; I believe there’s in all probability glorious worth for cash in all of Behringer’s synth clones.
It’s humorous that we’re discussing the D Mini so quickly after the Fender Copyright story; I’m certain there shall be some cries of hypocrisy! It’s simply too late to reverse the tide for Fender.
I can’t say I’m a fan of anybody blatantly placing their very own title on another person’s homework, so I perceive the lawsuits, however I additionally perceive that the common musician doesn’t have 1000’s of {dollars} to drop on an unique, and see why clones are engaging.
It could be simpler to remain righteous with out such a worth hole between units.
Regardless of the case, the I really like Behringer/I hate Behringer vibe round tradeshows when merchandise just like the Behringer Mannequin D first dropped was hilarious for some time.
So far as I’m conscious, Moog has by no means taken authorized motion in opposition to Behringer regardless of the closeness of their copies.
Try the deal: Behringer D Mini (Accessible for pre-order @ Musicstore.de – €99)
Final Up to date on June 9, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
