Did Behringer Lie? The "POLY D"... 

I just wanted to say, it is still a great synth, even for its mono capabilities. (Considering the original is like 10k). I was just disappointed in the beginning when I used this, and even almost sold it. But I'm glad I kept it.

My kids got me one for my birthday in August, to duplicate and make the sounds of my youth is nothing short of remarkable. Never thought i would even touch one, my kids are the best. Wow just wow.

Bought one recently, having never gotten over being forced to sell my treasured Minimoog years ago (big mistake, especially considering what it's worth now). And I couldn't be happier. Everything I loved about the Minimoog with all those groovy extras, the arpeggiator is brilliant, the sequencer is great, the extra oscillator is a terrific feature .., I love and I'd recommend without reservation to anyone looking to capture the classic Minimoog sound, with a host of modern added features. 10/10 from this happy owner.

When i got my Poly D i did not even care about the paraphonic aspect because i was just happy enough to have a Minimoog Model D clone with a FOURTH oscillator, 2 analog chorus modes, SEQUENCER, Arpegiator, MIDI & USB connectio, Keys and all that for under 800 bucks. And so far i have mostly used it for monophonic sounds and pretending to be in the 1970s and using any form of technical limitation in a musical aspect. Adding a bit of reverb can really soften the sudden attacks during Paraphonic playing a little. And the added chorus really gives it an almost polyphonic drift that really can fool someone :) This thing really holds such a big place in my heart and i am so happy Behringer actually gave us this incarnation of their Model D clone. I certainly won't ever come any closer to actually owning a real Minimoog Model D but i don't care anymore. You can really fall in love with the Poly-D and this thing can sound SOOOOO smooth and sooo FATTTTT if you tickle it just right.

A Korg Poly 800 is using also one filter for all the voices and using two Dco's is giving you only 4 voices poly and they called it Poly 8 00 . The Behringer Poly D is a fantastic synthesizer like all the other Behringer synths they make .

To be fair they couldn't call it the ParaD (Parody!)

Sounds great, I love those types of pads

Its a great synth especially for the money, but I don't use it as my main polyphonic synth, I have a Korg Prologue 16 for that. what's cool about the Poly D imo is that since its using 1 oscillator for each voice, you can change the octave and waveform for each note in a chord and get random voicing with chords , turn on some glide and it really gets nice

Very lovely review.. I want to see reviews like this.. Little bit of talk but not too much and more playing and some words of thoughts.

Hi, it is such a great Analog synth, I can't believe how affordable it is, it is just Crazy. I love mine, the same happened to me at the beginning, I didn't understand how it works, but now I love it, it is a keeper :) thank you for sharing

Very nice!

can u put some of those patches plz ? sounds really nice , only can i see there r 4 oscilators actives on sawtooth on 16

After my 4rd Poly D I love it ... Many quality control issues both physically and electronics bad . Have a perfect synth and pair it with the Moog Grandmother !

They did not lie, they just adopted the concept of Korg Mono Poly. As you might know they also cloned Mono Poly which has pretty close specs compared to the Poly D. And I should admit that it is a good idea.

paraphonic entails exactly what though? are you saying it will trigger the initial voice of the held note? like say you hold an a minor with one note, and arpegiate your fingers with 3 notes after, and get weird retriggering ?

I know the minimoog was well before patch memories but this would be awesome if it had user memories.

You really have ideal hands for playing keyboards. Your fingers are so tall and thin, each of your hands could be a basketball team!

Can this synth imitate the sounds of a Moog Model D? Thanks.

How did you install it so it can actually make some sound ? I am a beginner:)

Do you think it’s better than say the Arturia plug-in?

Idk if this or the sequential prophet rev2

Paraphony is not just a cheap form of polyphony imo. You can do things with the round robin oscillator assignment that are not possible with a polyphonic synth, especially in arpeggios and sequences. Polyphony is great but paraphonic synths usually have much deeper modulation routing plus paraphonic mode itself. Which is why I would never give up my Pro 3.

Is there a vocoder on it ?

Even if the VCF is not 1:1 the Behringer Poly is a Moog on a budget.

Technically it is a synth that is capable for generating sounds in polyphony… 4 voices. You hear them. That’s a different thing, that the voices use the same filter and the industry created a word for this scenario: paraphonic… although there is no such thing in music theory. Interestingly, they could call this polyphonic and the fully separeted voice synths, that are more complex and expensive, could be superpolyphonic synths. Just a matter of history and point of view. Always think and gather information before buy.

A cursory look at the front panel shows that the Poly D isn't and can't actually be polyphonic since no env/filter controls per osc. But paraphonic has it's own plusses, adds a certain special character. The only things I don't like about the poly d are the chorus doesn't have enough control (though I get they were going for a certain similar old-school chrorus of note), and the main thing, the distortion sounds terrible IMO.

WOT, no reverb?

Dude, it's a Para-D !

Oh my friend, welcome to the world of synthesizers. You say that it is a negative point that it is paraphonic and not polyphonic, but for me it is better to play a different waveform for each note. The poly D has a 4-note polyphonic sequencer, you can play 4 notes with a single oscillator, but if sequencer you can't do that. Polyphony is that 2 notes can be played simultaneously (a minimum polyphony). Poly D gives you 4 notes to play chords with the same waveform as Prophet, Jupiter, Juno, but in the case of Poly D with 4 real VCOS and you can play them with different shapes equally, but the sequencer is 4 polyphonic notes and can sequence chords for one VCO. Polyphonic mode allows you to use 1 oscillator on one note, if you play 2 the first two sound if you play 4 notes all 4 at the same time, with 3 oscillators 1,2 and 3, and you can make each note have a different waveform , the sequencer is polyphonic with 4 notes That can't be done on a prophet 5 or a moog voyager or later 37, nor the plugins that emulate them, moog matriarch does the same thing but costs you 2000 bucks and behringer monopoly is the other one that makes those cool sounds, but the moog, for example, cannot sound with an oscillator on each note, because it only has 3 oscillators for 8 voices of polyphony, due to the result of making the same sound and waveform 8 times without separating or individualizing the oscillators for each note. Ok, I sum up the power of this synth in a few words. Moog D model = 1 note max. realtime, 3 oscillators, no analog effects, no extras, no polyphonic aftertouch, no switches to calibrate each zone or synth part or change the behavior of filters and envelopes. Behringer Poly D = 4 oscillators, 4 note realtime, 32-step 4 note polyphonic sequencer, 4 note polyphonic arpeggiator, Juno 60 chorus and analog FX layout, V-trigger, pitch, velocity and aftertouch outputs, switchable low-pass/high-pass filter. rear panel with switches to calibrate or change synth behaviors. Poly D is a mix of Minimoog and Korg monopoly in a box with sequencer keys and aftertouch, that's all.

I mean, Para-D would be too on the nose

Why are you using not a mixer table ?

where those black keys at?

Yes. It's a Para-D 😂

Para D just wasn’t as catchy of a name.

Много бесполезной, лишней и не понятной для меня, иностранца, жестикуляции руками. Лучше повключайте и покрутите переключатели с ручками левой рукой, а правой нажмите на клавиши. Или выучите русский язык и донесите свои мысли словами. Что из себя представляет Minimoog и что из него можно выжать, продемонстрировал Keith Emerson, когда вас не было на свете😅

Do you find that the output on the Poly D is really low?