This Synth is Awesome - Behringer Poly-D 

"The second thing you have to do in the morning is dust your analog synthesiser." -- Sadie the Cleaning Lady

The CV device includes tuning, but that's not going to cover all the bases.

never touched a minimoog or owned one, maybe one day i will 😅

Yes it is noticeably different in several ways. The mixer is much gentler and doesn’t overdrive much before the filter so it never gets that solid and suppressed overdrive sound. The B Model D has more of that drive but this one has more tonal character. The FM on this can go much higher than Moog or BMD. Overdrive on loop back sounds very nice but in general this synth is more low-mid rangey and not as dark. Grandmother is much closer to the Minimoog than this, but beautiful sound though.

I think the sound has become almost identical. I saw some youtube vid a while ago where even the most hardcore analog synth user failed a blind test vs Virtual Analog. I still think analog filters have something special but it could just aswell be my imagination. And ofcourse I cant answer this for Polarity but personally I really like the hands on experience and the interaction with a physical device..

Because they are fun. I have a decent sized modular system and while it is a massive inconvenience to actually use for producing music it is a hell of a lot of fun to path 😅

yeah why would anyone want to use a physical instrument when you can just sit at a computer and stare at the screen endlessly

If you owned one you’d spot the difference very quickly. It doesn’t take nearly as long to find a sweet spot, and the distortions are much fatter. Bass is so big you may have to cut whereas in VST you are always struggling with the bass tone to sound big and solid enough. I was on VST for 20 years because analog was unaffordable and I was shocked at the sound and endless sweetspot playing in person. Try it!

Yes I can if I'm familiar with the synth. For example, I've yet to hear a vintage Oberheim X, Xa, or OB-8 emulation that really nails it. In person it's even more apparent. In fact, the X8, the actual hardware made by Oberheim (well actually it was made by Sequential with Tom but still), while a very nice instrument in it's own right, can't nail those synths either, beyond some boring original presets that sound really close. I ended up returning the X8 because it just didn't get there and they advertise it like it can do all three. Well, sorta, kind of, as it turns out. Probably the best emu of an OB-X in particular imo so far is Gforce's attempt, and with FX in a busy EDM mix it likely doesn't matter but you have to work to get there if authenticity is your aim, which brings me to my other point: A hardware vintage OB-Xa, X or 8 requires little to no effort to make sound glorious. (so long as you at least know the basics) It's like one giant sweet spot. Results are immediate. You can get away with not using effects because it sounds so damn lush and organic, for lack of a better description on my part. It's like you can hear the electricity moving through it. It's sounds alive, wild. VSTs emus are good these days, they do better with Sequential or Moog style synths I've noticed, and VST digital synths just plain rule supreme in digital synthesis imo, but wow what magnificent instruments the OG analog OB's are imo. Listen to this thing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mIz4OA_tUyk.htmlsi=O3f7mVTwZ4E89VoO