Organizers of Superbooth – the Berlin-based international synth expo – have announced dates for the 2026 show.
Superbooth 26 will return to the FEZ-Berlin on May 7-9, 2026. The 2026 event will mark the tenth anniversary of Superbooth as an independent festival and trade fair for electronic musical instruments.
The organizers say that Superbooth 2025 “was again a big success overall that brought together more guests and exhibitors than any previous SuperBooth, with over 8800 attendees, as well as 301 exhibitors from 31 countries celebrating the practice and culture of electronic musical instruments across three days.”
They also note that some changes may be coming for the 2026 event to address rising costs:
“This year, one of the major hurdles was a significant rise in costs related to necessary event logistics snd resources.
As one of the SUPERBOOTH‘s core missions is, and will continue to be, providing affordable exhibition opportunities to smaller brands and manufacturers — while also continuing to develop the musical and cultural programming — the SUPERBOOTH’s event concept will be under review for 2026, with an exploration of possible adjustments and opportunities in order to adapt to various new and ongoing developments.”
We’ll share more details as they are announced. See the Superbooth site for more information.
Synthesist adamstan shared this sneak preview of a new synth that he’s developing, the JX-2044.
The X-2044 is an original 8-voice bi-timbral analog synthesizer design, with a voice architecture that combines a DCO section inspired by Roland JX-8P with a 2044 filter.
Specifications:
2 DCOs per voice based on JX-8P, but with addition of PWM. DCO A features sawtooth, pulse and noise, while DCO B has triangle on the last switch, instead. Waveforms can be switched independently and mixed.
Cross Mod (AM) – the same circuit as in JX-8P
3 ADSR envelopes per voice, with shape switchable between exponential and linear, RTZ switch and adjustable keytracking (with note number affecting envelope speed relatively to C4 (60).
3 LFOs per voice with seven waveforms – triangle, sine, square, rising ramp, falling ramp, random and noise. LFOs can be switched to mono mode, or work polyphonically with adjustable keyboard tracking, which is very useful e.g. for PWM patches
4 pole resonant low pass filter built around CoolAudio’s V2044 chip. Filter can self-oscillate and also has adjustable keyboard tracking.
Filter FM using DCO B as a source.
1-pole master HPF per part similar to the one in JX-3P
Each layer has its own FX processor with following blocks:
Resonant filterbank with two modes:
VP-330 “Human Voice” section emulation (with two presets)
Polymoog resonator emulation
Stereo Chorus with three presets – “JX Slow” and “JX Fast” corresponding with “I” and “II” settings from JX-8P, and the third mode is “Stringmachine”, which uses three delay lines modulated with dual phase-shifted LFOs.
4 stage phaser
Delay / Reverb – switchable between the two. Delay has its own modulation LFO with adjustable rate and amount. Reverb output also can be pitch-modulated.
Modulation routings are arranged in a way similar to JX-8P, meaning that modulation amounts are adjusted independently at destinations and that’s also where you select source for each destination.
“The synth is currently in prototype stage,” he notes. “I’m planning to make it rackable desktop module – in a form factor similar to bigger Behringer desktops. It will be 5U when racked.”
You can follow the project development at Gearspace.
Synthesist Starsky Carr shared this head-to-head comparison between the Behringer BM-15 MURF Box and the device it copies, the classic MoogerFooger MIDI MuRF.
He questions whether he got a broken unit, because of the significantly higher noise level on the Behringer version. “I hope they’re not all like this!” says Carr. “Hopefully it’s a dud – but it should never have got through Q.”
But several early purchases have commented on his video that they had the same issue their units.
Because multiple buyers have reported this issue, it’s possible that there’s a design or production issue with the initial Behringer BM-15 MURF Box batch. We haven’t seen any official word from Behringer on this, but it looks like they have taken down the intro video for the BM-15 MURF Box.
Based on this, Carr’s video appears to be a fair and accurate comparison, based on the Behringer BM-15 MURF Box that’s currently shipping. We will try to share more information, or an updated comparison, if it becomes available.
If you’ve purchased a Behringer BM-15 MURF Box, share your experience with it in the comments!
