The latest XNB video offers a complete overview of the Behringer Edge, a knockoff of the Moog DFAM drum synthesizer.
Like Behringer’s Crave synth, the Edge copies a popular Moog Eurorack format synth as an inexpensive desktop module. Like its inspiration, the Edge features dual VCO’s with pulse and triangle waves, oscillator sync and FM, to let you create a variety of percussive sounds. It also copies the DFAM’s dual-row 8-step sequencer, so you can control two aspects of the drum synth’s voice on each step.
As always, XNB’s video is not intended to be a review, but a deep guide into the synth and its capabilities.
Sound designer Anton Anru has introduced Techno Generator, a collection of 50 patches for the analog semi-modular synthesizer Behringer Edge.
The no-talking demo is not just a free demo of Anru’s patch library, but a comprehensive introduction to the sound design possibilities of the Edge.
What Anru say about the patch library:
“Though the title includes «Techno», the patches may be used in a wide variety of genres. Techno is just the first thing comes in my mind when I tweak and listen to EDGE. Analog phatness, experimental sounds, huge basses, vivid leads, freaky sequences, electronic drums, generative-fx patches work nicely not only in techno, they will decorate any track where a decent sound design is welcome.
The soundset is presented in PDF format. Each page contains notes that explain how the patch works, what parameters are worth tweaking during playback, and how to develop the timbre during a performance. If you make all the settings consciously and try the things mentioned in the notes, you will learn a lot about the synth and discover its true depth.”
Contents:
00:00 LD Acid Taste
01:45 BS Life With Kick
02:51 PR Ringtone
04:14 BS Bass’n’Bleep
05:31 PR Craftwork
06:39 BS Unison Acid
07:58 LD Faulty Device
09:27 LD Silky Sine
10:49 PR Sacred Rite
12:09 BS Admixture
13:24 PR Nervous Beat
15:03 BS Overtones
16:06 LD Memories Of S&H
17:25 BS Eccentric Saw
18:12 PR Saucepan
19:15 BS Palette
20:17 GEN Interplanetory
22:14 BS Bees On Bass
23:17 LD Oversaturated
24:27 LD Birth Of Modular
25:30 BS Full Range
26:32 PR Latino
27:54 BS Progressive
29:00 LD Glider
30:03 BS Colossus
31:08 LD Aloof
32:23 PR HiHat, Tom, Snare
33:13 GEN Secret Message
*Note: The Edge does not support presets, so these patches are presented as illustrations, showing the settings and patching needed to recreate the sounds. See Anton Anru website for details.
Behringer today announced that the Edge – their knockoff of the Moog DFAM drum synth – is now shipping, with a retail price of $199.
The company had announced in March that the Edge was ‘ready to ship’. It is not clear why it takes Behringer two and half months to go from ‘ready to ship’ to ‘shipping’, but it may be that they want to ship enough stock to retailers to meet initial demand.
Features:
Analog semi-modular percussion synthesizer
Analog signal path
Dual VCOs with pulse and triangle waves, oscillator sync and FM
Dual 8-step sequencer with pitch and velocity controls
White/pink noise source and external input
Multi-mode 24 dB resonant ladder filter with low and high-pass plus cutoff modulation by noise
3 separate decay envelopes for pitch, filter cutoff and amplitude for detailed control
Sequencer speed with up to 10,000 BPM allows for audio range waveform generation
Semi-modular design with default routings requires no patching for immediate performance
15 x 10 I/O matrix
44 controls give you direct and real-time access to important parameters
Multiple clocking sources including MIDI/USB for synchronization with other equipment
Time division control featuring 8 different rates
MIDI support with MIDI channel and Voice Priority selection
Behringer says the Edge is ‘in stock and immediately shipping’. Behringer Edge is now available .
