General Gear • Behringer Phara-O Mini (Korg Volca Keys clone)

I kid you not, B. cloned the Korg Volca Keys.

Apart from the usual B. bashing, whadda ya think?

There are no video's from Behringer yet, nor video's of the thing actually making any sound (2 weeks ago video's appeared of people announcing it). There's nothing much to say, it's not a mini version that's a cut down version of a big synth. It's a clone of something that you can still buy but this one is 24% cheaper (= 32/132%, or the Korg is 32/100% more expensive), ha ha.

For those not in the know of what a V. Keys is:

• 1 osc (saw or square)
• poly/paraphony: 3
• has a unison mode in which the 3 voices play as one and can be detuned from eachother
• sequencer
• glide (portamento)
• a single EG for VCA and/or filter
• 12 dB filter
• the Volca can work on batteries, the B. can't
• Price: 100 Euro (Behringer) or 132 Euro (Korg, used to be 140)
• availability: according to Musicstore.de in april 2025 (this year)

Not much to say other than that B. got the price down, that it doesn't work on batteries and that it doesn't have a speaker. That may or may not explain the price difference...

Statistics: Posted by MeneerJansen — Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:41 am — Replies 0 — Views 59

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