Behringer launched Vintage, a free analog modeling synth, and the German company’s first synth plugin. However, there’s a twist – the plugin isn’t available for download right now.
The Mac and Windows release is a Prophet-inspired synth that Behringer states they modelled on the analogue circuitry of iconic vintage synths.
However there’s been a bit of a hiccup with the release, and the product page and download link for the plugin went dead shortly after going live, which we’ll cover in more detail below.
The plugin has two multi-wave oscillators (sine, saw and square), which are analog-modeled, as well as a sub-oscillator and hard-sync function.
There is also a noise generator with a color parameter that controls the lowpass cutoff, and you can modulate the pulse width on the square wave oscillator.
The Vintage synthesizer has two filters that offer 12/24 dB switchable highpass, lowpass, bandpass, and formant modes, as well as selectable drive curves for harmonic saturation.
The release allows for serial or parallel filtering, as you can mod the filter routing.
There are dozens of factory presets for the synth included, covering a wide range of sounds, as well as the ability to select favorites and save your own presets.
Behringer has made Vintage available via free download, which you can get after clicking through to get a free licence and registering with Behringer’s Music Tribe community.
After that, you’ll get a serial number that allows you to register the standalone build of the Vintage.
If Vintage users choose to make a donation to Behringer, the funds will go toward the Playing For Change Foundation, which builds art and music schools for children around the world.
There seems to be some funny business going on at Behringer at the moment, however, as the synth was available from the company’s website, but now the product page has been deleted.
There are already several demos of the plugin in action on YouTube, so it went live at some point. However, the exact status of the release is now unknown.
It’s not clear if Behringer is simply fixing a minor issue with its website or if the entire release has been delayed or perhaps even canceled altogether.
Some users have speculated that Behringer did not anticipate the level of demand the release would have, and the plugin is unavailable simply because the servers crashed.
Download: Vintage (FREE – link currently down)
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43 Comments
shane
onso it’s only standalone? or you have to register the standalone so you can use a plugin version?
Steve Charlton
onIt’s not a standalone exclusive. It’s also available as a VST3 and AU plugin for Mac and Windows.
Kev
onI managed to get it.
Not worth the effort
Tim
onThe installer lets you choose, if you want the plugin(s), the standalone or both, but actually you need to install the standalone, too, because youd need it to register the synth (including the plugin versions). You also need an internet conenction on your host computer to activate the synth.
ULR
onYou have to install the standalone and the plugin. After that you can (only) register in the standalone version.
Tim
onBy the way, in my opinion the sound of this synth isn’t worth the trouble, it reminds me of those Synthedit creations we had in the early noughties…
Dan
onbeen struggling to find a link to it – registered on Music Tribe, but can’t seem to find it.
Any hyperlinks about?
Bob
onFound this cool open source distortion/saturation plugin called Hamburger. You can get it at ko-fi and github:
https://ko-fi.com/s/6e7ded34dc
https://github.com/Davit-G/Hamburger
Tomislav Zlatic
onThanks, Bob! This looks great. I’ll feature it on BPB this week.
Brenny C
onAwesomeness. Thank you for the heads up, BoB. 😎
KL
onPeople said it looked too much like a Tone2 product and the company got involved and is currently looking into copyright infringements
Numanoid
onYes, when I first saw the picture, I thought it was a Tone2 update for Saurus
Mathieu Prud
onBah…Behringer…They must have stole the code from another dev ! :D
Hate this business and their business model…
Adilbek Temirkhanov
onStole the code? How you people come up with such conclusions?
Jed
onThey deleted the whole page.
Eli Kadbry
onYep
Brenny C
onSame here, Mathieu.
Harry Serkis
onAt least the design of the Vintage label was cloned from TubeOhm:
https://www.tubeohm.com/vst-vintage.html
JEP1928
onidk about tubeohm, but it looks strikingly similar, and also skin of that Behringer plugin is copied from Tone2 Saurus 3.
110
onthe display orgranisation is an 1:1 copy from the ableton live AAS Analog.
the light knobs look like the ones from an SPL mic preamp and the dials look like the ones from tone2 saurus.
but it is even worse: the logo with the name “vintage” and its typography is an 1:1 copy from Tubeohm Vintage.
which is probably the cause you can not download it anymore.
does anyone here still believe the story about “we carefully modelled its circuits?” nonsense?
i bet if i disassemble it i will find the ladder filter from juce and various open source snippets inside.
Numanoid
onI notice that AAS has updated Swatches yet again, now contains over 730+ patches
While waiting for Behringer Legacy to reappear, that is at least something new to download and check out.
Numanoid
onThis would have been a great release for April 1st ;-)
Emails
onAnother cheap Behringer knockoff. Well done.
Numanoid
onWhile waiting for a new free vintage instrument to download, Electronic Sound Lab has just released CMP100 based on the Philips PCM100 FM synthesizer/module, the free version comes with 36 patches
Calidreads
onThey deleted the whole page.:-(
Phil
onAnybody who snagged the dl in time willing to email me a copy? :D
Dylan
onI got a copy, but you also need a registration code (which is now disabled), so it won’t do either me or your any good.
Aaron
onLooks like tone2 have an issue with it, maybe the reason the link is gone
Andrew
ondoes anyone else see the “Donate” button on the top? lol, I think that’s a bit of a stretch Behringer
LP
onI was also interested and found this info, good on them if true
https://ask.audio/articles/music-tribe-behringer-donate-1510-synthesizers-headphones-to-disadvantaged-children-worldwide
LP
onAnd this as well
https://musictech.com/news/industry/uli-behringer-donates-synths-to-disadvantaged-children-benn-jordan/
Tavi
onAh, Behringer is showing their true colors again.
It’s another knockoff they supposedly ‘created’. They really feel no shame.
Look at that Vintage Logo, it’s stolen from Tubeohm Vintage and just copy and pasted on this one.
The knobs and layout also look very familiar, and i bet the code is probably also stolen.
Behringer is a terrible company. Never any Behringer product in my Studio.
Mike
onBut there’s a twist…
clay
onThis is consistent with their normal modus operandi… Promising a product and then not being able to deliver it.
If they’re going by their normal practices they’ve probably ripped the code and the design of the synth from someone else.
Behringer s****.
Alain
onWho takes Behringer even serious?
Their Products are always ripped off from other brands.
Most of their products are cheaply made and just breaks a month outside your warranty.
Behringer have no interest nor respect for musicians and companies/products or critics/journalists.
They only care to ripp off other brands to make some easy and quick bucks and silence the critics.
Remember when they attacked Peter Kirn with the ‘Kirn Cork Sniffer’ ?That’s very sick behaviour.
Leppo
on“Most of their products are cheaply made and just breaks a month outside your warranty.”
I’ve got several products from Behringer that are still working flawlessly after more than two decades.
SynthieSara
onI enjoyed watching the demo video above for Vintage, but I was more captivated by that Stepic plugin with the sequencer and automation. It’s very sophisticated. I also watched how the automated filter cutoff and resonance knobs on Vintage moved on the “Sephiro” preset, and the “Afternoon Fever” preset with cutoff, resonance and octave. (This is around 1 minute into the video.)
Based on the article and others’ earlier comments, I won’t be getting Vintage (even if it were available), but now I am curious about Stepic by Devicemeister.
Stepic is not free, but I’m glad I learned about it here with that demo. I might still consider it for the future down the line. Might… because it looks like a lot to learn and manage, but perhaps a user manual and other demo videos could help.
Eli
onAccording to customer support, Vintage was prematurely released, but will be rereleased eventually.
https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/1c1h87r/official_response_on_the_state_of_behringer/
Soroosh
onThe “twist” is, there’s no way to download it :D
Anonymous007
onLOST MEDIA
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onThanks for this post, I am a big fan of this website would like to go on updated.
MRG
onEvery plugin dev ever: *make virtual analog synths based on what’s been done forever*
Plugin users:
Behringer: *makes a virtual analog synth*
Plugin users: WHAT!? HOW DARE THEY!?
clown emoji…
george
onit’s back up !!