| > Why would Behringer clone it except for being an immoral company? Could you rephrase that? I’m not sure I can dig out what you’re trying to say. > Cloning designs on synth world is a big no-no if the original is still in production. Why is it a no-no? > I really don't get how you can defend Uli Behringer's schenanigans, he has had a lot of them. Oh, he’s done plenty of shitty things. I don’t think that cloning hardware is shitty. How do you feel about Malt-O-Meal cereals? > This hand waving of a practice that is extremely frowned upon in the synth subculture is very off putting. I don’t frown upon it. I don’t think it’s wrong. My behavior of buying a Behringer synthesizer, one of the most popular brand of synthesizers, is not off-putting to most people. > Uli Behringer is an asshole, a narcissistic one. I don’t care. I’m not going to, like, sit in my basement running Temple OS just so I can avoid using products made by assholes. People should face consequences for their actions, but I don’t buy products as some deranged way of voting on which CEO I like the best. |
Copying a currently in production design that some other company devoted resources to come up with is immoral in my worldview even if it's not illegal, it's a shit move and I don't condone it by not buying their products. The CEO basically being the company is why I throw Uli's name around.
I don't really get how you can defend them copying the Arturia Keystep, it's close to the pinnacle of a shit company to clone something that was already inexpensive (as far as music gear goes), it's a cash-grab in everything they do.
You do you, of course.