![]() Looking at the PRO-1’s panel-which simply has every knob and switch from the original, plus additional minijack patching points, USB, and MIDI In and Thru-that’s certainly what they appear to have done. The company’s policy always appeared to be to match the facilities of existing designs, then add a little extra and achieve a lower price. Whatever the position, it’s clear from Behringer’s recent trademark applications that many other instruments, including the Korg Mono/Poly, are also in their sights. But it’s clear that the company currently has nothing in its catalog resembling the Pro-One, which was originally regarded as a single monophonic voice from their Prophet-5 keyboard, but without patch memory. The panel design is very authentic down to every last detail of the typeface used, posing the question, how come this design is available for use? After Sequential folded in 1987, founder Dave Smith spent some years trading as Dave Smith Instruments before relaunching the Sequential brand in 2015. With the Pro-1 mounted in a case, the small external power supply could be replaced by the Eurorack system’s power supply. ![]() ![]() A MIDI Thru jack and a USB connector are on the back panel, along with DIP switches to set the MIDI channel. Because the MIDI input is on the front, it wouldn’t be lost in the process. You could remove this desktop-format module from its housing and mount it in a Eurorack case, if you prefer, where it would occupy 80HP of space. It omits the original’s 3-octave keyboard and adds MIDI In on a DIN connector. Much like the Behringer Model D “Minimoog,” the PRO-1 is a slightly scaled-down reproduction of the control section on the classic Sequential Circuits Pro-One monophonic synthesizer. Certainly the secondhand market for original instruments like the Roland SH-101 and even the Minimoog Model D must have been affected by Behringer’s launch of highly convincing tribute editions of these instruments for a few hundred dollars. Initial skepticism about Behringer’s plans to bring out a whole series of reproductions of classic synthesizer designs-in parallel with their original designs like the DeepMind, Neutron, and Crave-has rapidly given way to delighted surprise, not only about the quality of the instruments, but also about the incredible price points the company is achieving. Does Behringer’s tribute edition measure up to one of the great monosynths of the 1980s, the Sequential Circuits Pro-One?
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