Neither the company Behringer, nor Uli himself have ever approached me with a request like that. So anything, pointing in that direction is simply fake information. I could never share any of the designs, that came out of that cooperation with any body else, legally not, and not from my personal high attitude in that regards. Arturia always pays, and naturally owns the output of my work, that – by the way – is always the result of an in-depth cooperation with their internal team of specialists.Īrturia and myself are working together since many years, and we share the deep desire of designing innovative products.
In all cases, Arturia is buying my services – I never licensed any of the designs. This is true for almost all hardware products that you know from Arturia. As industrial designer, I contribute mostly my services on the asthetical side of a product. “I do feel the need to comment on the many postings I can find here Facebook in several places regarding my thoughts, feelings, but also the truth about the blunt Behringer copy of the Arturia key step.Īrturia and myself, aka my company design box are designing instruments, synthesizers, controllers, interfaces since many years. Some tried to explain the Behringer Swing’s design by suggesting that the company had licensed the Keystep design from Designbox, which is one of the leading musical instrument industrial design companies.ĭesignbox has created hardware designs for dozens of electronic instruments, including the Waldorf Wave, the Waldorf Blofeld, the Alesis Andromeda, the Virus Polar, the Moog Little Phatty, the Voyager XL, the Schmidt Analog Synthesizer, the Arturia Minibrute and the Keystep.ĭesignbox co-founder Axel Hartmann shot down the theory that they had licensed a design to Behringer. The Behringer Swing, shown at top, closely copies the connections and layout of the Arturia Keystep. The Behringer Swing Is Not A Licensed Version Of The Keystep Design In any case, thank you, everyone who came out and supported us these past 36 hours! It’s been very helpful, very much appreciated.” So we could in a way consider the Swing as a compliment. Others do, we have no problem with that and see good for the customer, as well as for the industry, in fair competition.Ĭoco Chanel once said: “If you want to be original, be ready to be copied”. Of course we accept competition, and would absolutely understand that Behinger give their own interpretation of a small and smart controller that would also be a sequencer.
Along our distributors we have been evangelizing this product, placing it in stores, explaining it, servicing it. We have invested time and money to imagine, specify, develop, test and market the KeyStep. We have worked hard to create the _Step range. This product is in no way the result of a partnership between Arturia and Behringer.
“We have been informed on Sunday November the 22nd of the upcoming release of a new product called Swing, by Behringer. The Behringer Swing Is Not A Collaboration With Arturia Arturia today shared their incredulous response to Behringer introducing a knockoff of the Keystep MIDI controller.Īrturia co-founder and CEO Frédéric Brun shared an official response via Facebook: Many musicians have criticized Behringer’s latest introduction, calling the Swing a ‘blatant knockoff’ of the Keystep and noting “Unless you are blind, it’s impossible not to see it’s the same thing!”īut some have suggested that the Swing might be the result of a collaboration between the two companies, or that Behringer might have licensed the Keystep design. Arturia today shared their response to the Behringer Swing, a minikey MIDI controller that appears to be closely based on the design of the Arturia Keystep MIDI controller.
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