Moog, Yamaha and Behringer: Synth Deals of the Week
Amazing synthesizer deals including incredible prices on the Moog Messenger and Yamaha reFace CP!
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Check out these knockout deals on synthesizers like the Moog Messenger, Yamaha reFace CP and Behringer PHARA-O MINI. You won’t believe how cheap these are.
Synth Deals of the Week
Yamaha reFace CP on Sale
Despite Yamaha’s reputation with instruments like the CS-80 and DX7, it doesn’t make a lot of synthesizers these days. Of course, there’s the MODX and other workstations, but one series that continues to impress is the reFace line. Released back in 2015, the three diminutive models recreate some of Yamaha’s best-known sounds, with the CS doing analog modeling, the DX taking on FM, and the CP – the one we’re talking today – handling 1970s stage keyboards.
I have a CP-20. It’s beautiful but it’s also unbelievably heavy. I almost threw my back out lugging it up the stairs. Much better to save yourself the strain and get your Yamaha electric piano sounds from the reFace CP. And now is the perfect time to buy, because it’s a Deal of the Week at Thomann.
The CP features SCM (Spectral Component Modelling) and the AWM2 sound engine, so you know it sounds good, with six piano presets, including Rhodes and Wurlitzer-style sounds, a Clavinet for Stevie Wonder workouts, a toy piano, and of course the iconic Yamaha CP-80 grand piano. It’s also got effects, with five algorithms taking you from distortion and tremolo through delay and reverb. And with 37 keys and 128 notes of polyphony, you won’t ever have to worry about note stealing.
The Yamaha reFace CP is now on sale at Thomann* for $366 / £329 / €378 – a massive discount over the launch price!
Moog Messenger on Sale
Moog has a reputation for being pricey. And while some of their products do come in at the aspirational end of the price range, they also have a number of very affordable instruments. Take the Messenger, for example. A Moog monosynth through and through, it’s got all the power that you expect from the Cadillac of synth manufacturers, just without the sticker shock. And now it’s more affordable than ever.
In case you need any more convincing, check out these specs: you get two oscillators with a wavefolder and crossfadeable waveforms, a sub oscillator, that famous Moog Ladder filter, this time in a multimode format with 24dB/Oct lowpass, 12dB/Oct lowpass, bandpass, and highpass modes, two LFOs, two envelopes, an arpeggiator/sequencer, and presets. It’s both classic and modern – and it sounds fantastic.
If you’ve been wanting a Moog but haven’t been able to justify the price on a Grandmother or Matriarch, but haven’t wanted to get a keyboardless Mother-32 or Mavis, now is the time for action.
The Moog Messenger is available from Thomann* for $599 / £544 / €619.
Behringer PHARA-O MINI Is Super Cheap
The size of an instrument has no bearing on the amount of fun and inspiration you can get out of it. Take Behringer’s PHARA-O MINI, for example. Part of the company’s shockingly affordable Mini line, it packs three VCOs with sawtooth and square waves plus a 12dB/Oct analog filter inspired by the KORG 700S into a package the size of a book, perfect for keeping on your desktop for a bit of a play, or plugging into your DAW to lay down some lines.
If you know the Mini series, you know that PHARA-O MINI has a built-in sequencer, with 16 steps of motion sequencing to capture ideas and phrases. It’s also got six different play modes (poly, unison, octaves, fifths, ring unison, and ring poly) to change things up. You may have noticed mention of a ring modulator in those play modes. PHARA-O MINI does indeed have one, a multi-mode affair that works on the oscillators’ square waves to generate all manner of metallic clanging. Modulation comes in the form of an ADSR envelope and LFO, and there’s an analog stereo VCA at the end.
The PHARA-O MINI also includes 27 touch-sensitive keys, a built-in delay effect, sync input and output to connect with other drum machines, and MIDI DIN in.
PHARA-O MINI is normally priced at €99 but it’s on sale for even less. Get it at Thomann* for $77 / £66 / €79.
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