You may be right, but I'm not delusional (that's almost a Billy Joel song right there). Given their retail channels they may very well be trying to bring something in at, say 999. All depends on how they bring about the polyphony and where they cut costs. The Minilogue is half the price of the Mopho x4; they're similar on the surface, with the Mopho having full-size keys, more modulation options, probably better components (though I'm only guessing there), etc. With DCOs, digital effects based on Behringer's existing tech, off-shore manufacturing (Hong Kong), I'm going with optimistic.Daags wrote:there's no way this thing is sold for sub 1k .... 1.5k is optimistic, but possible. perhaps even likely. and closer to 2k wouldn't be unreasonable, considering the spec. but these $800 etc price predictions are just delusional. I'm sure they want to tap in to that pricing section of the market, but this isn't the keyboard they are going to do it with.
imo.
Still, it'll probably be 2k and I'll eat my words...
If it's analog and 12 voices, people will probably buy it. I guess it'll rather be in the low 1.000's though. And it will be Behringer quality, a bit better maybe. The price won't come out of nowhere. Quality has to be compromised, when the price is low. They simply won't be able to buy quality components, if the price has to be kept as low as possible.
B got a ton of crap during all these years for cloning every piece of gear they could get their hands on & for flooding the market with cheap hardware, and now it's one of those rare moments for them (alongside X32) to show what they're really capable of; they will not play nicely, they will go for the kill and price this unit so aggresively low that no other company would be able to keep up the pace. Maybe that's also why Minilogue was released while still a bit rough around the edges - maybe Korg got word about this monster getting released midyear and that made them rush the launch in order to move enough gear before DM12 hits the stores... who knows...
