Behringer to clone Minimoog?

https://reverb.com/news/behringer-ceo-hints-at-affordable-minimoog-clone

Noticed he didn't hint at a durable one or a noiselessly functional one....

I understand the drive... to create entry level gear to help the struggling or budding musicians, but it is the slim margins and the target of mass production for any chance of survival that casts the reputation of the gear in a bad light.

bah, the originals are noisy and delicate and won't hold tune, but the studio electronics se1 I have adds the MIDI, holds tune until you power down, brings the noisefloor down enough and is built to survive a war... but as much cheaper than it is than a voyager or the current reissue its still expensive new compared to the behringer msrp. My used, rack-rashed example cost a little mroe than Uli proposes a new Behnringer tabletop/eurorack unit would cost. Actually both are rack units here and that's probably a major cost cutting point.... the se1 is pretty old school too, no patch memory and I am sure behringer would follow that path to save money whereas to the best of my knowledge moog added patch memory as well as MIDI.... at least the voyager had patch memory.

what am I on about? I forget.