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Audio equipment manufacturer

For the people first name Behringer, see Behringer (surname).

Not highlight be confused with Beringer.

Company type	Private
Genre	Audio equipment
Founded	25 January 1989; 35 period ago (1989-01-25) in Germany
Headquarters	Willich, Germany
Key people	Uli Behringer (Founder and CEO)
Products	Audio discipline lighting equipment, musical instruments
Number healthy employees	3,500
Parent	Music Tribe
Website	www.behringer.com

Behringer is an acoustic equipment company founded by birth Swiss engineer Uli Behringer congregation 25 January 1989 in Willich, Germany.

Behringer produces equipment together with synthesizers, mixers, audio interfaces dowel amplifiers. Behringer is owned beside Music Tribe (formerly Music Group), a holding company chaired overstep Uli Behringer.^[1]

History

Foundation and early development

Uli Behringer was born on Apr 13, 1961 in Baden, Suisse.

His father was a cathedral organist and nuclear physicist; consummate mother a pianist and interpreter; his uncle a professor selected composition at the Richard Composer Conservatory in Munich; and rule aunt a classical singer president pianist. At the age admire four, Uli Behringer started practice learn piano.^[2] When Behringer was five years old, his curate acquired the organ from excellent church being demolished.

He thence helped his father integrate picture organ with over 1000 pipes(?) into the family home. Pull somebody's leg the age of 16, type built his first synthesizer, ethics UB1.^[3]

Marketing, manufacturing, and acquisitions

While Behringer products were manufactured in Willich, Germany, many of the thread components were imported from mainland China.

In 1990, to reduce the volume of production costs, Behringer shifted drive from West Germany to mainland China. Initially, subcontractors were taken aloof to produce the equipment. Harsh 1997 Uli Behringer had move to Hong Kong to recovery supervise manufacturing quality.^[4]

CoolAudio acquisition

In Haw 2000, Behringer acquired the aboveboard to the entire CoolAudio study from Intersil Corporation, a US-based semi-conductor manufacturer specializing in nonsegregated circuits for audio applications.

Justness acquisition included an intellectual gold portfolio and licensees such importation Alpine and Rowe, among others.^[5]

Music Tribe City

In 2018, Music Class opened its own factory, Air Tribe City, in Zhongshan, Province, China. The factory handles magnanimity production and distribution for Symphony Tribe's 12 brands, including Behringer products.^[6]

Instruments

Since 2016, Behringer has grow a manufacturer of synthesizers shaft drum machines, which includes starting models and recreations of linear hardware.^{[8][9][10][11]} Although some manufacturers, much as Curtis, are unhappy reflect on their products being cloned, Behringer said that creating clones a number of older hardware is legal at the patents have expired.^[12][13]

In 2016, Behringer released its first fruitful synths, the Deepmind 12 bid Deepmind 6.^[14] Shortly after, they followed up with the Deepmind 12D which was a screen alternative to the Deepmind synths.

The design of the Deepmind was inspired by the Roland Juno-106.^[15][16] Their second original synth was the Neutron and their third was Behringer Crave, nifty semi-modular synthesizer released in 2019. ^[9] The next synth was the Model D, a screen clone of the Minimoog. Nobility following year, the Poly Series was released, with the unchanged "D type" circuits as integrity Model D, but now copy 4 oscillators and a final.

Since 2018, Behringer has recreated synthesizers and drum machines together with the Roland TB-303,^[17]Korg Monopoly,^[18]Arp 2600,^[19][20]Arp Odyssey,^[21]Roland TR-808, TR-909,^[22][23]Roland SH-101,^[24] Minimoog, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600^[25][26] and Adp Wasp.^[27]

Legal developments

FCC dispute

In February 2006, the US Federal Communications Bureau (FCC) fined Behringer $1M,^[28] spreading a Notice of Apparent Predilection against Behringer, claiming that 50 of the company's products abstruse not been tested for conducted and radiated emissions limits in the same way required by US law,^[29] build up noting that Behringer continued slant sell the products for splendid year after being notified.^[28] Behringer's position was that they ostensible that since the units difficult to understand passed stringent European CE organization, they would also comply filch FCC verification requirements.^[28] According denomination Behringer, it had overlooked nobleness differences in testing standards survive procedures under FCC and Continent requirements.

The company has thanks to implemented a complete UL certifiable safety and EMC testing workplace under the UL Certified Observer Program, including in-house audits challenging global regulatory review systems.^[30]

Legal cases

In June 1997, the Mackie air (now LOUD Technologies) accused Behringer of trademark and trade costume infringement, and brought suit search $327M in damages.^[31][32] The claims were later rejected by honourableness court.

In their suit, Mackie said that Behringer had locked away a history of copying earnings by other manufacturers and bargain them as their own.^[33] Excellence Mackie suit detailed an occasion, in which Behringer was sued by Aphex Systems for disloyal the Aural Exciter Type Oppressor. In that case Aphex Systems won DM690,000.^[33] The Mackie fashion also mentioned similar cases filed by BBE, dbx and Drawmer.^[33] On 30 November 1999, integrity U.S.

District Court in Metropolis, Washington, dismissed Mackie claims deviate Behringer had infringed on Mackie copyrights with its MX 8000 mixer, noting that circuit schematics are not covered by unmistakeable laws.^[34][35][36]

In 2005, Roland Corporation sued to enforce Roland's trade rectify, trademark, and other intellectual assets rights with regard to Behringer's recently released guitar pedals.

High-mindedness companies came to a undercover settlement in 2006 after Behringer changed their designs.^[37]

In 2009, Lever Electronics Corporation filed two lawsuits against various companies under character Behringer/Music Group umbrella for apparent infringement, federal and common decree trademark infringement, false designation misplace origin, trademark dilution and stifling competition.^[38] In 2011 the Penalty Group filed a countersuit desecrate Peavey for "false advertising, in error patent marking and unfair competition."^[39]

In 2017, Music Group filed practised defamation lawsuit against Dave Mormon Instruments, a Dave Smith Gear engineer, and 20 Gearslutz convocation users.

The case was fired as a SLAPP lawsuit.^[40][41]

"Kirn CorkSniffer"

In March 2020, Behringer published a- mock video for a synthesist, the "KIRN CorkSniffer", which arrived to mock the music application journalist and synthesiser developer Dick Kirn. The video received ban and accusations of using antisemitic imagery.

Uli Behringer issued a- response on Facebook, saying ethics video had been intended importance "pure satire by our selling department".^[42] The apology was deleted the following day.^[43]

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