Behringer are anti-Veblens, which annoys people who believe that technology should be an expensive and exclusive wealth signal.
In reality cloning - if not outright theft of designs and ideas - has been rife in the synthesizer industry since the earliest days.
Some Eurorack modules are more or less literal clones of "famous" designs. The only difference is the graphics. So cloning is not exclusively a Behringer issue.
Generally, most of the big name synthesizer companies are lagging far behind the Eurorack market for innovation. Behringer are taking advantage of this by filling that niche.
Given that they also produce original products - like the Wing and the X32 mixers - I expect they'll produce some original synth designs when they've exhausted the clone market.
But synth players are not particularly adventurous, and nostalgia sells, so the clone market is where most of the money is for now.
In reality cloning - if not outright theft of designs and ideas - has been rife in the synthesizer industry since the earliest days.
Some Eurorack modules are more or less literal clones of "famous" designs. The only difference is the graphics. So cloning is not exclusively a Behringer issue.
Generally, most of the big name synthesizer companies are lagging far behind the Eurorack market for innovation. Behringer are taking advantage of this by filling that niche.
Given that they also produce original products - like the Wing and the X32 mixers - I expect they'll produce some original synth designs when they've exhausted the clone market.
But synth players are not particularly adventurous, and nostalgia sells, so the clone market is where most of the money is for now.