Nowadays, the market of electronic musical instruments is extremely large, so for beginners who have decided to acquire a hardware setup, the choice of instruments becomes a problem, as it is difficult not to drown in the variety of options and find inexpensive devices with a wide range of functions. Last time we offered you a setup of three digital instruments, now it's time to dig into the analog instruments market and figure out which ones are worth buying for the widest possible range of features and the least amount of money.

The other day prices for the Deepmind synthesizers line from Behringer fell by 30% on Amazon. The line includes two analog synths: Deepmind 6 and Deepmind 12 (a regular and a desktop versions), which now cost $499, $699 and $599 respectively.

The management of the Japanese company has been sticking to the rule of “leaving analog in the past” for a long time. But it’s the market which rules and that’s why we did get JD-XA and JD-Xi from Roland, and now SE-02 analog monophonic synthesizer module created together with the eminent Studio Electronics company is getting its way through. Roland emphasized that this is only the beginning of a new series called Roland Boutique Designer. Read more about the Roland’s fight back to Mr. Dave Smith&Pioneer DJ Toraiz AS-1 and eventually Behringer D rackmount synth module.

6 analog voices, 3 octaves are priced by Behringer – Most Valuable Player and villainous enticer on the analog market – at $700. Competitors are out of breath but Uli keeps on doing it his way – kicking ass and taking names. The architecture replicates DeepMind 12 and 6 voices, in some cases, might seem quite enough or even just right.

Polyphonic synthesizer Abyss was presented at NAMM 2017 but there were not so many details given. Now Dreadbox let us know about everything including price.