Behringer Polyeight: Nick gets Hands-On - Music China 2026

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"Behringer delivered a lot of new models to their stand, but when we dropped by early in the show there weren't many details available - so Nick went again and had a quick look at the Polyeight by himself.

The original reference point is a six-voice, single-oscillator polysynth, while this version increases the voice count and keeps the layout fairly direct.

The instrument features a single oscillator with triangle and pulse waveforms, manual pulse width and pulse-width modulation, plus a sub oscillator. The filter has the expected low-end drop when the cutoff is pushed, and modulation comes from an LFO and a single envelope generator. The panel also includes VCF, VCA attenuator, arpeggiator, key assign modes and a control section.

Built-in effects include chorus and phaser, although the output is mono, so the chorus does not appear as a stereo effect in this setup. The unit also includes unison, split mode, chord memory and mono aftertouch. No pricing or availability information is available yet."