December 18, 2025
In addition to the premium factory presets included in the UB-1 (Ultimate Patches — Volume 4), the all-new Volumes 1-3 (100 presets) are now available — plus download the free Taster Pack from Volumes 1-3 here.
December 17, 2025
It's here! The long-awaited analog powerhouse using classic chip design made famous on Oberheim Matrix synths. Here's the details:
May 8 2025
The original "UB1" was made by Uli Behringer starting in his teens, and was much different from today's Behringer UB-1. Uli (founder and head of Behringer) had designed and built the full size analog synthesizer, indeed named the "UB1".
In July 22 2016 (while Uli and the Behringer team were busy developing their first synth — the very successful DeepMind 12 — Uli elaborated "When I was a young kid, I built an electric piano/synthesizer called the UB1. The synth had two analog oscillators and a filter that was so unstable that at times it acted as an oscillator — and this was not by design."
"The keyboard and the massive toggle switches on the right side came out of an EKO organ that didn't survive the impact of my screwdriver."
"The UB1 was nothing great by today's standards but I believe it is this very keyboard that sparked off my passion for music and electronics and later got me into this wonderful industry."
"Unfortunately the UB1 got lost during a factory move and for the past 40 years I always wanted to build a synthesizer again."
And here we are nearly 50 years later with the UB-1 reborn (at least in name!)
Watch Uli describe the genesis and fate of the UB1 in a recent Sweetwater interview.
May 30, 2024
Behringer has announced the upcoming UB-1 Micro (previously known as UB-1 Spirit), a compact and affordable powerful analog synth sharing the chip design used on the classic Oberheim Matrix 6 & Matrix 1000!
March 2 2022
Behringer teases it's upcoming analog synth - the UB-1 Spirit, a paraphonic 2 voice powerhouse for only $49!
