The Original "UB1" Story
May 8 2025
The original "UB1" was made by Uli Behringer starting in the '70s, and was much different from today's Behringer UB-1. In his teens, Uli Behringer (founder and head of Behringer) had designed and built a 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!)
