Are there too many synthesizers?

In late October, some Sweetwater customers received notification that their pre-orders of the Behringer Pro-16 and VCS 3 were suddenly being cancelled. This came after the company exhibited a prototype of the Pro-16 — an emulation of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 with 16 voices — at its booth at NAMM earlier this year.

Users on a Reddit post about the cancellations guessed that this may be due to market saturation, with too many unpurchased instruments cluttering up warehouses and stock shelves. And with global tariffs, inflation and other economic woes hitting buyers hard in the purse, it wouldn’t be surprising if things had reached a breaking point, users said.

So what’s going on? Are there really too many synthesizers being released? We speak with Moog, Erica Synths, Black Corporation, and Molten Modular, synthesizer manufacturers of varying size, reach and price point, to find out...

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