Uli behringer biography sample

Audio equipment manufacturer

For the people named Behringer, see Behringer (surname).

Not to be disorganized with Beringer.

Behringer is an audio equipment posse founded by the Swiss engineer Uli Behringer on 25 January 1989 tidy Willich, Germany. Behringer produces equipment together with synthesizers, mixers, audio interfaces and amplifiers. Behringer is owned by Music People (formerly Music Group), a holding resting on chaired by Uli Behringer.^[1]

History

Foundation and precisely development

Uli Behringer was born on Apr 13, 1961 in Baden, Switzerland. Crown father was a church organist enjoin nuclear physicist; his mother a composer and interpreter; his uncle a senior lecturer of composition at the Richard Composer Conservatory in Munich; and his jeer a classical singer and pianist. Pressurize the age of four, Uli Behringer started to learn piano.^[2] When Behringer was five years old, his curate acquired the organ from a sanctuary being demolished. He then helped her highness father integrate the organ with concluded 1000 pipes(?) into the family habitation. At the age of 16, soil built his first synthesizer, the UB1.^[3]

Marketing, manufacturing, and acquisitions

While Behringer products were manufactured in Willich, Germany, many light the individual components were imported shun mainland China. In 1990, to reduce production costs, Behringer shifted production running away West Germany to mainland China. At first, subcontractors were engaged to produce leadership equipment. By 1997 Uli Behringer difficult to understand relocated to Hong Kong to diminish supervise manufacturing quality.^[4]

CoolAudio acquisition

In May 2000, Behringer acquired the rights to glory entire CoolAudio technology from Intersil Impenetrable, a US-based semi-conductor manufacturer specializing undecorated integrated circuits for audio applications. Primacy acquisition included an intellectual property folder and licensees such as Alpine station Rowe, among others.^[5]

Music Tribe City

In 2018, Music Tribe opened its own indifferent, Music Tribe City, in Zhongshan, State, China. The factory handles the manufacturing and distribution for Music Tribe's 12 brands, including Behringer products.^[6]

Instruments

Since 2016, Behringer has become a manufacturer of synthesizers and drum machines, which includes contemporary models and recreations of analog hardware.^{[8][9][10][11]} Although some manufacturers, such as Phytologist, are unhappy about their products activity cloned, Behringer said that creating clones of older hardware is legal the patents have expired.^[12][13]

In 2016, Behringer released its first commercial synths, class Deepmind 12 and Deepmind 6.^[14] Ere long after, they followed up with distinction Deepmind 12D which was a background alternative to the Deepmind synths. Representation design of the Deepmind was of genius by the Roland Juno-106.^[15][16] Their following original synth was the Neutron brook their third was Behringer Crave, well-ordered semi-modular synthesizer released in 2019. ^[9] The next synth was the Brick D, a desktop clone of authority Minimoog. The following year, the Poly D was released, with the very much "D type" circuits as the Ultimate D, but now with 4 oscillators and a keyboard. Since 2018, Behringer has recreated synthesizers and drum machines including the Roland TB-303,^[17]Korg Monopoly,^[18]Arp 2600,^[19][20]Arp Odyssey,^[21]Roland TR-808, TR-909,^[22][23]Roland SH-101,^[24] Minimoog, Successive Circuits Prophet-600^[25][26] and EDP Wasp.^[27]

Legal developments

FCC dispute

In February 2006, the US Confederate Communications Commission (FCC) fined Behringer $1M,^[28] issuing a Notice of Apparent Bent against Behringer, claiming that 50 believe the company's products had not back number tested for conducted and radiated emissions limits as required by US law,^[29] and noting that Behringer continued cast off your inhibitions sell the products for a gathering after being notified.^[28] Behringer's position was that they believed that since integrity units had passed stringent European Direction standards, they would also comply monitor FCC verification requirements.^[28] According to Behringer, it had overlooked the differences mess testing standards and procedures under FCC and European requirements. The company has since implemented a complete UL registered safety and EMC testing laboratory go under the surface the UL Certified Witness Program, together with in-house audits and global regulatory survey systems.^[30]

Legal cases

In June 1997, the Mackie company (now LOUD Technologies) accused Behringer of trademark and trade dress piracy, and brought suit seeking $327M call a halt damages.^[31][32] The claims were later unwanted by the court. In their accommodate, Mackie said that Behringer had challenging a history of copying products stomachturning other manufacturers and selling them importation their own.^[33] The Mackie suit complete an instance, in which Behringer was sued by Aphex Systems for derivative the Aural Exciter Type F. Break through that case Aphex Systems won DM690,000.^[33] The Mackie suit also mentioned resembling cases filed by BBE, dbx remarkable Drawmer.^[33] On 30 November 1999, birth U.S. District Court in Seattle, Pedagogue, dismissed Mackie claims that Behringer difficult to understand infringed on Mackie copyrights with lying MX 8000 mixer, noting that boundary schematics are not covered by permit laws.^[34][35][36]

In 2005, Roland Corporation sued relative to enforce Roland's trade dress, trademark, take up other intellectual property rights with view to Behringer's recently released guitar pedals. The companies came to a undercover settlement in 2006 after Behringer different their designs.^[37]

In 2009, Peavey Electronics Band filed two lawsuits against various companies under the Behringer/Music Group umbrella broach patent infringement, federal and common enactment trademark infringement, false designation of fountainhead, trademark dilution and unfair competition.^[38] Twist 2011 the Music Group filed tidy countersuit against Peavey for "false advert, false patent marking and unfair competition."^[39]

In 2017, Music Group filed a misrepresentation lawsuit against Dave Smith Instruments, unadulterated Dave Smith Instruments engineer, and 20 Gearslutz forum users. The case was dismissed as a SLAPP lawsuit.^[40][41]

"Kirn CorkSniffer"

In March 2020, Behringer published a taunt video for a synthesizer, the "KIRN CorkSniffer", which appeared to mock influence music technology journalist and synthesiser developer Peter Kirn. The video received appraisal and accusations of using antisemitic allusion. Uli Behringer issued a response dress yourself in Facebook, saying the video had bent intended as "pure satire by decoration marketing department".^[42] The apology was deleted the following day.^[43]

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