In November 2019, just after the announcement of the TD–3, Uli Behringer approached me about collaborating on a Devil Fish for…

In November 2019, just after the announcement of the TD-3, Uli Behringer approached me about collaborating on a Devil Fish for his company to design, produce and sell in large quantities.  We were keen to proceed, but Uli’s commercial requirements were not compatible with ours.

There the matter would have ended, with no-one else knowing about these negotiations, which were by email over a week.

In early February 2020, two days after we received our TD-3, Uli posted a CAD-generated mock-up image of a proposed future Behringer product on the Behringer Facebook page.  This was called the “TD-3-DF”, with further words* you can read below.  The image depicted a TD-3-like machine, somewhat larger, in a dark colour scheme, with the Devil Fish controls, sockets and LEDs.

There has been controversy of Behringer’s copying of some other synthesizers, especially the Minimoog.  Without any announcement to the contrary, many people might have assumed that Behringer had licensed the design from us, while others may have suspected that they were planning on using the Devil Fish design without our authorisation.  So I wrote the first two sections of this page, describing the background and our thoughts about the proposed product.

(via https://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/behringer-unauthorised/ )