Malström is a software synthesizer with a legacy like few others. It’s up there with the greatest and most influential bits of electronic music equipment in history, surrounded by the likes of the Yamaha DX7, Roland’s TR-808, TR-909 and TB-303, the Prophet and the Juno, you get the gist.

Why hasn’t there been a hardware implementation yet?

This is an injustice.

Imagine crafting the perfect old-school bassline, or a beautiful graintable atmosphere with your own two hands, using some of the most classic and idolized sounds in recent decades of electronic music. The tactile experience of shifting the graintable index - tweaking LFO rate with your actual fingers - except instead of yet another Moog clone, it’s a synth we’ve all only experienced with a click-and-drag workflow.

The design is already there - the software UI of Malström is designed literally to be a hardware-like experience; there’s nothing there that can’t be made out of good ol’ real life pots, knobs, faders and switches. 

And, what better company could there be to tackle this project than Behringer, with its decades of experience in manufacturing and design at reasonable price points? 

Imagine the sales. Imagine the sheer amount of pre-orders from every Riddim producer’s mother (let’s be honest about who’s gonna be paying for these here). There would be chaos in the streets at the mere announcement of such a product. I mean, consider this petition to be my own pre-order - I’d be on this thing in a second.

The idea is already there - don’t change the aesthetics, don’t change the workflow - just go 1:1, knob for knob - slap a big-ol’ Behringer logo on there, and let’s get it poppin’.

It’s time to right this wrong. The product opportunity has been staring everyone in the face for over 15 years now. We have a collective voice as a musician’s community, and it’s time we use it to stand up for ourselves. Let’s peer pressure Propellorhead and Behringer to get together and make a product that should have been made years ago. A real-life, desk-sized, affordable Malström clone.

So, what do you say?