I just want to say, this entire series of Crave tutorials you've put together is gold! These are hands-down the best descriptions of this machine that I've been able to find anywhere. You have answered so many questions. Thank you! 👍
I cannot tell you how thankful I am about this videos. I bought the crave as my first synth when it was new in 2019. I had some fun turning knobs but I did not understand what was happening. I searched a bit but back than only jam videos where available. I lost interest and put it away. Now I decided to give it another chance and your videos are exactly what I was missing back than. Such a great explanation, easy to follow and fun to play along. I am only halfway through now but I bet the rest will also be great. Thanks so much! I hope there will be videos about the edge and the spice :)
I am coming back to the first video to leave this comment. I haven’t finished the series yet, but I just want to say that this is the best Crave tutorial on TH-cam. I would say that I am a 6 out of 10 when it comes to music knowledge. I am new. But going through this series not only taught me how to use the crave, but a lot more about synthesis in general. An absolutely awesome series. You are super informative and you’ve got great personality in your videos. Super enjoyable to watch. Thank you so much for a such a comprehensive and educational series. I am stoked to see what you review next.
excellent tutorial, your explanations were easy to understand for a very green tinkerer. I really appreciate pointing out the relationship, or lack, between the knobs and switches.
Excellent set of video tutorials. Clear and precise. This guy is good at explaining, something that is unfortunately missing in most TH-camr tutorial videos. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for this video , really well explained and kept it simple and to the point. Had my Crave a while and already this has helped me understand it better. Looking forward to the other videos! cheers
✨Much more than just a Behringer Crave tutorial. In fact, it's a complete in-depth course instead. Highly recommended not only to those who /crave/ insight into this versatile little beast. Anyone interested in subtractive synthesis on a comprehensible piece of hardware should definitely take the chance to watch the entire series. I'm by no means a synth noob but I enjoyed new information and a thorough exploration of (mistakenly assumed to be already) known concepts. Eric, you have a very kind and humorous way of presenting auch a lot of information in your videos. Thanks a lot and -- who knows? -- maybe I didn't click the Subscribe button in vain and more of this good stuff is going to show up sooner or later ... I do at least hope so 🤝
Thank you, this helped me a ton, I just got my Crave today! After watching your tutorial I plugged the Crave into my audio interface and put an oscilloscope plugin on the input, which helped to make it even clearer! I stumbled on some cool sounds along the way and recorded bits of that too. Probably should have watched your midi tutorial first, since the sequencer kept getting triggered 😅 In the end I figured out that I had to turn off sync to get it to do what I wanted. Definitely a learning curve involved, but you made it a lot easier for the rest of us, thank you!
@@music-with-eric Thank you again for making these videos, they definitely help a lot! And no problem with the Eurorack question! It was something I investigated myself because getting into Eurorack was the main reason why I bought the Crave in the first place. It would be so expensive to buy a whole voice like that as separate modules! A single Eurorack VCO module can easily be as expensive as the Crave with it's VCO, VCA, Envelope, Filter, and LFO 😬 Starting out with a semi-modular and then adding single Eurorack modules + an attenuverter is definitely the way to go! Although if I had any sense I'd probably stay away from that particular rabbit hole! So many cool modules out there that are just so insanely expensive 😂
Excellent intro! My Crave is arriving tomorrow and I am pretty clueless how to work it; I wanted to learn how to use analogue and also to have some fun. I will be following your tutorials through, very excited to start discovering what this kit can do. Oh, and I ordered a tuner, didn't think about that before watching this. Thanks!
Hi Eric. I hope all is well. This is my second time through this tutorial. I commented the last time about what a great job you did explaining this little synth. You are a very good teacher!!! I encouraged you to create other tutorials on other Behringer Desktop Synths. If I remember correctly, you stated (I'm paraphrasing) that doing so would be quite duplicative of the material you cover here. Might I suggest you do one on the PRO-800. The Pro-800 is different enough from the Crave that it would certainly be worth the effort to give us less knowledgeable synth users a big leg up as so much of it lays beneath the menu system which is quite hard to read. Possible others are the Edge (the Crave's companion), the 2600 and its iterations, the Neutron, and the TD-3 (and TD-3-MO). All of these are quite different then the Crave. Just a thought which I hope you will consider! Jeff, Tucson
Great videos man very well explained and easy to understand. got my crave a week ago and im starting to be able to play it a bit. Keep it up :)and thank you
What an amazing piece of work! Thanks for doing this, I feel like I have more of a clue now... the patch-out/multiple stuff was like a dense fog being lifted!
Eric thank you so much for making these tutorials. It helps a lot for someone like me that has a brain injury from an accident and is trying to learn this stuff when learning has become difficult.. thank you.. Hey maybe you can help me with the Behringer wasp?
thank you so much! Also, I’m having trouble with connect my midi keyboard, I watched your tutorial on it and the channel thing but my keyboard is not recieving input. How the midi cable connected. And have headphones plugged into crave. I can’t plug into computer cause I use garage band and the crave doesn’t work on there.
Connecting the Crave to a DAW will require an audio interface; sound is not transmitted over MIDI. Some audio interfaces have MIDI DIN ports like I describe in video #2. You can connect the Crave via USB to your Mac, but that also will only transmit MIDI data, so you'll still need an audio input to your computer. Crave should work fine with garageband if you set up a track for external instrument and setup your inputs and outputs properly. Many tutorials exist on such topics (just none of mine!).
Hello, thank you for your previous help but I think you might’ve misunderstood my question. I didn’t mean midi keyboard as in the crave, I meant midi keyboard as a separate midi keyboard controller. Thank you Eric!
It produces only a mono signal. If you use a stereo cable, sound will only come out the left side. If you plug the mono cable into another device like a mixer or audio interface, that device can reproduce the sound in both left and right channels.
Fantastic series! I am going through the tutorials but some of the sounds coming out of my machine are different than what yours is playing (I have the knobs and switches set to the same positions). Any help would be appreciated.
@@music-with-eric Thank YOU! The sound I am getting with what looks like the settings you use in this video yields a growling oscillating range of deeper bass sounds. I have set the knobs on my Crave more than a couple times and am getting the same results - so what ever I am doing (wrong) is consistent.
@@sunriseWorld-007 That is strange. When you rotate the top left pitch knob left and right, are you getting the same range of pitches I do in the video? It's possible that your instrument is not calibrated so that the center is around the middle of the range. Also, I'm sure you've done this, but make sure that the octave selector light is also somewhere around 4.
@@music-with-eric It is getting the same results as you now! Ok, sounds like it was the calibration as I adjusted the screws on the VCO frequency. Thank you so much Eric! Man.... that really expanded the range of sounds I can get now.
Can we talk about the paucity of the docs that come with this synth? Not all of us are electrical engineers. Some of this could have been mentioned in the docs. Thanks for walking us through analog synthesis.
Hello Eric , u helped me a lot but there are som other questions… is there any guide about the menu in wich u enter while press shift hold and 8??? U can do more things than sync it I think! And when I play a sequence and want to change the pattern it chances immediately at the moment I press the button. It doesn’t play the sequence to the end , where I can change this, I hope there is a posibiliti !
The shift+hold+8 options are found in the Crave manual here: mediadl.musictribe.com/media/PLM/data/docs/P0DPX/CRAVE_QSG_WW.pdf. As far as I know, the sequencer will not wait until the end, but will always immediately jump to the next sequence.
Hey there , thank u for the answer, it’s written in English and that is as we say in german „scheiße“ , don’t understand everything, for ex. what means clock edge mode and what means rise and fall?????🤔🤔🤔🤔page 4 of the description. @@music-with-eric
@@music-with-eric hello Eric, god morning! Thanks but it’s only in English … odontologisch know what means edge of the clock and fall and rise?? Can u describe me what happened there- I actually found nothing about it! Anyway it’s a nice sounding instrument even when I could not change the speed of the Instrument while it’s on midi, I don’t mean the bpm tempo I mean the time it need to play 8 steps …don’t know why! The crave is playing 16 steps while all other synthis are done8 steps I try to change it , doesn’t work! If u know sth about , pleas let me know….
Just bought a Crave. Thanks for these useful videos, I'm finding them very helpful so far as I'm also fairly new to analogue synths. One thing I'm having trouble with though is getting an audio signal out of the VCA/LINE output. I'm using a FocusRite Scarlett 8i6 as an audio interface. I can only get audio when I use the Crave's PHONES output for some reason, and I've read in a few places that this isn't the ideal solution for recording. Any ideas on why I might be having an issue here? Thanks!
The output impedences are different between the two outputs. Using a mono cable coming from VCA/Line, try plugging it into one of the channels on the front of your Focusrite that has gain control (start with Crave volume and gain all the way down, for safety), as opposed to using one of the line inputs on back, and see if a combination of gain and volume get you there.
@@music-with-eric Thanks - I'll have to find a mono cable. There doesn't seem to be many of these around. There are plenty of stereo to split tip and ring (which is all I have). I did try using one of these cables and plugging just the ring to one of the front inputs - I was able to get a tiny amount of sound come through but by the time I added enough gain to hear the sound, there was a huge amount of hiss. I'm unclear on why a mono cable would make a difference, but I'll try.
Yes, it is a mono cable, the kind with one black line, just like the small patch cables that came with the instrument. The other end of the particular cable I used was a 1/4" mono jack, going into a channel on my MG16XU.
@@music-with-eric Thank you, sir ;) Eventually, in my local stores it is a little challenge to find mono patch, that's why I'm wondering if stereo will work as well.
hello. I very interested in getting this synth, some experience using a digital synth with midi control keyboard set up but I dislike digital and aren't interested in using a lap top with this. can I plug into the vcaline or headphone jack and run it into a guitar or bass amp? would adding pedals also work the same as with a guitar? thanx.
You can run the VCA/Line directly to your guitar amp if you like. Watch out for levels when you turn everything on. You can also use pedals like you would use with a guitar. The output of a synth is of higher power than than the pickups of a guitar, so keep the level low on the synth and turn it up slowly!
Hey there , my crave arrived yesterday but I can’t actually sync it with the other synthis i got! I go from midi out from drumbrute impact to midi in from the crave! Every Synthesizer starts to play, butnot in the right tempo!!!!! Can you help me please?✌👽🎶
You can change the sync rate on your Impact with the Sync button, or change the rate on the Crave using the shift+hold+8 menus or the synthtribe app - make sure they're set to the same thing.
Thank u a lot, actually it works! All together in the right speed … what I was doing, go to the Behringer Homepage and installed synthtribe … after 1,5 hours it was god! Now I need some (really) cool patches…. 🤔😵💫✌👽🎶👽🎶👽🎶👽🎶👽🎶@@music-with-eric
on every video I have seen the green location LED flashes- mine does not? This seems to be connected to various things not working as they should... Any ideas?
Another commenter recently mentioned this and we discovered it's because of a firmware update - when I filmed the first several videos the firmware was older (with blinking LED), the update in March/April 2021 eliminated the blink except when the sequencer is running.
Thanks! I updated to the March 23 1.1.2 firmware just recently, so all of the videos through #11 were filmed on the previous version. But based on the patch notes, there are no changes that affect those videos' content.
Hello Eric, fantastic video. The explanation is top. I created a lot of other sounds with you. Great. Immediatly you got an abo. TOP! Keep it up. I will watch yout other vids too.
Hi Eric, first of all: Thank you very much for your deep dives into the Crave. It helped me a lot to understand the device. Do you also know if it's possible to divide the tempo with the tempo knob when the crave get's a signa from an external midi clock? I tried several configurations inside SHIFT + Page 3 but couldn't find a way neither via Midi nor via CV.
Hello sir, i dont have mixer and i plug it directly to my reference speaker from L R inputs but when i use vca output to LR input of my speaker i get the sound only from Left, if i use headphone output sound comes from LR but low volume, what i do wrong ? Could you please help me ?
(I assume you are using a TRS cable that splits to go into your speakers.) The VCA/Line jack outputs a mono signal, which is why it will only sound out of the left speaker. If you use the headphone jack, the mono signal is copied to both left and right so you could hear it in two ears, so your TRS cable will work - if it's too quiet, you can turn up the Volume knob on the Crave or increase the gain on your reference speakers. However, I've never used it this way: I use a TS cable from the VCA/Line jack to plug the Crave into a mono track on a mixer or into a single input on an audio interface.
I think Crave is a good place to start learning synthesis, because each knob does pretty much one thing and is easy to understand what does what. But if it's your only synth, you'll probably be looking for another pretty soon due to its limitations. Other synths have better sequencers or more functionality. My first hardware synth was a minilogue, then a neutron, and those can do a great deal more than the Crave. I agree with the other commenters that the Model D is also good, probably better than Crave (especially if you have few synths), because you have three oscillators and some more modulation possibilities, but the patchbay is nice. I usually end up making connections among the Crave, Neutron, and Model D patchbays simultaneously.
Hi. I'm new to all this. I bought a crave and everything lights up, headphones are in and new. I tested on an rd-6. They work well. But no sound when I power up and hit a note on its keyboard. Help please!!! Lol
Have you gone through the initial knob setup as I describe in the video? It's easy to turn a knob here or there to a spot where it will cut off all the sound. If you flick the right-end VCA MODE toggle switch from ENV to ON, do you hear a tone? That switch will bypass the keyboard, so you should get a steady tone with it ON.
For some reason my Crave won't stop playing a note. It just goes on forever. I think it has something to do with the green LED not blinking. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? All knobs and switches are turned the same as in this video.
The green light blinks in this video because it's on an earlier version of the firmware; that changed in later versions. Usually the reason for a continuous tone is that the toggle switch below the output knob is flipped to the right (on), instead of to the left (env). Another possibility is that you have the cable to your mixer/headphones coming out of the patch point labeled VCF instead of the VCA/Line.
@@music-with-eric Thanks for the fast reply Eric! The toggle switch was indeed switched to the right. But when I turn it to the left (env) I get no sounds at all. I am usen the VCA/Line btw.
The clicking of the keys is being picked up by my vocal mic. If I used only the sound coming out of the VCA/Line port into the mixer, you would not hear those key clicks.
Is your sustain knob turned up and toggled to ON? If the envelope is closing too quickly you might hear only a click. Try turning the VCA MODE toggle switch from ENV to ON, you should hear a steady tone without using the keyboard.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. The step sequencer can be transposed once it's going, but since I didn't cover that in this video I don't know what you're referring to.
@@music-with-ericohh I was hoping the Crave worked like how a moog 960 sequencer works. Where you can get each step, and use the knobs to dial in the frequency (pitch) of each step.
@@popcycles ah - not on its own (though you can choose the pitch of each step using the keyboard). If you like the knob-per-step behavior, you could pair the crave with a Korg SQ-1.
@@music-with-eric The SQ1 isn't a bad idea! But also another method you're saying is with a keyboard. Do you mean just playing the notes like a normal keyboard melody line? Or is there something I'm missing, what you're saying.
I just want to say, this entire series of Crave tutorials you've put together is gold! These are hands-down the best descriptions of this machine that I've been able to find anywhere. You have answered so many questions. Thank you! 👍
So kind of you to say so! Glad you're getting a lot out of them :)
@@music-with-eric Agreed. Great video series. cheers
👍👍👍😊
Yeah man this is awesome 👏 thank you
Best tutorial hands-down indeed!
Came in looking for a crave tutorial and walked out with a diploma in sound design and modular patching.
Thank you sir 🙏
I really like how you explain it as if I know nothing about it... Because I don't. Seriously. Thank you for allowing me to learn.
Thank you Eric, as an absolute beginner I'd have been lost without these simple tutorials, excited to see what I can do with this 😊
Eric, this is golden! Will follow this series and when my Crave arrives rewatch again. ty
Thanks, Eric.
Coming to the Crave (and Model D) after a couple of decades using soft synths and presets, so this video has helped me a lot. Thank you.
These crave videos are by far the best tutorials around on this little beast. Thank you Eric! Truly appreciated.
I turn buttons, knobs and dials aimlessly on my crave.
Now I can be more comprehensive when trying to generate sounds in future.
Thank you.
I cannot tell you how thankful I am about this videos. I bought the crave as my first synth when it was new in 2019. I had some fun turning knobs but I did not understand what was happening. I searched a bit but back than only jam videos where available. I lost interest and put it away. Now I decided to give it another chance and your videos are exactly what I was missing back than. Such a great explanation, easy to follow and fun to play along. I am only halfway through now but I bet the rest will also be great.
Thanks so much! I hope there will be videos about the edge and the spice :)
I am coming back to the first video to leave this comment. I haven’t finished the series yet, but I just want to say that this is the best Crave tutorial on TH-cam. I would say that I am a 6 out of 10 when it comes to music knowledge. I am new. But going through this series not only taught me how to use the crave, but a lot more about synthesis in general. An absolutely awesome series. You are super informative and you’ve got great personality in your videos. Super enjoyable to watch. Thank you so much for a such a comprehensive and educational series. I am stoked to see what you review next.
This series has been so incredibly helpful.
My Crave just arrived last night. This helped me get started. I look forward to going through the rest of this series.
Mine just came in the mail today. Your videos are extremely helpful. Thanks!
So glad I found this playlist! Even though I learnt the basics of modular synthesis, it was still tricky to operate Crave. Thankyou
excellent tutorial, your explanations were easy to understand for a very green tinkerer. I really appreciate pointing out the relationship, or lack, between the knobs and switches.
Excellent set of video tutorials. Clear and precise. This guy is good at explaining, something that is unfortunately missing in most TH-camr tutorial videos. Thanks a lot!
Eric, thank you for the Crave patching explainers, you're a great teacher.
Just ordered my Crave, expected to arrive tomorrow. These videos are very helpful -- thank you.
Just wanted to echo what many others have said -- and offer my thanks for these incredibly helpful, and well-done videos. Cheers Eric, man!
Thank you! And thanks for coming back to video #1 to say it, hopefully it encourages others to keep going if this one is too simple for them. :)
Boss Ross does synth tutorial. Thanks man, really appreciate you making these
Thanks Eric! My friend gave me this synth and I found your video. Well crafted content, good explanation
Thanks I didn't know I could do the modulation part with the crave in that way. I learned something thanks man
This video was awesome. Way better than the instruction manual. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome!
Thanks for this video , really well explained and kept it simple and to the point. Had my Crave a while and already this has helped me understand it better. Looking forward to the other videos! cheers
✨Much more than just a Behringer Crave tutorial. In fact, it's a complete in-depth course instead. Highly recommended not only to those who /crave/ insight into this versatile little beast. Anyone interested in subtractive synthesis on a comprehensible piece of hardware should definitely take the chance to watch the entire series.
I'm by no means a synth noob but I enjoyed new information and a thorough exploration of (mistakenly assumed to be already) known concepts.
Eric, you have a very kind and humorous way of presenting auch a lot of information in your videos. Thanks a lot and -- who knows? -- maybe I didn't click the Subscribe button in vain and more of this good stuff is going to show up sooner or later ... I do at least hope so 🤝
Fantastic tutorial! I've only watched #1 and 2, but already know more about how to use my new synth.
Eric! These tutorials are AMAZING! Thanks man, and keep up the good work!
Thank you, this helped me a ton, I just got my Crave today! After watching your tutorial I plugged the Crave into my audio interface and put an oscilloscope plugin on the input, which helped to make it even clearer! I stumbled on some cool sounds along the way and recorded bits of that too. Probably should have watched your midi tutorial first, since the sequencer kept getting triggered 😅 In the end I figured out that I had to turn off sync to get it to do what I wanted. Definitely a learning curve involved, but you made it a lot easier for the rest of us, thank you!
Thank you for your kind comments on the videos! And for answering a Eurorack question that I didn't know the answer to :)
@@music-with-eric Thank you again for making these videos, they definitely help a lot! And no problem with the Eurorack question! It was something I investigated myself because getting into Eurorack was the main reason why I bought the Crave in the first place. It would be so expensive to buy a whole voice like that as separate modules! A single Eurorack VCO module can easily be as expensive as the Crave with it's VCO, VCA, Envelope, Filter, and LFO 😬 Starting out with a semi-modular and then adding single Eurorack modules + an attenuverter is definitely the way to go! Although if I had any sense I'd probably stay away from that particular rabbit hole! So many cool modules out there that are just so insanely expensive 😂
Excellent intro! My Crave is arriving tomorrow and I am pretty clueless how to work it; I wanted to learn how to use analogue and also to have some fun. I will be following your tutorials through, very excited to start discovering what this kit can do. Oh, and I ordered a tuner, didn't think about that before watching this. Thanks!
Hi Eric. I hope all is well. This is my second time through this tutorial. I commented the last time about what a great job you did explaining this little synth. You are a very good teacher!!! I encouraged you to create other tutorials on other Behringer Desktop Synths. If I remember correctly, you stated (I'm paraphrasing) that doing so would be quite duplicative of the material you cover here. Might I suggest you do one on the PRO-800. The Pro-800 is different enough from the Crave that it would certainly be worth the effort to give us less knowledgeable synth users a big leg up as so much of it lays beneath the menu system which is quite hard to read. Possible others are the Edge (the Crave's companion), the 2600 and its iterations, the Neutron, and the TD-3 (and TD-3-MO). All of these are quite different then the Crave. Just a thought which I hope you will consider! Jeff, Tucson
This is an invaluable tutorial - thank you
Thanks for this, now I found the videos to where I start to learn this thing.
These tutorials are excellent, thank you
Great videos man very well explained and easy to understand. got my crave a week ago and im starting to be able to play it a bit. Keep it up :)and thank you
Glad it's been helpful! More videos to come...
I have little to add to all the things already said. This is great. Thanks Eric.
What an amazing piece of work! Thanks for doing this, I feel like I have more of a clue now... the patch-out/multiple stuff was like a dense fog being lifted!
Most excellent tutorials. I look forward to you teaching us about other synths! ...?
Brilliant series and very well explained. I now understand why it sounds like a fire alarm at times 🤣
Thanks for coming back to video #1 to say this, I hope it encourages others to keep working through the series.
Get this man a glass of water ! Great tutorial 👌
Thank you Eric. Excellent video.
thanks Eric! great explanation for a total beginner like myself
Great to hear! Hope you find the rest useful as well.
Eric thank you so much for making these tutorials. It helps a lot for someone like me that has a brain injury from an accident and is trying to learn this stuff when learning has become difficult.. thank you.. Hey maybe you can help me with the Behringer wasp?
Sorry, I don't have a Wasp
Best walkthrough on TH-cam. Can I plug my headphones straight into it ?
You can! Use the Phones port on the upper right, just be sure to turn the volume down and turn the crave on before you put on your headphones.
thank you so much! Also, I’m having trouble with connect my midi keyboard, I watched your tutorial on it and the channel thing but my keyboard is not recieving input. How the midi cable connected. And have headphones plugged into crave. I can’t plug into computer cause I use garage band and the crave doesn’t work on there.
Connecting the Crave to a DAW will require an audio interface; sound is not transmitted over MIDI. Some audio interfaces have MIDI DIN ports like I describe in video #2. You can connect the Crave via USB to your Mac, but that also will only transmit MIDI data, so you'll still need an audio input to your computer. Crave should work fine with garageband if you set up a track for external instrument and setup your inputs and outputs properly. Many tutorials exist on such topics (just none of mine!).
@@music-with-ericthank you sir!
Hello, thank you for your previous help but I think you might’ve misunderstood my question. I didn’t mean midi keyboard as in the crave, I meant midi keyboard as a separate midi keyboard controller. Thank you Eric!
Very well explained! Thanks
Great tut! Sorry I am new to synths. so can't you have a stereo out from the Crave?...if I have a stereo patch with FX? TIA
It produces only a mono signal. If you use a stereo cable, sound will only come out the left side. If you plug the mono cable into another device like a mixer or audio interface, that device can reproduce the sound in both left and right channels.
@@music-with-eric thank you. I might then need a mixer with FX. I happen to have Signature 10 which has some FX.
Fantastic series! I am going through the tutorials but some of the sounds coming out of my machine are different than what yours is playing (I have the knobs and switches set to the same positions). Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you! As for the differences...could you be more specific? There are a lot of small things that can add up to a big difference in sound.
@@music-with-eric Thank YOU! The sound I am getting with what looks like the settings you use in this video yields a growling oscillating range of deeper bass sounds. I have set the knobs on my Crave more than a couple times and am getting the same results - so what ever I am doing (wrong) is consistent.
@@sunriseWorld-007 That is strange. When you rotate the top left pitch knob left and right, are you getting the same range of pitches I do in the video? It's possible that your instrument is not calibrated so that the center is around the middle of the range. Also, I'm sure you've done this, but make sure that the octave selector light is also somewhere around 4.
@@music-with-eric It is getting the same results as you now! Ok, sounds like it was the calibration as I adjusted the screws on the VCO frequency. Thank you so much Eric! Man.... that really expanded the range of sounds I can get now.
@@sunriseWorld-007 Huzzah!
Can we talk about the paucity of the docs that come with this synth? Not all of us are electrical engineers. Some of this could have been mentioned in the docs. Thanks for walking us through analog synthesis.
You're welcome :)
Compared to some of the other Behringer manuals, this one is actually pretty good!
Thank you for this video! Truly appreciate how well explained it is ^_^
I have my Crave in front of me, pedals connected, panel at 'initial' settings, ready for the class.
Hello Eric , u helped me a lot but there are som other questions… is there any guide about the menu in wich u enter while press shift hold and 8??? U can do more things than sync it I think! And when I play a sequence and want to change the pattern it chances immediately at the moment I press the button. It doesn’t play the sequence to the end , where I can change this, I hope there is a posibiliti !
The shift+hold+8 options are found in the Crave manual here: mediadl.musictribe.com/media/PLM/data/docs/P0DPX/CRAVE_QSG_WW.pdf. As far as I know, the sequencer will not wait until the end, but will always immediately jump to the next sequence.
Hey there , thank u for the answer, it’s written in English and that is as we say in german „scheiße“ , don’t understand everything, for ex. what means clock edge mode and what means rise and fall?????🤔🤔🤔🤔page 4 of the description. @@music-with-eric
@@music-with-eric hello Eric, god morning! Thanks but it’s only in English … odontologisch know what means edge of the clock and fall and rise?? Can u describe me what happened there- I actually found nothing about it! Anyway it’s a nice sounding instrument even when I could not change the speed of the Instrument while it’s on midi, I don’t mean the bpm tempo I mean the time it need to play 8 steps …don’t know why! The crave is playing 16 steps while all other synthis are done8 steps I try to change it , doesn’t work! If u know sth about , pleas let me know….
Just bought a Crave. Thanks for these useful videos, I'm finding them very helpful so far as I'm also fairly new to analogue synths. One thing I'm having trouble with though is getting an audio signal out of the VCA/LINE output. I'm using a FocusRite Scarlett 8i6 as an audio interface. I can only get audio when I use the Crave's PHONES output for some reason, and I've read in a few places that this isn't the ideal solution for recording. Any ideas on why I might be having an issue here? Thanks!
The output impedences are different between the two outputs. Using a mono cable coming from VCA/Line, try plugging it into one of the channels on the front of your Focusrite that has gain control (start with Crave volume and gain all the way down, for safety), as opposed to using one of the line inputs on back, and see if a combination of gain and volume get you there.
@@music-with-eric Thanks - I'll have to find a mono cable. There doesn't seem to be many of these around. There are plenty of stereo to split tip and ring (which is all I have). I did try using one of these cables and plugging just the ring to one of the front inputs - I was able to get a tiny amount of sound come through but by the time I added enough gain to hear the sound, there was a huge amount of hiss. I'm unclear on why a mono cable would make a difference, but I'll try.
Thanks for the vid. Could you clarify, what's the name of cable you've used to connect synth to mixer. Is it essentially should be mono? Thanks.
Yes, it is a mono cable, the kind with one black line, just like the small patch cables that came with the instrument. The other end of the particular cable I used was a 1/4" mono jack, going into a channel on my MG16XU.
@@music-with-eric Thank you, sir ;) Eventually, in my local stores it is a little challenge to find mono patch, that's why I'm wondering if stereo will work as well.
hello. I very interested in getting this synth, some experience using a digital synth with midi control keyboard set up but I dislike digital and aren't interested in using a lap top with this. can I plug into the vcaline or headphone jack and run it into a guitar or bass amp? would adding pedals also work the same as with a guitar? thanx.
You can run the VCA/Line directly to your guitar amp if you like. Watch out for levels when you turn everything on. You can also use pedals like you would use with a guitar. The output of a synth is of higher power than than the pickups of a guitar, so keep the level low on the synth and turn it up slowly!
@@music-with-eric thanx so much! appreciate the details.
brilliant thank you
Hey there , my crave arrived yesterday but I can’t actually sync it with the other synthis i got! I go from midi out from drumbrute impact to midi in from the crave! Every Synthesizer starts to play, butnot in the right tempo!!!!! Can you help me please?✌👽🎶
You can change the sync rate on your Impact with the Sync button, or change the rate on the Crave using the shift+hold+8 menus or the synthtribe app - make sure they're set to the same thing.
Thank u a lot, actually it works! All together in the right speed … what I was doing, go to the Behringer Homepage and installed synthtribe … after 1,5 hours it was god! Now I need some (really) cool patches…. 🤔😵💫✌👽🎶👽🎶👽🎶👽🎶👽🎶@@music-with-eric
on every video I have seen the green location LED flashes- mine does not? This seems to be connected to various things not working as they should... Any ideas?
No idea about that one, sorry
Another commenter recently mentioned this and we discovered it's because of a firmware update - when I filmed the first several videos the firmware was older (with blinking LED), the update in March/April 2021 eliminated the blink except when the sequencer is running.
@@music-with-eric Oh my gosh. You save my Crave's life. I gonna update for my Crave. Thank you.
Fantastic looking forward to the rest of these tutorials . Can I just ask are you using the latest firmware for the Crave on these videos? Thanks :)
Thanks! I updated to the March 23 1.1.2 firmware just recently, so all of the videos through #11 were filmed on the previous version. But based on the patch notes, there are no changes that affect those videos' content.
@@music-with-eric Nice one :)
Hello Eric,
fantastic video. The explanation is top. I created a lot of other sounds with you. Great. Immediatly you got an abo. TOP! Keep it up. I will watch yout other vids too.
Hi Eric, first of all: Thank you very much for your deep dives into the Crave. It helped me a lot to understand the device. Do you also know if it's possible to divide the tempo with the tempo knob when the crave get's a signa from an external midi clock? I tried several configurations inside SHIFT + Page 3 but couldn't find a way neither via Midi nor via CV.
That video is coming soon...
@@music-with-eric Yippie!
Hello sir, i dont have mixer and i plug it directly to my reference speaker from L R inputs but when i use vca output to LR input of my speaker i get the sound only from Left, if i use headphone output sound comes from LR but low volume, what i do wrong ? Could you please help me ?
(I assume you are using a TRS cable that splits to go into your speakers.) The VCA/Line jack outputs a mono signal, which is why it will only sound out of the left speaker. If you use the headphone jack, the mono signal is copied to both left and right so you could hear it in two ears, so your TRS cable will work - if it's too quiet, you can turn up the Volume knob on the Crave or increase the gain on your reference speakers. However, I've never used it this way: I use a TS cable from the VCA/Line jack to plug the Crave into a mono track on a mixer or into a single input on an audio interface.
Hello from Italy!!
Which synth u suggest for learning sound design?
This one ? Or Model D is better for beginners?
Thanks so much 🍺🍺🍺
Model D all the way. Crave is not a beginner's tool! But with the help of these tutorials, anything is possible!
@@0713dm I agree 🍺🍺🍺
I think Crave is a good place to start learning synthesis, because each knob does pretty much one thing and is easy to understand what does what. But if it's your only synth, you'll probably be looking for another pretty soon due to its limitations. Other synths have better sequencers or more functionality. My first hardware synth was a minilogue, then a neutron, and those can do a great deal more than the Crave. I agree with the other commenters that the Model D is also good, probably better than Crave (especially if you have few synths), because you have three oscillators and some more modulation possibilities, but the patchbay is nice. I usually end up making connections among the Crave, Neutron, and Model D patchbays simultaneously.
Thank you.
How is this much sound going for such a low price?
what mixer do you use?
At the time I was using a Yamaha MG16XU. Great mixer, but only stereo out for recording. Lately I'm using a Zoom R16.
Hi. I'm new to all this. I bought a crave and everything lights up, headphones are in and new. I tested on an rd-6. They work well.
But no sound when I power up and hit a note on its keyboard.
Help please!!! Lol
Have you gone through the initial knob setup as I describe in the video? It's easy to turn a knob here or there to a spot where it will cut off all the sound. If you flick the right-end VCA MODE toggle switch from ENV to ON, do you hear a tone? That switch will bypass the keyboard, so you should get a steady tone with it ON.
@@music-with-eric I'll try it
@@music-with-eric no tone with vca mode on
For some reason my Crave won't stop playing a note. It just goes on forever. I think it has something to do with the green LED not blinking. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? All knobs and switches are turned the same as in this video.
The green light blinks in this video because it's on an earlier version of the firmware; that changed in later versions.
Usually the reason for a continuous tone is that the toggle switch below the output knob is flipped to the right (on), instead of to the left (env). Another possibility is that you have the cable to your mixer/headphones coming out of the patch point labeled VCF instead of the VCA/Line.
@@music-with-eric Thanks for the fast reply Eric! The toggle switch was indeed switched to the right. But when I turn it to the left (env) I get no sounds at all. I am usen the VCA/Line btw.
Oh nevermind I figured it out! Thanks a lot! Looking forward to learning how to play this thing with your videos!
So you can't record in a daw without recording the clicking
The clicking of the keys is being picked up by my vocal mic. If I used only the sound coming out of the VCA/Line port into the mixer, you would not hear those key clicks.
nice!!!! thx
They’re right, after 15 minutes of playing, I can no longer hear it’s out of tune...
Great vid, cheers.
All i get is a click, it used to work but nothing now. i set mine just like yours but nothing :(
Is your sustain knob turned up and toggled to ON? If the envelope is closing too quickly you might hear only a click. Try turning the VCA MODE toggle switch from ENV to ON, you should hear a steady tone without using the keyboard.
@@music-with-eric Thank you Eric I'll try your suggestion. It happened today after the latest upgrade.
👽👍 Thank you))
cool !! behri
So you can't tune each step?? 😢 Dang.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. The step sequencer can be transposed once it's going, but since I didn't cover that in this video I don't know what you're referring to.
@@music-with-ericohh I was hoping the Crave worked like how a moog 960 sequencer works. Where you can get each step, and use the knobs to dial in the frequency (pitch) of each step.
@@popcycles ah - not on its own (though you can choose the pitch of each step using the keyboard). If you like the knob-per-step behavior, you could pair the crave with a Korg SQ-1.
@@music-with-eric The SQ1 isn't a bad idea!
But also another method you're saying is with a keyboard. Do you mean just playing the notes like a normal keyboard melody line? Or is there something I'm missing, what you're saying.
@@popcycles I have a video on how the Crave sequencer works, check it out and let me know if it helps clear this up :)
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