These are wonderful. Super helpful. You inspired me to pull the trigger on the Crave. They are getting difficult to find at a good price. This is the perfect instrument and series to be entitled - Introduction to Modular synthesis. Having a MAT myself (Masters in Teaching), I can only accolade your brilliant and clear teaching style. Bravo and again, thanks kindly.
your videos are just great please do more of them and everyone who wants to have a Crave. wants to see more of them. this synthesizer is just great and wonderful to start with this instument.
I have a lot of synths ,but never have I seen such a synth with so much “palava”. You can get good sounds out of it but ,the sequencer,oh boy. Thanks for the tutorials.
Can't wait for 1) the Behringer Edge and 2) your tutorials for it to come out. Two potentially great things that aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Thanks for the great and helpful tutorials, i watch them all ! I wish Behringer could update the firmware with more handy possibilities in the sequencer. Pattern chaining programing, or at least a more handy way to chain patterns in live mode.. Beside this, great synth!
Hola, quiero darte la gracias por estos tutoriales. Queria preguntarte si el secuenciador tiene algun modo aleatorio como tiene el Mother 32. Digamos que ingreso 8 notas y puede ir hacia adelante o hacia atras, pero existe alguna forma de que suenen aleatoriamente saltando entre notas? por ejemplo para hacer musica generativa. Un saludo
El secuenciador mesmo no tiene cosa assim, mas puedes usar el Sample & Hold en el patchbay a Osc CV or Osc Mod para introducir aleatoriedad en las notas/entonación. También tienes la opción de reproducir tonos en orden aleatorio en el arpegiador.
Okay Smarty Pants! What happens if your first step is C3, the second step is C4, and the third step is B3, AND you go into step mode, mute Step 2, and go to Step 1 and set your gate length to 8, the designation for a tie... does this piece of crap, cryptic sequencer tie Step 1 C4 all the way to Step 3 B3? MIND BLOWN!!! Cue that galaxy dude with exploding mind! haha! I'll find out in about 15 minutes! My God!! I'll have to move to another pattern, create this test, then attempt to return to my cherished three day old, much belabored by ignorance, confusion, error and pizz poor UI design (but sustained by a persistent drive, aka metho/dextro something or other) to realize this minor background bass phrase... 32 step pattern that I've been working on and was just about to record to audio today... The HORROR! Dare I risk actually attempting to leave then load this pattern from the cryptic depths of this tortuous sequencer's memory? My gonads re-enter my body at the thought, lit-er-al-ly, as the British would say, but not mean, but I, however, actually mean. Thanks again for the help with this sequencer, Mr. Smarty Pants. I've watched several tutorials over the year, perhaps, I hope, only a year, that I've owned this craven Crave, and actually several before I even blurriedly purchased this synth in a Ko Vid haze late one feverish night on Amazon when something so bizarre and improbable occurred, something I've never experienced, seen, or even heard of in roughly 20 years on Amazon, I hesitate to mention it for fear of impugning further my marginal character, the only material evidence of this unbelievable scenario actually having occurred being the arrival of a package in Amazon dress several days later containing a materially apprehendable, working, apparently new, Behringer Crave synth in its original box, though with a power supply from another system or distant nation... where was I... I was lifted and lost by the Lydian as I recounted this unlikely experience... Oh yes, I've watched several YT tutorials (and read the equally fragmented and equally damnable manual) over the year (only, hopefully) that I have owned this synth, and have not achieved basic proficiency, let alone creative mastery with this damnable sequencer. But the Algo provides in abundance, and just when I needed it, I unserendipitously happened across your estimable Crave Tutorials, specifically covering the dastardly sequencer, and now my first masterwork (working title being: Tokyo Healthcare, perhaps the stupidest song title I've yet managed to embrace), the culmination and realization of a lifetime's music making learning, though ultimately best termed, "struggle," will be further bolstered by my enhanced capabilities on the Crave sequencer, and this "B" bassline will actually contend, in moments, against my darling "A" line, inspired and created by another budget, plasticy sounding bottom tier synth, though with both less but significantly more capabilities, but a SUBSTANTIALLY better, though still flawed, or more charitably put, unrealized, despite MANY significant software updates, which proved the viability and utility of owning and using digital synths in this golden age of analog synthesis, culminating in the venerable, though unfortunately final, when so much is left undone, unrealized, v.1.8, over its lifecycle which, through its market success, spawned several subsequent diverse music making devices, user interface. Navigate THAT sentence, and you'll have a chance at navigating the uptempo portion of Tokyo Healthcare. I simply wanted to say thank you for your accomplished work here on You Tube, specifically with the Crave, and even more specifically, the Crave's wanting sequencer... I'm seeing an Algo recommended video of yours covering the Crave's envelope, the thumbnail showing graph paper with hand drawn illustrations... undoubtedly further evidence of your generosity, capability and subtle artfulness in teaching, in sharing knowledge, a blessing at the core of human nature. Can't wait... though I'll have to, as the boast at the beginning of this comment that I'd reach experimental results in 15 minutes has fallen to my curse turned blessing in the technological age of music making, of the estimable Welsh-Irish propensity for excessive verbosity, wait till my late night 180 return to the Tubes, as I must enhance and record this "B" bassline for Tokyo Healthcare TODAY, as I lose my child tomorrow, and I imagine that will consume my day. Indeed, even the experiment of the muted tie will have to wait, so excessive I have been. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your videos! I've learned a lot. I was wondering, is it possible to synch the Crave with a Volvca Bass? How can i do it? Thank you again.
Hey Eric, first of all thank you so much for these videos! You are like the Bob Ross of explaining synthezisers. Since YT doesn't allow private messages anymore, I'm just gonna post this here. I don't know anyone who owns the Crave, so I thought maybe you could help me out: I'm very happy with the Crave, but I'm bothered by the fact that turning up the resonance apperantly lowers the volume. The volume difference is so massive that when I turn up resonance, I basically have to turn up the volume parallelly, otherwise I barely hear anything. Especially in combination with the filter. I have recorded a quick demo to show what I mean. Near the end with filter+reso at 12, the pattern is barely audible anymore, so I feel like I can't modulate them without losing too much volume. th-cam.com/video/m319zImXlsw/w-d-xo.html Is this regular behavior? Do most synths work like this? Or is my unit faulty? Really appreciate your help! Cheers
Kevin, first thank you for the kind words :) This volume reduction you experience when increasing the resonance is fairly typical of analog filters. I do not claim to be a master of the details, or on how the Crave itself is doing this, but I believe it has to do with how the resonance is actually created (this article may be helpful: www.soundonsound.com/techniques/responses-resonance) . Some manufacturers may tie an increase in signal gain to the resonance knob, so that the volume dampening effect is diminished; some VSTs allow you to increase gain in the filter section for a similar effect. I first discovered this on my Minilogue - I found the resonance knob to be essentially useless because it quickly killed the output volume and I really had to crank the gain on my mixer, with all the noise that brings with it. I didn't find the Crave's to be as destructive, but maybe I've just learned to temper my use of the resonance knob :)
@@music-with-eric Thanks again for the detailed response! I'll look into the topic and see if I can work around that, or I'll just have to get used to increasing gain when using resonance. And I'll look into buying the Behringer TD3, from what I've heard it doesn't really have this issue, and I think it'd make a nice addition to the Crave. Looking forward to your upcoming content!
@@MrJohnson91 I would like to add that this doesn't happen with all analog filters or at least not in the same way. For the Moog Ladder filter which the Crave replicates the behaviour you see in the Crave is normal, resonance up, volume down. If you have a state variable filter the opposite thing can happen: I have a module where the volume gets louder when the resonance increases, so much that I have to be careful not to overpower other signals in the mix. Other manufacturers of state variable filters might tame that effect and turn down the volume as the resonance increases, but this will make the signal sound thinner since that will mainly turn down the bass. Pros and cons. This is just how these particular analog circuits work and you get used to it. You can also get digital filters in module form that wouldn't behave in this way, but there are only very few of them since they don't make too much sense in comparison to analog- There is the Vult freak or the Tip Top z-dsp Bat stuff for example? Always be careful not to overload the inputs of the Crave if you put the return signals from those filters through the Crave Mixer. I tend to use an external mixer / attenuverter module to stay on the safe side.
Hi Eric, first to all, thank you very much for the videos, they are very helpful. I have a question about the sequencer that i donut know if it happens to someone else. When i turn it on and hit play the note sounds in two beats. It also happens to me when i record a pattern and change the pattern or bank, when i return it the recorded sequence it sounds in two beats, do you know what happens? Thank so much!! th-cam.com/video/uhu5ivMSyHY/w-d-xo.html
There is swing enabled in this pattern you sent. While it's playing, hold shift and turn the tempo knob fully left; the rhythm should even out. If you then save the pattern, the swing will not return.
Thank you for this guide, excellent, calm and logically explained. It helps me a lot in the beginning with my work at Crave 🙏
These are wonderful. Super helpful. You inspired me to pull the trigger on the Crave. They are getting difficult to find at a good price. This is the perfect instrument and series to be entitled - Introduction to Modular synthesis. Having a MAT myself (Masters in Teaching), I can only accolade your brilliant and clear teaching style. Bravo and again, thanks kindly.
Behringer Just made a HUUUUUUGE price drop, now now NOW is the time to get en all! 🎉
your videos are just great please do more of them and everyone who wants to have a Crave. wants to see more of them. this synthesizer is just great and wonderful to start with this instument.
That was intense! Thank you so much for these superb tutorials man. That sequencer is (was?) an enigma
Thanks so much man this was very helpful I was able watch all the videos in a row and didn't get irritated and actually enjoyed it,great job!
I have a lot of synths ,but never have I seen such a synth with so much “palava”. You can get good sounds out of it but ,the sequencer,oh boy. Thanks for the tutorials.
Right - the sequencer is not intuitive at all and the lack of a display makes it worse.
Can't wait for 1) the Behringer Edge and 2) your tutorials for it to come out. Two potentially great things that aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
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@@АлексейЧелябинск-к6в me too
Me three.
Fantastic videos.
Thanks for the great and helpful tutorials, i watch them all ! I wish Behringer could update the firmware with more handy possibilities in the sequencer. Pattern chaining programing, or at least a more handy way to chain patterns in live mode.. Beside this, great synth!
Hola, quiero darte la gracias por estos tutoriales. Queria preguntarte si el secuenciador tiene algun modo aleatorio como tiene el Mother 32. Digamos que ingreso 8 notas y puede ir hacia adelante o hacia atras, pero existe alguna forma de que suenen aleatoriamente saltando entre notas? por ejemplo para hacer musica generativa. Un saludo
El secuenciador mesmo no tiene cosa assim, mas puedes usar el Sample & Hold en el patchbay a Osc CV or Osc Mod para introducir aleatoriedad en las notas/entonación. También tienes la opción de reproducir tonos en orden aleatorio en el arpegiador.
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Okay Smarty Pants! What happens if your first step is C3, the second step is C4, and the third step is B3, AND you go into step mode, mute Step 2, and go to Step 1 and set your gate length to 8, the designation for a tie... does this piece of crap, cryptic sequencer tie Step 1 C4 all the way to Step 3 B3? MIND BLOWN!!! Cue that galaxy dude with exploding mind! haha!
I'll find out in about 15 minutes! My God!! I'll have to move to another pattern, create this test, then attempt to return to my cherished three day old, much belabored by ignorance, confusion, error and pizz poor UI design (but sustained by a persistent drive, aka metho/dextro something or other) to realize this minor background bass phrase... 32 step pattern that I've been working on and was just about to record to audio today...
The HORROR! Dare I risk actually attempting to leave then load this pattern from the cryptic depths of this tortuous sequencer's memory? My gonads re-enter my body at the thought, lit-er-al-ly, as the British would say, but not mean, but I, however, actually mean.
Thanks again for the help with this sequencer, Mr. Smarty Pants. I've watched several tutorials over the year, perhaps, I hope, only a year, that I've owned this craven Crave, and actually several before I even blurriedly purchased this synth in a Ko Vid haze late one feverish night on Amazon when something so bizarre and improbable occurred, something I've never experienced, seen, or even heard of in roughly 20 years on Amazon, I hesitate to mention it for fear of impugning further my marginal character, the only material evidence of this unbelievable scenario actually having occurred being the arrival of a package in Amazon dress several days later containing a materially apprehendable, working, apparently new, Behringer Crave synth in its original box, though with a power supply from another system or distant nation... where was I... I was lifted and lost by the Lydian as I recounted this unlikely experience...
Oh yes, I've watched several YT tutorials (and read the equally fragmented and equally damnable manual) over the year (only, hopefully) that I have owned this synth, and have not achieved basic proficiency, let alone creative mastery with this damnable sequencer.
But the Algo provides in abundance, and just when I needed it, I unserendipitously happened across your estimable Crave Tutorials, specifically covering the dastardly sequencer, and now my first masterwork (working title being: Tokyo Healthcare, perhaps the stupidest song title I've yet managed to embrace), the culmination and realization of a lifetime's music making learning, though ultimately best termed, "struggle," will be further bolstered by my enhanced capabilities on the Crave sequencer, and this "B" bassline will actually contend, in moments, against my darling "A" line, inspired and created by another budget, plasticy sounding bottom tier synth, though with both less but significantly more capabilities, but a SUBSTANTIALLY better, though still flawed, or more charitably put, unrealized, despite MANY significant software updates, which proved the viability and utility of owning and using digital synths in this golden age of analog synthesis, culminating in the venerable, though unfortunately final, when so much is left undone, unrealized, v.1.8, over its lifecycle which, through its market success, spawned several subsequent diverse music making devices, user interface.
Navigate THAT sentence, and you'll have a chance at navigating the uptempo portion of Tokyo Healthcare.
I simply wanted to say thank you for your accomplished work here on You Tube, specifically with the Crave, and even more specifically, the Crave's wanting sequencer... I'm seeing an Algo recommended video of yours covering the Crave's envelope, the thumbnail showing graph paper with hand drawn illustrations... undoubtedly further evidence of your generosity, capability and subtle artfulness in teaching, in sharing knowledge, a blessing at the core of human nature. Can't wait... though I'll have to, as the boast at the beginning of this comment that I'd reach experimental results in 15 minutes has fallen to my curse turned blessing in the technological age of music making, of the estimable Welsh-Irish propensity for excessive verbosity, wait till my late night 180 return to the Tubes, as I must enhance and record this "B" bassline for Tokyo Healthcare TODAY, as I lose my child tomorrow, and I imagine that will consume my day. Indeed, even the experiment of the muted tie will have to wait, so excessive I have been.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your videos! I've learned a lot.
I was wondering, is it possible to synch the Crave with a Volvca Bass? How can i do it?
Thank you again.
That's great news :) Some other folks have also been asking about sync with Volcas; I'll put it down as a topic for a future video.
@@music-with-eric I'm interested in syncing with a Volca beats
@@music-with-eric Thank you!
Hey Eric,
first of all thank you so much for these videos! You are like the Bob Ross of explaining synthezisers.
Since YT doesn't allow private messages anymore, I'm just gonna post this here. I don't know anyone who owns the Crave, so I thought maybe you could help me out:
I'm very happy with the Crave, but I'm bothered by the fact that turning up the resonance apperantly lowers the volume. The volume difference is so massive that when I turn up resonance, I basically have to turn up the volume parallelly, otherwise I barely hear anything. Especially in combination with the filter.
I have recorded a quick demo to show what I mean. Near the end with filter+reso at 12, the pattern is barely audible anymore, so I feel like I can't modulate them without losing too much volume.
th-cam.com/video/m319zImXlsw/w-d-xo.html
Is this regular behavior? Do most synths work like this? Or is my unit faulty?
Really appreciate your help!
Cheers
Kevin, first thank you for the kind words :)
This volume reduction you experience when increasing the resonance is fairly typical of analog filters. I do not claim to be a master of the details, or on how the Crave itself is doing this, but I believe it has to do with how the resonance is actually created (this article may be helpful: www.soundonsound.com/techniques/responses-resonance) . Some manufacturers may tie an increase in signal gain to the resonance knob, so that the volume dampening effect is diminished; some VSTs allow you to increase gain in the filter section for a similar effect. I first discovered this on my Minilogue - I found the resonance knob to be essentially useless because it quickly killed the output volume and I really had to crank the gain on my mixer, with all the noise that brings with it. I didn't find the Crave's to be as destructive, but maybe I've just learned to temper my use of the resonance knob :)
@@music-with-eric Thanks again for the detailed response! I'll look into the topic and see if I can work around that, or I'll just have to get used to increasing gain when using resonance. And I'll look into buying the Behringer TD3, from what I've heard it doesn't really have this issue, and I think it'd make a nice addition to the Crave.
Looking forward to your upcoming content!
@@MrJohnson91 I would like to add that this doesn't happen with all analog filters or at least not in the same way. For the Moog Ladder filter which the Crave replicates the behaviour you see in the Crave is normal, resonance up, volume down. If you have a state variable filter the opposite thing can happen: I have a module where the volume gets louder when the resonance increases, so much that I have to be careful not to overpower other signals in the mix. Other manufacturers of state variable filters might tame that effect and turn down the volume as the resonance increases, but this will make the signal sound thinner since that will mainly turn down the bass. Pros and cons. This is just how these particular analog circuits work and you get used to it. You can also get digital filters in module form that wouldn't behave in this way, but there are only very few of them since they don't make too much sense in comparison to analog- There is the Vult freak or the Tip Top z-dsp Bat stuff for example? Always be careful not to overload the inputs of the Crave if you put the return signals from those filters through the Crave Mixer. I tend to use an external mixer / attenuverter module to stay on the safe side.
Hi Eric, first to all, thank you very much for the videos, they are very helpful.
I have a question about the sequencer that i donut know if it happens to someone else.
When i turn it on and hit play the note sounds in two beats. It also happens to me when i record a pattern and change the pattern or bank, when i return it the recorded sequence it sounds in two beats, do you know what happens?
Thank so much!!
th-cam.com/video/uhu5ivMSyHY/w-d-xo.html
There is swing enabled in this pattern you sent. While it's playing, hold shift and turn the tempo knob fully left; the rhythm should even out. If you then save the pattern, the swing will not return.
@@music-with-eric Bingoooo!!! I Would never have found it. Than you very much again for the help you give us and the time you dedicate to us 🙏🏻🙌
Do you have the EDGE as well Eric? I'm hoping you take us on another learning journey with that one as well 😂 This is like synth ASMR.
Unfortunately not!
@@music-with-eric Any plans on getting one? Behringer should send you one for free 😅