Behringer CRAVE: Sequencer Walkthrough Demo and Tutorial 

You don´t have to use the combination SHIFT+RESET/ACCENT and GLIDE to input Ratchet. The combi is SHIFT and GLIDE.

Just got a Crave. This machine is intimidating. But your video helps A LOT! Thank you very much. I'm 51, but my autistic nephew loves retro music gear, and I buy them, learn how to use them properly & show him. Needless, he figures it out in 15 minutes. But, knowing how to use it is useful for me.

I enjoyed the entire video and the ending was the best part. I am buying this thing. I've been researching for months and i heard all i needed to hear in this video. Thank you

I will be coming back to this video multiple times when I finally get my hands on one of these beauties.. Cheers mate!

Thanks a million , very to the point video without flashy intro or crap before hand . Kudos to you Starsky Carr.

Thank you for taking the time to help us all who need it. Much appreciated

Really appreciate this video! I've owned this synth for a couple months and whenever I return to it after playing another synth, I'm always lost on how to use this. I've used this video a couple times to help me remember how to use this darn thing!

Another video that has pushed me closer to wanting one. All the complaints I've seen leveled at it are unforgiving of the Crave's price point. People either want to dismiss it due to the Behringer name or because it has a few flaws. But really... this is a perfect little box! Either, to add to an established collection of synth gear or as a way for a bedroom musicians to get a nice real synth sound into their music for not a lot of money.

I got a Crave for Xmas. This was a fantastic tutorial, and I'm looking forward to exploring it. Thank you!

I may be late but thanks so much for this tutorial! Not only is It funny and entertaining but It also opened up a whole new level of modulation for me! Before that i never knew how to use It, got frustranted and just used an external sequencer.. now i have a decent sequencer + a weird LFO-thingy.. coming from a Eurorack setup, this is also highly interesting for CV-sequencing, apart from the fact that you can modulate the tempo, play/stop, reset and hold.. its crazy man! Thank a million!!

Great job. This Crave is a beast for just creating a single short melody LOL its awesome. Thank you for your time and effort.

Thanks for posting this! EXTREMELY helpful to this Noob who needs a little help getting to the really useful bits.

Hi, I got my Crave last month. The machine is a special one but fantastic. I must practice and practice. Your tutorial is very informative. I learnes the Crave a bit better. Keep up.

Thanks for the in depth review on the sequencer. This video has been saved to my library for when mine arrives. Cheers 👍

Thank you for that. It was described so simply and practically that even I understood bloody nearly everything you said. Quite an achievement.

thank you Starsky, your tutorial helped me understand the sequencer

Hey, it's me again. I just pre-ordered it, hopefully I get it close to the holidays. Thanks for the video(s). It's going to be very interesting hooking it up to my Arturia Microbrute. Have a great upcoming holiday season. All the best... Cheers!

great tut! this is a lovely but complex synth, thanks for opening it up a bit

Great video! Very informative. I love the party images during the ratchets. Too funny!

Very useful and informative sequencer info here. Thank you!

Brilliant! thanks for these videos

you're videos are wicked mate thank you ! the behringer manuals are a bit vague in places, its a lot easier to watch this and make some notes until i remember the key presses. its a great little synth this one, your patch ideas helped open it up a lot more for me too. peace !

I’ve just got mine and this video is so useful, thanks for sharing 👍

Loving that. Yeah some of those sequences really make me happy.

Great video. Thanks for the help

LOL at the party picture. haha

thanks for this one... very helpful!

Good tutorial that new buyer of Crave definitily needed. When you laughing I'm laughing too, it's so contagious :)

great walkthrough dude thanks again !

Brilliant video, thank you, helped me a lot. Brilliant synth

Excellent video!! I know more are coming!

Think I'll be using it as a synth and sequencing externally, but will keep coming back to this video as eventually I will need to learn. Of course I have to get one first :-) Great video BTW.

Spot on tutelage! Concise, no BS how to “Git r Done” vid. MUCH appreciated 🥃

Thanks for the vid, gives me a chance to learn the ropes while mine is on pre-order.

This is awesome, thank you for the help.....now if I can just remember everything.....

Got mine coming shortly,,can't wait….

Thx for the info , I briefly managed some of this , but your tutorial helped polish my edges , very well explained cheers

Thank you for this, I couldn't figure out the sequencer ^^. I've been using ableton to control it

Thanks man, you made me buy the crave second hand 😂 very funny to watch and informative.

Greatest edit ever!

Mad props to you for helping folks decipher the Crave sequencer but the sequencer design itself is madness, the work of a madman, a Dr. Frankenstein who has created a monstrosity so complex and difficult to understand that the most ardent Universal Monster, synthesizer aficionado, would be hard preassed to embrace.

Noce video, thanks a lot, this was extremely useful!

This was super helpful, thank you!

God, this is so useful. Been trying to programme my Bodyssey for ages and almost gave up. Thanks Starsky.

This is so thoroughly helpful; thank you!

Super helpful mate thanks alot!

Thanks for this Tutorial

Thanks, great video and very helpfull :D

Really great help, thank you!

Just got my crave last week, this video is absolute mana from heaven, I would be lost without it, thanks Starsky Carr 👍🏻 and also the fact you're English means I can understand what the hell you're talking about 😂

'Its all in there, it makes sense once you've read it' hahah lesson kids, read the instructions. Great demo mate. Getting one of these bad boys very soon

Great video!

Finally, finally someone who really explains the assign sequencer stuff. Was much easier than i thought! The standard sequencer operation however, in spite of you demonstrating it really well, is pure horror. How can anyone in the 21st centure accept such a user interface from a synthesizer company? All in all, many thanks for this and your other videos, that really helped me out getting much more out of the Crave!

Thanks for the cool tutorial.

Yeh, typically a good idea to read manuals first. I read them as I await delivery. Helps get a step ahead

Finally, a sequencer more cryptic than the 303 and KPR-77 units. ~ got the K2 yesterday after watching your comparison video and *Limbic Bits* sound demo, - it's a great synth in it's own right.... but gotta say, the *crave* just feels like a *volca* version of the *mother-32* - though it's probably built better than both. ~

Very well and concisely explained. Thank you!

First demo is very impressive!

Really good ....thank you

Thanks for this :)

Hah! The rave pics during the ratchets are perfect. For a moment there I wasn't turning 40 this year :D

Great video i got the pro 1 ...thinking of the crave

Wow! thank you.

Thanks mate ;) love the menu too!! can't wait for the chain pattern update hahahaha

hahaha best video ever. love the party pic inserts :)

Great content. I found the manual pretty confusing. That was pretty good explanation. Thanks for sharing!

I died at the ratchet part😂

Very helpfull thanx m8

Got mine yesterday. Loving your videos. Such A POWERHOUSE this one. Can you do a patch for Drum and Bass. I am getting close but I bet you could do a killer one. Thanks AL

Hi. Please make a Behringer Pro-1 tutorial that carefully explains the mod section. Love your videos by the way!

👍be really handy vid when I get round to unboxing my crave 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Came here hoping the sequencer is the same as the oddy , glad i did ! Thanks mate 👍🏼

Good Job. Thx

Seen it... 10 times maybe now... Maybe more. The Ratchet is the pure gold dust mate! The rest is great too, but the Ratchet is pure gold.

On the ghost bleed triggers issue - upgrading the firmware fixes it. (Out of the box I had 1.0.5, upgraded to 1.1.6). The sequencer sure is tricky. Very 80's throwback programming! "Pages" seems to be at the root of much confusion. I'll be trying again following along to get it sorted in my brain. Thanks!

I am an idiot yet I learned how to work my new machine. Thank you.

In second 6 heard the accent. First like. Great tutorial! Second like. Stay save mate!

Thanks

great video and should stop me going mental !!!!!!!! thanks !!! TSA

Большое спасибо. Это ценно!

Great videos like always! Please help me with this one: How to bypass its sequencer, how to turn it off when sequencing it externally? (It doesn't work with blank pattern)

Fu*king FINALLY!!! Thx boss :P

Too many people turn their noses up at Behringer stuff but I think they're great at making affordable music gear. I'm mainly a guitarist and I have a couple of their guitar pedals, their larger form factor pedals, the Vintage Tube Monster and Vintage Tube Overdrive and they're great value. They also made a very good copy of ElectroHarmonix's Deluxe Memory Man. They also make decent guitar amps. I wouldn't mind getting something like this sequencer, and a drum machine but their 808 copy is a little limited for what I want, but if they made something like a copy of the Roland TR-8S with multiple kits on it then I'd probably buy one of them. As far as I'm concerned you can't beat Behringer for value for money, I know their stuff is made in China but most things are, and at the end of the day all their gear is designed in Germany, and that can't be a bad thing. 👍

Great stuff! But I'm confused in the editing part, you say that you're in step mode but the red and green lights tell me its in keyboard mode?( From 7mins 10 sec) Also... shift +reset+glide does ratchet same as shift +glide... reset doesn't change anything?

Thank you man I have been he Odyssey and this helped me out big time

Starsky, please do a side by side of all the Behringer monos and the bass station 2. I already decided on the BS2 but still would love to see and hesr a side by side

Hi there, as usual Great video, did skip certain parts as I have crave and already figured sequencer out apart little bits. I didn’t see backward playback tho but perhaps I skip that bit, I’m on my break at work. Couldn’t find anything in manual regarding backward seq playback but if I hold shift and then press play it does play backward.

Going to buy this to sequence my voyager, and I get a free synth with my sequencer 😝

Thanks for this. The sequencer is the main feature I'm interested in because it's 32 step and this is the first proper demo of it I've seen so I can be sure there are no major gotchas.

This sequencer design is almost exactly the same as the M32 one and many of button combinations are exactly the same. It's worthwhile to download that manual for a bit more in depth instructions and a few tutorials. There are some differences though, so you need to look at both manuals.

Relly informative. It's a bit sad that gost notes but there is a lot sound to explore on the crave.

This was dead helpful mate!! Reckon I’ve sort of got my head around it?? Question is….how best to connect up to a TD3 and an RD6 for some madness?!

Thanks for that Starsky - this really helps me to decide on a purchase. One question which might seem obvious but I'm a noob : is it possible to switch between different recorded sequences on the fly ? i.e. if you were playing live for example....

Like programming/composing on a 303 to make some acid, why do these sequencers always have to be so confusing 😅🤷‍♂️

I want to sample the Fuc* out of the first 2 seconds of this man. It's already a bangin' breakbeat track

Awesome video. 2 questions: Can you add swing/shuffle to sequences or use patch bay to create such ? Can you program sequences with non standard lengths.ie 6 or seven notes instead of 8/16/24/32 ?

Great tuto/demo, thx. Is it possible to use the sequencer on external gears via CV/Gate ? It could be great to sequence my 2600 or my Neutron with it... :)

I dont know if this has been widely discussed, but if you have the 1.0.6 firmware I strongly urge you to be careful about upgrading. The upgrade to 1.0.9 removed the clock-division functionality of the tempo knob and that is a Super important function for a sequencer, or it will be almost useless if you cannot change the quantize of your sequence. I was pretty close to returning my Crave when this function disappeared, and I was glad I had spent the extra to get it from Sweetwater because I was not sure if a direct return to Germany would be possible. I finally managed to use Midi-ox to transfer the sysex file of the downgrade. I had some conversations with "music tribe" tech support and they say they are going to have another try at fixing it in a later upgrade. Sorry...no firmware upgrades for me.

can the Crave's sequencer control other monophonic synths via cv and gate out jacks??

Is there a way to play back patterns "in time" i.e. when calling a new patterns can the Crave be made to wait to change patterns until the end of the current pattern, rather than changing instantly? I couldn't find a key combination to do this and was hoping that there may have been a firmware update since last year when it didn't seem possible. Any news/help/progress please?