Eric, I cannot thank you enough for the measured pace and thoughtful approach to these tutorials. I was struggling to make sense of the sequencers features and quirkiness, but your guidance has been a calming reassurance along the way for this beginner. All the best to you.
Man thank you so much for this Crave Serie Tuto One of the complete and best videos out there for this synth. I will recomand it for sure for every new crave user. The best thanks
Best explanation ever, this series could act as a complete subtractive synthesis course. The way you explain how an envelope or an LFO or a filter works is simply unique and super comprehensible. Thanks!!
Really fun! Thanks so much. The end? Nooooooo! Crave+Pocket Operator or Crave + Bastl Kastle 1.5 or Crave + Bastl Drum or Crave + Korg NTS-1... You can't stop now... You are the undisputed Obewan Canobi of the Crave. You are a Crave Jedi Master!
I bought my crave a few month ago, walked through 1 to 14 - today. I knew a bit and I learned a lot! I have to watch again some chapters because it was too much information at a time. Very well explained and very helpful! Thank you!
I just ordered my new Crave and waiting for it to arrive. I've binge watched all this series up to #14. Such a thorough and comprehensive guide to the Crave. I hope you also have the Edge and have covered that one as well. That will likely be my next purchase to pair with the Crave. Thanks so much. You've easily earned a new subscriber here.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! Your videos have tremendous value! Amazing explanation and really easy to follow ❤🙌I just baught Crave as my first synth, and had no idea what to do with it, after your videos, I feel a lot more confident and ready to explore different sounds!🙏
@@music-with-eric Hey Eric, two of the notes on my crave step ladder have mysteriously dropped in volume. Please help me. Thank You. I further elaborated on this elsewhere in your comments section. This is totally ruining all my sequences. What could have caused this? EMI or RFI interference perhaps? I don't know. I have it plugged into a very good power conditioner surge protector. Is there a way I could turn the volume back up?
I just dont have words to thank you! leaving a comment here just to let you know that you helped me a lot in exploring even more the Crave, since the manual doesnt actually covers with the depth that you are showing in these videos. Huge thanks from Brazil.
I just unpacked my Crave the other day and your videos have been suuuuper helpful, thank you so much for taking time to share your knowledge with the community! I purchased a Neutron as well couple of weeks ago and I got somewhat frustrated bc there are simply wayyy to many options for somebody who's just getting familiar with synthesis. Would have been wiser to start out with the Crave and work my way up. Yet you mentioned the Neutron at one point in one of your videos. I'd LOVE to see videos as good and helpful on the Neutron or even how to send the Crave's sound through the Neutron (or vice versa) to create awesome sounds.
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!
A reminder for the 6th mode which is sounds like you described its same in 5th. Its starting on higher octave and going downwards then its playing with same order in lower one. Thank you for the great content:)
Eric thank you so much. I have 'intuit-ed' my way around the Crave with the manual for more than a year, but your explanations have been clear and thorough. This series has taught me and it seems others so much. Please can you do the same with the Edge, when it finally arrives?
Good stuff Eric, this was super helpful. I'd indeed love to see your take on syncing the Crave up to other things (how does it take clock from a DAW, or other sequencer, how does it send clock (you touched on that briefly), when does it send clock and so on)
just binged on all the crave episodes on your channel. very well done and thorough. maybe a video on integration with some basic rack stuff or use with effect pedals?
Hello, congratulations for the tutorial and thank you very much....however, I would like to leave here a challenge was to carry out a tutorial on how to send/receive the sound signal in general from the crave (not just how to use the lfos and the multi) to another semi model
If you imagine the ports on the other device work similarly to those on the Crave, and the voltage tolerances line up, just run a cable and see what happens! (I'm not an electrician, don't blow up your stuff and blame me!)
Thank you man! I’ve enjoyed and learned from each video. I still have a weirdness going on when I synch with midi or Tempo in where the first note seems to delay on first step or add an extra step. How about a video showing options for external clock from midi or CV/tempo and vice versa?
I'm experiencing that same instability in preparing my "Crave + Volca" videos. Whenever I change the clock rate or even the tempo knob it takes a moment for the volca to figure out what I want, but once it settles down it's fine - until the next change, that is. In its current state, that's not great for live performance.
Hey, lovely videos. Really thorough. I was wondering if the 4th version of the arp is really random. When I arpeggiate notes of the C major and let the eight of them in a loop with the arpeggiator in this mode it plays a very predictable, tough more articulate, pattern. So I guess you could use it as a random arp if you play say 13 harmonically unrelated pitches, but it still plays a simple pattern. Haven't updated the firmware still, so this might have changed in the meantime. Just saying, try it out with 8 notes from the same scale, and you'll easily notice the pattern it plays.
Thanks for the great videos! May be you know if there is a way to transpose an arpeggio up or down an interval by pressing on the keyboard like it is done in the sequencer? Thanks in advance!
Eric, your video lessons on the Crave are really excellent and helpful. You have a great communication and teaching style and really put things straight forward and accessible. I am really enjoying this instrument and getting more out of it all the time, and your lessons have really helped. One question about the apreggiator, though. In your video it seems that as soon as you go into the apreggiator mode you are able to apregiate one note by itself. My Crave won’t do this. I need at least two notes for the apreggiator to work. How do you get yours to work on only one note? Cheers! And thanks!
Hi again, I’ve discovered that it will play a single key when in arp patters 5-8, but not in patterns 1-4. I guess that’s what I was missing, and I assume that’s the way this synth is designed. Such a great sounding little machine. Thanks again for your awesome video lessons. I know that you put some time into them. Very well done and thoughtfully clear.
Your tuts are very helpfull. Thanks. I have two craves. I use them dawless (no software). Unfortunately, by one of them the arpp. doenst work (anymore?). Do you have a quick reset tip for that problem? I'm curious. Thank you!
Hi Eric. I just finished the Crave series for the second time. Very excellent tutorial! I've noticed you haven't posted anything in the last two years. You still with us?
Yep, still here replying to questions and comments! Haven't felt the need to add anything to the series yet, though. I'm not really interested in repeating much of the same info on another synth, so I'd have to do something really different like FM - which I love, but I'm not sure I could do it justice.
Glad to hear it! Re: FM - just some words of encouragement: you are an excellent teacher, and if you know the subject well, it would be an excellent tutorial I'm sure. In your prep, you would discover along the way how to make it another gem.
I intentionally stopped short of connecting to software of any kind (in fact I barely mention the SynthTribe software!) because the variations on operating systems, DAWs, and even version numbers of the same DAW are just too numerous to handle. I really wanted to keep it focused on the Crave itself. Even my attempts to suggest connecting it to one other (simple!) piece of gear, the Volca Bass, increased the complexity seemingly exponentially.
Loving your tutorials! Quick question - once you have an arp pattern playing, is it possible to change the pitch of it? In another demo (not this one) I have seen it, but it wasn't explained. If I hit another key on the keyboard the arp just stops. Can't seem to find this anywhere.
Do you know how to change rate of arp when crave is synced to the volca? Tempo knob seems doing nothing... Or simply tell me how do you connect volca to crave, please.
Hey Eric, I desperately need your help. I am having an absolute nervous breakdown. I just started to get into this synthesizer thing. I am a practicing guitarist composer who just managed to save his first sequence pattern. I thought wow this is fantastic, but, now I want to toss the thing out a window. Why have the last fifteen notes dropped in volume? Page two and four. Seven in two and all eight in four. They were all the same volume as the first seventeen notes when I had originally saved them. I had played them back many times before. What caused this glitch. Maybe you don't know, but, could you tell me how to fix it? Is there a way for me to even the volume of the two offending notes, seven on pg 2 and 8 on pg 3? Shouldn't all the notes have stayed even with each other? Is this crave defective. This was my first synth ever and I fell really hurt.
Is this happening on every sequence, or just the one? You might try resetting the sequence (shift+reset+pattern) and recording 32 steps of just a single pitch, with no other information, to see if the volume behavior persists. Also worth checking - is your LFO on a square wave, very slow, that could be going back and forth between either a high/low cutoff frequency or modulating the amplitude? The fact that it seems to be evenly divided across the sequence suggests that might be possible, but if you change the sequence tempo you'll quickly see if that's the issue. If you didn't record anything strange and there's nothing patched or otherwise self-altering, there could be a defect. Unfortunately, I can't replicate that problem on my instrument, so I'm really just guessing.
@@music-with-eric Thanks for the help. The VCF settings were moved out of place since I originally recorded it. This I'm pretty sure changed the tonal interaction between some of the notes giving a slight perceived volume difference, but not really. Long dB and compression lecture, (not going there now) Also leaving the unit warm up for 15 minutes as suggested in the manual helped. Since I wanted a certain desired effect I'm going to outboard gear and MPC ONE MIDI SYNC and automation manipulate it.
Hi Eric. I have a problem maybe you can help. When I press the arp button and then press one of the keys nothing happens. The yellow light doesn't flash. Do you know anything about this?
I would imagine so, but I haven't tried it. Make sure that you set the Crave's clock source to MIDI in either the Synthtribe software or using the button press combinations. I do have an SR-16 around here...
Hard to diagnose, but first things I check when that happens are the filter cutoff (make sure it's not all the way closed) and volume knob; also be sure a filter LFO isn't super slow and cutting things off before they have a chance to sound.
I'm sorry Eric but how do I reset ARP? Now when a Play Arp 'default mode' (Arp 1 touch) the arpeggiator continues to play and when a Play Arp in 'hold mode' (Arp 2 touch) the arpeggiator continues to play but for me it is possible to add notes... but the situation it is unclear, it is confusing. Can you explain how to erase what is stored in the ARP (in the 2 modes) and how to start again? Thank you
