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Behringer CRAVE: Review, tutorial and patch ideas

Good Sunday!

I've had a pre-release version of Behringer's Crave on loan this week and here's my full review.

Even though it has an original look and name, once I dug in I found it's "heavily inspired" by Moog's Mother-32 from a workflow, patch bay and sequencing perspective, though Crave is desktop only and cannot be mounted in a Eurorack case.

To their credit, Behringer have added a few new and interesting features, organized the layout quite nicely, and at $200, Crave is quite a compelling instrument. 

Still, as I was making this video I could not avoid a strong feeling of deja vu in relation to my good old Mother-32 review... so unavoidably, there are similarities in the review as well, though I tried to keep it fresh and not repeat myself in the patch ideas section...

I try to make all my reviews as beginner friendly as possible, so if you're not experienced with patching, there are quite a few patch ideas at the end of the video including feedback, FM and paraphonic "tricks", so hopefully you'll find value in this video from that perspective as well.

All my best,

Ziv (cloning old reviews on youtube as "Loopop")


Behringer CRAVE: Review, tutorial and patch ideas

Comments

Thanks for the reply. Turns out it wasn't the firmware, but rather the Synth Tool itself that was updated. There is a now more straightforward set of choices for Master/Slave clocking. But I don't think they kept the tempo knob as a subdivider.

Hey Eric Unfortunately I returned the Crave so I can't check this. It may be anything from a problem in Crave's firmware to indeed mismatched MIDI settings - sorry I can't help, but thanks for your support!

Brand new patron here. I just love these videos! You are filling an incredible niche in this growing community. You inspired me to get a Crave, and now I'm diving headfirst into VCV Rack. But I just obtained a Keystep and for the life of me I cannot get the Crave to sync to the Keystep's master clock either through MIDI or Sync out to CV Tempo in (or start/stop with Keystep). I've been through lots of options both in B Synth Tool and A MIDI Center. Everything else works, but I can't do the precise M32 sequence extending you describe in another video. Does this have something to do with MIDI channels and filtering? I'm still a newbie in this realm. Thoughts?


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