Behringer Crave Tutorial #2 - MIDI DIN

in our previous video I mentioned that I would show you how to connect a

midi

keyboard to this, we went for the most basic initial installation we could, in the last one adding a

midi

keyboard is barely more complicated, what you will need is a 5 pin din midi cable and you will take your midi keyboard and one end goes out of the keyboard, the other end goes into the midi input of your

behringer

and then once you turn on your keyboard, sorry, you should have the correct function. Well, now let's say you didn't get the show right away.

The first thing you need to make sure is that your midi keyboard is transmitting on the same channel as it receives your request. If you go to the quick start guide you will see on the page. 15 you have an explanation of these DIP switches and these refer to the midi channel that your yearning expects to hear midi information on and therefore if they are all set to the low position it is heard on channel one those switches are here , okay, so here are your DIP switches one, two, three, four and they are all set right now, so everyone is listening to channel one, if I turn up the first one, okay, they are harder to press according to the manual, now this is playing on channel 2.

Now, if I go back to my keyboard, which is transmitting on channel 1 on a key step, it's very easy. I can press Shift and you'll see it tells you which midi channel you're selecting, so now this is being sent on channel one and I'm not getting any sound, we know the Crave is working, but if I select channel two, it's now being sent on the same channel as receiving and listening, so I'll set it back to channel one. I will be back. this to channel one and now everything talks to each other perfectly well. The ability to configure the midi channel is important if you're going to control multiple devices from a single keyboard, so if you had another synth here it could be sending signals. channel one to this and signals on channel two to another or if you are operating multiple midi devices from your computer, you can configure your daw to transmit signals to this while keeping things on channel 2 to something else while sending channel 10 signals to your drum machine, things like that, but anyway this is how you can configure the usb hardware.

Sorry, midi hardware. The next thing I was going to say is that this also accepts midi over usb, so if you connect this to your computer just using a usb. Cable from your computer's USB A output to USB B input. This one will also accept MIDI that way, so you won't have to use a DIN cable if you don't have an audio interface that has MIDI in or out. and just a couple more things about setup that I didn't mention last time when you use the phone jack here. Be careful with the volume knob. When I plug in headphones, I find that this knob adds a lot of volume very quickly so I can have it. completely at zero, I plug in my headphones and I can turn them so much, it's a 64 turn, I don't know and suddenly it's loud enough and anything beyond that will hurt your ears so be careful when using the phone jack.

Also try not to have the headphones on when you turn on the power, you will hear a loud pop even if the volume is all the way down to zero, that's okay and then we talked about something else about having an initial state for your synth, so we turned all our knobs , you know, I'm like, oh, it'll turn everything down to zero, set the volume and it turns everything down to zero, so now I can play, oh, there's no volume, this is an easy mistake that I've made. I've done it many times when I buy a new synth and I'm learning what the different knobs do.

If I'm not paying attention, I turn down the volume on things I'm not supposed to turn down and in this case I've turned down the filter. cutting all the way down, we're going to talk about cutting in a moment, but if I turn it all the way down, it cuts all the sound, so the cut knob has to be up and the other one is the sustain knob. It refers to the level at which your synth holds a tone, holds a volume, and if it's all the way down, it's extremely low, you can't hear anything, so we have to turn it up so the sound stays.

You're not getting any sounds from your instrument, make sure that when you set everything to zero you didn't turn off the sustain level and didn't cut off all the sounds with the filter. Now let's say you turn on your synthesizer. and it's making a sound and you can't stop it. There are two ways to deal with that on this instrument as well. You don't have to always press a key. There are two ways to make your instrument sound without you playing anything. The easiest. one is here, this toggle switch that says vca mode right now is set to envelope, which is this section, but if I turn it on now it just keeps one tone, it will contain the last message I received, turn it off still.

Remember I was playing a D flat here, turn it on. The other way you could do it is to hold down the synthesis of the sequencer section and then press a key, so if for some reason the instrument sounds and you can't figure out why. you're not touching anything, check those two places where bcl mode is set to about and you don't have the hold button on