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Good job guys!
Anyway – now you’re making me unsure that I bought the “wrong” ones?! Mine are 22mm shafts (or 20mm if I saw it correctly in the picture TRIPLEX sent to me).What’s the correct length then?
F.
Hi Chris,
thanks for “x-posting” for me
I’d done it after I got them working… anyway, yes: I ordered a couple of those push-encoders (this time those are PUSH for real!). I’ll get them I think in 1 or 2 weeks, but not because of TRIPLEX’s “laziness” or whatsoever. I simply need to go over to Germany and pick them up at a friend’s house, because I live in Switzerland and it’d been too expensive to ship over here.
Rest assured that I’ll report back if they really fit our beloved BCRs! If I’d forget about it, please get back and ask me… I’m willing to help here for sure!BR,
F.Hi Chris,
Triplex is still waiting for the “test item” to be delivered. I’ll report back as soon as they get me some results/feedback.I’m no electronics engineer or whatsoever, so I cannot answer your question about the rasterized encoders. Nevertheless: if they’re rasterized, who should care about?
F.
Hi everybody.
I just want to share my experience regarding replacement parts.
In particular, my BCR2000 has some rotary pots in the upper/first row which act strange: they do not change parameters well, they’re unresponsive at most times.
Now, I seeked by myself some officiel Behringer replacement vendor and found TRIPLEX Service GmbH in Germany.
I asked them for replacement of the push-encoders, they told me that they got those items for like under 3 €/piece and I replied to them, if those are really the ones with the push function. They told me that, yes, those are exactly the ones I was asking for in my first email.
OK – I ordered 4 of them, received them, unpacked them… and had to find out that those weren’t the “push” ones!!!
Now they told me that they might have found the right component, but it costs like over 5 €/piece. I asked them kindly to please first of all check if those really have the “push” function (as they didn’t have on stock). I’m waiting for a reply so far…Now, as far as I can see from the link to RS components, the rasterized potentiometer is also the “non-push” one, correct? If yes, for everybody seeking for the “non-push” rotary potentiometers, TRIPLEX Service GmbH does have the correct and right ones!!! I have 4 pcs. spare now, which I’d eventually sell to somebody in need of them (same price as I paid to TRIPLEX of course!).
The encoder is: VE-ED1214B/D24/L30/WO/V6 (there’s also a part number, which I believe is internal to TRIPLEX: Y32-30030-04289).
Finally, I got to ask: has anybody been successful by finding the right PUSH-encoder replacement parts? If yes, please share!
Thanks,
Flavio.Hi Alien Brain… I think here’s the discussion you might want to look at:
https://zaqaudio.com/forums/topic/knobs-replacement
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Christian – you’re way too kind in supporting users here, who (like me) don’t RTFM thoroughly!
Thanks! You really got it to the point! This software ROCKS!BR,
Flavio.Hi Christian,
I need to chime in again here…
I’m quite happy with the quantize feature as I now configured it. BUT! And there’s always a lurking “BUT” somewhere This “lower” quantize is now bad for enabling/disabling the single drum instruments – you know what I mean? I want to be able to enable/disable each single drum instrument whenever I want to, for example more than once in the same bar… well, now it’s not possible because of the lower quantization. When I enable/disable a drum instrument, it waits until the start of the new bar.
Thus, my question (which might be put on the wishlist as well): is it possible to have the quantize feature not interfere with drum instrument “enable/disable” (or call it “mute/unmute” as you wish)?
Thanks for your efforts in here!
BR,
Flavio.Hi Christian.
That was the “problem”!
I now set the Quantize value to “1b” and it works as I want it to.
Thanks!
F.Hi Christian,
I want to chime in here because I’m experiencig one behavior you’re mentioning above, or at least a part of it: “patterns get reset”!
I have two identical patterns (I copied #2 to #3) on the same “pattern page”. When I switch from 2 to 3 or viceversa, the pattern starts from the very beginning. This is really annoying, but maybe it’s a default behavior or it can be configured or it simply is on your “to do list”. Can you tell me more about this? I would like to have pattern change happening at the end of the pattern, without resetting to the beginning. In fact, like all TR-sequencers do…
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Flavio.Hi Christian.
Thanks a lot for your time and efforts.
I’ll try to get one asap!
F.Hi Christian,
thanks for chiming in, really appreciate it.
Of course, thanks again as well to alien_brain I read that post about autosave function, thanks. So, in the long run, do we need to think about having to replace somewhen the memory chip(s)?
Or will this never happen, as the hardware itself (rotary pots and buttons) will be dead before the chips?A last question: how’s the license related to the owner or hardware? I mean, if I buy a user BCR2000 and install Zaquencer on it, what happens when this piece of hardware will be dead? Will I lose the Zaquencer license and thus will need to buy another one?
Thanks and regards,
Flavio.Hi again.
Thanks for your kind explanations… I do see the difference in terms of “durability” and of course in terms of costs: I can get for less than 100 Euros a BCR2000 and then I just need to buy the Zaquencer Firmare (eventually the overlays as well, as they seem to come handy!).
Actually I’m sequencing my drums with an “MaM SQ16″ which I kinda have learned in a few sessions (at least what matters the most to me, of course).
I had a MAQ 16/3 (Doepfer Hardware), but it was unsatisfying, thus I sold it.
I’m looking out to the Cirklon, but it’s waaaaaaay to expensive for me.
Then I found out about Seq12 being now built and sold from Mode Machines – 1200 Euros for 12 Tracks (each of 16 steps), chord and drum tracks as well. That could be my final destination, but in the meantime I wonder if the Zaquencer will make me happy, as it “only” has 4 tracks available simultaneously.
I’ll give it a try!
Thanks so far!
F.Good good good!
It’s getting interesting!
Live editing with auto-save would be very interesting: do you think this might come in some future firmware release? Has this feature eventually already been added to the “wishlist” or “feature request” list?Total of four tracks, correct? And each track can be maximum 32 steps, correct?
Is there a dedicated drum track, or are all 4 tracks the same (which means I can choose if it’s a drum, a mono or a chord track)?I’m still a bit confused about “track” and “pattern”, can you help understand the difference?
Thanks!
F.Ok that’s a good start!
Now another question: is live pattern editing possible? I mean, can I edit the running pattern? In other words, I hope there is no play and edit modes as on Roland TR drum machines…
Ah, last but not least: how many rows and how long are they? I mean, I can have 32 steps pattern length, or 2×16 or 4×8: would this mean that with 1×32 I would have only one big pattern and one row?
Thanks,
F.