[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Martynas, this is indeed a very helpful find. Thank you very much for posting it here! I have not experienced this before, but I´m sure there will be future users that will profit from your experiences.

So, is everything working for you now? I just remembered, some users have also reported success using the Elektron C6 software for flashing the firmware, this is both Mac & PC. I haven´t deeply looked into it yet though, as MidiOx/SysexLibrarian always worked without a hassle here.

[ChristianKeymaster]

Good advice from alien here.
The age of the BCR should not matter, except if there was a fault in the device somehow. The oldest BCR we´ve got here for testing is from 2004 and it works great!

Another tip is to upload the firmware twice in a row if there´s trouble with the first upload (with restarting the device inbetween).

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi prndrsn,

figuring out this stuff is always a challenge, especially when your setup gets bigger and bigger. I have some friends getting headaches over this who are into electronic music for 10+ years. Finding the right workflow for jamming, and then also being able to record on the spot if something great comes up, using the sequencers/synths without the computer to not have to look at a screen, but then again with a computer for recording or adding some instruments etc etc. Lots of usecases!

It´s a bit hard for me to go into specifics as I don´t have experience with Reason and don´t know how it´s Midi routing capabilities work in detail.

That said, I think alien´s advice is excellent for the general setup and also for using a midi patchbay for more complex and flexible setups.

Let us know ow it works out for you!

i wish we could edit messages past 5 minutes here

I´ve just changed the Forum editing capabilities to two hours from the initial post.

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Filippo,
thanks for your question!

Yes it´s possible to sync the Zaquencer via Midi Clock to a master DAW. The DAW needs to be able to send Midi Clock. Most DAWs are able to do this and we have tested it for example with Ableton Live. The Zaquencer can be master or slave. As slave it will be tightly locked to the master BPM, so whatever this is, the Zaquencer will follow. We´ve done extensive measurements to ensure the timing is stable and had only good reports about using external sync by our users so far.

USB on the BCR2000 is disabled when using the Zaquencer, so it´s necessary to use a Midi Interface. Please note that some extremely cheap Midi interfaces might introduce timing delays and jitter, so it´s recommended to use a quality, namebrand interface.

Please try out everything with the free Zaquencer demo to ensure the timing works great for you too. External clock and slave mode can be tested as part of the demo (see this thread above).

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Best,
Christian

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Hi Anoop,
thanks for submitting your feature request. At the moment the Zaquencer has the ability to trigger ratcheting live (called “Note Repeat” in Zaquencer), but not to program ist as part of the sequence.

This has been one of the first Feature Requests on this forum with a lot of supporters.
Please also see this thread:
https://zaqaudio.com/forums/topic/ratcheting-per-step-ratcheting-like-tangerine-dream-music
I´ll take your request as a +1.

Regarding the existing Note Repeat feature, there is a tutorial video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iPnBkS5Vk

Cheers!

[ChristianKeymaster]

Thanks for chiming in, Martin!
Oops sorry my bad. The most recent update is 1.02 and that is the one that fixes the ghost encoders. To not further confuse, I´ll edit my post above to show 1.02.

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[ChristianKeymaster]

To anyone following this topic, one user has reported success with dropping in these encoders as substitute: http://de.rs-online.com/web/p/product/7295804/?grossPrice=Y&cm_mmc=DE

He said that they are rasterized, which is not so nice, but in practice they work for him.
Also with this lead one might be able to find non-reasterized encoders as well.

Regarding the ghost encoder problem mentioned by Paolo, it should have been fixed with update 1.02. Please let me know if the update shouldn´t have fixed ghost editing for you.

Weirdly acting Buttons are most likely connected to the multiplexer hardware error. Please see this page for a possible fix:
http://ricardo-dias.com/2013/07/19/repairing-a-behringer-bcf2000/

• This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by  Christian.

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hello ViaCirca,
uploading the original Behringer Firmware over SysEx works exactly like uploading the Zaquencer (press Store+Learn/Load at startup to put it into bootloader mode, then send firmware over SysEx). Note that once you´ve uploaded the original firmware, you either have to create a new controller mapping or upload an existing controller preset via SysEx (see BCR manual for that). This is because the flash presets get overwritten in both directions.

Another note: if you´ve written something in the Presets of the Behringer firmware and want to go back to the Zaquencer a Zaquencer flash reinit is recommended. In some circumstances the Zaquencer will detect it and trigger the flash reinit automatically. If not, you should do it manually by holding PAGE < (the left Page button) and STOP/PLAY during turning on the BCR. If the init is omitted, you could get garbled pattern info in the flash, possibly leading to all sorts of weird behaviour.

The original Firmware can be found at http://www.behringerdownload.de/B-Control_download/bcr2000_1-10.zip

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Rich,
thanks for posting your question!
I think I understand what you mean and I have a couple of ideas.

First of all, what you describe as “song” I think is a “pattern” in Zaquencer-manual-terms, so basically a collection of 4 tracks.
So, when you load a pattern, all 4 tracks change at once, which is apparently not ideal for you.

I have two suggestions:
- you could prepare the patterns, so that they only differ in one loop, so that when loading a pattern only one of the 4 tracks will be different to the pattern before
- you could use the “copy track” function in the load menu to load individual tracks from different patterns. this works immediately and some people already reported to like that function when jamming/playing live on the Zaquencer. Please see the manual P.23 for the track copying description. Also note that this will not immediately change the Flash content, so to make it permanent after track loading you´d have to store the pattern again. This seems to be good as well for playing live, as you won´t be overwriting your patterns by doing that, just playing them back.

Please let me know if you have additional questions or if this works out for you!

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Jeremy,
I´ve just checked this here and cannot reproduce the problem. Inst 1 plays fine on every track. Have you checked the individual instrument mutes?

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi and thanks for sharing your feature wish!
Unfortunately, individual drum velocities are beyond the current possibilities of the Zaquencer. Please also see this thread for an explanation:
https://zaqaudio.com/forums/topic/adjustable-velocity-per-drum-instrument

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Jeremy,
sorry your forum entry did not come to my attention until now.

Ok, I understand the problem, instrument 1 does not play on the 3rd track.
To my knowledge there is no known bug at the moment.

Just to make sure you know this feature, there are track mutes, as well as instrument mutes. That means, an instrument can still be muted, even when the track is not.
Instrument mutes are the two button rows on the top left. If the first button is lit in mixer mode that would mean instrument 1 is muted.

I will try to reproduce it the next days, please keep me posted here if you make more observations.

Cheers!

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi Jeff, thanks for getting in touch by mail as well. I´ve just sent you your corrected Authorization Info. Let me know if that fixed it!

[ChristianKeymaster]

Nice one!

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Is a Genoqs feeling a good thing or a bad thing?
Never used one before.

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