{"id":152288,"date":"2026-02-15T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152288"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:34:50","slug":"berlin-school-synth-jam-with-the-zaquencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/02\/15\/berlin-school-synth-jam-with-the-zaquencer\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin School Synth Jam With The Zaquencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minimalism meets Berlin School MORPHOGENESIS Pt 1 feat  Zaquencer S1 Arp2600 Volca FM2 &amp; Beats\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GxTUHYEItGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Synthesist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@GaryHayes\">Gary P Hayes<\/a> shared this Berlin School style synth jam, <em>Morphogenesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The jam is performed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2014\/10\/17\/zaquencer-step-sequencer-firmware-for-bcr2000-now-available\/\">Zaquencer<\/a> &#8211; an unofficial firmware\u00a0for the <strong>Behringer BCR2000<\/strong> that turns it into a multi-channel step sequencer. Behringer has previously announced to bring back the BCR2000 in compact form &#8211; and to include Zaquencer as a factory option.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Hayes shared about the technical details:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;The 4 track Zaquencer&#8230;.is great for on the fly changes to step pitch (and whole track pitch), the wonderful step skip and mute, chords and inversions, ratchets, track step speed &amp; polymetric \/ rhythm, various midi ctrls per step (2 separate ones) and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here I try a few of these an hour after getting it plugged in &#8211; 3 tracks into my bARP (doing 3 oscs, noise and 2 sustains), FM2 doing tuned perc and the Roland S1 doing analog synth things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">An obvious influence in many places to minimalism, but really a great exercise for me to learn how to best use the Zaq.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Berlin School style synth jam was performed with Zaquencer &#8211; an unofficial firmware\u00a0for the Behringer BCR2000 that turns it into a multi-channel step sequencer.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/02\/15\/berlin-school-synth-jam-with-the-zaquencer\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berlin School Synth Jam With The Zaquencer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,45],"tags":[366,70,9146,29817],"class_list":["post-152288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-videos","category-sequencers","tag-behringer","tag-berlin-school","tag-sunday-synth-jam","tag-zaquencer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/zaquencer-synth-jam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152290,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152288\/revisions\/152290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}