USB/MIDI Sequencer and Controller

Behringer BCR32: A 32-Encoder Controller With the Zaquencer Built In

A USB/MIDI control surface with 32 assignable encoders and a polyphonic 32-step, four-track Zaquencer, for driving MIDI gear and software from outside the rack.

Behringer BCR32 in three-quarter view: a grid of 32 encoders with LED rings across four tracks, a row of function buttons along the top edge, and a ZAQUENCER CONTROLLER section with transport buttons and a small display at the upper right.
Image: Behringer, via the BCR32 product page.

The BCR32 is the successor to the BCR2000, and Behringer describes it as a USB/MIDI controller and sequencer with 32 multi-purpose encoders, 20 programmable buttons, and the Zaquencer firmware built in.

The sequencer is the reason it belongs here

The Zaquencer is the ZAQ Audio firmware that turned the original BCR2000 into a cult favourite, and on the BCR32 it runs as a polyphonic 32-step, four-track sequencer. Behringer’s page specifies mono or polyphonic drum and note tracks, 192 stored patterns of four tracks each, and two independent MIDI controls per track for things like program change and aftertouch. Every panel element is assignable, by hand or through a learn function, so the same box can also drive software: triggering clips, riding DAW automation, or playing MIDI instruments.

It patches into a rack

The part that makes this more than a controller: Behringer lists four CV/Gate and Sync connectors, so the BCR32 drives modular hardware directly rather than through a MIDI-to-CV converter. It also carries one MIDI input and two MIDI outputs with a merge function, which lets it double as a USB-to-MIDI interface, plus two assignable footswitch inputs, an OLED display and USB power. The Encoder count of the BCR2000 with a sequencer that speaks CV is the whole argument for it.

Availability

Behringer introduced the BCR32 in a video on its own channel on 28 September 2026, five years after first announcing the product in January 2021. The product page itself carries no date and states no price, so pricing should be treated as unconfirmed until the maker or a dealer publishes it. Everything above comes from that page: behringer.com/en/products/0715-AAW.

USB/MIDI Sequencer and Controller

Manufacturer
Behringer
Category
Hardware Sequencers
Hardware role
Polyphonic 32-Step, 4-Track Zaquencer & 32 Assignable Encoders
Retail partner
Behringer

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