What happened
The Behringer BCR32 has gone up for pre-order, five years after it was first announced. Thomann lists it at $165 in the US and £142 including VAT in the UK, with stock expected in roughly eleven to fifteen weeks. Behringer has not published a product page of its own.
The hardware is a 32-encoder MIDI controller: an LED ring around every knob, eight of them dual-function push encoders, twenty programmable buttons, an OLED display, four virtual encoder groups, MIDI in with two outs and a thru, sync in and out, two footswitch inputs, four CV/gate outputs and a pair of USB-C ports.
The interesting bit
The BCR2000 it descends from was a 2004 controller that acquired a second career through Zaquencer, a third-party firmware replacement that turned it into a step sequencer. Behringer worked with that developer and put the sequencer inside: four tracks, 32 steps, storage for 192 patterns, mono or polyphonic, reached with a button press rather than a firmware flash.
That is the genuinely unusual detail here—not the knob count, but a manufacturer treating a community modification as a feature worth licensing. Less encouraging is the shape of the launch: retailers are taking deposits for a product whose maker has published nothing about it, and this particular box has moved its date before.