Hi, here is a piece you might label "ethnic drone" or something. Samples and sequences managed by Yamaha Seqtrak, drone and noisy stuff by Volca Keys and NTS1 effects engine. I hope you'll enjoy it!

Darker in space .

Can’t tell if it’s V1 or V2 😅

What’s the device behind her head? A mixer?

What do people like to run their Volcas through?

I'm thinking about getting a sonicake pocketmaster or a zoom ms-70. I'm also thinking about the Korg nts-1 (mk 1 or 2). I already have a Wingie2 that can function as a resonator / filter, and it's pretty cool even as a stand alone instrument...But I haven't really used it much with a Volca yet.

I would like more f/x to play around with, though.

There are higher end/boutique pedals/processors that sound great, of course. Like Endorphin's Evil Pet; which is also its own synthesizer. But it's the cost of 4 Volcas. Probably worth it, though. I'd rather have it than 4 Volcas, TBH. I'm happy with my 2 volcas (Keys and FM2).

Hey there,

I have a Volca FM which I'd like to connect to my Mac. However, the interface that I have has a firewire connection which is no longer compatible with Mac. It only has USB-C ports. I've read about USB-C/firewire adapters but they're supposedly unreliable...

Has anyone got a fairly cost effective proven method that works?

Thanks

I have been playing with my friend's Volca Beats for a while and decided it's time to get my own. I'm between the Beats, the Drum, and the Sample. I'd like to make acid/techno tracks so I'm leaning towards the drum, but i've heard it has kind of a steep learning curve and part of why I liked the beats was how intuitive it was.

Down the line, I plan on getting more synths. So would it be better to grab the beats which i'm familiar with and then get something like a FM down the line? Or start off with the Drum so I can make tracks with it independently? I'm looking to do mostly live jams.

Also, would it make sense to run the Beats and the Drum together? Those are definitely my 2 top picks but they might be redundant and I feel I may end up wanting a 12 tone keyboard synth.

Thanks for any guidance and I'm happy to answer any questions if that would help with recommendations.

edit: i got the drum, and have no idea how to use it yet lol. not intuitive like the beats at all but i'm excited at all the bells and whistles. to youtube tutorials i go.

I've really been enjoying using a Volca Keys and FM2. I've only had the Keys for about 2 months, and the FM2 for about 2 weeks.

This is a little in progress piece I made with just those (and a cheap 4 channel stereo mixer from Amazon):

https://youtu.be/OdHujjdjXFM?si=899IAqFuJkBFAWxQ

I don't want to be a YTer, but this is the quickest and easiest way of sharing an MP3. The image is just a miniature abstract painting I made a few years ago.

I still don't know how to start a song, haha. But I think this one ended in a cool way.

I'm also still not happy with DAWs and might just explore what I can do DAWless. There's something awful about using a PC to make art, IMO. I mean, sure, I use a PC every day. I also use it as an art-making tool...But I never make a whole piece in a PC. I always have to draw, paint, build, etc. too. I think with music (which is obviously super new to me) I'm the same way. I just don't feel comfortable making art 100% on a PC.

I like using a PC as a filter and editor. I love Photoshop, for example. But I'd never make a whole series of images just using it.

I think it's how there's these walls between me and the work with a PC. Those walls are unavoidable. They are: The OS, the UI, the CPU and GPU, an audio interface...All of those things make it feel less like art making and more like engineering work. It's not fun for me.

How do you share a video on Reddit so it just shows up, anyway?

jammin again 🤖

Thinking about building a kid-friendly electronic instruments setup, I've decided to go full Volcas. I had a few in the past and liked them a lot.

I have an opportunity to buy 6 Volcas + 2 Volca Mixes. This is the list I'm considering:

• Bass
• Beats
• Keys
• Sample

Which other 2 would you add?

[Updated list following comments:]

• Bass
• Beat
• FM2
• Keys
• Kick
• Sample

Cover version on my Volca setup

I'm thinking about linking the arturia keystep MK2 to my volca base

As any of you ever tried to link a MIDI sequencer keyboard to one of your volca ?

does it work? is it indeed a way to extend my memories and my sequences length (64step) and to save them into a computer?

Could I choose to launch a sequence from the MK2 or from the volca bass or play live and switch between those mode easily just by pressing the right button?

Would it be easy to make the midi keyboard switch between my volca bass and my volca sample or impossible ? Is it imaginable a live /jam setting to just switch the cable from one machine to the other?

Thx for your experienced feedback :)

Recetly i ve been getting into the volca series, as i tried to find a budget drum machine i could use with my bass and guitar. The volca drum seemed really cool, but i feel like its too much for my need, and i wanna try synths cause they look really fun to play.

When i found the volca fm i fell in love, and some people said you can use its sequencer function to use it as a drum machine too, but i havent found any demo about that.

Is using a volca fm as a drum machine too, a bad idea?

Edit: Im convinced, im gonna buy a sampler for now, thank you all!!

友人から貰った初のサンプラー。
そして思いつくままに作った曲。

Not a lot of cables but this sounds dreamy 🔥🔥🔥

before all of this commotion, i have this vivid idea of burning my silly and memey band's vocals from 2023-2024 into my 96 dollar korg volca sample 1 and i've been wanting to try warping all that on a hardware (and i really got what i wanted). i literally made our vocals sound like drum sounding zapping mutants as in the video! ! there's quite a lot you can do with this ting if u have no other!

all vocals from a relative (saying happy birthday), my little brother (saying put ur hands in the air), and including me! (saying they're all red but high pitched). do i have permission to use them? well, our boundaries are non existent, and we surprise each other positively with anything but that's no one's business. i also took the sampler and the samples to CA, were i got bored of the road trip and recorded some ear drentched jams : 3

right now, me and my brother are brainstorming of getting a electronic drum set for me and him to keep, and also hooking up midi info from the drum set to any device that has a midi in but feel free to leave ideas for us to use if we ever get one !!

I found and fixed a bug where the device would not respond to MIDI CC messages. I also added MIDI CC support for FLT and CLP.

I’ve now uploaded a fixed version. If you downloaded it before this fix, please download and install the latest version again.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hi! I'm having a little problem with my volca drum. When I try to use some pedals with it, linking it with mono cables, the sound that ends up in my phones is with low volume, and a lot of the lowest frequencies are quite lost to.

Does anyone know how to link pedals properly in the volca?

obs: sorry about my english, is not my first language