Korg Volca series

[andihow]

http://audiour.com/heywidan

heres me messing about with the volca beats and a Diva Pad. controlling beats with midi and have the sound running through decimort and a compressor. fun times twiddling knobs.

[Guest bitroast]

very quick test

https://soundcloud.com/pselodux/volcajam2

 

Just after I recorded this I switched it into poly ring mode and it got autechre as FUCK. didn't record though, gah!

 

 

I kinda love how the delay is super gritty. I wish it had a dotted eighth/quarter note setting in tempo sync mode though.

dig those sounds in the second half !!

you should probably post more :)

[modey]

Yeah, gonna play around with it more tonight, for sure. I did another one before the above recording but it was kinda trappy, so I'm a bit ashamed of it, haha. Maybe I'll upload it though.

I'm pretty sure I'll end up putting together an album of edited volca+qy70+electribe+numerology jams :D

[modey]

http://audiour.com/heywidan

heres me messing about with the volca beats and a Diva Pad. controlling beats with midi and have the sound running through decimort and a compressor. fun times twiddling knobs.

cool! what the fuck is a Diva Pad though? I tried googling it—I assume you're not somehow using menstrual pads to make music?

[andihow]

 

http://audiour.com/heywidan

heres me messing about with the volca beats and a Diva Pad. controlling beats with midi and have the sound running through decimort and a compressor. fun times twiddling knobs.

cool! what the fuck is a Diva Pad though? I tried googling it—I assume you're not somehow using menstrual pads to make music?

not in this track, no.. but check out this plugin, its a cpu eater but it sounds real good and lets you pick all kinds of different OSCs and filters and stuff.

http://www.u-he.com/cms/diva

[modey]

hah, nice!

 

 

Here are a couple more jams from tonight.

 

Acidy thing using Numerology, Volca, QY70 and Electribe ES-1

https://soundcloud.com/pselodux/volcacid

 

Just Volca and ES-1. I really like this one. It kinda happened by mistake, but I think it could become a pop song, eventually.

https://soundcloud.com/pselodux/volcadust

[luke viia]

nice, love both of those!

[Guest]

hah, nice!

 

 

Here are a couple more jams from tonight.

 

Acidy thing using Numerology, Volca, QY70 and Electribe ES-1

https://soundcloud.com/pselodux/volcacid

 

Just Volca and ES-1. I really like this one. It kinda happened by mistake, but I think it could become a pop song, eventually.

https://soundcloud.com/pselodux/volcadust

Those sound lush!

 

 

http://audiour.com/heywidan

heres me messing about with the volca beats and a Diva Pad. controlling beats with midi and have the sound running through decimort and a compressor. fun times twiddling knobs.

I'm loving this too.

[modey]

Nice one! I think I'm gonna do something similar, for use in Renoise. I've burned out my somewhat limited collection of lead samples :P

[jeyemusik]

So, after getting myself distracted by other things and thinking at some point I'd maybe get a Volca Bass and leave it low on the priority list you chaps have rekindled my interest a bit for the keys too. Maybe even for the beats. Shame I'll no have the cash for this until the a fair bit into the new year.

[modey]

I'm seriously trying to decide between another volca keys and a microbrute. I really want the microbrute but the volcas are so cheap!

[Guest]

I haven't received the Keys or Beats yet, but I'd be willing to buy another bundle of the three if I didn't think I'd get them in 2015. Unless I buy from over seas I suppose. They're just so cheap.

[Guest]

According to Korg Canada on facebook, there's a surplus of Volcas in the US while there's a major shortage in Canada because we pre-ordered so many. So, Canadians, if you want to get a Volca within the month, buy from the States.

[Leon Sumbitches]

Just ordered a Keys, going to save it till Christmas day and get down like a Magikist. Might post up some jams, can't wait for the fucker to arrive now!

[LimpyLoo]

Dear Thread,

 

I love my Volca Keys.

 

Tha End

[modey]

Yeah I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm even using it in my new industrial metal band, for basslines.

[LimpyLoo]

Yeah I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm even using it in my new industrial metal band, for basslines.

 

nice

 

any pedals involved?

[modey]

I'm just running it clean at the moment, but I'm considering chucking it through some distortion when we get a bit more adventurous with our arrangements, or when I can be bothered plugging my guitar's midi pickup into it.

[LimpyLoo]

I'm just running it clean at the moment, but I'm considering chucking it through some distortion when we get a bit more adventurous with our arrangements, or when I can be bothered plugging my guitar's midi pickup into it.

 

I've been running it through my SP-303's effects and with the reverb it sounds fucking beautiful. Kinda like scraping the coil of a spring reverb with a metal guitar pick. Fucking beautiful textures.

[modey]

Oh nice! Yeah I did experiment with running it through the reverb on my Behringer Virtualizer, which is the best reverb I've heard apart from a Quadraverb (which I just remembered I'm borrowing from a friend; I should really play around with it).

[Guest]

Behringer Virtualizer, which is the best reverb I've heard apart from a Quadraverb

 

imo!

 

[LimpyLoo]

12-bit reverbs IMO

 

(or EHX Holy Grail)

[modey]

yeah 12-bit 4eva

 

Goes nicely with the electribe ES-1's 32khz sample rate, haha

[LimpyLoo]

yeah 12-bit 4eva

 

Goes nicely with the electribe ES-1's 32khz sample rate, haha

 

hey modey I'm curious what you have for synths and guitars and rack gear and stuff like that

[modey]

 

yeah 12-bit 4eva

 

Goes nicely with the electribe ES-1's 32khz sample rate, haha

 

hey modey I'm curious what you have for synths and guitars and rack gear and stuff like that

 

Lots of cheap shit, but it sounds wicked. I use a QY70 as a sound module for stuff that isn't handled by the volca (also a Roland midi pickup interface so I can play its sounds with my guitar). I also have an Alesis HR-16, which I'm thinking of using for this industrial band instead of the ES-1 because the sounds can be pitched right down, and it can be started/stopped with a foot pedal.

 

I use a Digitech RP150 for all of my guitar amp modelling; it's got some sweet reverbs/delays/modulation effects on it as well.

Other than that, I have a whole lot of pedals, mostly Behringer but a few vintage Boss/Ibanez ones, and some cool homemade things.

 

As for guitars, too many to list but my main ones are a Steinberger Spirit (the recent Korean built cheap reissue), Fender Mustang and a cheap Epiphone Les Paul Special II with super thick strings, tuned low for the industrial stuff.

 

I've got a bunch of other things but don't use them much. Like a hardware autotune unit for vocals which I haven't quite figured out how to use properly yet.. would be nice to get some Jesu vocal sounds out of it though.