Korg Volca series

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.

  On 12/5/2013 at 12:43 PM, modey said:

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 :)

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

  On 12/6/2013 at 2:29 AM, andihow said:

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?

  On 12/6/2013 at 9:49 AM, modey said:

 

  On 12/6/2013 at 2:29 AM, andihow said:

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

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

nice, love both of those!

  On 12/6/2013 at 1:34 PM, modey said:

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!

  On 12/6/2013 at 2:29 AM, andihow said:

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Dear Thread,

I love my Volca Keys.

Tha End

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

  On 12/9/2013 at 11:01 PM, modey said:

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?

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.

  On 12/9/2013 at 11:06 PM, modey said:

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.

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).

  On 12/9/2013 at 11:27 PM, modey said:

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

imo!

12-bit reverbs IMO

(or EHX Holy Grail)

yeah 12-bit 4eva

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

  On 12/10/2013 at 12:56 AM, modey said:

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

  On 12/10/2013 at 1:36 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 12/10/2013 at 12:56 AM, modey said:

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.