100% of all this was completely unexpected and mind-blowing. Amazing stuff!!! I specially liked the light theremin bit. I want to do that with mine NOW.
The passive mixer is genius. I don't know how to solder but I know the volca is basically banana board connections, but I have no idea how to make a passive cv mixer sadly. I love the volcano modular. It's one of the most interesting synths I have, and has turned me into a fiend for west coast synths now.
Honestly though how difficult is it compared to the other volcas? Especially for the price I was thinking about a Berhinger crave or a east beast for 250!
@@audiowanderer yeah that's what I think and the sample especially for the cash! I really dig analog sound though but it sound cool with the zoom pedal and reverb and or overdrive,I really want the pedal but not sure what volca either the fm2 or the bass, I have to key's and micro freak , models cycle sample 2 and the volca beats!
Great video, thank you! This sweet little self-contained noise-science experiment unit is so inexpensive I got two for the ability to compare patch-building results--- to be able to sort out various in-the-moment mysteries & stand on two legs instead of one, kind of like the ubiquitous concept of "two is one, one is none." Doing 2 identical patches & then making changes on one to compare seems to give me a much faster & better grasp of what's happening, without having to switch patching or settings away from whatever "basis" patch I'm playing with--- also can be hard to backtrack sometimes! These do have a fragile toy quality at first view, but I've started loving the child-like scale, and casual tolerances -- it's very playful & refuses to become over-serious unlike more expensive gear costing more like a home-mortgage payment! Light & lively rules, & your video adds tons of value to volca modular ownership! --- Cheers!
Very interesting and creative explorations. I particularly liked the piezo drumstick trigger onto a cork placemat on top of a clay plantpot saucer...excellent. Subscriibed.
Man this is some of the most creative and well made videos I have seen in a while! the DIY approach is priceless, good picture also and the overall mood and philosophy...keep on! By the way i just bought a second hand volca modular a couple of hours before, i know really nothing about it or west coast synthesis and so on...but i feel i will have a lot of fun with it...:)))
How do you get the voltage going to the knobs to enable them to send a voltage! This cv thing rather foxes me coz I cannot work out where tge voltages come from in the first place. I understand 1volt and sub divisions can give a scale but where the heck do they come from? I think patching is a science and very clever. I need to know what to patch what to or di you just plug them in, see what happenz then take a note of that?
Is basic signal flow. The voltage is attenuated by the carbon disc inside the knob and the signal is flowing from none flowing to going to the next point depending of how much you turn the knob
@@audiowanderer You have potentiometers on your diy module each one having three connections to them. What I wanted to know was to which points on your synth did you have them connected?
@@audiowanderer Many thanks for your prompt reply. Okay now I understand. Its a voltage mixer. I thought at first you had the pots connected to another device providing various voltages into the volca modular. That is genius!!!!! I will do same. Is it then essentially a clock divider?
Very underrated video! I didn't guess it would be that easy to just start plugging stuff into it. I guess as the unit is designed so you can't make a wrong connection and fry it that would be possible. For CV mixing with the pots what types of things can you achieve? I don't yet have one of the units so I can't test.
your Video ist the one showing the most possibillitys what to do with a modular and some aditional Hardware, do you think it is able to Run some Signals over a 'wird heart' by tubbutec? To get an extra Output, triggered by a CV Signal from the modular and in sync without Midi?
The Volca modular has a cv input so you can feed there the output of the wired heart But that would not be in sync with the Volca. Maybe get an cv output through the dupont socket can be a solution
hi master, I see that you have gone beyond the connections already present on the synthesizer and have expanded it well. I have a couple of questions of a technical nature, since I've just started the approach with modulars, semi-modulars to be exact. I have a Behringer Crave, and its connections use the classic TR minijacks. now, the volca modular uses single prong cables instead of two. So basically what is the difference? is it possible to connect them together and how? other instruments also use banana or mini crocodile jack connections. can these interconnect with the volca modular and other machines that use TR minijacks? Greatings from Italy 🙏🏻
Yes. The problem is that crave or others use two poles connectors and the Volca just use one pole so am afraid the signals delivered by each machine can’t be compatible from one pole to the two poles and viceversa. But you can always plug one signal from crave to the CV in of the modular and connect from there. That’s the way to do it safely. Hope Korg will put more cv in mini jack socket on the next Volca modular.
I am amazed wit those setups but really do not know what to buy and how to connect. I want to buy simple breadboard and few resistors and other components but witch parameters will be the right one? It is cheap so I could experiment and as long as their are passive I will do no harm to Volca Modular, right?
I can tell you that the secret there is not the patching but go all the way down to octave and record a couple of the lowest note on the grid then go all the way up and record a bunch of highest notes then put the stochastic mode and start to play around with the patches
I thought the best thing to do was to stick it where the sun doesn't shine. But i actually sounds decent!
I'm glad i finally got round to watching this video! The piezo disc trigger idea is great, I'm going to have to try that with my kick drum patch 😁
Is a cool trick… Suddenly you transform your Volca into a synare
100% of all this was completely unexpected and mind-blowing. Amazing stuff!!! I specially liked the light theremin bit. I want to do that with mine NOW.
Yeah! Super easy hack to have a light theremin on your Volca Modular 05:34
@@audiowanderer which connections did you use to get that effect ? can you connect this into any of the inputs/outputs...
Yeah, experiment with any signal. You are just cutting the connection with the absence of light
Finally someone really making music with this thing!
Thx for this video, keep it up!
This guy lives by his name for sure
Yo! 🙏
Really interesting. Post some more please. B.
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The passive mixer is genius. I don't know how to solder but I know the volca is basically banana board connections, but I have no idea how to make a passive cv mixer sadly. I love the volcano modular. It's one of the most interesting synths I have, and has turned me into a fiend for west coast synths now.
The best Volca. Praying for the new Volca modular will be released soon
What is it really, what is it really ahhh! I have to know the truth haha bleep Bob bop music is my favorite!👻🧙🕉️
🤖bopbop bip bip bleep !!!
Honestly though how difficult is it compared to the other volcas? Especially for the price I was thinking about a Berhinger crave or a east beast for 250!
Simple and fun. Lots of patching to make and things to experiment on what I believe firmly is the best Volca unit ever made
@@audiowanderer yeah that's what I think and the sample especially for the cash! I really dig analog sound though but it sound cool with the zoom pedal and reverb and or overdrive,I really want the pedal but not sure what volca either the fm2 or the bass, I have to key's and micro freak , models cycle sample 2 and the volca beats!
Great video, thank you! This sweet little self-contained noise-science experiment unit is so inexpensive I got two for the ability to compare patch-building results--- to be able to sort out various in-the-moment mysteries & stand on two legs instead of one, kind of like the ubiquitous concept of "two is one, one is none." Doing 2 identical patches & then making changes on one to compare seems to give me a much faster & better grasp of what's happening, without having to switch patching or settings away from whatever "basis" patch I'm playing with--- also can be hard to backtrack sometimes! These do have a fragile toy quality at first view, but I've started loving the child-like scale, and casual tolerances -- it's very playful & refuses to become over-serious unlike more expensive gear costing more like a home-mortgage payment! Light & lively rules, & your video adds tons of value to volca modular ownership! --- Cheers!
Hey! Thanks. Nice remarks
You probably ought to give credit to the originator of that generative patch.
Please tell us…
Fantastic sounds, excellent musical work ✨
Brilliant demos & tutorial A W !
Hey! Thanks 🙏
Can you make a patch sheet that has more colors for the cables? The black and grey are hard to follow.
I love your videos good background and I love the music you make!
nice and simple
Very interesting and creative explorations. I particularly liked the piezo drumstick trigger onto a cork placemat on top of a clay plantpot saucer...excellent. Subscriibed.
Really love the ambient jams, thanks for sharing 👍😆
Thanks to you for the feedback
Awesome video!
Yo! Thanks! Volca modular tricks all the way down
Man this is some of the most creative and well made videos I have seen in a while! the DIY approach is priceless, good picture also and the overall mood and philosophy...keep on! By the way i just bought a second hand volca modular a couple of hours before, i know really nothing about it or west coast synthesis and so on...but i feel i will have a lot of fun with it...:)))
Thanks 🙏 glad that you enjoyed the vídeo. More creative shit is released every week so don’t forget to check it out,
Please make a complete video on how you got the Volca to sound like it does on the light theremin trick
That video is already done, mate…Enjoy: Transform your Volca Modular into a BEING of LIGHT!!!
ruclips.net/video/5fl9act_Ido/видео.html
this is very good
Thanks 🙏
Great stuff! Time to dust mine off!
🌬
Great stuff! I’ll go ahead and trade the rest of my volcas for a modular.
Modular is the best one, that’s for sure. The day korg release a new modular I will buy a Volca again
great ideas! cheers. :)
🧪time to experiment
What's the radio chatter stuff during the blip blop jam? Is it just mixed in over the synth?
Where? It will help to have a timestamp
How do you get the voltage going to the knobs to enable them to send a voltage!
This cv thing rather foxes me coz I cannot work out where tge voltages come from in the first place. I understand 1volt and sub divisions can give a scale but where the heck do they come from?
I think patching is a science and very clever. I need to know what to patch what to or di you just plug them in, see what happenz then take a note of that?
Is basic signal flow. The voltage is attenuated by the carbon disc inside the knob and the signal is flowing from none flowing to going to the next point depending of how much you turn the knob
@@audiowanderer
You have potentiometers on your diy module each one having three connections to them. What I wanted to know was to which points on your synth did you have them connected?
@petercane6376 check this video ruclips.net/video/Btp4Yy_7m-8/видео.htmlsi=BivvtBt6JxYtEgYM
@@audiowanderer
Many thanks for your prompt reply.
Okay now I understand.
Its a voltage mixer.
I thought at first you had the pots connected to another device providing various voltages into the volca modular.
That is genius!!!!!
I will do same.
Is it then essentially a clock divider?
Very underrated video! I didn't guess it would be that easy to just start plugging stuff into it. I guess as the unit is designed so you can't make a wrong connection and fry it that would be possible. For CV mixing with the pots what types of things can you achieve? I don't yet have one of the units so I can't test.
Passive CV mixer can attenuate or multiply signals
your Video ist the one showing the most possibillitys what to do with a modular and some aditional Hardware, do you think it is able to Run some Signals over a 'wird heart' by tubbutec? To get an extra Output, triggered by a CV Signal from the modular and in sync without Midi?
The Volca modular has a cv input so you can feed there the output of the wired heart But that would not be in sync with the Volca. Maybe get an cv output through the dupont socket can be a solution
Very inspiring. Thank you!
Thanks to you for stopping and chat. Very much appreciated
hi master, I see that you have gone beyond the connections already present on the synthesizer and have expanded it well.
I have a couple of questions of a technical nature, since I've just started the approach with modulars, semi-modulars to be exact.
I have a Behringer Crave, and its connections use the classic TR minijacks.
now, the volca modular uses single prong cables instead of two.
So basically what is the difference?
is it possible to connect them together and how?
other instruments also use banana or mini crocodile jack connections. can these interconnect with the volca modular and other machines that use TR minijacks?
Greatings from Italy 🙏🏻
Yes. The problem is that crave or others use two poles connectors and the Volca just use one pole so am afraid the signals delivered by each machine can’t be compatible from one pole to the two poles and viceversa. But you can always plug one signal from crave to the CV in of the modular and connect from there. That’s the way to do it safely. Hope Korg will put more cv in mini jack socket on the next Volca modular.
I am amazed wit those setups but really do not know what to buy and how to connect. I want to buy simple breadboard and few resistors and other components but witch parameters will be the right one? It is cheap so I could experiment and as long as their are passive I will do no harm to Volca Modular, right?
Try ordering some photoresistors to use it like a theremin. That won’t harm your Volca at all
@@audiowanderer added to my list, thx!
Which Potentiometers this are for the CV-Input?
I think I used 500k pots here
@@audiowanderer Ah ok. Thanks!
Got any tutorials on how to build that passive CV mixer?
Just follow the cheap cv mixer instructions but using female DuPont cables to connect from Volca modular 06:58
@@audiowanderer the rest is just cardboard housing then?
Absolutely
You are amazing
You are!
whats the patch to the bleep boop music one? cant really tell
Me neither 😂
@@audiowanderer damn lmao.
I can tell you that the secret there is not the patching but go all the way down to octave and record a couple of the lowest note on the grid then go all the way up and record a bunch of highest notes then put the stochastic mode and start to play around with the patches
@@audiowanderer thanks, just got my modular and want to make the beep boops and run through my nts 1, this should be fun.
Enjoy
or just bin it and buy a real synth
It’s real and it’s a synth already!