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It's like Korg have two completely isolated departments, one producing gems like the XD/Prologue and Multi/Poly, and the other one sitting in the basement producing stuff like this.
There is still no department that decides which outdated functions and connections go into which device. See the 32MB sample memory on the Drumlouge, or the missing midi out connections on the Volcas, or the "giant displays" on most new devices.
Since OG Volca Sample was my first hardware piece, I'm both sobbing and having a large PTSD now. Congrats for completing the Korg-Abomination-A-Hole-Worth-Meme-Gear Cirlcle Florian and don't forget that Volca FM 2 will wait for a post-credit scene somewhere in the future 🥳
Writing your own application, USB driver, and file transfer protocol is so much more work than simply making the thing class compliant and show up as a drive when connected to a computer. Even including a SD card slot is likely less expensive than that software development and maintenance. Not to mention being user hostile instead of user friendly. I'm willing to give manufacturers a lot of benefit of the doubt, but then there's things like this that I can't imagine that any amount of behind-the-scenes knowledge could lead to it making any sense at all. The Sample was one of the few Volcas I was seriously interested in, but it'd be pointless without the motivation to jump through their hoops to get sounds on it.
It wouldn't be so bad if their drivers and proprietary software actually worked properly. Getting samples onto this thing without something failing is a nightmare.
The Volca Sample was my introduction to music making. I had to sell it in a financial hardship, but this video brings back some good memories. So much fun in such a little box.
Finally you're reviewing the best volca! The volca sample was my entry into GAS and even though the short sequencer can be quite limiting I still find it my most reliable tool for live jamming. Easy to program, no need for menu diving, can do some decent sound design, motion sequencing to add spice, and it takes up so little space. I might upgrade to a digitakt but I still love the volca despite (because?) of its shortcomings. It just works! P.S. Keep up the good work Florian! Can't wait for you to roast my last piece of gear you have yet to destroy...
I came home from work to get my weekly injection of Bad Gear and the sight of this thing made me rethink my life. I closed my eyes, imagined a collection of all these little wonders in a spaghetti mess that looks like my workplace (network) and thought to myself, I don't have that. Ah the Bliss, Oh the bliss - ok, I'm going to play some Far cry 5 masterpieces now and I totally derailed everything I was going to say, have a fantastic weekend.
I think I have six volcas at this point? The first three got me hooked. I like sample1 but it doesn't get as much time as drums, bass and keys. They're fun. They're easy to chain together, and it takes very little time to get something going. The limitations don't really bother me so much. I sit down, patch a few things together, play around for an hour or two and that's as far as they need to go. I agree that combining them all into an enclosure with a keyboard and a pad grid would be a good idea. Thanks for working your charms for this last volca.
Still can't believe Korg didn't just straight-up headhunt Pajen. Instead we got... this.😢 Like I used to tell my minions: It's an upgrade, not an improvement.
I will always have a volca for the rest of my life, these little boxes of limitation are just so fun to use. For the price it’s an unbelievable value, only wish they continue to make them
If you have other machines.. the volca FM..volca drum..and volca kick are the best rhythm movement you never heard before😏😏 Remember to connect the volca drum to a distortion pedal. If you set it to the minimum you don't get a techno sound. But only a light compressor..😜😜
I have owned a Volca Sample 2 for a while now and I have to say I just use it as a drum machine. It's cool because you can always just swap out and put in a new drum pack if you are making a different genre. Something that sucks on this machine is how you can't plug in a midi keyboard and play a sample chromatically, like how the old Volca Sample could when you flashed it with the Pajen firmware.
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I love this Volca, its shortcomings are part of its charm. The low sample bitrate makes it perfect for old school breakbeats, giving it that 90s Akai flair. And a lot of ways to circumvent the limitations of this thing were actual tricks 90s producers used to do on their limited samplers back in the day. It's a great entry point to more advanced samplers imo. But yeah, the micro USB connectivity sucks. 9 times out of 10 the app doesn't find the Volca, and only a specific type of cable works.
As much as I love the Volca Drum: Ever wondered what you could buy for a tiny stack of these boxes? A multitimbrality workstation which does everything better and offers a complete studio in one box. But those darn little shiny boxes, eh? If one however sees them as elements in a customized modular system things become relative. You can build up your own almost ideal mini studio, providing you also have the dough for a decent mixer. But people should stop complaining about the disadvantages. No multichannel, multitimbral, high resolution, user sample, stereo drum mix from the average Volca. Nor from my Eu 35 Stylophone Beat. Dammit! How dare they to sell me this thing! 😁
I did a lot of tracker music in the mid 90's and made more samples from Music magazine cd's than I want to remember. Why is most music instruments stuck in the 90's as to quality of samples and number of polyphony? Obviously not all, but even fairly cheap equipment should have memory enough...Fast one at that. Again with D'n'B...So good.
I like the music you created for this video. Very, very good. By the way, this is the best show, about audio gear, on our planet. … Best show about audio tools, on RUclips, in 2024.
Korg should make a commemorative 10 year aniversary special edition Volca. Let it be a Volca sized Wavestation complete with a miniature vector joystick for those cool crossfades. That be perfect! The iPad app version of the Wavestate is one of my all time favorites. They should make this in hardware. Roland's Aira compact line is catching up quickly.
1:57 Haha, great (and accurate af) meme. 1:31 "8 megs" was also funny. But ofc, your meme game is like always on point. ~2:19 Heh, was that first one a can opening? ~2:41 Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome. "Active step" is indeed kinda cool - and something that goes all the way back to the Monotribe! I used it on a track (on the MT) I think is pretty decent around 11+ years ago (I haven't been doing music for quite some time, haha). 8:11 Haha! Tbh, I think the Volca Sample/2 is actually sorta cool for what it is. I almost kinda want one, even though I have an ES-1 mk2. Though what I really want in this category is a P-6 (ofc), heh. Sorry for longer/messy comment and all the timestamps. Good work as always!
Your point at the end hit home. I've owned a number of Volcas through the years and I still love them but in these days of Roland Compacts, Sonicware Liven boxes and Behringer they are showing their age and the only one I still have any real use for is the Volca Drum. Currently waiting on a Roland P6 to replace my Volca Sample 2
it's funny the named "sample" units like this and the model:samples can't actually sample. may be the end of the volcas, but as you mention at the end, it basically lives on in the behringer bolcas and roland rolcas. sick jams, especially with just the volca sample.
I hope they continue to make more Volcas, I'd love to see an effects unit with sequencing, maybe a filter unit and vocorder unit, similar to the Alesis ModFX range. There are still ideas out there yet to be made.
This was my first synthesiser and I was disappointed to learn it could not record samples and that same level of disappointed continued throughout my GAS odyssey. Though learning it could do some granular synthesis was pretty cool.
I passed on the Volca Sample, but have been pondering ways to incorporate my Volca Bass (and FM2, though it's a bit easier) into a "small synth jam" since getting the equally small yet significantly more bassy Moog Minitaur. Been awhile since I played the Volca Bass, so it threw me for a bit until I remembered the keyboard colors are reversed (or alternatively that the ribbon is black with the colored keys being gold), so I guess I agree with that Taken meme 😂
The sample transfer using audio just worked. I learned you have to turn the volca's volume down while transferring or the crosstalk corrupted it, never failed me again. No way the USB method is futureproof.
As slow as it is to load samples, it's funny listening back having owned one because it really has it's own weird sound to it. The third jam sounded really highlighted how nicely the crunchiness translates to a produced track. In 30 years maybe people will sell it for thousands for that "signature volca ADDA crunch" haha
If you'll ever get tired of reviewing "bad gear" or run out of hardware to test (most unlikely), please start doing AMVs like people did during RUclips's infancy because that montage (*nudge nudge*) was absolute fire!
True pain with getting samples on the Volca Sample 2 is that Korg's sample library software won't recognize it if there are too many other MIDI drivers on your computer (I think 10 or more MIDI slots is the limit). Had a lot of fun with it once I just bumped the samples to another machine similar to your approach, but troubleshooting that whole process was a headache.
Hearing those factory samples is so jarring but you make good use of them. I would like to see them make a new Volca but I wouldn’t be hurt if they didn’t.
I actually don’t have any problems now using the sample librarian. I’m on an iMac M3. I have 11 Volcas now. I can record them all at the same time using a couple of interfaces connected together with the adat jacks. One can get an incredibly full sound with all of them playing together.
I thought they would release the Mega Volca eventually with all of the features of them all in one unit? They really got the most from their circuits with the Monotrons, Monotribes, Micro Bits and Volcas. 😎
I dipped my toe into the electronic waters with one of these. I still think its a great little groovebox with its own personality (like the Volca Drum) and great fun to synch em both up and play some bass along with or record a few bars into the SP, whack thr Resonator and delay to eleventeen and see what ungoldy abominations emerge.
Look, all I want is a state of the art sampler (that can do lofi) with analogue filters, sixteen voice polyphony, processing and effects to rival the best virtual synths, rugged and ergonomic build, and for under two-hundred EUROs. Is this too much to ask?
Trying this at guitar center was hilarious cause i had to use my pinky fingers to hit the trigger pads and couldn't even twist the tiny knobs with my bratwurst sized fingers
Unusually for me, I won't knock anyone who uses/has used Wolkas as their first inexpensive leap into the terrifying world of hardware synthage. We were all noobs once, and probably made much worse decisions that cost a few hundred eurobux more. Like the tsunami of cheap Uliware, it's all good for getting kids of all ages interested in creating their own music/noises/synthwibbles. Just like the MT32 and FB01 back in the stone age.
I owned the original Volca Sample where you had to generate data files over audio, which was absolutely diabolical. I can't believe they messed up the USB implementation, how hard can it be? It's a fun little box but, as you say, there are so many (superior) alternatives now...
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no pressure bro, but I'm already hyped for your christmas special
😀😀😀
It will be too late for G.A.S :D
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same, same
The real Volca aficionados have the Sequenz carrying case and the wooden stand from Etsy.
Word!!!
Pajen firmware improves these little things massively! Great software
So true!
There is no Pajen firmware for the Sample v2
@ ahh stick with v1 then!
@@Gavddotcodotuk I suspect Pajen's great firmware updates are why there's a Sample 2 and an FM 2 but no updates for the other Volcas.
Wish you all a jammy weekend!
Great upload as always.
Thanks for the laughs! 😊
Have a great weekend!!!
It's like Korg have two completely isolated departments, one producing gems like the XD/Prologue and Multi/Poly, and the other one sitting in the basement producing stuff like this.
I assume it's much more than two
There is still no department that decides which outdated functions and connections go into which device. See the 32MB sample memory on the Drumlouge, or the missing midi out connections on the Volcas, or the "giant displays" on most new devices.
Using this as an opportunity to sneak a little AMV in, good job!
Since OG Volca Sample was my first hardware piece, I'm both sobbing and having a large PTSD now. Congrats for completing the Korg-Abomination-A-Hole-Worth-Meme-Gear Cirlcle Florian and don't forget that Volca FM 2 will wait for a post-credit scene somewhere in the future 🥳
❤️❤️❤️Volca FM 2 doesn't count;)
that proto bass track is actually sick
true loved it too
Writing your own application, USB driver, and file transfer protocol is so much more work than simply making the thing class compliant and show up as a drive when connected to a computer. Even including a SD card slot is likely less expensive than that software development and maintenance. Not to mention being user hostile instead of user friendly. I'm willing to give manufacturers a lot of benefit of the doubt, but then there's things like this that I can't imagine that any amount of behind-the-scenes knowledge could lead to it making any sense at all. The Sample was one of the few Volcas I was seriously interested in, but it'd be pointless without the motivation to jump through their hoops to get sounds on it.
It wouldn't be so bad if their drivers and proprietary software actually worked properly. Getting samples onto this thing without something failing is a nightmare.
@@rorz999Amen, brother. That’s why my Sample2 is stuck in the cupboard. Getting noises on and off this unit is a ball-ache.
That Refused reference (chefs kiss good sir)
When you know...
excellent reference
I was not expecting that at all. So cool.
Just a pinch of that new noise...
I think its a great instrument for textures or flourishes to compliment tracks. Some of those stock sounds are surprisingly useable.
Agreed!!!
The stock sounds are legit great. I transferred to my PC and I use them all the time in my DAW and other hardware samplers
Was about time! I was waiting for the confirmation that the weekend has finally started. :) Volcas never ticked any of my boxes.
Volcas are definitely an acquired taste;)
The Volca Sample was my introduction to music making. I had to sell it in a financial hardship, but this video brings back some good memories. So much fun in such a little box.
your dnb is always on point! much much love!
Thank you so much!!!
dnb is just good music played at 45
"Volca sample can't sample" is why I couldn't buy it
Great job working through the technical obstacles and making this device sing
Thank you!!!
Finally you're reviewing the best volca! The volca sample was my entry into GAS and even though the short sequencer can be quite limiting I still find it my most reliable tool for live jamming. Easy to program, no need for menu diving, can do some decent sound design, motion sequencing to add spice, and it takes up so little space. I might upgrade to a digitakt but I still love the volca despite (because?) of its shortcomings. It just works!
P.S. Keep up the good work Florian! Can't wait for you to roast my last piece of gear you have yet to destroy...
Thank you so much!!!
2:54, welcome to Bad Gear(s). Where my whole studio is flooded and all the gear is definitely bad now. That sucks ouch
You're always so entertaining. Thanks, bro. 😂👍🏻
Thank you so much!!!
Strange Volca sample Librarian seems to work on my M1 Mini (Ventura) .. I have a Sample 2 !! .. Awesome Video as usual!!
Nice!!! Thank you!
I came home from work to get my weekly injection of Bad Gear and the sight of this thing made me rethink my life. I closed my eyes, imagined a collection of all these little wonders in a spaghetti mess that looks like my workplace (network) and thought to myself, I don't have that. Ah the Bliss, Oh the bliss - ok, I'm going to play some Far cry 5 masterpieces now and I totally derailed everything I was going to say, have a fantastic weekend.
Have a nice weekend too!!!
I think I have six volcas at this point? The first three got me hooked. I like sample1 but it doesn't get as much time as drums, bass and keys. They're fun. They're easy to chain together, and it takes very little time to get something going. The limitations don't really bother me so much. I sit down, patch a few things together, play around for an hour or two and that's as far as they need to go. I agree that combining them all into an enclosure with a keyboard and a pad grid would be a good idea. Thanks for working your charms for this last volca.
Still can't believe Korg didn't just straight-up headhunt Pajen. Instead we got... this.😢
Like I used to tell my minions: It's an upgrade, not an improvement.
I will always have a volca for the rest of my life, these little boxes of limitation are just so fun to use. For the price it’s an unbelievable value, only wish they continue to make them
Same here!!! Agreed!
If you have other machines..
the volca FM..volca drum..and volca kick are the best rhythm movement you never heard before😏😏
Remember to connect the volca drum to a distortion pedal.
If you set it to the minimum you don't get a techno sound.
But only a light compressor..😜😜
I have owned a Volca Sample 2 for a while now and I have to say I just use it as a drum machine. It's cool because you can always just swap out and put in a new drum pack if you are making a different genre. Something that sucks on this machine is how you can't plug in a midi keyboard and play a sample chromatically, like how the old Volca Sample could when you flashed it with the Pajen firmware.
as far as I remember, with retrokits cable you can. haven't had neither of them, just saw their product.
Pajen is a genius!
Opinions, Music Theory, Homework, Behringer memes … *chef’s kiss* …
That 4 Bar Loop one was mildly disturbing, tho’ … 👀. Please tell me someone dropped their slice of chocolate cake … ?!
Chocolate cake all the way
@@AudioPilz OG was a chocolate cake .... now seemed like V2 of it 🤣
Wow end of an era!!! A worthy closer for the volca range, and a banger of an episode as usual
I love this Volca, its shortcomings are part of its charm. The low sample bitrate makes it perfect for old school breakbeats, giving it that 90s Akai flair. And a lot of ways to circumvent the limitations of this thing were actual tricks 90s producers used to do on their limited samplers back in the day. It's a great entry point to more advanced samplers imo.
But yeah, the micro USB connectivity sucks. 9 times out of 10 the app doesn't find the Volca, and only a specific type of cable works.
I had to go through multiple cables before I found one that (sometimes) worked
We will get actual sampling in the volca sample 4.
The End of Volcas;)
As a certified Volca Sample Man, I agree with your points. Great episode!
Thank you so much!!!
As much as I love the Volca Drum: Ever wondered what you could buy for a tiny stack of these boxes? A multitimbrality workstation which does everything better and offers a complete studio in one box. But those darn little shiny boxes, eh? If one however sees them as elements in a customized modular system things become relative. You can build up your own almost ideal mini studio, providing you also have the dough for a decent mixer. But people should stop complaining about the disadvantages. No multichannel, multitimbral, high resolution, user sample, stereo drum mix from the average Volca. Nor from my Eu 35 Stylophone Beat. Dammit! How dare they to sell me this thing! 😁
So true!
@@AudioPilz wow, that was quick! 😁
That was some new noise right there
Yesssssss
I have a Volca Nubass, a Volca FM2, a Volca Mix and the Volca Sample2 and the worst decision was the Sample2.
I did a lot of tracker music in the mid 90's and made more samples from Music magazine cd's than I want to remember. Why is most music instruments stuck in the 90's as to quality of samples and number of polyphony? Obviously not all, but even fairly cheap equipment should have memory enough...Fast one at that. Again with D'n'B...So good.
This is my first electronic musical instrument!
For me it came down to the Wolca Sample, or Wolca Modular. I went for the Modular. The correct choice was neither 😂 Thanks Florian
The proliferation of poor sample acquisition and management among samplers is honestly mindblowing
that tiny refused new noise reference might be my new favorite moment on this channel
Want to see first man who makes Polka with a Volca.
Hold my Diet Coke
Ah man, a Sample 1 was the first drum machine I ever had, hated its guts. Sold for a Drumbrute, didn’t look back
Drumbrute Impact is really nice!
@@AudioPilz no drumbrute og lol.
Glad to see a subliminal flash of my favourite sampler, the wonderful Korg Electrible ES-1
Again and Again, "Bad Gear" confirmed that the "Bad"part is not really with my gear...
You know the drill, one person’s Bad Gear…;)
@@AudioPilz ... is another thing for Gearspace to complain about for a year
AudioPilz, the only guy who can fit a meme to the text ‘number nine’. Nice one!
Loading samples is a nightmare, i found out mine is incredibly fussy about usb cables , even if they work for other instruments,
True that!
I like the music you created for this video.
Very, very good.
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RUclips, in 2024.
Korg should make a commemorative 10 year aniversary special edition Volca. Let it be a Volca sized Wavestation complete with a miniature vector joystick for those cool crossfades. That be perfect! The iPad app version of the Wavestate is one of my all time favorites. They should make this in hardware. Roland's Aira compact line is catching up quickly.
Great idea!!!
I have the first version of it, i throw some distortion on it and use it for industrial techno jams with my friend. 16 steps is all i need for that
Yesssssss
1:57 Haha, great (and accurate af) meme.
1:31 "8 megs" was also funny. But ofc, your meme game is like always on point.
~2:19 Heh, was that first one a can opening? ~2:41 Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome.
"Active step" is indeed kinda cool - and something that goes all the way back to the Monotribe! I used it on a track (on the MT) I think is pretty decent around 11+ years ago (I haven't been doing music for quite some time, haha).
8:11 Haha!
Tbh, I think the Volca Sample/2 is actually sorta cool for what it is. I almost kinda want one, even though I have an ES-1 mk2. Though what I really want in this category is a P-6 (ofc), heh. Sorry for longer/messy comment and all the timestamps. Good work as always!
Your point at the end hit home. I've owned a number of Volcas through the years and I still love them but in these days of Roland Compacts, Sonicware Liven boxes and Behringer they are showing their age and the only one I still have any real use for is the Volca Drum. Currently waiting on a Roland P6 to replace my Volca Sample 2
It has cow bells which makes me happy, but micro USB is just atrocious.
Agreed!!!
"atrocious" is rather strong.
Came for the Volca, stayed for the Wolka. Blessings from a Brit in Berlin. 💐💎❤️
Never considered a Korg Volca as the shape of punk to come but here we are
The electribe throwback retrostep garage proto bass music cyberdub was absolutely unbelievable wow
it's funny the named "sample" units like this and the model:samples can't actually sample. may be the end of the volcas, but as you mention at the end, it basically lives on in the behringer bolcas and roland rolcas. sick jams, especially with just the volca sample.
It's "Sample" not "Sampler" for a reason;)
Nice nod to Refused. I see you, Florian 🤘
you are good at making bad gear sound good. Well done !
I hope they continue to make more Volcas, I'd love to see an effects unit with sequencing, maybe a filter unit and vocorder unit, similar to the Alesis ModFX range. There are still ideas out there yet to be made.
The track is crazy. Full version would be nice
Volca Kick is one of the greatest synthesizers ever created by humans. It's got such a massive kick!
That one is thick!
@@AudioPilz indeed! Especially when used properly (with Boss DS-1 or similar pedal)
Yeah it's nice. However - rarely use it for kicks.
As a bass/sub bass synth...
Criminally overlooked.
Ooooooh, that's a lovely selection of anime in the Finale... Demon Slayer (TASTY!), Full Metal Alchemist, Hunter x Hunter, and a bunch of others.
This was my first synthesiser and I was disappointed to learn it could not record samples and that same level of disappointed continued throughout my GAS odyssey. Though learning it could do some granular synthesis was pretty cool.
Mad Props for the Refused reference
I WANNA A VOLCA SAMPLE FOR XMAS
I passed on the Volca Sample, but have been pondering ways to incorporate my Volca Bass (and FM2, though it's a bit easier) into a "small synth jam" since getting the equally small yet significantly more bassy Moog Minitaur.
Been awhile since I played the Volca Bass, so it threw me for a bit until I remembered the keyboard colors are reversed (or alternatively that the ribbon is black with the colored keys being gold), so I guess I agree with that Taken meme 😂
The sample transfer using audio just worked. I learned you have to turn the volca's volume down while transferring or the crosstalk corrupted it, never failed me again. No way the USB method is futureproof.
As slow as it is to load samples, it's funny listening back having owned one because it really has it's own weird sound to it. The third jam sounded really highlighted how nicely the crunchiness translates to a produced track. In 30 years maybe people will sell it for thousands for that "signature volca ADDA crunch" haha
If you'll ever get tired of reviewing "bad gear" or run out of hardware to test (most unlikely), please start doing AMVs like people did during RUclips's infancy because that montage (*nudge nudge*) was absolute fire!
I'm sure everyone that's owned the Sample v2 (myself included) will have a horror story about attempting to transfer samples to it
I still have PTSD from my first attempt...
True pain with getting samples on the Volca Sample 2 is that Korg's sample library software won't recognize it if there are too many other MIDI drivers on your computer (I think 10 or more MIDI slots is the limit).
Had a lot of fun with it once I just bumped the samples to another machine similar to your approach, but troubleshooting that whole process was a headache.
Such a PITA!
Really great jams throughout
I’m gonna need to hear the full length version of that final jam
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Hearing those factory samples is so jarring but you make good use of them. I would like to see them make a new Volca but I wouldn’t be hurt if they didn’t.
Damn, they are putting these on their grooveboxes since the 90s...
@ I’ve since replaced all the samples on my Volca Sample so it was funny to hear the “Say What” and others again.
DJ Sample Sloth loves this episode!
I thought the refused gif had me the best till I saw the pounding out beats on Uranus record cover😂
I’m still using my OG Volca Sample and Beats. Still waiting for that OG FM/FM2 comparison… and the OG Bass/NuBass Shootout.
I actually don’t have any problems now using the sample librarian.
I’m on an iMac M3.
I have 11 Volcas now. I can record them all at the same time using a couple of interfaces connected together with the adat jacks.
One can get an incredibly full sound with all of them playing together.
👍👍👍
Still here for that Volca Keys Reese bass...
I thought they would release the Mega Volca eventually with all of the features of them all in one unit?
They really got the most from their circuits with the Monotrons, Monotribes, Micro Bits and Volcas.
😎
i think korg still has a few left in them. they're just good enough at weird stuff but just big enough to make it stick
New Noise FTW. The Shape of Punk to Come changed my life lol
I dipped my toe into the electronic waters with one of these. I still think its a great little groovebox with its own personality (like the Volca Drum) and great fun to synch em both up and play some bass along with or record a few bars into the SP, whack thr Resonator and delay to eleventeen and see what ungoldy abominations emerge.
Look, all I want is a state of the art sampler (that can do lofi) with analogue filters, sixteen voice polyphony, processing and effects to rival the best virtual synths, rugged and ergonomic build, and for under two-hundred EUROs. Is this too much to ask?
Bwaha.. Refused clip made entirely too happy.
"Say what!" - me when I hear this is the last of the Volcas
Trying this at guitar center was hilarious cause i had to use my pinky fingers to hit the trigger pads and couldn't even twist the tiny knobs with my bratwurst sized fingers
I went for the OKGO one, anyone else?
Never seen that one in the flesh
i seriously considered it, for the memes
"Wolcas" Again, I'd love to watch a wersion of W for Wendetta overdubbed by a Belgian speaking English.
😂😂😂
@@AudioPilz Got me thinking Fozzie Bär was simply expressing his love for small Korgs.
The latest (3rd?) Dreadbox build kit is interesting, the NYX. Maybe you could cover that.
Goddamn the memes are banging on this one. Way too much funny.
VWolca -> Is that why it is presumably the last VWolca?? :P - Jokes aside - great video - AGAIN!
I want those Fallout Volcas. And hello kitty for missus.
When I started playing the video, I had a hard time pressing that like button right away because it was currently at 808...
All my gear is now officially Bad Gear!
Fantastic protobass finale
Unusually for me, I won't knock anyone who uses/has used Wolkas as their first inexpensive leap into the terrifying world of hardware synthage.
We were all noobs once, and probably made much worse decisions that cost a few hundred eurobux more.
Like the tsunami of cheap Uliware, it's all good for getting kids of all ages interested in creating their own music/noises/synthwibbles. Just like the MT32 and FB01 back in the stone age.
Retrokits made a midi interface cable so you can play chromatically. Works on the sample mk1 not sure for mk2
I owned the original Volca Sample where you had to generate data files over audio, which was absolutely diabolical. I can't believe they messed up the USB implementation, how hard can it be? It's a fun little box but, as you say, there are so many (superior) alternatives now...
The horror...
That Pineapple guy from Japan is an absolute beast with this machine
Absolutely!
Amazing volca pairing!