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Philipsstep
Joined: 25 Oct 2013
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Location: Widnes uk
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 Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:06 am Post subject: Faulty volcas |
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| Have you an email i can send a video to just to show you regard steve, philipsstep@gmail.com |
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dswo
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This has been discussed on Muff's Modules as well: http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=82068&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=700. It might be your power supply OR it might be your audio output. Are you, by chance, combining two Volca outputs into one with a simple Y-splitter cable? Or are they going into a proper mixer?
(I haven't had this problem myself; all I know is what I read on the thread I linked to.) |
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Philipsstep
Joined: 25 Oct 2013
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Location: Widnes uk
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| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 7:54 pm Post subject: Volcas |
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| Ive got the 3 volcas, the beats, the bass and the keys, all going into a mixer, 1 channel each, ive been to dawsons thinking it was my psus, i let the shop check them out and they said the same as me, dodgy boards on all 3, i think im going to invest in 18 recargeable batteries, so i can just charge and play, cheers anyway mate regards anyway steve |
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brambos
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Posts: 147
Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Iirc the Monotribe could only be powered using Korg's own proprietary PSU model and not using third party power bricks. Not sure what was different about it and whether the same applies to the Volcas though... |
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analoguekid
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Joined: 11 Aug 2013
Posts: 177
Location: Staffordshire UK
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| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:28 pm Post subject: Re: Volcas |
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| Philipsstep wrote: | | Ive got the 3 volcas, the beats, the bass and the keys, all going into a mixer, 1 channel each, ive been to dawsons thinking it was my psus, i let the shop check them out and they said the same as me, dodgy boards on all 3, i think im going to invest in 18 recargeable batteries, so i can just charge and play, cheers anyway mate regards anyway steve |
Thats still worrying for me and running them constantly on Bats is a no no for me even if I did buy a load of rechargers, what happens if they go down half way through a track especially with the music I like to record being EM and Berlin school type stuff, 30-50 minute pieces, just getting stuff prepared and your half way through the juice on a set of batteries.
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Korg gear past and present:- DW6000, DW8000, MicroKorg, MicroKontrol, R3, Nintendo Korg DS10, VolcaKeys.
Other gear presently being used:- Tascam US1800 audio interface, Yamaha QX5, QX21, M Audio radium 49, Fender Precision lyte bass and Boss ME50B fx pedal. Yamaha TX1P, XRI xr300, Boss BX-4 mini mixer. |
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DrHoo
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Joined: 23 May 2010
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Location: North Wales, UK
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| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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The batteries die slowly too. The volca can get quieter slowly & you dont notice, then when you put fresh power to it...LOUD !!
I must be honest, my volca beats is redundant already. I modded it for the midi out & the individual outs because i thought it would make for a better unit but at the moment It's just a dust collector or i use it like a paper weight to hold a cable still.
Never say never i suppose.
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PB21
Joined: 11 Jun 2012
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tryy the playstation ps2 ac adaptor!
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salmon
Joined: 12 Mar 2014
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:23 pm Post subject: Re: Korg volca series |
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| Philipsstep wrote: | | Hi i bought the korg volka beats, bass and keys and thought wow they are wicked, battery driven analogue babies, wow i was made up, after about an hour of anologue mayhem, the batterys started to dwindle so i thought, ill go and buy 3 dc adaptors to run them at the cost of £40 , i thought once ive got them, ive got them, took the batterys out of all of them and plugged the 9v dc, they come on nicely i was buzzing , i started to play about again and in the middle of creating a wicked bass the bass went off! I thought wow whats happened? Checked the plug, all fine switched it back on and hey presto it sprung into life again, i touched the wire again and off it went, i tried the other two and hey presto it happened on those aswell, basically its batterys or your naffed, gutted, they dont run properly off the 9v dcs because if you move the wire on the 9v dc it just goes off, sort it out korg!!! Im gutted its took me a month to get them in the country and they are faulty out the box! Shocking! |
Same problem! Just got keys from BHphoto, also bought power supply they recommend. Sometimes volca shuts down when I put slight pressure to power plug in the direction opposite the keyboard. This can be as usual as moving the cable and it goes off... I am still testing, if I rotate the power plug I may not reproduce the problem. The power plug's inside +connector is not circular (opposite two pins), so maybe that moves about. BH says power adapter is Korg, but there is no "Korg" on the label, it feels quite cheap and it's not KA-350. However, KA-350 has the same connector. I'm in Canada so sending this back to BH is a problem... |
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