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[clownfool]

I'm just wondering what people are using the volcas for as far as what type or style of music you guys are making.



I'd like to see more posts of users songs they have made with just the volcas. Youtube links would be easy.

[CorpusCallosum]

I don't think that I make typical Volca music......I lean toward the psychedelic and live to do offbeat coves of rock tunes, downtempo jams, and a little electro-funk. I've got lots of live videos on my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNooj_v6AiSlISI2oQOVxA/videos

[clownfool]

[jiggityj]

[CorpusCallosum]

[CorpusCallosum]

[Butterfingersbeck]

I am a fairly old-skool/traditional musician. I'm a multi-instrumentalist with blues roots, playing mostly keyboards, bass guitar and electric upright bass.

I have experimented with the Volca Keys' sequencing and looping facilities, but my main use for it is with a 5-octave MIDI controller keyboard, as an ultra-cheap analogue lead synth. Sometimes I sync it to the MIDI out of my Fostex MR-8 digital multitrack, but usually I prefer to play it by hand.

Here is a blues improvisation with a Volca loop in 3/4 over a 4/4 drum pattern, and also some Volca Keys lead synth. Wurly piano is a Nord Electro 3 and the bass is my Stagg electric upright.
https://soundcloud.com/simon-beck-3/volca-shuffle

This is a pastiche of a 1960s spy-movie theme. Volca lead again, with a percussion loop programmed in HammerHead 1.0, Nord organ (no Leslie) and Mellotron strings, autoharp from an iPad app, the Stagg upright bass again, and a Squier Precision Bass Special played with a pick for the twangy lead.
https://soundcloud.com/simon-beck-3/one-of-our-agents

Finally, a short cover of Popcorn. All sounds apart from the drums are Volca Keys. I programmed six arpeggio loops, one for each chord, and "played" the memory buttons in real time. The bass line, melody and counter-melody were played by hand in real time, and for the middle 8 I switched to Poly mode. Drums were programmed in HammerHead 1.0 and arranged in Audacity.
https://soundcloud.com/simon-beck-3/popcorn
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[abersteve]

Hi here is a link to one I did, I like to make a variety of styles but this one had to be m.o.r analogue dub reggae, just how it turned out. It is rather long but I got sucked into the analogue vortex of repetitive riffs!

I used keys, and beats, monotribe, monotron delay and boss delay, behringer reverb and then alesis nanoverb on aux send/return into a wee behringer mixer into a digital recorder. The machines are very versatile and the sounds one can tease out of them are amazing!


https://soundcloud.com/bogilx/anadub
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[Butterfingersbeck]

Nice work, abersteve - sort of ambient/chillout dub. I like it. I have a Monotron Delay too, but I haven't recorded with it so far.
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[roblabs]

is it as noisy as the original monotron?

[Butterfingersbeck]

I have no experience of the original Monotron, but the Delay is very noisy indeed, probably because of the delay unit, a fault which it unfortunately shares with the Volca Keys. I briefly used my Monotron Delay as part of my stage rig, and the hiss from the Monotron through the PA made it unusable.
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[Butterfingersbeck]

Here is most of my gear. My main instruments are Wurlitzer electric piano (I used to play a real vintage one, but now I use the Nord Electro), organ, bass guitar and electric upright bass.

I do quite a bit of home recording, but when I play live (with a 10-piece reggae band called The Skanx) I just use the Nord Electro and the Stylophone S2.


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[CorpusCallosum]

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