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Olivander12 · Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2011 Posts: 347

I am feeling exactly the same about the Volcas as the OP does. I was wondering if anybody could tell me about his experiences with BPM set to half/ or even quartertime, which theoretically makes 2 or 4 bars possible. A basic house beat is still possible, since you can put a kick on every quarter note and a snare on note 2 and 4, but does not that sounds very boring? Or is there even a way to "fake" shorter notes with bpm quartered?

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teknoid · Joined: 28 May 2012 Posts: 37

@ re member

I have a right to state my opinion, Specially when it is critique in order to try to make a product better.

Have you any idea what a forum is for, next to 'showing off' your 'gearlist', singing for own church or starting little ego wars?

A strange forum it would be where you can not state your complaints and wishes.

I think I already dismissed all your clumsy 'workarounds'.
From all your comments in this thread I still have to see the first usefull, informed, relevant and adult contribution from you.

For the rest of us please keep it technical.

I guess the interview, event though very carefully and politicly handled by Korg Volca designer Tatsuya Takahashi, still has raised some hopes or expectations, at least by me...

Let's hope Korg still implements this feature, and make the Volca line really legendary...

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roblabs · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:08 am Post subject:

I just want to add this: so many people always have something to complain about. Do I wish the Volcas had song mode? Of course I do. Do I wish they had fine tuning, a step edit where you could change the note you want like you can on electribes? You bet. Do I wish they had a plethora of other features? Certainly. But the fact is, these are devices for $150 (USD). How much do you really expect them to do? For what you're paying, I think they're fantastic. You can't get everything for next to nothing, sorry. And because we post some suggestions for workarounds doesn't make us fanboys or suckas or whatever you want to write us off as. We're just being realistic, and working with what we have around us. What's funny is back in the day, you'd never get updates for products, it was sold as is, quirks and all. Know what you're getting into before buying anything.

teknoid · Joined: 28 May 2012 Posts: 37

I know some people always have something to complain about. Of course I could think of more extra functions, but i don't. And never did.
I really had my hopes up for this one: a simple pattern chain for two patterns would suffice.

brambos · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:38 am Post subject:

SMK · Platinum Member Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1197

One reason I'm saying no to the Volca Sampler: *Sample input only possible via special iOS app.

Come on Korg...an input is cheaper than an USB input.
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ShoNuff · Full Member Joined: 27 Oct 2014 Posts: 221

hang on..i'm with teknoid on this. 'goddamn loopy' isn't negative,
it's a fact. the lack of a way to build a track will result in fairly
simplistic, and above all temporary compositions, that you can't
correct after recording, which was always the problem with
instruments with limited midi(unless you had a multitrack)

the result is that things get a bit same-y quickly. don't get me wrong,
i love these volcas, but there are frustrations beyonf the appeal of
the original concept, which is, in practice, a bit simplistic.

on the other hand, too many features, and you get lost in detail.

one way round this problem is to fit midi out to all of them, and
get them to send their midi to a master sequencer, whence will
be sent back out to them their midi. eg: get a qy70 (or something
a bit more immediate, like your computer) - in this role, you get all
the benefit of realtime writing of MIDI, and the immediacy of these
sequencers.

and another solution to the song mode problem could be quite easily
resolved by assigning each pattern to a midi address, such as a program
change#. all the addresses already exist, and if the midi implementation
is as complete as is suggested by the Keys' ability to receive CC#s, it
should be pretty easy to rewrite things for a future update. almost no
excuse not to do it. i even wonder if the cpu could not be exploited to
provide more memory locations for more patterns (9-16? bank2?).
button combinations can do this.

on another note, i've discovered something that's a bit of a p*ss-off:
if you slave eg: Beats to MIDI start/stop/clock, and sync-chain the
others to it, they do not start.stop with MIDI. at least this is what i was
getting, maybe i did something wrong. you'd have to have each one
MIDI'ed up to do this.