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analoguekid

Joined together in matrimony LOL

https://soundcloud.com/analoguekid-1/expanse
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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.

roblabs · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:50 am Post subject:

great track. it always amazes me, too, how much you can get out of the ds10 for such an "inexpensive" synth.

analoguekid · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:44 pm Post subject:

fant0mas · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 60

Speaking of Sync:

It should be possible (though I haven´t tested it myself yet), to sync the Keys (as a slave) to the DS-10.

Don´t know if you used that yet, since I´m at work and cannot listen to the soundcloud right now.

But in case you didn't know - you can sacrifice one channel in DS10 (preferably one of the 4 drum tracks) to output the "rapidlyclicking"-Sync-Audio Signal that the Volcas can interpret as clock!

The way to output this is via a Y-Splitter cable, and then pan the "sync" signal from the DS10 all the way to the Right or Left channel, so that it gets its output only through one of the Y-Split´s ends, and pan the rest of the signals all the way to the other side and output that through the remaining Y-Split cable.

I´ve been toying with that idea for a while, but I sync my volcas to my electribe ES-1 via MIDI (that way I can start/stop all 4 of them by pressing Play on the ES1 !) Wink

analoguekid · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:39 pm Post subject:

fant0mas · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 60

well I don´t think the audio-sync will START the connected volca, but it will surely keep its clock in sync with the DS10´s internal clock.
you´d have to manually press start/stop, but in my experience, they will sync up even if you miss the beat by a little bit.

and you could chain more volcas out of the keys then, of course!

but yeah, you got the general idea - one channel (left) carrying the sync signal, the other (right) going to the mixer with the remaining "real" audio.

EDIT:
a thing you´ll have to figure out in order for them to sync, though, would be:
the volcas need a special polarity of the sync signal (off/on as opposed to on/off, or vice versa!).

But there IS a youtube-tutorial or something for that. should be able to find it by searching for "ds10 sync volca" or something. I´m 100% certain that I´ve seen it somewhere.

analoguekid · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:00 pm Post subject:

fant0mas · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 60

no problem - please report back with any issue and/or success you have with this! Wink

analoguekid · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:11 pm Post subject:

fant0mas · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 60

by the way - I didn´t want to start a whole new topic for this, because it really isn´t that special (yet) - here´s what me and my friend did with my setup I described above.

this video is the two of us just noodlin around on the Korg Family. nothing special, and almost entirely improvised - so please forgive us for the lack of "drama". we´re aware of that and are working hard to improve ourselves.

just thought it might be interesting for you guys - I´m not really promoting this video anywhere else Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag82Nv59qoA

analoguekid · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:44 pm Post subject:

analoguekid · Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:00 pm Post subject:

fant0mas · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 60

that´s great news - yeah, I think I will have the same problem, most Y-splits generally duplicate the signal.

probably easier to go for a stereo to 2x cinch cable and work with adapters or something.

do you remember how you set up the sync signal?
wasn´t it like a perfect square wave running at 16th notes (so effectively acting as 32nd notes pulse?)?

I still haven´t been able to find that video I mentioned earlier O_ô
did you?

analoguekid · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:37 pm Post subject:

fant0mas · Junior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 60

yeah true, I prefer MIDI sync over the CV/sync thing as well, because it allows me to just hit play on one device and not having to worry about being a fraction off a beat too late or anything.