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carreg_cennen · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:57 am Post subject: Tracks using Volca Series

Not sure if there is already a topic for this (I couldn't find one!) but how about posting links to any tracks you have made using the volca series
here's mine to kick it off :
https://soundcloud.com/bensell
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https://soundcloud.com/bensell

Mr NOYJ · Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 32 Location: Brighton

OK, I'll take the plunge!

I'm working on ten sketches / pieces using the analogue Volcas (I have a Sample too and have recorded some ideas, but not used any in finished tracks yet). First three analogue ideas lurking here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWi011AohL1FZIGhf4J55A

https://noyj.bandcamp.com/

pfontaine2 · Joined: 18 Oct 2012 Posts: 26 Location: Westchester, NY

Wow...awesome work from the two of you. A request though. Could you leave some information regarding how these were recorded. Where these recorded live or done as overdubs? Any external effects?
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Mr NOYJ · Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 32 Location: Brighton

Thanks pfontaine2. In my case, I'm not a live music-maker, so for these tracks I recorded individual patterns / sequences / notes either straight into my DAW (Pro-Tools) or into a digital recorder, then stitched them together / edited them, etc in Pro-Tools. There is minimal effect processing going on (bits of reverb, distortion, the odd reversing of a line or sound here and there), but nothing else. The vital thing for me in doing these Volca pieces is to have no other sound source than those provided by these great little machines. They're pretty much my first foray into hardware...

carreg_cennen · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:31 pm Post subject:

My recording setup is pretty basic I'm using a Soundlab G105DA mixer (a bit noisy but only cost me £6) direct into the Pc which has Yamaha sw1000xg soundcard and XG-works as a sequencer / digital recorder. In most cases the only sequencing is done by the volcas and then recorded as one take , in other cases I have recorded a track at a time adding samples. the latest one (dance like you mean it) was just a single take recorded live from the volcas then the vocal samples added to a second track afterwards

The final mix is then recorded into audacity for compression, normalization and fades etc.

Audacity is pretty flexible for recording stuff and I'm going to use it to prepare some samples for loading into the volca sample which is proving to be better than expected!
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carreg_cennen · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:37 pm Post subject:

Mr NOYJ · Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 32 Location: Brighton

You don't have the Bass? What are you doing your lovely fat bass lines with - the Keys? I'd say you didn't need a Bass if so! The Bass was the first one I got - I was attracted by the polymetric possibilities and the fact that each oscillator can be tuned differently (all great, although you can't make each one sound different).

I'm loving the Sample - it's too tempting to try and build up entire tracks at the expense of using anything else though - I often build my music up to sound too muddy cos of all the detail in it at the best of times - so some self-restraint is needed! The scope of the thing is endless... (Unlike the Beats.) I'm currently making ambient patterns out of all manner of samples, including little loops I've made in Caustic that I don't know what else to do with. Eventually there'll be some Sample stuff uploaded Smile

What are you doing with yours at the moment?

sjonp · Joined: 20 Oct 2011 Posts: 19 Location: San Mateo, CA

Hi,

I recorded this track live last Halloween using the Volca Bass, Beats & Keys mixed with a Belkin Rock Star plugged into and recorded on a Kaoss Pad Mini KP2. I added ambient talking filter effects from the KP2 after recording.

https://soundcloud.com/sjon-pelletier/headless-horsemanwav

Best,

Sjon

carreg_cennen · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:08 pm Post subject:

carreg_cennen · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Tracks Using Volca Series

sjonp · Joined: 20 Oct 2011 Posts: 19 Location: San Mateo, CA

Thank you, carreg_cennen! I was just loving your Volca track, Hypnotic!

bretik · Joined: 25 Aug 2011 Posts: 6

My EP "rules of randomness" - recorded live with korg volca beats/bass/keys
Available here: http://bretikov.bandcamp.com
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palsen · Joined: 27 Mar 2015 Posts: 5

Here’s one without much further effects, https://soundcloud.com/johaneckerstrom/house-of-missiles. Compared to a lot of other music made with these modules, this is less of an improvised jam and perhaps somewhat more structured, although minimal and short in length.

All instruments are sculpted on the volca bass and keys (drums from Roland TR-707). The tracks were made differently, i.e. recorded live, programmed in Step Mode, and then resampled.

Mr NOYJ · Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 32 Location: Brighton

Here are the latest two instalments of NOYJ volcanalogue ear candy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeexQzN22Ss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RzrEQ6n44I

https://noyj.bandcamp.com/music

Disc · Joined: 16 Mar 2014 Posts: 5

https://soundcloud.com/slinkydisc/two-bass-synths-walk-into-a-bar

Still trying to get the cleanest recording out of audacity and still learning but I am happy with the results. Smile

It does have moog in it but the volca is the star.