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I have an Electribe ESX-1 SD. For various reasons I currently need to use an old, simple sequencer software called SEQ24 . I want to sequence changes in the FX settings of the ESX-1 parts. It seems I managed to do it, but I'm still a bit confused. I've assigned 3 different MIDI channels to Drum Part ...

The easier way to upload patches to the Volca FM is the "DX7 Bank Individual Patch Extractor (and sender)" HTML tool by Retrokits: https://www.retrokits.com/rk002/settings/kfm/patches.html It runs in a web page, so no setup is needed (but requires internet connection). Also see this thread .

I've put together a programming guide for the Volca FM since Korg did not put out any information on programming it. This guide was created with the help of the DX7 manual, but is specific to the Volca FM. Let me know if anyone finds it useful and/or give constructive criticism. Here is a link to ...

The Transpose slider has a total range of 6 octaves, that is from +3 to -3.

Is it at all possible to incorporate a step mode? remember that you can work around the lack of a real step mode by using Active Step: - disable all active steps except the first one - start recording - insert the desired note(s) - disable the first active step; enable the following one, and so on ...

I have no answer yet, but thanks for pointing out this video. If you don't get useful replies here, consider asking directly Cuckoo on social networks (http://www.cuckoo.no).

And I had some extra noise coming from a Microbrute. I just had to open the unit and shift one of the cables a bit and it was gone If I had unexpectedly loud noise from more than one instrument, I'd make sure the root cause isn't in the local environment. Electric interferences are always possible ...

tl;dr: it's by design. This dialogue between Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) and Tatsuya Takahashi (ex Korg engineer) was enlightening to me. I found the whole interview to be incredibly interesting. RDJ: with the volca fm, you also managed to turn the lack of velocity per note into a bonus [again ...

(let's try to stay in topic :) - to upload DX7 patches to the Volca FM please use this thread ) For those having issues when updating, some info from the official instructions: Update may fail with some audio players, computers or software. If this is the case, please try with a different device ...

Quite fascinating to update your hardware by using... .WAV files! I'd like to learn more about those 1.03 changes: "Fixed EG4 implementation" and "Fixed edit range of Key Velocity Sense". Does anyone know what exactly changed? It seems that my Volca FM is running an even newer firmware (1.04). Such ...

I confirm that I get sound even with all operators turned off. This behaviour looks confusing and incorrect to me, but I'm still a bit new to FM synthesis. Similarly to what OpAmp suggested, the most effective way not to get any sound or modulation from an operator seems to disable it (or set ...

It'd be great if you wrote a quick report about how that works.

(otherwise maybe let's delete this thread?)

According on my needs I use 1) Dexed (VST plugin) 2) DX7 Bank Individual Patch Extractor (and sender) (HTML tool by Retrokits) 3) FMFriend (HTML tool by Foldplop) 1) Dexed is a great VST plugin that allows you to - create/edit patches in a neat, visual way - rename patches and organize them in banks ...

(I'll call sequences "patterns") You can play 2 or more patterns in sequence, but they need to be adiacent. To do that, held the Memory button down, then select the first and the last pattern you want to play. Example: select pattern 2 and pattern 5 to play in sequence patterns 2,3,4 and 5 ...