Looking for Mods on the Volca Kick

[volca_dude]

Last week I took the time to open up the volca kick and search for places to add mods. So, i am going to do the MIDI OUT. I took video of the teardown. You can watch it here. https://youtu.be/27ECoje2qWY. If you guys have ideas on cool modifications for the Kick, let me know.

[eowyn]

Hi, I recently got the Volca Kick as well. Did you succeed with the midi out mod? I'm curious whether it sends out the touch fx over midi, which would be awesome!

[Viaren]

If you need a good way to make the hack without drilling a hole into the device then check out my blog. I did the mod to the volca FM and also to my Kick exactly the same way. For the Volca Kick, it will send you midi cc's, but the notes are quite strange. Every note is a C note, but every key on the keyboard has its own midi channel, from 1-16. Volca FM does not do this strange thing.

My wishes for a mod would be to install a pitch LFO to get some earthquake kicks.

My blog:
https://123fixblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/volca-fm/

[megamarkd]

If you need a good way to make the hack without drilling a hole into the device then check out my blog. I did the mod to the volca FM and also to my Kick exactly the same way. For the Volca Kick, it will send you midi cc's, but the notes are quite strange. Every note is a C note, but every key on the keyboard has its own midi channel, from 1-16. Volca FM does not do this strange thing.

My wishes for a mod would be to install a pitch LFO to get some earthquake kicks.

My blog:
https://123fixblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/volca-fm/

That is strange, considering that addressing it via MIDI it behaves like a melodic instrument and can be played as one would a regular keyboard instrument.

Which CC's are transmitted? I can't see how any of the touch fx would do anything outside it's own box, you would need something that behaves exactly like the VKick with exactly the same parameters set to exactly the same CC's, but if they do send CC's on various channels, it could make for an odd controller worth experimenting with on different machines.

[Viaren]

control cc's are transmited on the midi channel that v. kick is listening to with the same parameters as the ones from midi implementation chart. I did not try with the touch fx, but I dont think they will send cause they are not in the implementation chart if i am not wrong.

[megamarkd]

Cheers for that. It would be logical that only the CC's it responds to are transmitted. I couldn't imagine they'd run stuff that they couldn't respond to. But then again, we are talking about MIDI, which has had some very strange implementations over the years.

[jimib07]

Check it out here, he says that if he get enough likes he will post a how to vid. Anyone else know how to do this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFeZ1S ... QQ&index=1

Thanks, Jim

[Viaren]

Check it out here, he says that if he get enough likes he will post a how to vid. Anyone else know how to do this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFeZ1S ... QQ&index=1

Thanks, Jim

Not shure what he did, or what the result is. However in the comments there is a guy that say you can do the same thing by adding some decay and then go right with the tone/rev02 konb. That sounds about right because I have no problems replicating that sound in the vid.

[Viaren]

Hey check my blog for Volca Kick mod!
https://123fixblog.wordpress.com/2019/0 ... olca-kick/

[XYNTAXIS]

Hey check my blog for Volca Kick mod!
https://123fixblog.wordpress.com/2019/0 ... olca-kick/

Thank you for instruction! Will try it soon