Firmware update requests

Starspawn · Post by **Starspawn** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 1:30 am

tsutek wrote: * Increased parameter range for Delay Time (need smaller values to enable mooreverb-esque reverbs, longer values most likely impossible due to lack of RAM?)

If you use tempo delay the delay time knob still works relative to that timing, so on 10 BPM you get max near 3 seconds of crushed sounding delay.

StepLogik · Post by **StepLogik** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:47 pm

I think any sort of song or chaining mode is probably too much to ask. Song mode and/or chaining requires extra memory and a considerable amount of additional firmware programming (which will use up more ROM space which may or may not be available).

Instead, what would be useful and flexible is for each Volca to receive MIDI SONG SELECT. This would allow external sequencers or MIDI controllers to remotely select the currently playing pattern thus making it easier to chain patterns or sequence patterns as per a song mode. Live performers could use Ableton-style controllers to easily group/chain/sequence patterns across multiple volcas or other devices.

This should be a very simple firmware code change and would not require any additional memory/storage utilization.

fant0mas · Post by **fant0mas** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:24 pm

sort of makes me hope that someone might crack the actual CODE of the firmware, so we can load custom firmware-mods onto the Volcas...

(then again, I don´t even know if this is possible without knowing the exact architecture of the chips they used. my dad once told me that ICs are nearly impossible to reverse-engineer...)

Mr. Funktone · Post by **Mr. Funktone** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:10 pm

I think some people are forgetting that these machines are extremely good value for money and are excellent for performance and in my experience excellent for use in productions. What Korg have done it brilliant, enjoy them and learn to use them as best you can. I have all three and have done live sets improvising and writing patterns as I go along

analoguekid · Post by **analoguekid** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:34 am

Mr. Funktone wrote:I think some people are forgetting that these machines are extremely good value for money and are excellent for performance and in my experience excellent for use in productions. What Korg have done it brilliant, enjoy them and learn to use them as best you can. I have all three and have done live sets improvising and writing patterns as I go along

I agree, they are great cheap little toys and should be used as such, maybe when they bring the bigger versions out in a few years time all these issues will be gone, but also the cost will then put them in a market against a lot of other bigger things to, so enjoy them for what they are, easy to use analogue goodness that's currently unrivaled anywhere

fant0mas · Post by **fant0mas** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:47 pm

Just because we have suggestions for improvements or features we wish were there, does not mean we don´t appreciate the value of these little gems just the same, MrFunktone

Mr. Funktone · Post by **Mr. Funktone** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:07 am

fant0mas wrote:Just because we have suggestions for improvements or features we wish were there, does not mean we don´t appreciate the value of these little gems just the same, MrFunktone

I know and I didn't mean to come across all holy than thou or preacher type. My point is they are what they are. I could wish my missus had DD's rather than C cup. I could wish my pet cat could go fetch me my paper in the morning and not pee under the stairs when it's a storm but these things aren't going to happen. I love them all the same

Picking up on the previous statement made I honestly don't think there toys. I'm using them in tracks and boy do they sound good. Once again Korg have nailed it. Love you Korgy baby!!! Xxx

Houseghosts · Post by **Houseghosts** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:16 am

i think one of the most useful features on the keys sequencer is the ability to halve and quarter the tempo of the sequence without quantization.
This brings up a couple of questions

1: do the bass and beats have enough memory to increase the resolution of the sequencer?
2: what are the absolute resolutions of the sequencers/ are they the same?(i doubt it)
2: could the bass and beats be updated to do time divisions i.e. 1/2, 2x tempo or 1/4, 4x tempo even with the quantization?
controlled by something like FUNC+TEMPO where >12 oclock was 1/1 and <12 oclock was 1/2 time or some other clock division?

i feel like clock div/mult on the bass/beats hardware could be possible but maybe its wishful thinking.
any thoughts?

Houseghosts · Post by **Houseghosts** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 2:31 am

another thing.
I'm paraphrasing here but the engineer Tatsuya Takahashi has said that the volcas are "not a platform".
However if the sales figures for the volcas are high enough, would it not be viable to fund development of new firmware by the release/sale of weird custom firmware/overlays.
they could do it through mobile apps.
seems like itd be hotcakes to me.

elpiulas · Post by **elpiulas** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:09 am

For me, I Think that the most needed feature update is PATTERN CHAIN or at least ONE KEY PATTERN CHANGE.

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:52 pm

Houseghosts wrote:another thing.
I'm paraphrasing here but the engineer Tatsuya Takahashi has said that the volcas are "not a platform".
However if the sales figures for the volcas are high enough, would it not be viable to fund development of new firmware by the release/sale of weird custom firmware/overlays.
they could do it through mobile apps.
seems like itd be hotcakes to me.

I think if the sales are high enough - and in my opinion they already are, look at the bottom of the units, the model numbers here in the US are well over the 30,000s already, and who knows how high they are worldwide - they will instead introduce "pro" models. Firmware can only provide so much more functions.

haj · Post by **haj** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:31 am

I really want some way to transpose the key instantly. Even just only with it, you could perform a song like play much easier. You could use the pulse LFO to the pitch but that's far from usable.