Retrokits RK-002 midi cable for Volca Sample

jreign · Post by **jreign** » Sat May 21, 2016 1:14 am

I'm sure you guys seen the Sonicstate video about this cable. Just ordered it and hoping I can use this with my Electribe Sampler and use just 1 midi channel to control the Volca in keyboard mode. Would be nice to use the Volca Sample for drum sounds and free up so much more polyphony on the Electribe.

If you haven't seen the vid, here it is:
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captain johnson · Post by **captain johnson** » Tue May 24, 2016 9:13 am

it's amazing!! however, would the Arp midi work with Volca bass or just sample???

tsutek · Post by **tsutek** » Wed May 25, 2016 9:36 am

I have the cable and have been thinking about this as well. But will the track mutes from the volca samp work with incoming MIDI? Otherwise you can't do detailed midi muting, if you can only control the mutes from the electribe..

I have the cable and use it with a beatstep pro, works perfectly

sharps030 · Post by **sharps030** » Thu May 26, 2016 3:57 am

Electribe 2 / Electribe sampler already work pretty well with the volca sample - the electribe maps 16 midi channels to it's 16 pads when in Trigger mode, which works well with the sample's channel-per-sample midi implementation.

Rashk · Post by **Rashk** » Thu May 26, 2016 6:42 pm

Cool stuff, thanks!

Dragan · Post by **Dragan** » Tue May 31, 2016 6:47 pm

This cable puts the Volca Sample in a new perspective! Thanks for sharing!

loveliesbleeding · Post by **loveliesbleeding** » Tue May 31, 2016 9:57 pm

This is really cool! I actually had no idea it existed, so I had already written an Ableton Live plugin in Max that does this, but the cable would be much handier.

eqverb · Post by **eqverb** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 1:01 am

Ordering this week. I sold my Electribe Sampler had high hopes for the Volca
Sample now this with my BSP pefect combo.

StormJH1 · Post by **StormJH1** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:05 pm

I just ordered an RK-002 and received it today! I own the Sample, and have the Volca FM on the way (next week, hopefully). I was actually a little on the fence about the FM, but the fact that this cable is a thing that exists made the FM suddenly look a lot more appealing. It's arguably even more amazing for the Sample, adding both individual channel mapping AND pitch control for a designated sample onto the same keyboard!

One concern I do have - how easy is it to use the WebMIDI editor to change the settings of the cable? I have a CME XKey37 as my primary keyboard to control Volcas. Not clear on how I will physically connect this to a computer to use the editor. Do I need to buy one of those MIDI to USB dongles, or can I access it through my XKey somehow?

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