Information on How the Volca Kick Works.

volca_dude · Post by **volca_dude** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:01 pm

So, it's my understanding that the volca kick is a striped down version of the MS-20 synth. I think Tatsuya has done something special in bringing this project to the music-marketplace. I detail my views on the Volca Kick here.

http://volcastudio.com/how-volca-kick-works/

slug · Post by **slug** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:18 am

The Kick contains one resonant filter from the MS20, you are going too far to call the Kick a "stripped down version of MS20". You could more accurately describe the Kick by saying it contains "one circuit stripped from MS20".

volca_dude · Post by **volca_dude** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:42 am

slug wrote:The Kick contains one resonant filter from the MS20, you are going too far to call the Kick a "stripped down version of MS20". You could more accurately describe the Kick by saying it contains "one circuit stripped from MS20".

You are forgetting about the rev. 02 filter too.

megamarkd · Post by **megamarkd** » Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:24 am

I own an original MS-20 with the original dirtier-than-a-sailor's-mouth filters. The Volca Kick definitely doesn't use that LP filter. The kicks I can make on my MS-20 are way crunchier and nastier than anything I can elicit out of the VKick. Not to say the VKick is bad because of that, it's a permanent part of my sound now, just it's a way more polite version of what can be done on an MS-20. There are other factors to the VKick that make it it's own machine though, like the attack transient control. Can't get that out of an MS-20.