These videos are great, and enthusiastic as well. I'm glad someone is trying to educate, and not showing off a level of talent that makes me want to trade in my synth for a bottle of whiskey and a rope
I am reading the Tony Horgan book and I think I remember reading that " Func" key and 13 gives a metronome. However I am wet behind the ears with all this and have a lot to learn. I really appreciate your videos in demonstrating to us how to use it. I am an oldie ( really old) so am pleased that others don't find it so straight forward!,, You have made a lot clear to me now. Now I understand how a step sequencer works and basically how the Volga Beats works. I just need to DO IT. Thanks a lot. Pete
These videos are great Marc! I've watched so much stuff on these volcas, I think ugh.... No more! But you make it fun. All over again! Thank you for making this series! Hopefully mine will arrive next week!
Let me just add that you can change the sound while tr style recording by hitting the part up and down. Saving you from coming in and out of step and play mode... What I haven't figured out is how to permanently erase the presets and permanently store your own. Just got this sucker, and you save me from reading the manual! GREAT VIDEOS! You are my goto guy!
I love this thing so fun and easy to use almost like an easier version of more expensive complex drum machines! I love to play with this and then sample to my Elektron Octatrack and then mangle the drum samples further. I was thinking of getting a bigger more expensive drum machine but after getting this, I feel no need to waste money on one!
The step mode is actually pretty standard, it is featured on most drum machines since the x0x series. The 3rd way of recording beats is certainly more adapted to a bass-line thing like a 303 or... the volca bass :) Awesome gear anyway, thanks for your cool demos
A partial solution in some situations could be to run the sync-in of the Volca Beats off something giving a straight tempo and build a "swing box" to put in between which takes the straight tempo and gives a swing one (the amount of swing controlled by a knob). This would probably be an unorthodox setup but it could work for someone.
I wasn’t frustrated, because it was still a good video, but I DID watch this because I thought it would be about how this person recorded their made beats to a DAW, lol. I just bought a 3.5mm male to 1/4in female adapter & I’m gonna do it that way. OR I might just buy that MIDI Out mod I’ve seen online, haha.
Do you run from your headphone out straight to your audio interface? When I tried to record the Korg last night, the signal was very weak. Any tips on that?
Use a DI! Balances the signal so there's less resistance. If you don't have one, a high Z option on one of your interface's channels should do the trick too.
has anyone ever tried recording a volca drum pattern into fl studio? i recently got a microkorg and im lookin to get a volca to make beats with but was curious if i could hook this up to my computer software
So this kind of like a 606 then. X0x sequencers have been around for years. They do sound robotic, that is their beauty, just ask electro or house. One judge omission here, that is a del breaker for me on a TR style sequencer is...NO SWING ? WTH Korg ? Swing on a drum machine ibises it its character :(
These videos are great, and enthusiastic as well. I'm glad someone is trying to educate, and not showing off a level of talent that makes me want to trade in my synth for a bottle of whiskey and a rope
Ha ha, thank you!
I am reading the Tony Horgan book and I think I remember reading that " Func" key and 13 gives a metronome.
However I am wet behind the ears with all this and have a lot to learn.
I really appreciate your videos in demonstrating to us how to use it.
I am an oldie ( really old) so am pleased that others don't find it so straight forward!,,
You have made a lot clear to me now.
Now I understand how a step sequencer works and basically how the Volga Beats works.
I just need to DO IT.
Thanks a lot.
Pete
Great videos! Thanks for posting them they are still handy a decade later
These videos are great Marc! I've watched so much stuff on these volcas, I think ugh.... No more! But you make it fun. All over again! Thank you for making this series! Hopefully mine will arrive next week!
While in step mode you can move right and left thru instruments by using the step arrow buttons.
i dig your passion man!!! thanks for these tutorials, they changed my world!!!!!
Can't wait to see more of your series on these!
Let me just add that you can change the sound while tr style recording by hitting the part up and down. Saving you from coming in and out of step and play mode... What I haven't figured out is how to permanently erase the presets and permanently store your own. Just got this sucker, and you save me from reading the manual! GREAT VIDEOS! You are my goto guy!
I love this thing so fun and easy to use almost like an easier version of more expensive complex drum machines! I love to play with this and then sample to my Elektron Octatrack and then mangle the drum samples further. I was thinking of getting a bigger more expensive drum machine but after getting this, I feel no need to waste money on one!
the part buttons are the least used buttons on this thing. Much more fun to go in and out of step mode!
Really appreciate the in depth tutorial with some humor in it, thanks!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for putting together these awesome tutorials brother.
your voice reminds me of Brian the dog from Family Guy:) Great videos dude!
+Mihail Mihaylov I am honored! Thank you!
The step mode is actually pretty standard, it is featured on most drum machines since the x0x series. The 3rd way of recording beats is certainly more adapted to a bass-line thing like a 303 or... the volca bass :)
Awesome gear anyway, thanks for your cool demos
Great video, Marc. Could you please do a video (or a series) on the Dave Smith TETR4? There just aren't enough good videos on that thing.
You're a great teacher. Bravo!
Thank you!
This video make my day!thank you!
A partial solution in some situations could be to run the sync-in of the Volca Beats off something giving a straight tempo and build a "swing box" to put in between which takes the straight tempo and gives a swing one (the amount of swing controlled by a knob).
This would probably be an unorthodox setup but it could work for someone.
This video made me wanna buy it!
I just did!
Sounds dope yo
Thanx Marc to learn me something about this nice device.I hope that you too have already learnt something from a video that I made:-) Greetz
the volca series is on my short list.
RAD.great job dude, thanks!
You don’t have to leave step mode to swap parts. There’s a part left and right button just about the step mode button :)
Thank GOD you told me nearly a decade later
😂
The Volca keys has a metronome. Don't have one yet, but saw it in another vid.
good video dude
Very helpful...but the video doesn't actually show how to record the beats, its explains how to create them. So I was a bit frustrating.
+Thomas Pappon How could I possibly portray how to record beats? Everyone has a different means of recording...
Sorry, it was a misunderstanding...what I meant was that you did not show how to 'store' a beat
+Thomas Pappon It has 8 memory locations. It's using the memory, function and step buttons.
I wasn’t frustrated, because it was still a good video, but I DID watch this because I thought it would be about how this person recorded their made beats to a DAW, lol.
I just bought a 3.5mm male to 1/4in female adapter & I’m gonna do it that way. OR I might just buy that MIDI Out mod I’ve seen online, haha.
Do you run from your headphone out straight to your audio interface? When I tried to record the Korg last night, the signal was very weak. Any tips on that?
Use a DI! Balances the signal so there's less resistance. If you don't have one, a high Z option on one of your interface's channels should do the trick too.
very helpful, thanks!
+Allan Kingdom Thanks for watching!
I bet that you could make a pretty close replica of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing"-percussion with this little beast =)
how much volca series cost?
has anyone ever tried recording a volca drum pattern into fl studio? i recently got a microkorg and im lookin to get a volca to make beats with but was curious if i could hook this up to my computer software
Aaaand, at 7:00, Marc manages to fail at failing. I've clearly had far too much coffee, because I found this disproportionately amusing.
you can add some swing using Synckontrol :P
The full series would run you about $450 US before tax, they're $150 each
So this kind of like a 606 then. X0x sequencers have been around for years. They do sound robotic, that is their beauty, just ask electro or house. One judge omission here, that is a del breaker for me on a TR style sequencer is...NO SWING ? WTH Korg ? Swing on a drum machine ibises it its character :(
I like robotic
If only this had a MIDI out, I don't like the snare, it'd be cool to integrate the Nord Drum into this.
The 606 doesn't have swing either.
Hummm... T.J. Miller anyone?
I didnt know Ryan Reynolds did TH-cam videos
That's why they're the best.
that's sort of the point of a drum machine. robot drummer.
Sorry, ipad fail, but yeah no swing pfff no buy., sorry Korg