Great video for getting started, thanks! Incremental info like this awesome; it's nice to take breaks from learning every single feature to stop and have fun with the thing.
Love it, thank u so much!! Bought one today, my first little jamming toy and this is exactly what I needed to get started and not be intimidated. I very much chuckled with u at the pitched down voice. Your delivery couldn't be better.
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Thanks for your tutorial. I am having trouble finding information on one thing though, there are 100 sample spaces, but 10 pads. how do you assign a sample too a certain pad? every tutorial i watch just uses the pad default sound. obviously I mean on the volca. I can go into vosyr and put certain samples into 1- 10 . how to spin the sample knob and assign that to a pad? Thanks again! Mark the Hermit
If by 'channel' you mean 'part' (1 of the 10 sample slots), then no, I don't think there's a way to factory reset each part. If you need to start from scratch, just set all the knobs to a neutral position (far right for most of them, far left for a few), and pick a new sample.
@@minimal.camera actually meant one of the 16 banks that you save your pieces to. Like if I erased one of the stock loops that I was using as a skeleton for a custom one. I'd like to use all 16 of those to make one long loop but I don't want to lose the cool ones that came with it either
brillianty mate, i've had this bugger for ages, never got my head around it, not sure why, maybe i'm just a bit dim sometimes, this vid sorted me right out, now i got it, derrrrr jim nice but dim, not to bright, thanks much appreciated,
Just got mine today. Thanks for the tutorial. Really well explained. What did you use for lighting please? I think we are already spoilt for choice with 99 friggin sapmples. I reckon 6 will do! Look how Tagahashi morphed a piano sound to a drum beat!!! With all those knobs pactically any drum sound can be made? I also have the Volca drums. Its a hard choice between the two I think? Great video and thanks again.
@@petercane6376 For a tutorial video like this, I try to use more diffuse lighting so there aren't any harsh shadows making it difficult to see the device. A softbox is ideal, but I don't have one, so I generally go a bit simpler and just bounce a strong point source light off the ceiling, and then turn on some overhead lighting as well to improve the overall exposure. Its fine to use multiple light sources, just pay attention to the shadows, and try to minimize them as much as you can.
@@minimal.camera I really appreciate you taking time out to answer my question so big thanks. We look at all these You Tubes and no one gives a thought to what goes on behind the scenes. Lighting is important you never "get it" till you have tried it!. I have two whopping led search lights mounted on a wooden boom about half a metre above the surface. Its a bit bright but I will see how it comes out. Thanks again bud.
@@petercane6376 My pleasure! I've been doing videography and photography for a lot longer than I've been doing music. If your lights end up being too bring, try flipping them around and bouncing them off the ceiling (if you are doing a top down shot like this). Also look into DIY softboxes, they can be quite cheap to build yourself, even just using printer paper!
THANK YOU! Just got my Sample 2 today and it's really challenging to find a bare bones basic beginner video, especially for someone with no DAW background. I'll be watching your other Korg Volca videos for sure!
Not with the Volca directly, it doesn't have the ability to record incoming audio. However, you can record those instruments with a separate recorder (perhaps your phone) and then load the files onto the Volca Sample using Vosyr.
@@kabirbodyThat comes down to the quality of your recorder. But even if you put full 48k Hz CD quality recordings onto the Volca Sample, Vosyr will reduce the same rate to match what the Volca supports, which is 12-bit, 31.25kHz. So it will sound a bit lofi no matter what.
New Sub here. Thanks for these Volca sample lessons. I have long wanted to try and create ambient music and now I am older with more free time so I am going to give it a try. I just picked up one of these as well as a PO 33. I have an audio interface and my wife is a musician so we have a mixer. I have audacity on my computer but have not learned much about it yet. If you have any advice or thoughts on which Daw might be the best for a beginner and also which devices to use to record into a daw I would appreciate your advice.
Great, and welcome! I don't actually use a DAW, so I don't have much to recommend there. When I was teaching this class, we used Bandlab, because its free and can run on a Chromebook, and its a fine place to start. Audacity is also great for simple recording. If you have a Mac, Garageband and Logic are both easy to use. On Windows the only DAW I've used is Reason, but that one is fairly complex and specialized. I think Reaper is probably the most popular 'getting started' DAW for Windows/Linux, then of course Ableton is very popular as well. Hope that points you in the right direction!
Thanks, appreciate it! I was paid to make these videos actually, as a teacher, then once the program was over I got permission to release them for free!
Just got one as a gift had no idea what to do or how it worked, I went through so many vids but they all skipped over the basics, thank you so much bro, this was so helpful, I’m gonna mess around with the little knowledge I have now for a bit and once I feel like I’m ready I’ll move on tot he next vid. Thanks again, really appreciate it
Actually you don't have to hit write (but it doesn't hurt to do so). Just spin the sample knob for that part (1 - 10), then leave it there, and start shaping the sound or move on to another part.
