Deep Dive into All Korg Volca (and naming the final winner) 

All of them are interresting and exciting, but I allways come back to my dear Volca Keys!

I personally love the sound of the modular, I know it's probably the 2nd least "useful", but it sounds so good

Outstanding work on all your volca episodes. I found them very informative and serve as a great reference for navigating the volca range. Thank you for sharing.

The best Volca is the one that gives you what you want it to 😂

I love the Volca Drum! Its my only volca for now but you can definitely get some real heat out of it. I have been considering the FM but now im going to look at the Keys too

I just acquired the Keys, Bass and Beats and am happy I found this video, just to see what the others are about. I wish you jammed for an hour though. Thanks.

Thank you! Very interesting and entertaining!

I holeheatadly agree! It is insane the power these 3 little boxes have. It took me a long time to appreciate the keys' real potential but now it is hands down my favorite! I am so happy Korg released this range.

This looks so unbelievably overwhelming. Great video and thanks for sharing!

Man... you hit me with the Carrie song on the midi volca fm 🍻, the keys and korg nts 1 its next on my wishlist ! Thanks for the video !

I just acquired the Bass, am excited to deep dive and your series has got me hyped for building a band of Volcas. Loved the jam at the end, thanks!

I’d be FASCINATED to see your take on the Aria Compact J-6

I have only Keys, Drum and now newly Sample. But I agree.

great contet! high quality, love it

you sound like a very good person and your video was very useful to me. THANK YOU.

My Volca FM 2 is my current fav out of 5 I own.

I like all my Volcas and on different days I have a new favourite Great Vid as always and always informative 👍

Thanks for this no BS video. 😎

The last jam is so beautiful!

Great presentation! I agree with your choice of the Keys and the Drum (tho I would have placed the drum in the top 3. Don’t know the FM at all but am quite interested in the new version. You got some very rich sounds from it. My interest has definitely been piqued. was disappointed that you didn’t rate the Bass higher. All in all a very interesting video. Thanks!

The Volca Keys was my first Volca, later on I bought the Sample, Bass and Beats. Buut the Keys is the one I've kept. It's very underrated.

Keys was my first purchase after my Mc-303 buy years before. Love it, a power house of a small bit of gear. Had the sample, which is also excellent, sold it to justify the purchase of other gear but should have kept tbh.

Great job!

Cool jam. Your top 3 are the only ones I own. Maybe, to finish off that slot/space you had when they were all laid out, you include a FM2 with it's own NTS-1, controlling it from its midi out, giving a very rich main lead/chords tone to play over the sequences of all the others. Anyway, you have a great collection and some good skills in music making. Looking forward to hearing more.

Amazing tutorial..... Thanks a lot

Thank you Adam. That was awesome. Impressive jam. Yes a minikorg-esque synth that is not just monophonic is a great thing. I know the beats snare gets a thumbs down on the internet but doing the mod is easy enough but you'll need a magnifying glass. I know its kick drum sound gets some love but I use it for the agogo and claves, which my rd-6 being a 606 clone, doesn't have. The fm 1 does have great bass and pad patches imho and it is so easy to change up the factory patches with the velocity and transpose sliders. I've had difficulty with the samples 2 loading on samples. With librarian there is the insistance that the midi channel cannot be greater than 10. Yet no matter how many times I've installed it, my laptop assigns it channel 11 due to the some - not all - lower channels being taken by other software like the daw audio interface. Still haven't solved that problem. And voysr which was designed for the original samples, I can't get that working with the samples 2 either via usb or audio. So not a unit I'd recommend for noobs like myself if putting on our own samples easily, is a deal breaker. I acknowledge though, your mileage may differ. I'm glad I followed you and look forward to what you post next. Go well. B.

Your volca's deep dive are my reference to learn more how to use them. I don't have them all, but i'm overall really happy with the ones I bought.

Though I'm an Ableton guy, hardware synths are true source of inspirations IMO🤗 My favorite is Volca Drum for the same reason with you👍🏻 Actually every volcas are precious😂

My loved brother gave me an volca keys as a present and i started to play. What should i say? That is great to expierence the range of things you are able to do with that small synth. I'm addicted for more volcas 😁. Long live korg!

Last year, my very first Volca was the Keys. And then I ended up buying the Volca Drum and then the Volca FM 😂

Jam at the end of the video is great!

Kudos on that last jam, sir!

The volca keys is the best of all the volcas, I found the best sound I look for in the machines now I synchronize it with a syntatk, tb3 and a sp 404 mk2

Well these are exactly the three I have, so thanks for the confirmation on the selection, I guess.

My fav is the Volca bass , though i can see why you like the one you picked.

the volca keys is my absolute favorite too!

I liked your music it's very cool

Took me 60 seconds(!!!) of unskippable advertisement to just watch this video about a Korg Volca. Thanks Google!

I much prefer the Beats over the Drum any day. Try hooking it up to a Waldorf 2-pole, crank up the mods and rectifier and off you fly. Just being the kick level down a bit to allow the other instruments to get in the mix. The Sample is also a very useful piece , being able to assign reverb to any of the channels gives you a really nice transition between wet and dry in one pattern combine it with the isolator and you have a machine capable of producing a single track that’ll mash the dancefloor.

Glad volca keys won,its got a lovely metallic industrial saw detuned sound or forgot u can connect it to a keyboard only 'fullsize' key board I still have stuck in my wardrobe is my massive with reflex speakers midi built in electronic late 90s Casio ,wish I was able to do it back then

My top 4 Volcas:- Keys FM/2 Sample/2 Kick

Excellent video and pains taking to decide among 9 or 10 machines. Each one has its own unique character and personality. It gives excellent value for money and is compact. It’s not easy to pick but you did an amazing explanation and justification why the winners. Thank you 🙏

Here's is my Ranking: 8./9. Modular/Sample (don't own) 7. Beats 6. NuBass 5. Keys 4. Kick 3. FM 2. Drum 1. Bass

Just picked up a Bass for cheap, a few days later ordered the Drum, next on my list is the Sample 2. I think I just went down a rabbit hole.

Bass ....... def.

Hi . Iiked this and other jams you uploaded. I would like to know, Did you try Volca Kicks? I wonder about your opinion sincerely. Good job!

Yeheyy!!! I have 2 out of 3 on your top 3! I got Keys and FM2! I have the Beats, though. :(

I have the Beats, the OG Sample, and The Volca Mix. I'm getting more.

Keys are so good I bought 2.

The Volca Keys also is the only Volca that have them sweet lights under the selector switches.

Great video bud! So what’s your take on all the complaints out there about the Keys being “noisy”? I’m about to grab that sweet B2Go deal Korg has going at the moment and im torn between the Keys or Bass

Bravooooo

Dude! Perfect video for me as I'm wanting to pair something up (get more gear really) with my Novation Circuit. Would you recommend the Keys or one of the other to pair with the Circuit? Thank you!

The FM has to be the best value instrument of all time. I wouldn't part with mine for a fully functional DX-7. ;) My 3 to keep would have to be the FM, Sample & Bass. I had the Keys & Nubass but couldn't get on with either. Seemed like wishy washy versions of the FM & Bass. Never tried the Kick. The Mix is good for the money & handy. I really like the Drum synth. It does some excellent quirky stuff and plays well with the Modular, which is great fun. The Bass is a fantastic take on ol' TB303. The FM is mind-bendingly good for the price of a cheap FX pedal.. Mine cost me about £70 and it'd be the absolute last piece of gear I'd consider selling. I should look at the FM2 but just haven't had chance since getting into Akai mpc stuff. Their OP-X 4 Plug-in is a fantastically modern take on the DX-7 & FM synthesis.

My Volcas are FM and I yesterday ordered Keys... I anticipated Keys and FM to be at the podium with Keys being the best Volca ever. Visually FM is imho the best looking Volca, especially first revision with red display and red LEDs. I also like how Kick and Beats look sweet. Got stand for 3 Volcas so I might get new one. I think it will be Volca Mixer

I did guess the top 3 but had 1st and 2nd place swapped round.

Ihave most of the volcas love them with the sq1

I like your videos very much what do you think of the volca kick you think it make a difference to the bass thanks 👍🎼

nu bass is tha beast

New volca FM 2 Is amazing.

I am lucky to have the volca keys

I've owned all the Korg Volcas except the Kick and the NuBass. The best of the Volcas are the Drum, FM2 and Modular. Is the Volca line now dead because there hasn't been a genuinely new model in quite some years now (The Sample2 and FM2 revisions don't really count). I would still quite like a Volca Vocoder or a Volca wavetable. Ideally, what I'd like is Korg to bring out a Volca+ or Volca "Pro" line of boxes at around 400 bucks with better connectivity (sd card storage for samples and 3.5mm eurorack patch points).

1 - Bass and 2 - Sample for me

I really like the sample 2 because I can use it as a drum machine and a synth

what about an award for the mixer that had to deal with all those 1/8" inputs?

No idea how the Volca drum placed so high. IMHO it's the worst after the beats, I just couldn't get any good sounds out of it. I swapped it for a Volca Sample 2 and couldn't be happier. Also, the Volca Bass really needs a delay/reverb effect to shine to its full potential, by far one of my favorites!

Volca Drum is the best Volca. Period.

I’m holding out for the volca banjolele.

watch the last jam at 1.75x speed. so cool

So do you line all these into a multi channel mixer or something? Is that how you are connecting them all? Or are you daisy chaining them. I'm trying to find an excuse for buying my first audio mixe that is not inside my desktop computer software.

Great video! The best volca is to have the opportunity to choose one (or two or three or four...) for each occasion. I want them all!!! 😂

What's the name of this song that you play at 10:11? It's been driving me crazy. I can't find it!

Volca FM must be PISSED - you wear its shirt, after all, it thought it had the first place prize in the bag! :)

Awesomeness

1. Bass 2. Drum 3. Keys

sorry to barge in: I desperately need to find a power cord for volca. from mixer to volca. where can I find it?

I didn't know that volca Kick existed

Totally agree, I really LOVE my volca keys (for some reason I tend to avoid capital letters, this box is a part of me after all). Yes a very simple and basic analog subtractive rig, but sports some sweet candies, like lfo sync, delay sync, paraphony, key velocity. And yes, you can play a square wave, just select poly ring and play staccato style (arpeggio from an external keyboard, and of course a sequencer, can do this easily). Of course a "mark II" release would make sense, for instance I would love the ability to chain patterns and step by step programming, full square wave capability, etc. But... I'm in love, who cares, no one is perfect, no synth is perfect.

I'm over 60 years old. I'm sorry but somehow I missed just how you linked these little music machines together. Do you have a technical guide on the correct paths?

I have Bass, Beats, and Keys. I think the Bass is my favorite, Keys second... and honestly, i'm not happy with Beats at all. That is my rating. I would like to get a Drum and FM2.

ive got one of the first thousand keys, #798

If i could only have 2. To make a song with -vocals what 2 would be best?

Which one u recomend for beginers?

I prefer to do everything on one Moog. It is my personal opinion.

what about volca FM 2?

i have to agree the keys is the best volca,, i havent played with a fm yet,,, but if the snare wasn't so bad I would have said beats no2 and the original bass as no3. thing that puts me off drum ,, it just sounds like a ay3 chip on a zx spectrum doing drum noises.....

Got the three. Love the Drum, the Keys Has this full sounds. The Fm I just began to play around. Love the volcas for their simplicity and their great sounds. As a Beginner on synthesizer they are perfect. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VUM4TUpcppw.html

You're Swedish I can tell. Tjena! Great video. On thing though: It's pronounced "base", "bass" means aborre the way you say it :D Remember Basshunter? I wish he was hunting fish instead of creating music.

every time you say bass i vant stop thinking of fish

Can't wait for this video to be outdated.

I would consider the FM the worst one. It's not good for hands on control and basically just an emulator that you can get for free as vst.

AND all in stupid- simpel-2-4Beat ... boarrrrrrring ......no fun...bumm bumm ...

Fm2 hands down. With synthmata