It's one of the reasons why the track "Jack" by Breach is always a go to when I need some minimal techno vibes. Weirdly, I can hear some pseudo baseline tones in this that have a similar feeling.
nice jam 🤗 Thanks for the simultaneous sound demonstration 🔊🎶 without talking etc. My Volca Drum is coming tomorrow, I'm looking forward to jamming with it 😀
Nice stand alone demo. I so want this and the fm. I have the sample bass and keys but these two and maybe the sample would make a complete triple set up. But yea the sample and drum are definitely the most stand alone for beats and bass sequences = fun 👍
Jlbmixes90210 the fm is a really nice sounding peice o kit i really dig the keys fm and kik so far ive got the beats but really only use that in a micro set up i hav with a couple of TE pos bass and arcade and a kastl . So yeah id recommend the fm , i juz ordered this today to go with a few other drummies ive got , ive been looking at the modular but so wish it was twice the size but will prob get it to modulate with the kastl
I’ve got this machine but never spent the time with it! We’re in full lockdown so in the U.K. so I’m catching up with some saved videos/tutorials and just thought “yeah this is my sort of jam”
So my favorite out of the Volcas I own (Sample, Keys, Bass, FM, and Beats) is the FM. Basically it's a DX7 with some sequencing/arpeggiation. All of them are useful in their own way, just remember you are getting a small box of goodness...
My reason to want this is that sample and beats volcas are pretty limiting in terms of creating your own sound (though absolutely loveable in their fields), you basically change them to a certain extent, but never create from ground up. While this is a synthesizer, not a rhythm machine or a sampler and it gives you more creative freedom, which some may like in their rhythm section and some may not. I would.
@@huntersandell859 I may be wrong but it has no oscillators and even no internal mic to record samples directly, but to be honest a lot of ways to change samples that are either already in the memory or written from the phone app. In my opinion that's pretty limiting, comparing with microsampler for example, which has a mic.
Ryan Devine there's a setting for Active Steps, the default is 16, you can set it to 15. Then put in a kick beat every 3rd step or all 15 steps with an Accent on every 3rd step and you have 3/4 time. That's a good question, I started messing around with it and got some interesting ideas using 3/4 time.
Actually played around with this further, Active Steps is on a Part basis, so you have to set it for each part, not hard to do. Setting it to 15 gives you 5 bars at 3/4 time, if you're jamming with other devices you might want to set AS to 12 to give you 4 bars, otherwise you might get out of sync. Crazy thing with AS is since it can be different per part you can have different lengths for each part, between that and the probability setting you can make really random stuff.
