#Volca Sample

[eeelbeats]

Volca Sample x PO33

[choiceroyce]

Hologram

[abandonedniche]

it’s cause you’re always on that damn digitakt

[emerald-ether-777]

An extended jam clip of my Volca Sample lined through my Fender guitar amp for some distorted Electro breakbeat patterns I made, on top of my favourite part from Session 9 (2001 movie).

[the-iron-shoulder]

Oh snap fam here comes the Smithy Gang

New cover! Fight Against an Armed Boss, from Super Mario RPG! One of my all-time favorite soundtracks, so i hope I did it justice 😁

this is a really short piece, so I played three loops and drastically changed the instrumentation each time:

first pass: synths! So many synths. I think… four? Ish? I had my Minilogue, my Artium Swarm, my Volca, and my Mega Synthesis (that one is specifically supposed to emulate the sound card from a Sega Genesis, so I found it amusing to have that be some of the leads on a piece from the SNES), and honestly I forget if I had any others or if I used any of those more than once.

second pass is when I brought in the weird stuff. That’s when I brought in the harp, a couple xylophones (it’s a Yoko Shimomura song so of course I had to do some mallet percussion!), the melodica, my bass taishogoto, and the Chompi (I sampled my voice and then mangled it until it turned into that ghostly choir).

third pass is the electric guitars!!

and of course there were a couple other instruments too (drums and such) but that’s the bulk of it. All in all, a lot more work than I originally expected, but I’m proud of the results!

[ryansholin]

OK, I tried a thing. It went alright. Used all the new stuff: There's a beat made up of a couple samples somewhat happy-accidentally stitched together with the PO-33; there's a kick and clap from the Volca Beats, there's an organ drone from the MIDI keyboard which is in demo mode during the video doing its flashy light thing, and there's a sequence from the Minilogue that I am butchering to see what happens.

More importantly, now I know how to use all the stuff, record some loops in Ableton, and then add longer stuff on top of them like this.

And most importantly, it was fun.

[eeelbeats]

Pocket Operator and Volca Sample link up

[newtsongs]

my partner gifted me a volca sample that they preloaded w/ our drummers entire kit and fave breaks and weird little foley sounds from friends all around the country and i feel so loved! and understood! and like i wanna hole up in my room playing w it for 100 hrs

[corduroyinstitute]

October 15, 2020: Four years ago today, Corduroy Institute recorded an instrumental that would become "They Don't Even Know." Our first in-person collaboration since February of that year, the occasion signaled the start of the Lost October Sessions.

When S.A. Morin arrived at the O' Higgins Laboratory of Recorded Sound, W. Ruiz had a complex array of drum machines—Elektron Digitakt, Roland MC-707, Korg Volca Beats—synchronized via MIDI and plugged into the Tascam DP-24SD Digital Portastudio. The first musical layer involved the drum machines playing in tandem as S.A. Morin added a circular bassline on the Bass VI.

For the song's melodic content, S.A. Morin relied on EHX Superego Plus pedal to guide his Bass VI into tremolo-rich tones reminiscent of a synth. W. Ruiz used the MC-707's pads to play a choir sound he crafted by layering built-in ROM tones from the unit atop his own custom samples.

After completing this cathartic improvisation, we knew we hadn't lost our ability to craft instant compositions. New musical work followed in the ensuing days and months, and over the years this piece faded from memory.

As we took stock of the material we had on hand in the summer of 2023, this instrumental emerged from obscurity to become a contender for the album we were devising. We returned to the multitracks to make subtractive edits which yielded more dynamic and spacious drums.

"They Don't Even Know" can now be found on the second half of our latest album, Take the Train to Manchester. Nestled in between two other abstract pieces, it adds a counterpoint to the album's many lyric-driven experimental pop songs.

https://corduroyinstitute.bandcamp.com/track/they-dont-even-know

https://music.apple.com/us/album/they-dont-even-know/1723644317?i=1723644325

https://open.spotify.com/track/1LGhO5uIix01ZQUtLjJ2At?si=ST65cK7RRtOH3NAY7BrPzA

[aaronmeterchanges]

Listen/purchase: Round One (24EDO) by Aaron Myers-Brooks

A track off my new EP featuring Korg Volca Beats, Korg Volca NuBass, and quarter-tone piano in Ableton Live 12! Also features some samples from a certain Sega Genesis fighting game. 

[emerald-ether-777]

Clip from tonight's jam on the Korg Volca Sample.

[songwritingcomposition3jayconway]

Week 9 - Lab Session

This week we got to do some songwriting in the new Synth Lab on campus, I found the session very engaging as I was forced into a place outside of my comfort zone. Normally I would just use a DAW to flesh out my ideas with a giant collection of drum kits, samples, VST instruments and loops, but today I was stuck to just one little machine (KORG Volca sample), a really old school Roland Synth, and a newer Roland Synth.

OneDrive Link: https://melbournepolytechnic-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/s1541884_student_mp_edu_au/EWAWvVK6DYZLqqkj21XNTwIBcLA88J8EjQud0_In8kkbdw?e=KPyi5I

One thing I liked about using these instruments is that everything I recorded was Anolouge, and none of it was to a grid, which created a really organic feel. The 1st instrument I recorded was the Volca Sample and the controls on it took some learning, but essentially it made a whole bunch of beats and sounds to sound like a fully produced techno track, that could be made more complex and less complex with its different controllers. Although it wasn't on a grid I did match it to the grid in Ableton.

I then used the old Roland Synth and found a nice fluty sort of clarinet sound and used it for a bass-sounding part. Because it wasn't on the grid it started making a pumping sidechain compression sound, without the sidechaining.

Then the newer Roland synth had some massive sounds, I just used the 1st preset that was in it, which had this really abrasive saw tooth like shrieking sound that would change pitch in an octave riser. After that sound started appearing randomly I added another layer of smoother bass to appear in and out of unison with the saw-tooth bass.

The overall feel of this track was to use the analogue sounds and effects off the grid, so the instruments that appear are almost random, but also in unison. There was somewhat of a grid created by the Volca Sample, but I used the other instruments to move away from it.

END WEEK 9 - LAB SESSION

[heckeronincheese]

I still think the discourse of using presets or sound kits in music production being bad is kinda fuckin stupid.

They're tools designed for you the creator to play with and make neat sounds with while learning how these sounds work to build off of or make new sounds

It'd be like yelling at an artist for using a reference book. It's a tool and it's there for your use. So stfu and let people learn with these items to make more crazy shit.

Let them learn with these tools to make their own stuff from scratch later.

Not everyone came out of the womb knowing how to make the perfect kick drum or ambient synth drone.

I still use a tweaked version of preset 5 on Fruity reverb during ambient work. Cus shit it makes that sound good. And I've been working with music for almost a decade now.

Side note: you don't need a multi hundred dollar synth to do cool stuff.

There's free software synths

But if you're inclined on trying hardware synths

Try a volca they come in many flavors broken into two categories and are fairly affordable new and used.

Beat and melody

.drum(weird experimental but fun)

.kick(it's a kick drum kinda redundant these days but still fun)

.beat (basic but easy drum machine)

Sample(it's a sampler can make beats and melodies depending on which samples you load. It's factory library is also nice)

Bass(well it's in the name. A lil pocket sized 303like box)

Keys(analog melodies very warm and dreary but can also be loud and crunchy)

FM (80s in a box it's a pocket sized DX7 can even take old DX7 sound bank files with the right cable and software (dexxed) has a slight learning curve (FM synthesis is notoriously weird)

Nubass (volca bass fine tuned with new tricks and added built in vacutube amp)

Modular: buchla styled modulation that is targeted for making weird and other worldly sounds (the limit is your imagination and patience)

(to limit confusion FM 2 is a new enhanced version of the original FM. Same goes for the sample 2 id opt for the sample 2 cus it's handy library software,micro USB socket, and expanded storage. No need to use the sync cable to load shit)

And best of all the nice ass features they all have.

.midi in (except the modular it uses CV and that's a whole new can of worms)

.cheap as hell

. optional power supply or battery power(6 AAs decent battery life tbh)

.ok internal speaker for on the go fun

.user friendly as hell.

.the sync in sync out so you can sync them together or with other hardware you have laying around to mitigate stress about timing.

(below my old "studio" from 2021)

[the-backspin-alchemist]

#Jamuary2024: Day 19 - Melancholic

Have a moody jam with something that’s NOT the Volca Sample 2 accompanying the S-1.

this time it’s the NTS-1 accompanying the S-1 instead.

[choiceroyce]

Clear blue skies