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Korg Volca Bass

Analog Synth from Korg belonging to the Volca series

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Published on 12/05/13 at 08:09
Regarding features, settings I let you look on google, everything has been said and repeat, dissected in all directions in the forums and on youtube.
Overall this is a monophonic analog bass module, do not expect anything else, and it has not been presented differently. This is generally what may disappoint some people. No one buys a guitar hoping to make the piano with ...

UTILIZATION

The configuration is obviously simple, there is not. Everything is direct access with his fingers, the power button enough.
The doc is very well done, not very big. It has been quite useful to me because I'm not very familiar with sequencers monotribe / tron, and any questions I had about the slides, active step etc., have found an answer in the doc.
Regarding editing sounds, all easily accessible.

According to a slightly more advanced use, like everything is simple. I plugged in the afternoon and I can control is to play directly with another midi keyboard, or when to synchronize recorded with a step sequencer with Live sequence. The very definition of plug and have fun.

SOUNDS

Sounds. That's it. that's why we take this little beast!
This is not exactly a TB303 and good, a little fresh blood in the world of analog bass.
The sound is really phat, it shakes the walls! Most of the time I use the 3 oscillators together with a slight detune between two and the last one octave. You controls it with a MIDI keyboard, and go! And thanks to the filter envelope, you can leave sounds funky to Minimoog. (Note this is not a minimoog $ 150, but for bass sounds we are not far)
I also love to serve me step sequencer for bass lines a little dark. At the moment I trip on a sort of electro / progressive rock, and it works really well. You turn the cutoff gently shine the sound of the bass, it helps both mounted power.
So yes, it also works for the acid, but I admit this is not my trip.
In any case, it can be used for many things provided not turn all the buttons background.

However small remark, I'm not a fan of the range of the LFO. It is either very slow or too fast. The beach is interesting is really great short. So in general I find the right position and I no longer touch, too sensitive for my taste for change "live".

A little trick / "trick" that I very often for even greater significance is that I do spend a chorus and a delay. Gender plugin guitar pedal. Personally, I find it more appropriate than large specialized plugin delay or chorus. Above all, it allows you to go where you want fast, 3 buttons by pedals, that's enough. It is the sound design, large plugin I keep for surgery during the final mix.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had two months and I really used much.
It became my synth bass. Often when it comes to a bass in a song, I first get in the presets of my apps, and then fairly quickly I turn to the volcanic, I triturated 3 buttons, I really have fun, and then generally it ends the song.
What I like is that he knows how to be discreet. Finally when I said that, it is to say that this is not just a box acid. Because when the volcanic bass is there, he knows to be heard, for greasy sub it meets this!

I remake that choice without any hesitation! Besides, at that time I wonder if I will not invest in a keys, it also has nice air.