It always sounds so good and smooth on the demo video. But when I bring it home and test it out, It sounds like cow giving a birth with crows cheering on it in the background. I hate my skill :(
@@gunnerhoward3134 hi, I know this post is old but can you elaborate on your recording routine? I'm extremely intimidated by DAWs and dont have the time to figure them out. I just want to record music as simply as possible. Thanks
The graphic overlay showing the parameter labels is very helpful. It turns the video into a interesting tutorial. I hope to see this when you demo the new Electribes.
I didn't expect you could use one sample for so many purposes while sounding SO GOOD! This will be my first time getting into sampling, excited to use such a rich sound source for such varied possibilities. Also, my desk will look complete! :D
It is called the volca SAMLPE not volca SAMPLER. You can freely tweak the 100 on-board samples to create almost any sound (as shown perfectly in this video). This is not intended to be a sampler.. The iOS app is a bit of a bonus if you have an apple device. If you want to sample your own sounds, either get a KPmini2S or for the pros, perhaps the Electribe Sampler.
Im sitting here watching this with my volca sample learning. I got one for 50 bucks from my friend. I never learned to use it( because im an idiot) and thank god i got it. This is actually amazing.
You are an incredible inventor!!! You understand sound/music better than anyone else yet! Thank you for sharing these 25th Century technologie with us old folks born in the 1900's. Please accelerate your work, and lower prices immediately, the volume will make it worth it. Peace!
I have one sitting right in front of me as I type this - I've had it for almost 2 years & never knew you could do that with ONE sample. I need to really play with mine.
Hi ! Thank you for amazing video , recently I buy volca sample 2 and buy a arturia key step 37, but seems like my volca didn't have a global function to control it from key step 37, can you help me? About an week I'm searching about it and I can't fix it
@@thetownwaites118 Layer it with a clap and/or add a bit of stutter with very short stutter time. It takes a little fiddling, but it can sound nice. You can also mod it.
That is one thing that's holding the vsample back that would make it a beast. It's a annoying when your on a roll and you need to upload a new sample on some fucking editor. That's why I want to get the PO-33
I conclude that this guy rocks.... If I was in front of this machine I could barely think outside the "piano" mindset. I could reverse the sound as I usually do when playing with a sampler :D
Vlad Moseev I'm from 2025, when KORG has made Transformers with their own built in synths so you can groove while you engage in epic battles with that one neighbor you never got along well with. It's awesome.
Well, he made better drum sounds with that thing out of piano sounds which sound better than the drums in the Volca beats machine! I got one of those, and i am pretty disappointed with it, it has the thinnest sounding drums i have heard! But what is the point in having one of these if it doesn't seem to have an audio input? Maybe a person who has no drum machines would find this useful, pretty cool still...
Good little device but if Korg made a more advanced version that could play multisamples, had usb connectivity and power with better effects and more storage then this would fly off the shelves. I far prefer hardware samplers than software for certain sounds. I don't care if it costs more or is slightly larger, I'd buy it as its such a convenient sized device compared to a hardware sampler.
I was really excited about this... Then I noticed that apparently you can only drop your own samples into it via the iOS app (which I previously thought was just a bonus, not a requirement). I love KORG but I don't like Apple and how you're utterly screwed when they decide to make things obsolete. Happened once with my iPhone SynthStation, not making that mistake again. KORG, please correct me if I'm wrong! Is there any other way without using an iOS device to load your own samples into it? I really want to get one of these.
Victor Navarro sgtransit 74 yeah but it still requires a mobile iOS or android phone to import samples apparently, and I use neither. Does anyone know if there will be a Mac/PC app that we can use for the VolcaSample? I just think KORG is really limiting the instrument by confining its customization to mobile devices. I wouldn't have a problem if it was iOS -and- PC compatible, then everyone can be happy.
Stalhjelm if you go down to the bottom of the page and go to the developer website, the app is also available for windows and mac. Hope that helps! (and I hope it works cause I want to get a volca sample and have it not tethered to a phone)
Nice looking unit again, but this one would have looked REALLY great if they'd used WHITE LED's instead of red ones.... or have Access got the exclusive rights to whites ?!
want to know a cool trick? There is no filter on volca sample other than hi cut, but if you get a sample that has a super sharp filter EG on the front of it already baked in, like a moog click from a glitch sample or a clicky kick sample with a baked-in filter click on the front, if you loop it real short you can walk up and down that initial transient spike with the sample start point, it sounds just what a resonant low pass filter will do, at least gives you something to knob like you would a resonant cutoff knob
Finally, somebody is using sampling the way it had been meant to be used in the first place. Why did I have to wait like 20 years to see a video of somebody NOT to sample entire phrases. I mean, if you sample a single note (which is what the sampler was designed for) you are highly unlikely to get into any of the copyright issues, and also it will give you a credit for some sort of creativity by processing the sample in different ways. I can't sand phrase sampling and loops. They totally ruined the perception of electronic music starting from early '90s.
While I do agree this use of sampling is cool, I disagree on the negative view on sample heavy music from the 90s and in my view, gross misapplication of copyright law curbed the exercise of artistic creativity and shut down entire branches of music. Pity on the world who will never see what would have come from the seeds planted with records like homework, you've come a long way baby and others. That's precisely the opposite of what those laws should do.
agree to disagree, but sampling a single loop of a song can itself have infinite possibilities of being creatively remixed. i think you just don't actively seek out sample based music therefore aren't exposed to the good stuff
Andrew Piatek Not necessarily. Take some tracks from Fatboy Slim or The Prodigy in their heyday for example. I don't even think this is debatable. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look for a video from Jim Pavloff remaking "Smack my bitch up" in Ableton.
Could this be used to provide a rhythm and bass (with other sampled sounds?) as a sequencer for other MIDI devices? I have several MIDI keyboards and a Korg Volca Keys.
Hi, I have just exported files to Volca sample , and I see that the tempo knob remains fixed on, and even the sequencer does not work with the "play" button. How can I do?
Finally, a swing control! Can you make the other Volcas swing using the sync out of this? And please port Synckontrol and the sample manager to Android...
James Sajeva That's what I was hoping. Only problem is that I won't be getting one of these if I can't send samples to it. I have no intention of getting an iOS device so I guess no swing for me. =(
Roman Yeah, they released the API, I know. Are you sure that the other Volcas won't swing when slaved to this? After all, the Synckontrol app for iOS can make the other Volcas swing - they swing if the clock signal swings.
I really like the graininess of the sample at extreme transpositions. I read the specifications and they say that sampling is 16-bit resolution, meaning not very lo-fi. Is the graininess then because of the pitch shifting algorithm? I find you really can't get this kind of sound outside digital hardware. Even bit-crushers won't do.
Very interesting device. One thing that puts me off though is the requirement of an proprietary Iphone app to load up own/custom samples. I fear that Korg shot themselves in the foot with that. I'm not going to throw out extra $$ for an Iphone to use my own samples.
![[Eng Sub] KORG Volca Sample 2 digital sampler](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vetdSig1kZ0/mqdefault.jpg)
How the f... did he turn that piano into that kick CLEAN AF!!!!
I think he did it by pitching it down and using the envelope generator to create a tight attack.
Did you watch the video? He showed you exactly how he did it
..you can literally watch him doing exactly this: explaining how to make a track with only one sample 🤔
@@NotGabe001 ..I just thought exactly the same 🙃
I can’t believe there are shorts comments that 3 years old. Damn.
Anyway, I think this bloke is engaging in a spot of rhetorical hyperbole.
I'm only a minute and a half in and I'm convinced that I need this thing.
Evan Gangstad yas
Ha totally
Get one. It will change your life
Fr
dont do it man
It always sounds so good and smooth on the demo video.
But when I bring it home and test it out, It sounds like cow giving a birth with crows cheering on it in the background. I hate my skill :(
blooduhz hahah
Lol
Hahahaha what a god
Sounds like you’re using the gold baby farm pack.
Hmmm. just spat drink on screen reading this. Nice work!
The next Volca which Korg should consider is a multi-track recorder, so people can record all 4 Volcas simultaneously.... Volca "Track" ?
love how the op 1 is literally all of these volcas put together for about the same price.
I use a Zoom MRS-4 digital multitrack. Midi out. Not much bigger then a volca. Cheap as chips. Good quality sound.
@@therestoringchannel1020 and i love how the OP 1 is way more expensive than a volca here
Agreed✊🏽
@@gunnerhoward3134 hi, I know this post is old but can you elaborate on your recording routine? I'm extremely intimidated by DAWs and dont have the time to figure them out. I just want to record music as simply as possible. Thanks
If I ever get stranded on an island after a disaster I want this guy and his korg to be there...
😂😂😂
@@witnessingobscura952Good quality solar panel maybe… lol
After saving for a while, I recieved my Volca Keys, Bass, Beats bundle just today and now I have more stuff to pine over...
lovely.
Hahaha, and there is me just *wishing* for just one of the volcas.
Sorry, hope that they come you way someday.
Haha, probably yes, however I need to spice up my musical talent.
Best of luck!
Tatsuya Takahahsi = PERSON OF THE YEAR, Time Magazine 2015
this demo has really convinced me!!!
such a creative way how you did the cool sounding sequence with just one sample!
amazing little beast!
*****
I think he was talking about his beard.
*****
Gross
This is legit more powerful than the sampler In my daw, amazing
this guy knows how to use a sampler. great video. great skills and musicality.
That kid is a genius. He makes it look super easy. Well done!
+Duo Konrad Rosa He should know, he's the chief engineer and designer of these devices.
he's really pretty
I fuckin love this guy
please make more videos with this dude! hes a legend!
he the boss of korg technical divsion! korg knows who he is!😂😂
The graphic overlay showing the parameter labels is very helpful. It turns the video into a interesting tutorial. I hope to see this when you demo the new Electribes.
Lovely little machien, that final sequence is the bomb. I'm receiving my Sample in the mail tomorrow. Can't wait.
I didn't expect you could use one sample for so many purposes while sounding SO GOOD!
This will be my first time getting into sampling, excited to use such a rich sound source for such varied possibilities.
Also, my desk will look complete! :D
KORGは日本発だから日本語翻訳付いててありがたい。高橋さん好きです volca買います。
It is called the volca SAMLPE not volca SAMPLER. You can freely tweak the 100 on-board samples to create almost any sound (as shown perfectly in this video). This is not intended to be a sampler.. The iOS app is a bit of a bonus if you have an apple device.
If you want to sample your own sounds, either get a KPmini2S or for the pros, perhaps the Electribe Sampler.
Ben Huisman you can use your own samples, as long as they come from your DAW tho right?
Tatsuya is genius.
still one of my favorite instruments of all time
Mine too .. Check my channel, I Play with Volca too .. 🙋♂️
Christ … did I really watch that?
What. A. Genious.
Korg, never let that guy go. Never.
Buying this as soon as I can!
Wow!!! It’s in the talent of sound manipulation and these amazing KORG devices. 👏👏👏
Great demo, first Volca that I am seriously considering.
Check out the Volca Modular, and the Volca Drum. Both look great
Korg has been putting out some fantastic gear
Im sitting here watching this with my volca sample learning. I got one for 50 bucks from my friend. I never learned to use it( because im an idiot) and thank god i got it. This is actually amazing.
When you get a virus on your computer 3:34
You are an incredible inventor!!! You understand sound/music better than anyone else yet! Thank you for sharing these 25th Century technologie with us old folks born in the 1900's. Please accelerate your work, and lower prices immediately, the volume will make it worth it. Peace!
lol, that's not how centuries work
Oh my good golly gosh this looks like so much fun
Quite amazing device. I'm thinking of either getting this or an mpc device, or eventually both :)
Excelente... Muy buen instrumento y para que decirlo una más de KORG
Estoy de acuerdo, KORG es muy bueno en lo que hacen
You are very skilled. Your knowledge is impressive.
if Korg makes an XL version of this take my money
This with my Microkorg and an SR-16 are a really fun combo
I have one sitting right in front of me as I type this - I've had it for almost 2 years & never knew you could do that with ONE sample. I need to really play with mine.
Hi ! Thank you for amazing video , recently I buy volca sample 2 and buy a arturia key step 37, but seems like my volca didn't have a global function to control it from key step 37, can you help me? About an week I'm searching about it and I can't fix it
I need this magical machine in my life. I must have it.
This is in so many ways a better drum machine than its Beats sister....
Rafael Torres did beats make one too?
No dude, there's a "Volca Beats"
ya..that snare suck ass on the beats
@@thetownwaites118 Layer it with a clap and/or add a bit of stutter with very short stutter time. It takes a little fiddling, but it can sound nice. You can also mod it.
@@OttosTheName The snare mod is well worth the 30 bucks it costs.
While this is a very cool addition to the Volca series, it REALLY needs a way to record samples without an iOS device ... bad call there
I'd like one that can record straight onto it on the fly
Mpc live.......
That is one thing that's holding the vsample back that would make it a beast. It's a annoying when your on a roll and you need to upload a new sample on some fucking editor. That's why I want to get the PO-33
Soon as the piano turned into a kick, I paused this video and bought one online
I conclude that this guy rocks.... If I was in front of this machine I could barely think outside the "piano" mindset. I could reverse the sound as I usually do when playing with a sampler :D
Looks like a toy, sounds like a professional sampler. :D
This demo has convinced me too! So I'm buying one :D
I am totally sold on Volca now. Buying Keys, FM and Sample this weekend.
looks crazy fun. Hope I can find one in a store to compare to the electribe!
I love how my improv with volca sample takes me to this video, always! keep up the good work!
If they make a volca that samples directly it will be a game changer
Please Korg, time for an updated Volca SampleR.
Agreed!
He looks so happy with himself at the end of each layer, but I think it's just the video edits
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"The Recession Fairlight"
That was simply amazing.
Love it. Hope We can use more than one sample at a time in the end ;-)
it's 2015. we use 10 samples to make a beat! :D
Rio Ricardo I use 9.
+Vlad Moseev no. you?
+mamuefa1 Are you from 2014, mate?
Vlad Moseev I'm from 2025, when KORG has made Transformers with their own built in synths so you can groove while you engage in epic battles with that one neighbor you never got along well with. It's awesome.
It is great sample player, thanx to mr. Takahashi's design and Pajen firmware :)
ooooh, very Detroit(isch) Techno in the beginning! nice nice...
neat little kit... hmmm... up on the wishlist!
Fantastic stuff❤
Well, he made better drum sounds with that thing out of piano sounds which sound better than the drums in the Volca beats machine! I got one of those, and i am pretty disappointed with it, it has the thinnest sounding drums i have heard! But what is the point in having one of these if it doesn't seem to have an audio input? Maybe a person who has no drum machines would find this useful, pretty cool still...
😎Very nice equipment. Great track! 👍🏿The next Dj.m.smooth
Good little device but if Korg made a more advanced version that could play multisamples, had usb connectivity and power with better effects and more storage then this would fly off the shelves. I far prefer hardware samplers than software for certain sounds. I don't care if it costs more or is slightly larger, I'd buy it as its such a convenient sized device compared to a hardware sampler.
Dear Korg please create a not noisy volca sample (and family), for me too self noise is produced by your audio outputs
Thank You
Well now I know which volca to buy first!
I was really excited about this... Then I noticed that apparently you can only drop your own samples into it via the iOS app (which I previously thought was just a bonus, not a requirement). I love KORG but I don't like Apple and how you're utterly screwed when they decide to make things obsolete. Happened once with my iPhone SynthStation, not making that mistake again.
KORG, please correct me if I'm wrong! Is there any other way without using an iOS device to load your own samples into it? I really want to get one of these.
www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/12/19/free-caustic-editor-for-volca-sample-now-available-for-ios/
Victor Navarro
sgtransit 74 yeah but it still requires a mobile iOS or android phone to import samples apparently, and I use neither. Does anyone know if there will be a Mac/PC app that we can use for the VolcaSample? I just think KORG is really limiting the instrument by confining its customization to mobile devices. I wouldn't have a problem if it was iOS -and- PC compatible, then everyone can be happy.
Stalhjelm if you go down to the bottom of the page and go to the developer website, the app is also available for windows and mac. Hope that helps! (and I hope it works cause I want to get a volca sample and have it not tethered to a phone)
AMEN
Marshall Law how is it that you DON'T have an android phone? What do you have then? A nokia lumia?
Soooooo very cool! Going to HAVE to get one!
Thanks for making this. May I ask what your two favorite Volcas are? Thanks again.
Superb sound design skills. Cool guy!
so it can play 10 different samples simultaneously on the same step??
Nice little box!
i love you
i'm buying this Immediately when i get my next paycheck
Nice looking unit again, but this one would have looked REALLY great if they'd used WHITE LED's instead of red ones.... or have Access got the exclusive rights to whites ?!
want to know a cool trick? There is no filter on volca sample other than hi cut, but if you get a sample that has a super sharp filter EG on the front of it already baked in, like a moog click from a glitch sample or a clicky kick sample with a baked-in filter click on the front, if you loop it real short you can walk up and down that initial transient spike with the sample start point, it sounds just what a resonant low pass filter will do, at least gives you something to knob like you would a resonant cutoff knob
Can you make a video about this? .. Check my channel, I Play with Volca too .. 🙋♂️
Finally, somebody is using sampling the way it had been meant to be used in the first place. Why did I have to wait like 20 years to see a video of somebody NOT to sample entire phrases. I mean, if you sample a single note (which is what the sampler was designed for) you are highly unlikely to get into any of the copyright issues, and also it will give you a credit for some sort of creativity by processing the sample in different ways. I can't sand phrase sampling and loops. They totally ruined the perception of electronic music starting from early '90s.
While I do agree this use of sampling is cool, I disagree on the negative view on sample heavy music from the 90s and in my view, gross misapplication of copyright law curbed the exercise of artistic creativity and shut down entire branches of music. Pity on the world who will never see what would have come from the seeds planted with records like homework, you've come a long way baby and others. That's precisely the opposite of what those laws should do.
agree to disagree, but sampling a single loop of a song can itself have infinite possibilities of being creatively remixed. i think you just don't actively seek out sample based music therefore aren't exposed to the good stuff
Are you under the impression that sampling a "single loop" without clearance (big money for the budding creative) is allowed?
thepauloapo
I am under impression that sampling an entire drum loop or musical phrase is as creative as pressing a Play button on a CD or MP3 player.
Andrew Piatek Not necessarily. Take some tracks from Fatboy Slim or The Prodigy in their heyday for example. I don't even think this is debatable. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look for a video from Jim Pavloff remaking "Smack my bitch up" in Ableton.
Why you end the video at the best moment of the song.Mr Takahashi i want and hour remix of this song.What a machine.I need one.
this new volca is a beast!
Kinda cool, hope they keep the same price tag as the other volcas in the range. The reverb sounds quite noisy unfortunately
In Canada, one site shows its as $16Cdn more than the Volca Bass/Beats/Keys
this guy is a beast
Great KORG!!
Pretty amazing
Cool tricks there, what I want to know is will the volca play pitched instruments in the style of an old school sampler?
Yeah .. Check my channel, I Play with Volca too .. 🙋♂️
Wow this thing looks sexy! Gonna fit in great in my videos
Impressive sounding little piece of gear.
Can you use single Cycle Wave forms ? i really would like to see if that works!
Great. But i don`t wanna buy an iphone to get my samples on the mashine - this is crazy. why cant it read sd cards or act as USB mass storage?
Could this be used to provide a rhythm and bass (with other sampled sounds?) as a sequencer for other MIDI devices? I have several MIDI keyboards and a Korg Volca Keys.
mickypoo4622 It doesn’t have midi out.
@@Epicon8 I know, but you can purchase a solderless add-on board with a MIDI out socket to do this, available on Ebay.
i need this in my life soon
Hi, I have just exported files to Volca sample , and I see that the tempo knob remains fixed on, and even the sequencer does not work with the "play" button. How can I do?
I now need this
i already have a korg beats, what should my next volca be, keys , sample, bass?
Your mom
Finally, a swing control! Can you make the other Volcas swing using the sync out of this?
And please port Synckontrol and the sample manager to Android...
You could always make this the master/sync out and the other volcas will swing along ;)
James Sajeva That's what I was hoping. Only problem is that I won't be getting one of these if I can't send samples to it. I have no intention of getting an iOS device so I guess no swing for me. =(
eyeball226 just some clarification, you don't need an Ios device anymore, and you can't make the other volcas swing, unfortunatly
Roman Yeah, they released the API, I know. Are you sure that the other Volcas won't swing when slaved to this? After all, the Synckontrol app for iOS can make the other Volcas swing - they swing if the clock signal swings.
I'm not 100% sure, but Gaz from Sonic State said that it didn't. He might be wrong though.
Groovy.
I really like the graininess of the sample at extreme transpositions.
I read the specifications and they say that sampling is 16-bit resolution, meaning not very lo-fi. Is the graininess then because of the pitch shifting algorithm?
I find you really can't get this kind of sound outside digital hardware. Even bit-crushers won't do.
It's the 32khz sample rate
when can we get them?
i love him so much
Cant no more wait neeeeeed :D
Did i can record my own samples in memory of this thing?
Very interesting device. One thing that puts me off though is the requirement of an proprietary Iphone app to load up own/custom samples. I fear that Korg shot themselves in the foot with that. I'm not going to throw out extra $$ for an Iphone to use my own samples.
How do I add samples without eliminating the factory samples?
So Cool!
can you sample stuff like film samples and clips of music, manipulate them and sync it with the volca drum?
without a doubt
I sampled everything .. Check my channel, I Play with Volca too .. 🙋♂️
Tatsuya is the Akira for the synth world.