I just have to say, you really are a gem in this community. Your sound design tutorials, Synthmata, and patch packs have allowed a lot of people without the money for expensive synths to get all they need from this little box. You've gone beyond just being helpful for the people with the Volca FM, you've redefined the instrument
third time writing this, youtube seems to refresh and i lose my comment!!! thanks again, ossie (osc-sink), for the very pertinent, for me, episodes on analogue sound. i've been noodling with my FM for about a week and i can't help thinking i much prefer the sound of my analogue volca bass overall. but these analogue tutorials have given me a great starting point. i glossed over the synthmata entries initially because i thought i didn't have a midi keyboard but then realised my maschine mk1 could fit the bill. the synthmata website is much appreciated, as i could easily and quickly load some analogue sounding patches and start to fathom how to obtain this kind of sound and begin to see the interrelationships between the parameters, seeing them all together on a page is very instructive. after all, there are 21 parameters per operator, 6 operators (if i use 6), 19 global settings, makes 145 possible tweaks in edit mode per algorithm plus the knob settings! thanks for making this easier. i was debating just trading my FM in for a Keys but i think i'll hang in there since i have this wonderful resource even though the volca fm edit process is a little too painstaking for my taste. maybe that's just fm synthesis in general ....
Radiopad has a real boards of Canada feel to my ears. Love it. Love all these sounds and packs, and your tutorials, and synthmata! You’re awesome man, and that you do all this just for everyone to enjoy really makes me happy. Can’t wait to get home in a few days and try all these patches on my vfm!
+dairylandbogurt thanks so much. Just happy to be putting stuff out there for people to enjoy! Have fun with the patches. I'm currently plotting my next patch pack for the Volca FM and I like to work to a theme... Any requests?
Oscillator Sink Oh man. I think it would be so cool to hear some dissonant, atonal kind of stuff. Or maybe some haunting, evolving ambient pads kinda stuff? Oooh or like an FM take on the classic cs80 brass sounds from Vangelis's blade runner.. Maybe like an experimental/ambient theme? That would be so rad! I don't really know what I'm talking about or the limitations of FM though so take these requests with a grain of salt :P I can't wait to see what you put out next regardless!
Great stuff mate! I really enjoyed the Friendbass and Radiopad, and the fluut and... ;) These videos tipped me over and I am getting a Volca FM / Cheers
yeah thanks a lot, I'm an analog head and I'am really looking forward a volca FM, but was affraid of beeing disapointed ; so far your patches plus the Dexed thing will makes me jump on this, I can't wait to spend hours of programming XD thank you ! Cheers from france :) Louis
Love your patches..Pafelwub and Sqar rave, Springpad and Outran are my current fav's but I haven't explored all of them yet...plus I need to try them each in unison , poly and mono to get even more variation. I use the arturia keystep (brilliant controller) and have the velocity strip on cc41 ( I think) so I can make use of that parameter. Thank you so much for all this audio joy. I recently got the volca keys and although I am really liking it and its tweekability (on-the-fly), I still think the fm is the best and most powerful. All the best to ya.
My fav patches are as follows in no order : Pafelwub ( Twerkers should be jealous) Freindbass (More bounce than a basketball) Diediebass ( has enough crunch to make your cornflakes leave the bowl) Sqar rave ( Has enough metallic edge to, Sqar wave your dx 7 goodbye) Absolute top job and thankyou so much for your generosity. I dont own a Volca Fm, however your patches have certainly got me thinking 👍👍
+Adamski A. Thank you for your reviews; if I ever have to make a poster, the cornflakes line is going on it so hard! You should totally pick up a Volca FM by the way. It's been one of the most bang for the buck I've ever added to my rig.
Nice one. I haven't had a chance to go through pack 2 yet so I've a bit of catching up to do. Many thanks for all this work you've done to showcase the Volca FM. Still haven't gotten round to setting my Volcas up with the BeatStep Pro but I've decided to hold off until my KVGear Volca mixer turns up.
It's simple enough. Just make sure you have midi out on your computer/interface. And whatever you do, DO NOT buy those cheapo midi to usb cables. Those things are junk! I wasted a bit of time and money figuring this out.
Thanx again for another educational vid. Havent tried all the patches yet but I particularly liked the narstyboi patch. Very musical in the bass range. Something Im working on myself. And to think i almost didt buy a volca fm because I hated that 80s sound (im that old). Love how the fm also can do warm sounds!
Just so you know.. Thumbnails have a timer on the lower right. In this case it covered the "ogue" of analogue. While i've turned many knobs in my day, i've never heard FM doing that! lol
I just got my volca and I've had a TX81z forever. Even with controllers and all the parameters at touch, there's a certain jammability to the volca. They laid it out pretty well for just going at it and having fun.
@@OscillatorSink Not sure if your a Rush fan but stick Rush The Camera Eye and Rush Witch Hunt into the search and listen to the studio versions. Pretty much sounds like ur patch pack in this vid. .. Im in for 2 I guess now )
Just out of interest how many patches for the FM have you made that are available please it seemed to be heaps and thanks by the way I shall be downloading all of them they are awesome and thank you for making them free also thank you for making me less intimidated of this machine I know it's going to take some learning but so does life right.
These patches are fantastic and your Syntmata editor actually downloads the patches onto my Volca FM, unlike all the attempts that I have made using DEXED. Will Synthmata work with any of the old DX7 patches that are available online? Thanks
Thanks, I'm glad you've enjoyed using it. Most of the DX7 patches available are in the cartridge format which won't work with Synthmata as it expects a dingle patch format unfortunately. I keep meaning to add support, but there's never enough hours in the day!
@@OscillatorSink Thanks for an astonishingly quick reply! Just being able to load your patches into the Volca is enough for now, I can find no way of getting Dexed to download DX7 patches to the Volca even though it is defintiely getting the midi information as it sounds the notes that I play in Dexed. Something blocked somewhere .....
Make sure you're sending the patches on midi channel 1 regardless of what your Volca is set to. It only listens for sysex on channel 1. (they might have fixed this in the most recent firmware actually, but I don't recall for definite).
+Lee Thium thank you :) - I think that's the one in this patch I've used the most in jams actually. It sits very nicely alongside a lot of other stuff.
Hey beautiful sounds. How do I get them to the Volca? I tried Dexed in Ableton but cant figure out how to import individual patches like yours, it allows me to upload only whole cartridges, which is syx file, not sysex.
You can send the sysex files with a basic sysex program like elektron's C6, or better yet just use the Synthmata patch links on my site - as long as you're using Chrome (or a browser based on chrome) it'll send it directly to your Volca and you'll be able to see the settings laid out in front of you.
@@OscillatorSink Is it possible to do with digitakt as a midi interface? I load f.e. narstyboi patch in synthmata, midi device is set to digitak, midi channel is 1 (volca as well) "korg mode" is checked, then what?
@@OscillatorSink Btw C6 seems to be unfindable on the internet. On the Elektron page is says 404 error and no alternative download sites to be found while people are asking all over the web. Weird.
That should send the patch *if* the Digitakt works like a true midi interface, but in my experience, a lot of instruments don't pass sysex, only note and controller information.
Never apologise for asking, everyone has to learn everything for the first time once! So what you're looking for is a USB-Midi interface. In a lot of cases audio interfaces will have MIDI connections (for example the Focusrite Scarlett 4i4), but if you just want MIDI, then the one I usually suggest is the Roland UM-ONE mk 2. It's inexpensive and is known to work well.
I just watched your tutorials on the Volca FM, and some of your other videos. I just love it. I'm going to buy one this weak, to make the soundtrack of my game. Two questions: How do I export my work to a PC? And are you familiar with Akira Yamaoka's work? From Silent Hill series? Any tips for creating a similar sound?
+Erick Hetfield in terms of exporting, do you mean recording? In thar case you'll need a sound interface and some DAW software - possibly a subject too large for the comments section! If you mean exporting your patches that you've built? That's actually tricky to do just on the Volca, but check out my videos on 'synthmata', that's a free, browser based editor for the Volca FM, and it makes it really easy to save and share your patches (and means you don't spend the whole time diving through menus). I've actually never really played the Silent Hill series, but I'll check some out and have a think. Is there a game or song I should check out first?
Oscillator Sink Hi, thanks for answering. I was talking about recording. I will look for some sound interface in the future. About silent hill, the first 3 games are the best. Some interesting tracks with cool eletronic sounds are Snow Flower, The Healer and Witchcraft. And some of them have really cool e-pianos, like Cold Blood and True. The back choir things he uses are also very characteristic. You will probably enjoy the bass on O.r.t too. Thanks again for you time.
Is anybody on here using the FM Buddy app on iPhone? I'm without a computer at the moment so I haven't messed around with synthmata. I am having trouble importing these patches, the FM Buddy app just takes me to a website of sysex patches every time I open it, can't figure out how to add any custom patches. I definitely want to to mess around with these!
Oscillator Sink hi thank you for that just letting you know that I managed to find that video this morning thankfully. it was very helpful I appreciate it. I picked up a volca FM today and I was completely wrong about it it's totally capable of ambient beautiful Lush sounds I'm glad I made the investment thank you so much for your guidance. Just the guide sounds are, great the organ and strings are awesome, a good example of capability.
It depends if I need all of them. If I'm trying to make something that's pseudo-acoustic and requires a lot of expression from velocity, then often it's all of them as they are all contributing to different parts of the sound. If I want to make, like a bass or lead sound that's obviously electronic, then often it'll only be 2-3. But yeah depends on the patch. If I recall correctly, in this pack most of them are used most of the time.
Sorry for a noob question, but do "patches" is like presets? Can I, for example, recreate these sounds without downloading anything, using just Volca FM?
You can, there's nothing "magic" about these patches, and nothing else involved in making the sounds. If you want to "follow along" with the process I made a bunch of 'patch from scratch' videos like this one: ua-cam.com/video/_pbxg-rj3hE/v-deo.html
@@OscillatorSink Thank you for your answer! I am just discovering FM. So you are saying, that with Volca FM I can make any sounds I like, save them and make my own patch pack? Can I, for example, make sounds like drums or pads and make them unique using just that Volca?
@@foolycooly6738 that's right. Getting your head around FM can be an interesting journey, but as it happens, I have a series on just that: Understanding Sound Design on the Korg Volca FM: ua-cam.com/play/PLzK7ubWUDl-JqgwwoU4QGiwM6Laps9wuj.html
+Mitchum Taylor it's that weird 'band pass but not a band pass' trick! It's a neat little patch, nice to hear that you're already on the same page, thanks for checking the video out!
Great pack btw! I feel like it shows off the special characteristics of FM and how it adds it's own flavor to common sounds making it more interesting.
i know you uploaded this a while back but - comparing the process you used to make these patches on dexed, versus how you make FM patches on the Digitone - do you feel you'd be able to achieve the same results?
Hi there - I didn't use dexed for these patches, I used my own system for the Volca FM: ua-cam.com/video/ysJ_uxxepAY/v-deo.html But I'm terms of the same results... The DX7 engine and the Digitone are really very different approaches to FM and the Digitone has a lot "more" sound design possibilities (despite having fewer FM operators, simpler envelopes). So I think I could replicate these patches pretty well although my approach might be very different. I do wonder if I'd have *naturally* landed on sounds like these on the Digitone though - the stark differences in the synthesis engines tend to lead you to different sounds.
Unfortunately I never managed to play the signal back reliably from any system - it seems to be very sensitive to levels etc. I believe that Cuckoo also mentioned having this issue when he released his patches. That's why I built a system for editing the patches off unit (synthmata) to stop the patches from being "trapped" on the unit. If you've had success transmitting patches via saved audio files though - I'm open to hearing tips...
Shame! Thanks for replying so quickly though. I'll try and make time to try this out... perhaps if I find a 'sweet spot' of amplification then I can pass that on to you. Would love to try these patches out!
The good news is that the synthmata system generally works just fine with those 30 buck USB-Midi cables. Pretty much anything but the cheapest of the cheap ones work.
Go to my website, scroll down to the patches, each of the links take you to the editor where you can send the patch to your Volca (you need to use Chrome or another browser based on Chrome, like Opera) oscillatorsink.com/
This is awesome!! the only thing I'm struggling with is that when I load a patch on my Volca, the velocity fader doesn't work. Any ideas why this could be happening?
@@OscillatorSink yeah I'm pressing repeatedly, I know it doesn't work on long notes. But it's weird, it's not only with your patches, It also happens with some others I've loaded through Dexed
You'll have to overwrite one of the existing patches if you want to *save* a patch, but you can send them across to try them without overwriting anything.
@@OscillatorSinkI hope you see this last question, I ordered the suggested midi interface you list on your site but do I have to connect the interface to the volca fm both ins and outs like a loop? I was thinking just out from the interface into the volca but I've read now it may be that and also out from the volca back into the interface? All these adapters are getting expensive lol so I really hope not
I believe that dexed only works with full cartridge files via the load dialogue rather than the individual patches, but I know that people have instead put the sysex file either on a midi track (if your daw supports this) and played it into dexed, or used a virtual midi loopback device to load the files in using synthmata. The other thing you could try is contacting the developer of dexed to ask if there's a way for them to enable the loading of single patch files. I had a poke around in their source code and, from memory, I believe that the code is basically all in place but disabled. It may be a really easy fix for them!
The likely cause of that is the fact that the single patch format that the Volca expects is not actually 100 percent compatible with the DX7 - the downloads are all formatted for the Volca. One thing you could try is using the Synthmata links, switching synthmata to yamaha mode and re-saving? (or if you're just trying to use dexed to send to your Volca, you can just use the synthmata links on their own).
My favourite patches in order of apperance: narstyboi, diediebass, friendbass, fluut, fnklvbass, pafelwub, radiopad, sqar_rave, unobass, trompad, aqugon, lovebass ;-)
OK, I was about to order the Yamaha Reface DX, but what the hell, I decided to give Korg a second chance (didn't like the Microkorg), never mind the 3 note polyphony.
Hi, Great sounds... but i cant get them to load in Dexed? Are these compatible? .syx Im running Logic Pro, and wanna get these sounds on my Volca fm. Cheers.
+Jason Milton Dexed (currently) only supports the 32 patch "cartridge" format for loading directly. The format I use is the single patch format. I believe if you just play sysex into Dexed (use a sysex fader in logic) and put dexed in receive mode you can load it that way. I'm working on getting support for the 32 patch format as well, but it might also worth contacting the Dexed developers because from poking around their source code, I think they basically have the support already there - its just turned off! In the mean time, give the synthmata links a go. You'll need Chrome on your Mac but they should work.
I just have to say, you really are a gem in this community. Your sound design tutorials, Synthmata, and patch packs have allowed a lot of people without the money for expensive synths to get all they need from this little box. You've gone beyond just being helpful for the people with the Volca FM, you've redefined the instrument
That's super kind of you to say, thank you
It's true
This man is a saint.... Thanks for what you do and pass along.... "Saint Sink".. all hail!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this, for your generosity to the community. It has inspired me to take my Volca Fm and experiment with it again
I hated this thing before I found your videos, thanks a lot this things useful to me now - I fell like I owe you $150!
Happy to help!
third time writing this, youtube seems to refresh and i lose my comment!!! thanks again, ossie (osc-sink), for the very pertinent, for me, episodes on analogue sound. i've been noodling with my FM for about a week and i can't help thinking i much prefer the sound of my analogue volca bass overall. but these analogue tutorials have given me a great starting point. i glossed over the synthmata entries initially because i thought i didn't have a midi keyboard but then realised my maschine mk1 could fit the bill. the synthmata website is much appreciated, as i could easily and quickly load some analogue sounding patches and start to fathom how to obtain this kind of sound and begin to see the interrelationships between the parameters, seeing them all together on a page is very instructive. after all, there are 21 parameters per operator, 6 operators (if i use 6), 19 global settings, makes 145 possible tweaks in edit mode per algorithm plus the knob settings! thanks for making this easier. i was debating just trading my FM in for a Keys but i think i'll hang in there since i have this wonderful resource even though the volca fm edit process is a little too painstaking for my taste. maybe that's just fm synthesis in general ....
You are talented in FM Synth programming. Thanks for your work!
Beautiful sounds! I love them! Thanks!
These are truly extraordinary, thank you.
My pleasure, I'm glad you like them!
Radiopad has a real boards of Canada feel to my ears. Love it. Love all these sounds and packs, and your tutorials, and synthmata! You’re awesome man, and that you do all this just for everyone to enjoy really makes me happy. Can’t wait to get home in a few days and try all these patches on my vfm!
+dairylandbogurt thanks so much. Just happy to be putting stuff out there for people to enjoy! Have fun with the patches. I'm currently plotting my next patch pack for the Volca FM and I like to work to a theme... Any requests?
Oscillator Sink Oh man. I think it would be so cool to hear some dissonant, atonal kind of stuff. Or maybe some haunting, evolving ambient pads kinda stuff? Oooh or like an FM take on the classic cs80 brass sounds from Vangelis's blade runner.. Maybe like an experimental/ambient theme? That would be so rad!
I don't really know what I'm talking about or the limitations of FM though so take these requests with a grain of salt :P I can't wait to see what you put out next regardless!
I agree, my jaw dropped when radiopad showed up in this video! Then trompad topped it off a few minutes later 🤠
Great stuff mate! I really enjoyed the Friendbass and Radiopad, and the fluut and... ;)
These videos tipped me over and I am getting a Volca FM
/ Cheers
Pafelwub is here!! haha
Thank you man, great patches again. :)))
+Павел Вашев :) I hope you like it! Your very own patch!
yeah thanks a lot, I'm an analog head and I'am really looking forward a volca FM, but was affraid of beeing disapointed ; so far your patches plus the Dexed thing will makes me jump on this, I can't wait to spend hours of programming XD thank you ! Cheers from france :) Louis
Superb patch set. Thanks a lot.
Hi! Pafelwub, Sqar_rave and Lovebass are AWESOME!!!! Thank you!
Loving these sounds! I've been getting bored of the factory presets so I'll have to try these out
Love your patches..Pafelwub and Sqar rave, Springpad and Outran are my current fav's but I haven't explored all of them yet...plus I need to try them each in unison , poly and mono to get even more variation. I use the arturia keystep (brilliant controller) and have the velocity strip on cc41 ( I think) so I can make use of that parameter. Thank you so much for all this audio joy. I recently got the volca keys and although I am really liking it and its tweekability (on-the-fly), I still think the fm is the best and most powerful. All the best to ya.
Cheers! Make sure you try Outran on unison - that's where it really shines.
My fav patches are as follows in no order :
Pafelwub ( Twerkers should be jealous)
Freindbass (More bounce than a basketball)
Diediebass ( has enough crunch to make your cornflakes leave the bowl)
Sqar rave ( Has enough metallic edge to, Sqar wave your dx 7 goodbye)
Absolute top job and thankyou so much for your generosity. I dont own a Volca Fm, however your patches have certainly got me thinking 👍👍
+Adamski A. Thank you for your reviews; if I ever have to make a poster, the cornflakes line is going on it so hard! You should totally pick up a Volca FM by the way. It's been one of the most bang for the buck I've ever added to my rig.
Oscillator Sink Yes i really should. The more i hear it the more my eyes raise in suprise at its sonic pallete.
many of them have amazing capabilities , probably my favorite pac other than the perc.
Thanks for all !
Cheers!
COOL!!! I especially love the bass sounds, can't wait to make some fat bass lines with it. Great job! :D
+Slenterende Beer yesssssss! Can't wait to hear them in your jams!
Nice one. I haven't had a chance to go through pack 2 yet so I've a bit of catching up to do. Many thanks for all this work you've done to showcase the Volca FM. Still haven't gotten round to setting my Volcas up with the BeatStep Pro but I've decided to hold off until my KVGear Volca mixer turns up.
+Dino Goldie oh, I've been looking at that mixer too, let me know what you think of it when you get it. Hope you enjoy the patches!
This sounds excellent. Going to try and figure out how to get these in my FM. Thanks for this!
It's simple enough. Just make sure you have midi out on your computer/interface. And whatever you do, DO NOT buy those cheapo midi to usb cables. Those things are junk! I wasted a bit of time and money figuring this out.
So wonderfully rich sound
well now I definitely need an FM
They all sound great, but radiopad is sick! 👏
That's a lot of people's favourite it seems - I'm very fond of that one too!
Thanx again for another educational vid. Havent tried all the patches yet but I particularly liked the narstyboi patch. Very musical in the bass range. Something Im working on myself. And to think i almost didt buy a volca fm because I hated that 80s sound (im that old). Love how the fm also can do warm sounds!
+an3z thanks for checking it out! That one was the first one I did, so it very much set the scene for the whole pack!
Bravisssssssssiiiiiimoooooooooo. Grate Job Man
exellent many thanks , love the analog sounds un fm style
+Daniel Aranguri thank you for checking them out!
Just so you know.. Thumbnails have a timer on the lower right. In this case it covered the "ogue" of analogue. While i've turned many knobs in my day, i've never heard FM doing that! lol
radiopad reminded me "Apocalypse Now" very much
Many thanks for all of these excellent patches and the wonderful Synthmata!!
You're welcome!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
That's alright!
I jammed out yesterday with narstyboi. It ended up being a late 90s rap song 😆
Nice patches only bought the volca fm as my dx100 needs repair but it sounds so good and not as noisy as my dx
I just got my volca and I've had a TX81z forever. Even with controllers and all the parameters at touch, there's a certain jammability to the volca. They laid it out pretty well for just going at it and having fun.
your patches are great, Thanks.
+Ken Stedenschon thank you so much! Really glad you like them.
Sounds like early/mid 80s Rush. So much so I just convinced myself to by a 2nd unit... Starting to think 2 will be a lot of fun...
I should think so!
@@OscillatorSink Not sure if your a Rush fan but stick Rush The Camera Eye and Rush Witch Hunt into the search and listen to the studio versions. Pretty much sounds like ur patch pack in this vid. .. Im in for 2 I guess now )
Was it fun having 2, just ordered 2
Just out of interest how many patches for the FM have you made that are available please it seemed to be heaps and thanks by the way I shall be downloading all of them they are awesome and thank you for making them free also thank you for making me less intimidated of this machine I know it's going to take some learning but so does life right.
I think it clocks in at 48 patches. They are all on my website:
oscillatorsink.com/
wow squarewave is beautiful !!! thx
Thank you!
Awesome!
Cheers!
Killer patches - very tasteful - im way behind with the Volca FM. time to catch up!
+Groove Q give it some love. Glad you like the patches!
These patches are fantastic and your Syntmata editor actually downloads the patches onto my Volca FM, unlike all the attempts that I have made using DEXED. Will Synthmata work with any of the old DX7 patches that are available online? Thanks
Thanks, I'm glad you've enjoyed using it. Most of the DX7 patches available are in the cartridge format which won't work with Synthmata as it expects a dingle patch format unfortunately. I keep meaning to add support, but there's never enough hours in the day!
@@OscillatorSink Thanks for an astonishingly quick reply! Just being able to load your patches into the Volca is enough for now, I can find no way of getting Dexed to download DX7 patches to the Volca even though it is defintiely getting the midi information as it sounds the notes that I play in Dexed. Something blocked somewhere .....
Make sure you're sending the patches on midi channel 1 regardless of what your Volca is set to. It only listens for sysex on channel 1. (they might have fixed this in the most recent firmware actually, but I don't recall for definite).
@@OscillatorSink It is set for channel 1, I will continue to explore whats going on, thanks so much for your advice and the videos and patches.
fluut patch is awsome
+Lee Thium thank you :) - I think that's the one in this patch I've used the most in jams actually. It sits very nicely alongside a lot of other stuff.
Hey beautiful sounds. How do I get them to the Volca? I tried Dexed in Ableton but cant figure out how to import individual patches like yours, it allows me to upload only whole cartridges, which is syx file, not sysex.
You can send the sysex files with a basic sysex program like elektron's C6, or better yet just use the Synthmata patch links on my site - as long as you're using Chrome (or a browser based on chrome) it'll send it directly to your Volca and you'll be able to see the settings laid out in front of you.
@@OscillatorSink Is it possible to do with digitakt as a midi interface? I load f.e. narstyboi patch in synthmata, midi device is set to digitak, midi channel is 1 (volca as well) "korg mode" is checked, then what?
@@OscillatorSink Btw C6 seems to be unfindable on the internet. On the Elektron page is says 404 error and no alternative download sites to be found while people are asking all over the web. Weird.
The download here works for me?
www.elektron.se/support/?connection=digitone#resources
That should send the patch *if* the Digitakt works like a true midi interface, but in my experience, a lot of instruments don't pass sysex, only note and controller information.
Sorry, may this be an amateur question but, how can I connect any volca to the laptop? Maybe with a USB out from the laptop to a Midi in cable?
Never apologise for asking, everyone has to learn everything for the first time once!
So what you're looking for is a USB-Midi interface. In a lot of cases audio interfaces will have MIDI connections (for example the Focusrite Scarlett 4i4), but if you just want MIDI, then the one I usually suggest is the Roland UM-ONE mk 2. It's inexpensive and is known to work well.
@@OscillatorSink thanks so much for your help 😃
I just watched your tutorials on the Volca FM, and some of your other videos. I just love it. I'm going to buy one this weak, to make the soundtrack of my game. Two questions: How do I export my work to a PC? And are you familiar with Akira Yamaoka's work? From Silent Hill series? Any tips for creating a similar sound?
+Erick Hetfield in terms of exporting, do you mean recording? In thar case you'll need a sound interface and some DAW software - possibly a subject too large for the comments section! If you mean exporting your patches that you've built? That's actually tricky to do just on the Volca, but check out my videos on 'synthmata', that's a free, browser based editor for the Volca FM, and it makes it really easy to save and share your patches (and means you don't spend the whole time diving through menus).
I've actually never really played the Silent Hill series, but I'll check some out and have a think. Is there a game or song I should check out first?
Oscillator Sink Hi, thanks for answering. I was talking about recording. I will look for some sound interface in the future. About silent hill, the first 3 games are the best. Some interesting tracks with cool eletronic sounds are Snow Flower, The Healer and Witchcraft. And some of them have really cool e-pianos, like Cold Blood and True. The back choir things he uses are also very characteristic. You will probably enjoy the bass on O.r.t too. Thanks again for you time.
+Erick Hetfield I'll be sure to check some stuff out!
Yeeeeeeah, you are awesome! =)
+Nora Smith thank you!
Is anybody on here using the FM Buddy app on iPhone? I'm without a computer at the moment so I haven't messed around with synthmata. I am having trouble importing these patches, the FM Buddy app just takes me to a website of sysex patches every time I open it, can't figure out how to add any custom patches. I definitely want to to mess around with these!
Hi there I was just wondering if you had a video guide for using your online editor please thanks again. Heath
Hi there, something like this should help I think:
ua-cam.com/video/_pbxg-rj3hE/v-deo.html
Oscillator Sink hi thank you for that just letting you know that I managed to find that video this morning thankfully. it was very helpful I appreciate it. I picked up a volca FM today and I was completely wrong about it it's totally capable of ambient beautiful Lush sounds I'm glad I made the investment thank you so much for your guidance. Just the guide sounds are, great the organ and strings are awesome, a good example of capability.
When you do a patch, do you tend to use all of the operators or just a few?
It depends if I need all of them. If I'm trying to make something that's pseudo-acoustic and requires a lot of expression from velocity, then often it's all of them as they are all contributing to different parts of the sound. If I want to make, like a bass or lead sound that's obviously electronic, then often it'll only be 2-3. But yeah depends on the patch. If I recall correctly, in this pack most of them are used most of the time.
Haha, radiopad in the bass range absolutely sounded like Carpenters The Fog or Halloween...
Sorry for a noob question, but do "patches" is like presets? Can I, for example, recreate these sounds without downloading anything, using just Volca FM?
You can, there's nothing "magic" about these patches, and nothing else involved in making the sounds.
If you want to "follow along" with the process I made a bunch of 'patch from scratch' videos like this one:
ua-cam.com/video/_pbxg-rj3hE/v-deo.html
@@OscillatorSink Thank you for your answer! I am just discovering FM. So you are saying, that with Volca FM I can make any sounds I like, save them and make my own patch pack? Can I, for example, make sounds like drums or pads and make them unique using just that Volca?
@@foolycooly6738 that's right. Getting your head around FM can be an interesting journey, but as it happens, I have a series on just that:
Understanding Sound Design on the Korg Volca FM: ua-cam.com/play/PLzK7ubWUDl-JqgwwoU4QGiwM6Laps9wuj.html
@@OscillatorSink This is magic! Oh the possibilities! Thank you very much!
HOLLY S%%%% aMAzing!!!
awesome
+Guitar Addiction cheers!
thank YOU for the free patches mate
Haha I also made a radiopad for myself that sounds pretty similar. Must've had the same inspiration
+Mitchum Taylor it's that weird 'band pass but not a band pass' trick! It's a neat little patch, nice to hear that you're already on the same page, thanks for checking the video out!
Great pack btw! I feel like it shows off the special characteristics of FM and how it adds it's own flavor to common sounds making it more interesting.
+Mitchum Taylor thanks buddy, glad you like them, they were really good fun to put together.
i know you uploaded this a while back but - comparing the process you used to make these patches on dexed, versus how you make FM patches on the Digitone - do you feel you'd be able to achieve the same results?
Hi there - I didn't use dexed for these patches, I used my own system for the Volca FM: ua-cam.com/video/ysJ_uxxepAY/v-deo.html
But I'm terms of the same results... The DX7 engine and the Digitone are really very different approaches to FM and the Digitone has a lot "more" sound design possibilities (despite having fewer FM operators, simpler envelopes). So I think I could replicate these patches pretty well although my approach might be very different.
I do wonder if I'd have *naturally* landed on sounds like these on the Digitone though - the stark differences in the synthesis engines tend to lead you to different sounds.
God bless 🙏
any chance of providing recordings of the audio sync signal for those of us without access to midi?
Unfortunately I never managed to play the signal back reliably from any system - it seems to be very sensitive to levels etc. I believe that Cuckoo also mentioned having this issue when he released his patches. That's why I built a system for editing the patches off unit (synthmata) to stop the patches from being "trapped" on the unit. If you've had success transmitting patches via saved audio files though - I'm open to hearing tips...
Shame! Thanks for replying so quickly though. I'll try and make time to try this out... perhaps if I find a 'sweet spot' of amplification then I can pass that on to you. Would love to try these patches out!
The good news is that the synthmata system generally works just fine with those 30 buck USB-Midi cables. Pretty much anything but the cheapest of the cheap ones work.
Fluut!
thanks for this brother! how i can export patch to volca fm?
Do you have a midi interface for your computer?
@@OscillatorSink yes! i have a scarlett 2i4 whit midi out
and i try whit dexed, but this only read syx messages and the patch is .sysex :S
Go to my website, scroll down to the patches, each of the links take you to the editor where you can send the patch to your Volca (you need to use Chrome or another browser based on Chrome, like Opera)
oscillatorsink.com/
@@OscillatorSink thxs mate, i use mac and safari, now i try whit chrome
Is your link still available please,,Amazing sounds 👊
oscillatorsink.com - scroll down!
This is awesome!! the only thing I'm struggling with is that when I load a patch on my Volca, the velocity fader doesn't work. Any ideas why this could be happening?
Can you see the velocity change registering on the display? Are you running the stock firmware?
@@OscillatorSink Yeah I see the numbers change but nothing happens, and yes stock firmware (thanks for the quick answer by the way)
@@javiervera2126 and you're repeatedly playing notes, not expecting to hear a change to a sustained note?
@@OscillatorSink yeah I'm pressing repeatedly, I know it doesn't work on long notes. But it's weird, it's not only with your patches, It also happens with some others I've loaded through Dexed
@@javiervera2126 are you in "play mode" i.e. not with edit enabled? Are your attack and decay knobs all centred?
It sucks not having a midi cable yet, I'll have to wait.
-Mega- you can import from audio sync in using “Fm buddy” from the apple store it’s free and has links to thousands of patches
How does storage work if you transfer these over to the fm, do you have to delete a preset to make room for each patch you send over?
You'll have to overwrite one of the existing patches if you want to *save* a patch, but you can send them across to try them without overwriting anything.
@@OscillatorSink ah ok I understand, thank you for responding, and thanks for making these
@@OscillatorSinkI hope you see this last question, I ordered the suggested midi interface you list on your site but do I have to connect the interface to the volca fm both ins and outs like a loop? I was thinking just out from the interface into the volca but I've read now it may be that and also out from the volca back into the interface? All these adapters are getting expensive lol so I really hope not
@@benjaminfowler4513 for synthmata you just need to go out from the interface to in on the Volca.
@@OscillatorSink ok but if I want the patches that you've made from your site I'll have to do the "loop" right?
somehow in my Daw Dexed doesnt seem to find Sysex Data. Only Data i can find is Syx stuff! Ahhh, help! :D
Are you trying to load the patches to play in dexed, or just load them to send them to your Volca?
@@OscillatorSink I have loaded dexed in my daw and want to listen to the patches. but it only finds syx data, no sysex.
I believe that dexed only works with full cartridge files via the load dialogue rather than the individual patches, but I know that people have instead put the sysex file either on a midi track (if your daw supports this) and played it into dexed, or used a virtual midi loopback device to load the files in using synthmata.
The other thing you could try is contacting the developer of dexed to ask if there's a way for them to enable the loading of single patch files. I had a poke around in their source code and, from memory, I believe that the code is basically all in place but disabled. It may be a really easy fix for them!
I cant figure out how to get these over to my FM
i only have an iPhone, can someone help?
Can not be done with an iPhone/iPad, as of December 2022. Maybe in the future.
Unfortunately iPhone doesn't support webmidi, sorry.
Hey man, love your patches but I can't get them to load through Dexed on my PC; it always says they are corrupted
The likely cause of that is the fact that the single patch format that the Volca expects is not actually 100 percent compatible with the DX7 - the downloads are all formatted for the Volca. One thing you could try is using the Synthmata links, switching synthmata to yamaha mode and re-saving? (or if you're just trying to use dexed to send to your Volca, you can just use the synthmata links on their own).
Oh yes!!!
+Neo Luddite hope you enjoy them!
I'll upload of video of me using one your patches soon......
+Neo Luddite awesome, make sure you link me to it!
Yo! I used one of your patches perc 4 i think! ua-cam.com/video/afPL1_qcRAM/v-deo.html
I'll check it out later!
When my DX7ll died, I lost my workhorse patch "Brt Analog" is that available for this?
Any DX7 patch can be loaded - you'll just need to track down the sysex for it.
U Go
Could you add timestamps for each preset?
You can now find them in the video description.
Oscillator Sink ace
My favourite patches in order of apperance: narstyboi, diediebass, friendbass, fluut, fnklvbass, pafelwub, radiopad, sqar_rave, unobass, trompad, aqugon, lovebass ;-)
+Øyvind Ellingsen haha thank you... I see what you did there 😉
OK, I was about to order the Yamaha Reface DX, but what the hell, I decided to give Korg a second chance (didn't like the Microkorg), never mind the 3 note polyphony.
The new FM2 has 6 note poly.
noice...
Pafelwub is just for dubstep.
Yeeee--Haaaa !!!
+Holy Diver Yeeeeeeeeeeeah!
Hi, Great sounds... but i cant get them to load in Dexed? Are these compatible? .syx
Im running Logic Pro, and wanna get these sounds on my Volca fm.
Cheers.
+Jason Milton Dexed (currently) only supports the 32 patch "cartridge" format for loading directly. The format I use is the single patch format. I believe if you just play sysex into Dexed (use a sysex fader in logic) and put dexed in receive mode you can load it that way.
I'm working on getting support for the 32 patch format as well, but it might also worth contacting the Dexed developers because from poking around their source code, I think they basically have the support already there - its just turned off!
In the mean time, give the synthmata links a go. You'll need Chrome on your Mac but they should work.
600th like!! yaaaaay!!
Sqrrave