Volca sampler - not a word?!

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http://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/volca_sample/

nobody's mentioned this, presumably through lack of enthusiasm.
reckon they've missed on this one: sample load only via ios app,
and? no audio input? a ampler that can't ample(orry, broke my 's'
button, keep misssssing them). why bother when the ES1 already
did all thi? mystified by ome of these designs ometimes.

rhythm wolf appears to have disappeared without trace too.

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It still amazes me how they always come up with neat ideas & gadgets, and yet somehow they manage to F it up...no note data via MIDI for Kaossilator Pro, iOS only sample input for Volca Sample...darn it, Korg...
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cough *wot* lol
nobody had much to say about the volca sampler

pfff doesn't seem that fantastic to me, it can't fooken SAMPLE!
i compare it to the ES1, which also loads 99 samples(100...)
via smartmedia, has load more patterns, costs about the same
2nd hand, has audio in/thru-put, fx, automation, more patterns,
and an excellent chaelight interface. go for that.
there's a badly named app called smartrenamer that acts as librarian/renamer
for putting bank together from wav, works well. process is kinda slow but
does the job and the machine sounds great.
maybe the volca S has decay/length parameter, which the ES1 lacks. but
i don't like/dislike the demos for it. have the others, won't bother with
the sampler. (coz i got ES1)

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yeah we should start an advisory consortium/pressure group
and demand pre-release approval of new korg products and their
features :) :x

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ah, oh yeah, i get it...it is a marketing strategy:
they want to push the new electribes, and the volca S
is designed to be a market failure deliberately :D

if anyone wants a 'volca sampler', just get the ES1 electribe,
it's got all the features and lots more. doesn't run off batteries,
or load via IOS app, but you can send audio through it, do
chops, etc. - have i missed something from that youtube vid?

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mztk wrote:cough *wot* lol
nobody had much to say about the volca sampler

pfff doesn't seem that fantastic to me, it can't fooken SAMPLE!
Its not called Volva Sampler, though. Its called Volca Sample.
i compare it to the ES1, which also loads 99 samples(100...)
via smartmedia, has load more patterns, costs about the same
2nd hand, has audio in/thru-put, fx, automation, more patterns,
and an excellent chaelight interface. go for that.
Already got one. Looking at the panel, and the 'step control parameters' conrtols, it seems to me that the automation parameters the Volca Sample offers is a bit different to that of the ES-1 eg Start Point, Length, etc, making it a bit more sample-manipulation oriented rather than effects-oriented. That in itself is interesting.
The Analog Isolator is interesting too.
And battery operated has its place.

IMO, it'd be a useful adjunct slaved to an Electribe of any marque if you wanted to be able to process more than a single pair of outputs. Anyway, mileages vary.
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I find it really odd with all the analog gadgets they've released, to tie this to an app somehow for sampling. It seems counter intuitive. Nice to see Korg hitting many different budgets with their gear though. The limitations don't bother me as much as the forced app use. The sequencer features look like they will be fun. I guess if it is easy to drop samples with an app, it's alright, but in sure there must be a portion of the market that wants these and doesn't have a device capable of supporting the app, as in maybe no room left on older smart phone or tablet, or no devices at all. For iDevice users that don't jailbreak stuff, having a bunch if samples handy isn't an easy thing. Apps are so compartmentalized. iTunes is terrible in my opinion for keeping samples. Would have been better with just a USB port for plugging in flash drives.
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(hmm...'vulva sample'?)

yeah dunno anything about IOS tbh. isn't that just for Mac? i guess
IOS must have a pc incarnation. so? you use your computer to service
it, yeah? how do you get the samples in there? is it usb?(soz not
looking it up again right now)

the ES1 is..moderately PITA to get ready made samples into. not really
very immediate, lacks in-play decay/length editing, but not bad. 32khz
though. this is prob 16bit/44.1(idem re checking)

realised something irritating about the volcas yesterday though whilst
running them in sync with MIDI: the first one receives the MIDI and will
start/stop, but the synced chain then does not. or has something gone
wrong with them? :x i need to check this again...

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mztk wrote:(hmm...'vulva sample'?)

yeah dunno anything about IOS tbh. isn't that just for Mac? i guess
IOS must have a pc incarnation. so? you use your computer to service
it, yeah?
its not for pcs or macs; its ipods, ipads and iphones
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:x

er, i'm just not down with i-anything. that's really quite
irritating, the assumption that everyone wants an i-thingy.
(my phone is strictly buttons. i had to get a new phone, so
i thought ok i'll get a touchscreen, i had to take it back, just
knew it wouldn't be long before i threw it at a wall. don't care
about internet on my phone, etc etc)

so no-one's made anything that runs IOS stuff on a PC, then? oh,
whatever...i can live without this/stand down etc.

true, having mobile start/end is interesting. what's the analog
isolator then? i think my next stop on the mini market is a
little kaoss fx job. can't decide whether to get a v1 or 2.
(check the irony in that)

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This slaving hardware to an iOS app is happening too often. I know a lot of "creatives" are supposed to be deep into Apple anything (as if it's in the DNA), but not everybody is. In my experience, iOS appliances are more like tyrants than helpers. I won't be in it again that's for sure.

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I'm a big fan of iOS apps as helpers/convenience functionality, but adamantly opposed to reliance on apps for hardware. It's a terrible idea and excludes heavily. Whether iOS, Android, or whatever mobile platform, we don't need new hardware that's app-dependant. Make it flash drive load or FTP or anything but dependence on a mobile device. Adding that as an option only would be much better.
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mztk wrote:a ampler that can't ample(orry, broke my 's'
button, keep misssssing them). .
lol :lol:

Yep I agree the ample import/record is a major flaw with it. I was intereted up until that point... :ud:

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s'alright now, i just ripped the rest of the button off.
i know where the 's' is.

visiting friend here has i-gubbins. you can see the convenience of it,
i guess. but why must PCs be excluded, that doesn't make sense. unless
someone's got something for PC that will run IOS; which would make a
lot of sense. off to (google) that..

oh, nasty: there's a thing called xpadian, but the site has a malware warning,
crashed out my post and KVR page tab. don't go there:
*http://www.xpadian.com*/
or at least don't hit the download button.

seem to be a few options on softpedia, at a glance.
logical really.

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