I fist thought this was another spoof. It looks uglier than the other Volcas, but it sounds great, and at the end of the day that’s all we want! So excited about this… I’m already scripting the tutorials!!! :D
Volca Sample Tutorial Series
Hi all!
Just to announce that theĀ final episode of the Volca Sample Tutorial Series is out on Youtube, and the accompanying text is to be found on this page.
Episode 4 of the Volca Sample Tutorial Series is Out!
I have been busy with the return to my lab and office duties. I just published the fourth episode of the Volca Sample Tutorial Series on YouYube, which accompanies my text tutorial here.
Third Part of the Volca Sample Tutorial Series is Out!
After a nice week-long vacation, I just uploaded the third part of the Volca Sample Tutorial Series, dealing with Automation (Motion Sequence) and how it can be used to program melodies in the Volca Sample. As always, there is a YouTube video accompanying this tutorial.
Characterizing Volca Sample’s Low Pass Filter
I’ve been preparing a couple of Volca Sample tutorials before going on vacation, and this question came up when presenting the low-pass filter. What kind of filter does the Volca Sample ships with? in order to test it, I used sample 27. This sample is a small snare with not too much bass and quite a lot of white noise. I recorded this sample being played with the filter at 127, 110, 100, 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 and all closed. At first glance, the filter sounds like a 12dB/octave one. Figure 1 shows the wave shape of those samples (A), and their corresponding spectrogram (B).
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Volca Sample Tutorial Video No 1 is Out!
Just published the Video for the first tutorial on the Volca Sample. :)