New analog boxes from Korg?

[Hugo76]

Oh man, those demos totally convinced me! I'm probably going fo all three, although the Beats still isn't that interesting. Couple it with my Kaoss Pads should do the trick.
The sequencing features on the Bass are killer! This box should provide hours on hours of fun.

I guess I'll mod them all with midi out

[loungedumore]

Some sick psychopath in me just wants to chain link 4 of the volca keys and two of the volca basses into a polyphonic monster

yeah acually two of the keys and a midi pal http://mutable-instruments.net/midipal could be the affordable modern vco poly of so much vse rants .

Should make for some great fun. I look forward to the portability. I expect to go for the trio.

Yeah , I originally was thinking the beats would satisfy my desire for a cheap analog drum machine with little interest in the rest . As I thought g.a.s was satisfied this year with the subphatty ,the ms20 and the tentative iconnectivity midi 4+ . Then the keys looked a little more interesting with it's simple ,but full enough feature set , unique filter and nice little delay . I thought ok maybe these two . Again no real interest in the bass as apart from slide 303 like units don't do anything for me . Then these demos come round and I am liking the bass's vco's and filter's character and thinking to myself my set up could use that flavor too .......

Oh man, those demos totally convinced me! I'm probably going fo all three

damn you Korg !
How many again I am reminded is X+1 or in this case X+3

[Bitexion]

G.A.S will NEVER be satisfied, no matter how much you spend on some dream synth, something else comes along that you want equally bad within a few months.

[loungedumore]

Indeed . Although I hoped I was good until next namm or so

[Walter Ego]

Watch on youtube.com

[can't get the youtube Volca Bass link to work...well look at it on the previous page]

s e p a r a t e s e q u e n c e s for VCO groupings...?! yes please.

whine all you want to about not sounding like a 303. this thing hot. and a 303 can't do that detuning bit....

[xanadu97]

I think I might buy the Keys. I was thinking about buying a Microkorg or something, just because I want to be able to play more than one note, but I like knobs and the Keys looks interesting. 3 note polyphony doesn't bother me. The only problem I see is no way to get a square wave without ring mod. Hopefully there will be a simple mod for that.

[bassdude]

Does anybody know when these things are gonna be in stores in the U.S.?

[loungedumore]

Midi charts are up in the download section now as well .

[masstronaut]

That cat definitely spent some formative years in North London.

Anyway, what a great job they seem to have done with these - just the kind of features we (I mean, I) would want to see. That undo/redo on the active step is a total winner.

[Kidney05]

There's a slew of videos cropping up from Japan now. They look like a ton of fun. Here's one comparing the bass to the monotribe.

[bassdude]

Does anybody know when these things are gonna be in stores in the U.S.?

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[Blue Monster 65]

... When they're readily available (another month or so was the answer I got)...

That's what I was told last weekend while playing them.

[ZeeOne]

Some sick psychopath in me just wants to chain link 4 of the volca keys and two of the volca basses into a polyphonic monster and feed the outputs into guitar pedals...kinda like a modular groovebox approach...

With the beats...I am not so sure...there are lots of elements and playability...but no one knows if there is any ability to pan elements.

I'd rather Korg put 2 together with 44 full-size keys and give us a 6-voice analog poly for around 750-800...

[loungedumore]

I'd rather Korg put 2 together with 44 full-size keys and give us a 6-voice analog poly for around 750-800...

I suppose or as I said

yeah acually two of the keys and a midi pal http://mutable-instruments.net/midipal could be the affordable modern vco poly of so much vse rants .

If you already have a midi controller and buy say 2 "keys" and an assembled (or not) midi pal You could have a 6 voice paraphonic for less than $500/400 euro .
Only a couple possible hitches I'm not sure of :
1 if the master sends out omni I'm not sure if the midipal would still send
all CC's to both midi ch 1 and 2 or if those would be filtered out or not ? ( as this would allow for programming both almost identically ) not that that was a showstopper for sem users back in the day .
2 : I didn't see in the user guid if the env is legato or not , but I would assume since it's paraphonic it would be legato .

Either way it is an idea I'm kicking around . ymmv

[Sir Nose]

Woke up to a nice workout of the Volca beats on soundcloud.