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Korg Volca Beats

Drum Machine from Korg belonging to the Volca series

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«  THE ANALOG OUTLET »

Published on 12/20/13 at 00:20
No need to repeat characteristics.
Drum machines in the line of vintage 808/909 of the big time.
8 memories of 16 steps. MIDI input.

It has not and lacks:
No swing or shuffle
No accent
No flame (such as 909)
No sequence of programmable pattern
No separate outputs (possible)
No output pm (possible)
Output sync out not transmitting a pulse at every step (as described in the manual though) but not both. This makes it complicated sync with other analog instruments except for the current Korg series. Same for the in sync.

UTILIZATION

Easy to use. Once the ergonomics of the well controlled machine is an effective toy. The keyboard is very sensitive and hyper reactive which is a real plus for the active functions step steps and jump, great for real time!

SOUNDS

The sounds are not bad at all except for the snare and crash.
The snare sounds like a potato, especially when you push the snappy which gives a more digital and analogue grain, it is far from that of the 808.

General grain is nice and fishing. The output level is a little low, however.

OVERALL OPINION

This is really good news that the analog back more with a bonus really affordable price.
So far, there were 522 MFB in the genre.
This is a very good purchase I do not regret.