New KORG Volca & Electribe

Daren, did you get the Volca Sample in the UK?

TM404 aka Andreas Tilliander playing the Volca Sample on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152835864558555&set=vb.89821483554&type=2&theater
Notice one Cenk of Elektron goes on to call this a “beast” in the comments. :wink: maybe good things do come in small packages. Thought this thing looked wack but TM404 has some great sounds coming from this thing!
Going to have to peep all the new Electribe vids.

@Artsutanov I don’t think KorgUK are getting these until around 15th December so you’ll have to pre-order from a shop.


Some folk will have bought them from Japan from eBay - I was tempted mid-november to jump at one but figured I could wait until xmas :wink:

Just preordered mine from local store in Scotland, expected pre Christmas but internet rumours are it will be into the New Year now.


Cool demo Daren. Any non-iOS apps kicking about yet?

Ghostly - I thought I was the only Scottish operator on here.

And feck I hope it’s not the new year before it’s released. That will spoil my Christmas bigtime!!!

Great video as well @Darenager !

My gassed had cooled on the Electribe, but now it’s flared up again with those videos. Nothing too outstanding in terms of the demos, but give me an idea of what they could do and I like those possibilities!

Yeah got mine from Japan for a £120 shipped, not seen any other apps aside from a web based one and of course the SDK - which I think will open up a lot of possibilities if someone like Jakob Penka makes some software using it, it seems that the pattern and parameter data can be sent into the sync input as well as the samples, cool beans!


I think it sounds nice, the reverb is a bit like a spring and the analog isolator is quite nice too, I will almost certainly be getting another one, too much fun!

Thanks for the nice comments :slight_smile:

Here is another jam with 2 Monotribes http://youtu.be/_Y3G7vveDCk

Just noticed they went early Akai with the colour scheme on the Volca Sample, cool.

@darenager what site at that price??

@VF - yeah they shoulda gone with the S612 colors though, it has a bit in common with the 612 more than the others, plus that is a dope look 80’s hifi versus the later 90’s office computer of the later Akai gear.

@masterofstuff124 ebay but they guy only had 2 and was zero FB so I was a bit dubious if it would turn up, but got here in like 5 days.

@spacetravelmadeeasy Aye, Dundee here. Where are you?



@ghostly606 I’m Edinburgh

You guys should post in: Where are you from?

I found one on Amazon last week and I find it so much fun. The layout makes things so easy to get around and you can really mess up your loops. The only thing I wish it had was unquantized recording cause I like those loose feeling beats.best 200 bucks I’ve ever spent though,the thing is crazy!!

If possible I am even more excited now:


http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/12/11/free-editor-for-korg-volca-sample-android-ios-mac

Come on Santa!

Now that you can use it without having an ios device this is totally on my wanted gear list

the new electribes cutting off master fx on pattern change really kills the gas for me.

@KrisM surely that is something Korg would fix in a firmware update

@KrisM - AFAICT it is the insert fx that get cut not the master fx, but I will know for sure when mine arrives.