It wont matter what phone you’ve got. As long as the app will work on it then it’s fine - as Josker said the phone communicates via old dialup type sound. It takes a good while to transfer stuff as it’s real-time stuff.
To transfer samples onto the volca (the way i’m doing it anyway …)
- Choose samples to put onto the volca (Not sure if the app downsamples the samples you input so it may be an idea to use something like audacity to take down the quality and filesizes if you want to get all 100 samples squeezed into your volca)
- Put these samples into structured folders within Dropbox
- Use the app “AudioShare” to transfer the samples from Dropbox onto your iPhone
- Import the samples from the “AudioShare” app into the third party app "Caustic Editor (for Volca Sample)"
This software is also used to delete samples from the volca too.
- Plug the Volca Sample in with 3.5mm jack into the Sync In and plug the other end of the lead into the headphones out of your iPhone. Then press the SYNC button on the Caustic Editor app. Your files will now be transferred onto your volca and any files you have deleted in the editor app will disappear off the machine. Might take something like 5-10mins depending on the amount of samples you are transferring.
So yeah it does transfer one or all samples over at once.
If you managed your samples well on your iphone and had previously reduced all sample file sizes using audacity or similar then these files shouldnt take up much room on your phone.
Damn, I’m stoked about the Volca Sample now. Placed an order with Sweetwater last night. The Electribe Sampler overshadowed the Volca Sample when announced, and the iOS only app shunned me away(now there are app alternatives). I’m thinking it’s much more fun than the Beats and probably as easy to use.
IMO the Volca Sample is a load of fun despite the sampling process. Getting a sound into it is a bit convoluted, mainly because I have no easy way of getting audio into my Android tablet. The OP-1 is so intuitive in terms of sampling it overshadows almost allcomers.
Oh wow, so we really are taking a leap backwards in technology (still figuratively). AOL days for me in the '90s (California).
Thanks @spacetravelmadeeasy for being through about the process. I appreciate it :} have you synced the electribe with the volca sample yet or the op-1 one with the electribe? A smell a video cooking…
Buddy list! Bahaha. Man, I remember having to run like a 50’ phone line from my desktop out the family’s office/guest room door, passed a bathroom, into our family room, wrapped around a corner wall into the kitchen where the phone sat. People often tripped over the line, resulting in half loaded web pages that took about a half hour to load, failed Napster downloads, and your buddy desperately awaiting your reply on AOL Chat. Not to mention, whenever someone would try to call the house line ending your inter web session, leaving you red faced.
Bahahaha
@masterofstuff124 true, but I don’t generally handle audio in a laptop either! Hardware only here. Might have to dust down my old Powerbook, got a mountain of samples on some external drives
@Kites I don’t have an electribe - my opinion was based on others videos and showcases of the product.
I’ve haven’t directly synced the op1 (via Kenton) to the Volca sample yet but did have Ableton clock controlling the Volca sample and also beatstep which then sent signal to op-1 then all audio into mixer then into ableton live.
…i have been on the new electribe last week… and, oh boyz i can tell you… this thing is superstoopid sounding device!
menu structure isn’t quite logic and not well made. its more like a preset container and you can tweak the shit out of this pre-shit. Knob Range is for Kidzz.
I don’t like it. for this price i will grab an Ipad mini 2, Korg Gadget and some tweak/Pad midi ctrl.
@johnnyego, so it’s not your thing, but you like the sounds of it? I really like using my ipad for music production, but I end up buying more apps/synths than I need, and end up deleting it in the end. I don’t know if it’s just me, but with an iPad Air I still feel like it’s not optimal enough to be running more than three music apps simultaneously, and the audio driver is always cutting out on me. So currently I mostly use the ipad as a daw.
Plus I like having a standalone piece of gear better than an ipad more times than not.
@kites. yeah its not mine. it’s too structured i think. it feels like a all in one box but theres nothing inside. we will have thousands of people doing this specified electribe sound next years. presets in KP3 are stoopid aswell. nothing organic. if you feed it correctly you can use awesome effects and a cool looper. Electribe Sampler is maybe mine. i will take a look at the volca sample,too. it would be a nice external +drive for my Machinedrum and some kind of parallel sample slots like the Analog Rytm. Synced via Oplab. cc messages to tweak the Volca. I think its more like having reduced gear and combining each carefully but integrated!! The Operator offers a lot of Sample Lines and Material… from Bass to Outer Space and Back to Moon. Easy. Volca Sample would fit into my Set-Up- Hardcore.
I wish I owned the Deco, better yet the deco and Electribe.
