A modular synth at LOW PRICE (Volca Modular review)

[@synaesmedia]

This is one of the best practical guides I've seen on KZbin for the Volca Modular. Brilliant!

[@dylanlaister]

This is more than just a review- it's an excellent tutorial for someone new to modular synths in general. Great animations too! The speed and detail level and clarity of explanations are perfect. Thanks so much for making and sharing this!

[@tristianobrien5114]

its a great job yes

[@johnhardingz5204]

Well said!

[@simoncardie9371]

Best tutorial for this Volca yet!

[@GUILLERMOMARTINRAMOS]

I watched many tutorials about to use my new volca modular, this by far the best, clear and simple

[@Woochia]

Thank you :)

[@kevmac1230]

I'm an old retired bass player trying to have some fun but my mind is old school technical.You have helped me understand some of these functions.Your skill amazes me.Thanks.

[@adamklima7671]

And I'm a retarded bass player and this guy showed me something what I wouldn't understand in my life.

[@goodboid]

That's a whole lot of things packed into this little box. By far the best tutorial I've seen of the unit yet. Thanks a bunch!

[@goodboid]

@@Woochia Try and get your hands on the Toraiz Squid.

[@H3liosphan]

Agreed this is an awesome breakdown. Clearer and better written and researched than a lot of native English speakers. Eloquent. Well done!

[@lorrenaelliott161]

I can’t tell you HOW MUCH I appreciate that you didn’t go the Patreon route…. Sucks for you , BUT AMAZING FOR US ….. spreading all this knowledge without any thought of profit :) Thanks for time, energy and wisdom. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤

[@Woochia]

Thanks :) but I have to say, I have a patreon now 😂 though, all my content is and will remain free, so that's amazing for everyone

[@Vospi]

Beautiful job on the text and the prep work. A pleasure to listen to.

[@Indrecius]

You, sir, are the easiest sub I’ve ever done. Absolutely great review, a perfect balance of depth and conciseness. A veritable legend. I tip my hat to you.

[@rolandk.171]

As a newbie in Modular i am thankful for this very good explained and understandable video! Thank you

[@intotheblue50]

The pros are, yours is the clearest and best tutorial to date, thank you.

[@nickjames2521]

I agree with Dylan, incredible review!!! I can see you are very well acquainted with audio synthesis and that you have spent quite a bit of time exploring this very complex and somewhat intimidating instrument; also, as compared to other videos i have watched that review this synth, you had the best/most appealing patches and melodies and have demonstrated to me the actual practicality of this synth in regards to making good songs/beats/rhythms; thanks for all you do!

[@onetenthhero]

Great video. You took a lot of the mystery out of this particular Volca and modular synths in general. I wasn’t sure that I was ready to get one but I think this video has convinced me. Thanks!

[@DoloJones]

Best vid I’ve seen on this Volca yet, cheers!

[@scottharris7222]

This is one of the best reviews and tutorials that I have ever seen. Subscribed... truly very well done.

[@gapster77]

This is a very good Vid, best comprehensive demo I’ve seen yet. Just got one today, when I got it out of the box I was surprised at just how good looking they are, I’ve watched lots of vids on them, but they look real swish when you get your hands on one! Nice bit of kit, can’t wait to see what it will do.

[@gapster77]

...OK, been tinkering with this thing over the last week or so. I've just watched this video again for the 2nd time. Not only am I impressed all over again at the presentation of the vid, but I'm stunned at just how well Woochia is explaining the functionality of the Modular (his English is technically very very good). Korg should show this guy some love :D After working out a fair bit on my own through trial and error I've now revisited this vid ,and I can understand so much more. I've happened across some interesting patches, most relying on randomised beeps and boops, very pretty, but have been lacking rhythm. I now understand how you can use this unit to create momentum, and also that having a 2nd modular would enable you to be far far more creative.

[@greenvelvet]

Thank you for this video. This thing's been sitting in my closet for a year gathering dust but this video has reinvigorated me to sit down and try and figure this little amazing device

[@Woochia]

That's good to read! :)

[@matejs9499]

The final tip was absolutely new for me! Playback mode with a possibility to play 2 sequences one after another. This makes the sequencer even cooler. Thank you!

[@paulpuljic6025]

Very well explained and inspiring demostration...just pulled the trigger on a Volca Modular...

[@audiblevideo]

Best video on this box on the entire internet.

[@jackonearth]

I like the way you explain modular synthesis

[@tomfenn7149]

The best tutorial on the Volca Modular I've seen so far, especially your explanation of the sequencer and the microtuning capabilities. Nice one!

[@Cle44139]

Wow, I haven't taken notes on a video this thoroughly since college. Great job man!!!!!!

[@citruesilver]

modular synthesis basics explained in an understandable way! Kudos, very well done! Excellent video/review!

[@Devyl13]

Another awesome tutorial! Thank you - I’m loving my Volca modular now. Would be awesome to see you do a review/tutorial on the older Volca units. I’m good with the sample but each unit has some really cool functions you don’t find in the manual

[@matthewvenn]

This video was worth it just for the func + ratio = global detune! Top notch review and a great intro to modular. I just got one myself and I am really enjoying it. I've already made sounds with this synth that I've never made on non-modular synths. Yes it's small but for me that is a bonus because I like to have a synth with me while travelling. This plus a PO rhythm makes a great portable combo. The only downsides for me so far: short battery life (tho I only tried so far with the bundled ones), I do prefer a filter with separate resonance control, and basically I have to have delay on my synth sounds so I always need another box for adding delay. I would have preferred a built in delay over the reverb, but it does require more memory.

[@StupidEarthlings]

Awesome review/ or DEMO! Right down to explaining that the cables are the same as Breadboard connector wires. Nice work sport. :)

[@SeattleFocusBlue]

Best run through on the Volca Modular I have ever seen done!

[@maykit]

"You press the funky button." :D Great tutorial, thx.

[@Elecrlbloom]

This tutorial is awesome, thank you!

[@Neuri]

this is ten times better than Korgs official video thanks dude

[@urbanfugitive]

Thank you for this - the best Volva modular review and tut so far! nice job

[@scarabeobop]

Great video. But one thing, you CAN send audio to the VM's modules but plugging the audio source into the CV input. It then acts as a line-in. From there you can patch the signal anywhere.

[@scottharris7222]

Now that is a cool tip.

[@quinnzender]

Man, I've been scouring youtube looking for examples of the Volca Modular processing audio. Nobody ever seems to bring it up though.

[@benjiarias9599]

You are awesome!!! Mine will be arriving soon so.... cannot wait. Seriously, thanks for sharing this. Very detailed!

[@nickjames2521]

I just got this synth and love every bit of its micro-awesomeness!! Go Korg!!

[@SyncdAlien]

Good tutorial.👍 I appreciate the good closeup photography of the front panel.👍

[@djjuno106]

Just bought one and I prefer using it too my neutron..you can get lost for hours playing about with it. Great video and tutorial

[@AlizzDee]

hey, nice Video Thumb up that makes my buying decision, finaly i bought me one 3 Days ago an i can definitely say, it's alive.. i love that little Box it can capture me for Hours and Hours, it makes me adicted i can't stop playing around with it, it creates Sounds i've never heard before :-) :-)

[@NickHowesAstro]

Outstanding demo and intro to modular

[@LittleMusicBoxes]

Perfect review/tutorial. I’ve watched soo many videos about this synth, and this is by far the best one.

[@jaimepinto712]

Such a good tutorial in under 25 minutes! I agree it’s by far the best Volca Modular tutorial I’ve seen! 🥇

[@deanhardy2049]

Absolutely the best video on this on youtube. NICE!

[@lucaognibene8094]

Very good and clear overview: thanks!

[@LORANBELTRAM]

Bravo Charly... tes vidéos sont toutes très intéressantes ..., merci !

[@Woochia]

Merci beaucoup :)

[@lundsweden]

Don't laugh, I used to own a full Roland System 100 modular synth (with 101 & 102 expander) with sequencer and mixer. While the System 100 is very different being a west coast style synth, the sounds I have got out of the Korg Modular in my opinion are just as good. Different yes, but just as good IMO. I used Tony Horgan's excellent book which helped me understand this little guy a bit better, and the book has some killer patches too!

[@ClaudioBrandy]

Great tutorial, with detailed explanations and a thorough review of the Volca Modular features. Thank you!

[@TheOriginalGeekyNoob]

Best review of the Volca Modular, great presentation and style too - new sub for sure...

[@HazeAnderson]

Nice video! I wanted to comment about the comment at 22:45 -- you actually can send audio into the Low Pass Gate modules but that seems to be about it ...

[@zorbanongreco]

wow ! well done woochia for making sense of this new toy/tool, very clear and concise. Your voice and accent are charming too. merci beaucoup (murky bo-koo) 🐂💨💨💨💨💨

[@ClaudioBrandy]

@@Woochia Your accent makes it better! :-)

[@MSHRadio-dj5zn]

excellent review and tutorial!

[@trigga5291]

Your videos are enjoyable to watch, detailed and very informative. Keep it up! and thank you.

[@MathHammer]

People make fun of Volcas but this one is pretty cool. I have a collection of Bastl stuff that connects with the same breadboard connectors, often called Arduino connectors. I hadn't thought to add a Volca to my tiny synth board due to a large collection of Eurorack stuff, but perhaps it would be fun to have one with the tiny stuff.

[@tremvcf]

Man, that was awesome. You were super articulate, it was really helpful.

[@philipcarroll7151]

outstanding review/tutorial...

[@0228christian]

Excellent video! Very informative. There was one thing I noticed that was not accurate though. You can in fact play different sequences chained together even when they are not right next to each other. So if you wanted to play sequences 4 and 16 in a chained loop, you would hold "memory" + "4" + "16" and when you hit play it should play the two sequences in a chained loop. You just have to keep the "memory" and the sequence slots desired held down while you add different sequences to the chain. I believe you could use this to swap out the order of your sequences, giving you even more chaining options. For example you could play sequences 4, 16, 8 then 6, and then you could swap them to play 16, 6, 4 then 8. I haven't tested that out yet, but in theory it should work.

[@0228christian]

@@Woochia definitely! I'll test it out when I get home from work in a few hours and let you know.

[@0228christian]

@@Woochia I apologize for the delay. My week ended up being busier than expected. I regret to say that I was completely wrong. I don't know why I thought I remembered being able to chain sequences together that were not next to each other, but I was not able to get it to work when I tried it out this weekend. Which also means you cannot do my theorized sequence order rearranging on the fly. Sorry!

[@mrnoisy3851]

Excellent tutorial. really enjoyed and understood it. nice graphics to explain things.

[@lennylove6532]

Excellent review. Thanks.

[@johnsmith883]

Subscribed after watching this vid thanks for making it easy to understand how a modular synth works !

[@MYGAS21]

Great presentation I really learned allot, but a small mistake: You CAN input audio. I am currently experimenting with using it as a guitar effect. A REVERB for example, is very simple to make. I am currently experimenting trying to turn it into a SLICER like effect, that plays it's internal source AND your guitar, raw AND through the notes of the sequencer with a different pattern. And all these affects either alone or in combination. Next I'll probably experiment with guitar + moving drone. And then combine it with some breadboard components since they have the same wires. But I'm a beginner and would appreciate if someone more knowledgable would make a series of videos on that topic. They would be a hit I think.

[@dimasdzakyardanansyah6225]

This is such a beautiful video!! Super duper cool, I gotta say... It's really convincing me to take a closer look to the synth world. May I ask? Is the audio in the intro that views the volca modular fully comes out without modifying it through DAW? I feel a bit sense of beats there! 😀 And thanks for reading this!

[@johnhardingz5204]

GREAT newbie tutorial!!!

[@djon50]

I think it's a nice modular system, also that you explain it very well.

[@Woochia]

Aw, thank you!

[@MarkMelchior]

Again really informative. thank you and hope you got to buy this one eventually.

[@The5thVolt]

This was an excellent review and tutorial, thanks so much!

[@LittleShrubbery]

Merci beaucoup! Grâce à vous et votre vidéo je viens d’acquérir cette merveilleuse petite machine... que du bonheur !

[@xdisciple2776x]

Awesome, great explanation thank you! Hope to get one soon

[@dawgboybinley6128]

triple thumbs up! great review! very helpful for me!

[@jmsauret]

When the "magic" appear rational ! It's that I feeled looking at your video. In fact, it's very simple as a matter divided in several topics...

[@elshiddink]

learn realy a lot in 24 min, great thanks

[@TomKarches]

Lots of features for me to try. Excellent tutorial.

[@semephor]

Best explanation I have seen good work

[@OCEANSINSPACE]

Killer job, the best tutorial for me! Great clear talking as well, cheers! I know this takes time to make.

[@marianomanzano4851]

sooo well done! thank you very much

[@dr.guyshkolnik_composer]

Great video! Thank you for your work - Subscribed

[@quinnzender]

Easily one of the more musical demonstrations of this synthesizer. After watching dozens of videos, with yours I finally feel like I have an understanding of its character. Really enjoyed your animations as well. Could I ask which program you used for that? After Effects?

[@Vospi]

@@Woochia try davinci resolve! it was a breath of fresh air after premiere for me, and they have a mighty powerful free version, too.

[@DiegoValladolidTorres]

Love the sound of the patch at the beginning and the "2nd Oscillator" example. Is it just two triangle oscillators, each going to a different LPG? Are they detuned? Thanks a lot for sharing this!

[@Woochia]

Yes it's just the oscillators that we hear, perhaps with a bit of reverb on them. The oscillators play an octave apart

[@njgibbsbluefootrecords1811]

Spot on. I’m already using mine better - thank you brother.

[@cyxman3940]

Salut, super sympa tes vidéos, je suis ta chaîne depuis peu, du bon boulot, je voulais savoir si on peut stacker les fils ( comme sur un rack modular ) merci, et bonne continuation.

[@jalsiddharth]

Is the noise from the intro clip coming from the device?

[@coffeematt]

Super helpful intro!

[@dillipphunbar7924]

I like volcas...got 3 of them, and I was interested in this, except that those patch cables would be too fiddly and likely to come out as you tweak knobs.

[@ElliotAtkins]

This is a fantastic video. Thank you!

[@kjetiltangen505]

Love the «funky button»! But yes, great video! The patching part was a bit to swift for my ancient brain though. Would love if you could do a ELI5 video on patching for idiots like myself. :)

[@dago3336]

No French subtitles?, i dont trust on youtube translation, anyway great tutorial, Saludos desde Mexico

[@earlsfield]

While I love Volcas, and have them play next to my Rev 2 - the fact they are cheap does not mean they are not capable of great sound. However, I do not see much of potential in this one in particular. If it is about introduction to the modular, I find it very limited. Possibly better introduction to the modular would be something like MicroBrute, but this will do if you want to grasp basic concept of connecting oscillators, filters and amps and getting your mind to the non-hard wired environment. Having said that, I heard a track you made with modular, and while I think that from sonic perspective you could get the same stuff from Volca Bass or FM, still it is a nice little synth. This one does have smt cool though, and that is wavefolding and FM together - many synths with higher price are having limits in this area. The only Volca i really cant embrace is Kick, all others are actually really good desktop synths.

[@thesurfgroup]

And again. Off to order one. So Volca nutty Yo

[@sadacksounds2986]

Very dope, thx! Also love your Schecter Guitar in the Background 🦇🦇🦇 Jeff Loomis Signature?

[@scowlsmcjowls2626]

Very great accent and you own voice isnt that bad either

[@Synthematix]

It seems none of these volcas can save your patterns/songs externally?

[@Woochia]

The volca sample has Vosyr. But for the others I don't thinks there a software compagnon... Have to record that as audio somewhere

[@ImplosiveCatt]

Inputs and outputs? DAW integration?

[@sevensexton2356]

@@Woochia Hey there! I did this mod. It's cheap and it WORKS! Only midi in, though. Good enough for my plans for world domination 😜

[@sevensexton2356]

Whoops! forgot the link. World domination does require attention to detail: www.tindie.com/products/sensai7/volca-modular-midi-in-mod/

[@djformalin]

Very clever done ! Thx a lot 🎼

[@SanplerVarondaro]

excelente video

[@tuomas_]

r/synthesizers brought me here! Great video bro

[@marcelod.tallon9438]

Excelent Tutorial!!!

[@youcaillou]

Could you combine two Volca Modulars, e.g. to get additional LFOs?

[@alarlol]

@@Woochia littlebigsynths guy has a video about using two, if im not mistaken

[@tonystephen6312]

Sounds awesome like the early 1970s sequencer. But timeless really.

[@samhein321]

Great in-depth review/tutorial, but having the beanie under headphones really bother me

[@Savvier]

Funky Button

[@EuphoricAmbient]

I just bought one of these and I am trying to learn it, my brain hurts.

[@reazallykhan]

Hey mon ami ca va,,I’ve been watching your clips and we have similar gears like the sonicware 8bits,elz1 and op1 and volcas …. As it goes I’ve been having trouble to midi my elz1.. est ce que tu peux m’aide mon ami….Tu conner l’ile Maurice ??

[@Woochia]

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