SHXRWOOD - Korg Volca Beats, Sample, Bass, Keys, FM - Trance Improv Jam 01

Wanted to try my hand at a live jam with my Korg Volcas. These little synths are seriously a ton of fun to play with. Kaoss Pad is the master clock, and Arturia KeySteps are last in my chain (since recording this I picked up another KeyStep) controlling one Volca Bass unit and the Keys. The vocals are live. AKG d224e into Logic Pro X via Focusrite ISA One and UA Apollo Twin for compression and reverb, then back out into the Monotron Delay for crazy distorted delay before being recorded into the 2-track Zoom.
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Equipment Used
Korg Volca Beats
Korg Volca Sample
Korg Volca Bass [x2]
Korg Volca Keys
Korg Volca FM
Korg Monotron Delay
Korg Kaoss Pad KP3+
Arturia KeyStep
JoeMeek Threeq Channel Strip
Yamaha REV100 Digital Reverberator
Behringer Xenyx 1002b
Behringer MX400 MicroMix
Audio-Technica ATH-m50x
Zoom H4n Pro
GoPro Hero 4 Black
GoPro The Jam Music Mount
Focusrite ISA One
Universal Audio Apollo Twin Duo
Mackie Big Knob
Yamaha HS8
KRK Rokit5
Adobe Premiere Pro
Logic Pro X
Apple MacBook Pro 15" Retina

[@CMGaming]

Wow, impressed with what you can achieve with those Korgs !

[@barthchris1]

Don't know how I got here but that was awesome, much better than the shit most listen to on the radio! Back in the day(early 90's), I used to have a Korg M1, I thought it was a technological marvel at the time. Its amazing how things have progressed but there still needs to be a talent behind it all! Good job!!

[@drkakophanos3013]

Love the vocal.

[@ary0shy]

vocals though monotron -> instant like ;-)

[@mroliveofficial7677]

Great style sound design!! Fantastic Melody in Live jam!! Very Good!!!👏

[@verdielg]

epically good!

[@BluffMunkey]

Very cool. The vocals really add a layer of magic.

[@Auxinelectro]

this is all anyone needs.. bringing stuff in live and playing with simple boxes.. so much more satisfying than hours of sitting infront of a screen bravo mate

[@Allomerus]

Very cool track Kyle! Well put together and great sounds. The vocals are an inspired idea...

[@Septimius]

I see so many Volca videos on KZbin, but this beats most of them hands down. Great stuff!

[@Divalvi]

Super cool Volcas jam! And that vocal in the monotron sounds so nice!

[@dublinimal]

pure wicked man bloody love it.well done.never seen the volca range played like that.top marks

[@MorrisUK]

such a sick Jam, this was really well done. Thanks!

[@diegopoveda3733]

You are inspiring. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

[@kennylangley1997]

This sounds great man. Amazing track.🔊🎶🎶🎶😎👍

[@zsazsagabor9127]

Great melody, nice construction, good flow....

[@OScillatorJams]

Excellent!

[@robertsyrett1992]

Needs more volca. Seriously though, good track!

[@deepsco1937]

Wow ! Awesome man.. nice work i think you are the best.. best volca live 👍

[@onsturicheitchaos8124]

Very well done

[@andresgguerrero]

Very very nice bro!!! I didn't know that kaosspad could be master in sync...!! Thanks for your music =)

[@leonardobrz8822]

amaaaaazing

[@royalsatin366]

Great track 👍😀

[@kindreadproject]

nice jam man! sounds really good,with a nice retro feel, nice to meet you cheers, ciao!

[@iamshxrwood]

kindread project thank you very much!!

[@Ambience911]

My whole workstation is a piece of corian with a PVC Base - lol - great jam man - love your vocals through the monotron delay

[@am5790]

tight track. nice one

[@hushcrew7813]

bravo! that was good.

[@marcelpachecoalcalde]

man we seriously want more

[@iamshxrwood]

Marcel Pacheco Alcalde haha thanks man! I'm working on it. I mainly make music in Logic. This is just a side thing for me to practice my sound design/improvisation. I never used to bother with really digging into my soft synths and understanding them until I got hardware synths and got excited about tweaking the knobs and whatnot. www.soundcloud.com/iamshxrwood if you want to hear some of my other stuff. Thanks for listening! 😀

[@Yateveo]

Way to get the most out of those Volcas! Sounds great!

[@rain_irl6460]

dope track

[@amunraja-joeygage4615]

I love it! Nice vibes, and I'm really into the vocals. Been thinking about picking up a Monotron Delay for a while now. That's a nice signal chain you got going!

[@Untouchables1234]

Awsome!

[@xiao-sum]

Nice jam :)

[@justinturek82]

i love this man!

[@iamshxrwood]

Justin Turek thanks a lot bro!

[@AleLoy]

Real good man!!!

[@iamshxrwood]

Ale Loy thanks bro!

[@KOIBAmusic]

Nice!

[@daxhays9177]

Sweet!

[@zeusdelolimpo2882]

wooooow!! que buena musica

[@eloskuroo]

nice man

[@iamshxrwood]

Thanks man. Cool to know people are still digging this 2 years later haha

[@tommythebarber4673]

Well Done Sir!!!

[@iamshxrwood]

Tommy Ferguson thanks!!

[@PatrickDiAngelo]

Niiiice...!!!

[@AveMcree]

grade A certified banger!

[@GennaroGiugliano65]

buon equipments by volca korg series :) bella performance,ciao

[@Levy3o8]

very nice! keep up the good work :)

[@iamshxrwood]

thanks so much! will do!

[@TheCuri]

thanks for this

[@PeetandArtie030]

sync without sync. Nice. you just in time. perfekt.

[@YGRAVITY]

Holy wow!!!

[@electrovolcakorg9125]

très bon son

[@michaelbenigni7201]

bravissimo

[@bobby4star]

Nice work, really like this. One q, what's the little mixing desk you're using there. I'm looking for something to connect you my own gear. Cheers

[@iamshxrwood]

Thanks man! It's a Behringer Xenyx 1002b. I love it, but the only thing I wish I had were mute buttons on each channel. I also have a couple of Behringer Micromix MX400s I use for grouping drums and synths.

[@matrizxxii]

esta bien para producir musica y luego grabarla y mezclarla en mixer, llevar todo ese equipo a un evento good valla relajo

[@PapayaPositive]

Cool man. Do you use a metronome in the headphones? I use Ableton Live, and I run into the problem that I'm using all my outputs on speakers/amps... Which hardware do you use for the metronome? Cheers!

[@iamshxrwood]

Matias Vazquez thanks man! Not using a metronome at all, actually. 2 track straight into the Zoom. :)

[@brendanmcgillicuddymusic130]

Nice Jam! Although unfortunately it sounds like the vocal sample in the beginning is experiencing clipping. Was it mixed like that or did the recording just pick it up weirdly?

[@iamshxrwood]

Thanks! It's live. You can see the microphone at the bottom of the screen. It's run into the monotron delay, which feeds back and distorts like crazy. It's intentional.

[@YGRAVITY]

Thank you so much for liking my comment🙏🏻 Can you make a video where you show how w everything is wired together? I dont exactly understand if your mic is goin directly into the monotron delay or at first in the mixer together with all the volcas and after all that mixing stuff into the monotron delay and into the zoom recorder?!🤔😬 Aaaand second question is how did you wired up the arturia keyboard? Is it connected from usb to midi with converter and connected to the volca bass? Hope you can help me i just try to understand and learn😅🥰🙌🏻

[@iamshxrwood]

I haven't had this specific setup put together in maybe two years otherwise I'd make a video lol. But the mic went into Logic for processing (EQ, comp and verb), and back out into the monotron delay. Then the monotron delay went into the mixer. I also have some Behringer submixers that I used to give myself more channels. All of the drums were on one submixer in this video, so they only took up one channel on the main mixer. I also ran the drum submix into a channel strip before the mixer for a little bit of glue. Lastly the the KP3 was the master clock. KP3 MIDI out > Volca Beats MIDI in Volca Beats sync out > next Volca sync in I continued the chain until the last Volca bass, and instead went: Volca sync out > Arturia KeyStep sync in Arturia KeyStep MIDI out > Volca Bass MIDI in Any other questions feel free to ask! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@YGRAVITY]

Kyle Sherwood man this is awesome! I‘m so happy with your answer. I produce music all my life and have several very huge youtube channels with drumming and music - this noe is ygravity and its a new start 😬 After many years of gl studio and every god damn vst on this freakin‘ planet i want to enjoy the modular synthesizer world and it‘s some kind of avatar feeling cause everythings new😅 Thank you so much again and have grrrrreat holidays my friend 🙌🏻

[@iamshxrwood]

@@YGRAVITY enjoy the ride man! Modular synths and live jamming can do wonders for your production as well, so don't forget to go back to it. Happy holidays to you as well!!

[@YGRAVITY]

Kyle Sherwood so ive bought beats bass keys and fm hope i understand it😅

[@YGRAVITY]

Kyle Sherwood broooooooooo!!!!! I did it!!!! Your video was so inspiring!!! I build my own volca studio and made a video please please check it out🥰🥰🥰

[@squallstar]

Great track and nice workflow! Quick question, how do you find using the KeyStep with the Volcas? I'm still undecided on whether of buying it because I've heard a few complaints about the stop button stopping the Volcas and also not being suitable for basslines because it retriggers the keys on each step. Would be great to hear your thoughts on it!

[@squallstar]

haha thanks! by monologue keys you mean the keystep's? :) yeah I bet it's much more fun to jam on those keys than the ones on the Volca Keys itself. In regards to the start/stop issue, the thing is that I don't really understand what's the use of start/step on the keystep within a jam session. Is it needed? I'm asking because my workflow - I guess - would be that I record on the Keys sequencer while playing the keystep. Perhaps for the Bass I'd sequence from the keystep directly because I can get 4 bars patterns. Makes sense?

[@iamshxrwood]

Nicholas Valbusa I actually got a korg monologue and that's what I jam on instead. keystep's keys aren't bad though. I actually just pre program sequences and use the keystep to fire them off. if I'm using a keystep, it comes last in the chain, so I don't start and stop my whole sequence. not sure what happened to my other comment 😐

[@iamshxrwood]

Nicholas Valbusa also currently I use two different keysteps to control 4 volcas. so each pair is set to midi ch 1 and 2, and I flip between using the keystep to play/sequence and the volca's built in sequencer. it works pretty well

[@squallstar]

What do you mean by last in the chain? I thought the start/stop is triggered by midi, right? :-\ I'm tempted to get a monologue but I think I'll save a bit more and get a minilogue instead. Polyphony is a big plus for me :)

[@iamshxrwood]

Nicholas Valbusa oh sorry. I have the KP3 acting as the master clock, and everything is connected via sync 3.5mm, even the keystep. since the keystep is last (before going midi out to a volca), but is connected only by 3.5mm cable, it won't respond to any start stop messages. and yeah I preordered the monologue. if I could go back I would probably go with the mini as will. my setup is way too big now haha. I actually only got into these as a way to cure my producer's block. it worked, so I'm mainly focusing on that right now haha 😅

[@krokus5714]

Heyyy. Does the sound of the snare come from the volca beats? Regards

[@iamshxrwood]

Nah it's the sample. My beats isn't modded so it still has the old snare.

[@claytonlevibrown]

looks like you still need a looper for your vocals and the volca series didn't make that. so you really like the volca series then

[@Plunjerbunni]

Nice! Did you use the KeyStep as the master clock?

[@iamshxrwood]

Hey thanks! I actually use the Kaoss Pad as the master clock. I found that if I tried to use Sync out from the KeyStep to another Volca, that the sequencer on that Volca would wig out, especially if I changed how the clock divided, so I actually have the KeyStep last in the chain.

[@Plunjerbunni]

Kyle Sherwood One other question, if you don't mind: do you find the Behringer mixers to be sufficiently quiet?

[@iamshxrwood]

I do. Behringer gear is solid now. Not like the old stuff they used to make.

[@Plunjerbunni]

Kyle Sherwood Thanks!

[@FaOut]

Kyle, Arturia KeyStep is only sending a Time to All volcas? I need some help to connect / sync volca key + novation circut + Arturia KeyStep. I want circuit novation as a master tempo clock to Volca and to keystep. And Keystep as a midi controller to volca and circuit in diferent channels.. What is the best way to do this? Thanks

[@iamshxrwood]

Música em Dicas Hi. Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the Novation Circuit, so I'm not sure how it would fit. A rough guess would be be Novation MIDI out > Keystep MIDI in Keystep MIDI out > MIDI Splitter IN MIDI Splitter out 1 > Novation MIDI in MIDI Splitter out 2 > volca key changed to midi ch 2 And no, the master clock here is the Kaossilator KP3+ being sent to a midi splitter. In my opinion, it's easiest to have your MIDI coming from something that is going to be running constantly, and won't be affected by starting or stopping. Good luck!!

[@iamshxrwood]

Música em Dicas also the only thing the Keystep is doing is the bassline

[@FaOut]

Thanks =)

[@dolphinlover4]

Мечтаю стать музыкантом, только жаль что синтезатор и прочее оборудование стоит так дорого. :(

[@aloahe4807]

Better AS David Guetta

[@_EightySix]

Where's that shitty snare at?!

[@iamshxrwood]

hahaha i can't even bring myself to use it man