Techno Goa trance Live jam Volca Bass Volca Sample Microbrute

Live jam with Korg Volca Bass, Volca Sample and Arturia Microbrute. Some reverb on Microbrute (Alesis Quadraverb 2) and some delay+reverb on Volca Bass (Lexicon MX 200). Only internal sequencers used. Synched with Midiclock from Korg Electribe ER1.
thanks for listening! Likes, comments and subscriptions are always welcome!
(c) Shimanski Beats 2015
A studio version of this track with a far more complex arrangement and better sound quality can be heard here:
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[@Bellinose]

3 years after finidng this vidéo I keep coming back to it, especially now that I have the same synths. So straight to the point, so inspiring !

[@ShimanskiBeats]

that's nice, cheers! Enjoy the gear!

[@Ambience911]

Who needs studio quality when you got this lovely live grit action! Fuq Yaaaa!

[@qualiauniverse638]

Best Microbrute and Volca demo on KZbin~

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks!

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

Great sounds, simple yet powerful. Thanks for the inspiration. God bless you and your family abundantly always 🙂🙏🏼❤️

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you Kerwin!

[@tangentspace]

I love the arrange of this, so well done!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks a lot!

[@FelipeAKruger]

great Goa Trance feeling! sounds oldschool

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks Felipe!

[@zsazsagabor9127]

Great CRUNCHY sound !!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you!

[@BluffMunkey]

Really good. Just goes to show what you can do with a relatively limited setup!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks man!

[@SlowCarToChina]

You make this look easy. Great track.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks a lot pal! Some part weren't that easy :)

[@Alfredo-ys7cw]

Excellent sounding groove!!!!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks a lot!

[@eric0978]

awesome !! good job !!! goa 4ever❤

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks a lot!

[@dave_s_vids]

This is really bloody good! Got my 'brute a couple of weeks ago and need to get something like this going!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks man! Enjoy your 'brute!

[@floodzie4261]

Great stuff! Getting a Microbrute tomorrow, already have the Volcas - can't wait to try something similar!! :-)

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment! Enjoy the gear!

[@justanaveragejoe2570]

Sounds great!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks man

[@machiwoomiapoo]

Great tune! I love it. :)

[@ShimanskiBeats]

many thanks! Take care!

[@ivoryHAUS]

Great performance!

[@BeatGrooveRhythm]

Love this, sound is great. Nice driving track man.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

***** Thanks a lot!

[@normandyflash]

Very very good!

[@anderestruch]

Amazing!!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you!

[@jimshannononsounds]

Nice setup, good stuff.

[@huascarrodriguezgarcia8478]

Brutal !

[@Mykicya]

It is perfectly!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you!

[@gar1231000]

can't wait to try this when get my sample off santa lol hope it plays well with my microbrute volca bass and mc 303 really nice work here

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+gary doran thanks for your comment! Enjoy your sample when Santa brought it!

[@soloangel910]

it fantastic...

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you!

[@soloangel910]

Sounds old school ebm

[@cameronoconnor5364]

Excellent.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thx!

[@Shklashmusic]

Wooo thats nice groove

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks!

[@matthiasvangysel938]

this is soooo good

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you!

[@arielnaif]

Great track!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you!

[@rodrigopartida5464]

this is so cool!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thank you!

[@SoundMediaVibes]

groovin' stuff!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for watching!

[@solodragun]

Excellent. I've had the Volca Bass and the Volca keys for awhile now. Been thinking about getting the sampler and a microbrute. I'm debating on the brute, microkorg or the roland system1. I love the heavier, grittier sound of the brute though.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks! The brute has a great, aggressive filter. I would love a brute with two oscillators and a way to store and recall patches.

[@kennylangley1997]

great sound. got to get me a set up like this.😎🔊🎶🎶👍

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks so much! Yeah that setup is basic but allows already quite a variety of sound options

[@sonomama82]

I just got the micro brute and ordered the volca beats. I already have an MPC2000 so I am going to use that to sequence everything. This is super dope though. Great knob fiddling.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks a lot! Have fun with your gear, the MPC is a great sequencer brain

[@modulairemusic]

super track !!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+modulairemusic Thanks a lot!

[@modulairemusic]

+Shimanski Beats care to share ?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

you can check my soundcloud link, there's a studioversion with more complex arrangement to be shared

[@budgietrousers8275]

Great beat. I've got a Microbrute, not managed to get it to sound anything like this yet

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for watching! With some practice you can get a couple of really nice sounds out of the Microbrute. The filter is awesome!

[@kindreadproject]

nice performance my friend, great sound and seq. cheers

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+kindread thank you! ciao!

[@FilipFerferiev]

hey... I like this one! ;)

[@66pro16]

Круто!

[@MicroAnalogic]

Very cool man, excellent work ;)

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+Pedro Sá Thanks a lot!

[@123456789schreihals]

thats sick dude

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment!

[@stack0413]

Nice job working on those hell boxes! I have mine all configured thru a BS-P just to stay away from those little ass knobs! LOL

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+stack0413 Thanks for your comment! The BS-P is certainly a good choice. Nowadays I use the ES2 as sequencer for the other gear, like the BS-P: bigger buttons & knobs, longer sequences etc. But the Volca limitations are fun in themselves.

[@bboymac84]

Just bought the sample and its awesome! It's almost all you need! Hey want to session?

[@furiios]

Sounds awesome! I have the microbrute and the beats. However I can't get the beats to run unless I'm actually hitting the keys on the microbrute. I have the gate out on back of microbrute patched to gate in on the Volca Beats. What am I doing wrong? I'd love to create a beat on the Volca and then play a rhythm on the microbrute but have it in sync. Can you point me in the correct direction? Thanks much!

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment. The Microbrute gate out out is rather unpractical as a master, exactly for the reasons you mentioned. On the other hand, if you use the Volca as master sending the sync signal to the Microbrute, the Microbrute will play only in half tempo because the Volca sync works with 8th nothes instead of 16th. My solution was using an external midi master clock that sends signals to both the Microbrute and the Volca (see description of the video). Hope that helps

[@jenniferw8963]

That volca sample sounds better than the volca beats in my opinion. Love that kick. How good are the samples playing from it vs a PC with a good sound card?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+Jennifer Gwinn Thanks for your comment! I never had the Volca Beats. The Volca Sample can sound so powerful because of the analog isolator, an two band eq. Furthermore, the sample frequency is only 33 khz which gives it a bit of a lo-fi touch compared to PCs with good sound card, for drums I found the lower quality hardly to matter, though.

[@fosbeat5834]

Pretty nice, seems you are brave enough or creative enough to use microbrute!! 🙌 Well done, I enjoyed since the first time I saw your vid. ❤️

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks, nice to hear!

[@tomshaa391]

add sync delay and low rate full flanger on line bass, you will touch the sky.

[@D34FDUM84ND8L1ND]

king

[@Claidheambmor]

Very cool. I have the MicroBrute and am going for the Volca Sample shortly. Going to use the Sample to provide percussion as you have. Not sure whether to go for the Bass or the Beats after...

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+Pico Ferret thank you! The volca beats has some merits but if you have the volca sample you'd hardly need it; the volca bass can do surprisingly many things for being that cheap so it's worth considering.

[@jenniferw8963]

+Shimanski Beats Your volca bass sounds so much better than others I've heard. Did you mod it? Are you runnign it through any effects on the MicroBrute?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+Jennifer Gwinn Thanks, no I didn't mod it, neither does it go through the Microbrute. It just gets some delay and reverb from the Lexicon MX200 (via aux send in the mixer). In this track I used it in a 2 osc + 1 mode, so the bass line runs on two slightly detuned oscillators, which makes it sound fatter. The higher pitch single note (that plays from the beginning) runs on a single osc.

[@Batman83]

The microbrute looks like a giant compared to the volcas. Lol.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+Batman83 Yes! and very micro compared to normal-sized keyboards

[@AlopexLagopus1401]

nice setup and great jam! could you tell us how you linked the volcas and the brute ? You probably have a mixer there somewhere with an usb interface dont you? thanks for the vibes 🎹

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment! Indeed, there's a mixer to which I connected the audio outputs of the Volcas and the Brute. The stereo out of the mixer was connected to a USB-audio interface and then recorded in a DAW (Cubase) - no post processing though.

[@leehardingham4522]

How did you then sync the audio you recorded into cubase with the visual you have recorded. Thanks

[@coreydryden1957]

Wow fantastic big sound 👍 I own a micro brute and I'm loving it, what are the other 2 pieces of equipment called ? Thank you 😎✌

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks! The other two boxes are the Korg Volca Sample (playing the drums) and the Volca Bass (playing the bassline).

[@coreydryden1957]

@@ShimanskiBeats much appreciated pal 😉

[@Hunadi77]

Brilliant work! How can you record it in such a good quality?

[@SASLECHAKALL69]

j'aime ton son mec il est hyper cool

[@ShimanskiBeats]

SASLECHAKALL69 merci!

[@budgietrousers8275]

Awesome track mate. I have the Brute but not scratched the surface with it yet. This is the genre of music I'd love to create. Keep up the great work! By the way, which DAW are you using?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your kind words mate! The brute is great for this kind of sounds with the triangle wave and the metalizer effect. The DAW I use is Cubase, however in my live-jams I run hardware sequencers and only use the DAW for recording (and sometimes post-processing the audio).

[@UberFlippy]

Sounds badass, do you happen to own a minibrute as well, and if so how would you say it is compared to the micro?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment! Never owned the Minibrute, but tested it extensively in the store. Has (besides small differences) the same synth engine, however 2 envelopes and a noise generator. Mini has an arpeggiator, Micro has a sequencer. All in all I considered the Micro the better deal for the money but both are great synths with a rough, analog character.

[@seanb8089]

You can change the arpeggiator to sequencer mode with a firmware update on the MiniBrute 😉

[@fistagon7]

could you describe the chain of effects and connections are all tied in pls?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your commment! It's a bit too long ago to remember exactly. But usually the Lexicon is connected to one aux channel on the mixer and adds a serial combination of subtle ping pong delay and reverb. In this case the Volca Bass signal is sent on the aux channel. The Microbrute signal gets some reverb from the Alesis QV2, also via an aux send channel on the mixer. Did you want some info on the sync, too?

[@nicolasreiter1545]

Hey Man! I'm kinda new to this stuff and you look like you know what you're doing ;) I have a sampler and a fm ... i wanna ink them together. Is it possible to make tracks without using a DAW? Nice Track by the way

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for dropping by! You mean the volca sample, or which sampler are talking about? You can connect Volca's together and make tracks without a DAW. In this and most other videos I use hardware synths, samplers and sequencer without DAW

[@RayhanSudrajat]

is it possible to sync volca sample and microbrute without sq-1? if it's so, via midi, cv or what and how?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+Rayhan Sudrajat you can sync the volcas with the microbrute by connecting them to the gate in. However, the Volca pulse code is on 8th notes so the microbrute in sync can only play 8th notes. That's why I use an external midi clock (from the old Electribe) as pace maker.

[@RayhanSudrajat]

+Shimanski Beats thanks a lot mate! is there any other external midi clock besides electribe?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

most drum machines and grooveboxes with midi out should be able to send midi clock signals. DAWs also do the work. Furthermore you can buy pure midi clocks but IMO that's waste of money - unless in a Eurorack

[@BenoitMadrid]

Nice video well done ! :)

[@ShimanskiBeats]

Benoit EPAILLARD Thank you very much!

[@imprumium]

Eeeee! Goadance:)

[@DrBuffaloBalls]

Sounds great! Are those stock samples on the Volca Sample?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks! Yes, these drum sounds were stock

[@electrovolcakorg9125]

super son

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+electro volca korg merci beaucoup!

[@blamasterk]

cool

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks!

[@littleBIGsynths]

Niceeee! Really deep sound! I just recently purchased a microbrute and have been loving it! Anyways, cool vid.. more soon!?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

littleBIGsynths Thanks a lot! The Microbrute is an astonishingly versatile little beast! You'll have fun with it, I'm sure. There will be me more vids soon when I got time, but you can check other Microbrute-Volca jams on this channel.

[@justenoughfood]

Are you transposing thr sequence? That is super dope!!! I am getting one today.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment, glad you like it! At some point I transpose the Microbrute sequence one octave up and then down again

[@alainperrieregenevincent54]

Quels sont les noms de ces deux machines? Je fais moi-même de la techno avec mon Monologue Korg et une boîte à rythme...

[@ShimanskiBeats]

les noms sont Volca Bass, Volca Sample et Microbrute. Salut!

[@salvadorvicario7852]

¡Stunt!!

[@ShogunX11]

Niiiiice

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thaaanks!

[@lucianopiuke246]

Make big things with a few of device making little movements it's admirable. Like for you bro. Still in this way.

[@tomblaze2]

Volca Sample is jammin here

[@genepozniak]

I like this version better. It's rougher/dirtier than the Soundcloud one. Both good though.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

fair enough, thanks for your comment!

[@danieldemayo6209]

Sounds bad ass lol

[@doctorlemon7844]

How do you connect the volcás and the microbrute.? Perdón mi ignorancia.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

the volcas are connected to each other with the sync out/inputs. Both the Microbrute and the master volca receive midi clock from the electribe (not in picture). The electribe doesn't do anything else than running an empty pattern but providing the pace. If you use the Microbrute's sync in/out with the Volcas you can only play 8th notes so if you want it to play 16th notes, you need an external midi clock signal.

[@doctorlemon7844]

@@ShimanskiBeats tks from Argentina

[@dry509]

Newbie here..what is the difference between the volca sample and volca bass..and how would they be used in conjunction with the Arturia keyboard. Which one is making what sound? Thanks.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment! The Sample is a sample player which means you can load a couple of custom sounds (like drums, vocal snippets, special fx or whatever you like). In this video the Sample plays the drum sounds. The Volca Bass is a synthesizer with which you can play a variety of synth sounds, mainly leads and bass sounds. In the video it plays the blip sound from the beginning plus the main bass line starting around 20 sec. The microbrute plays the lead sequence that is faded in at around 55 sec. As you can hear, the sound is constantly modulated in a number of parameters. Hope this answered your question.

[@dry509]

Thank you.

[@matthiasvangysel938]

hey i want to make music like this but i don't know how to start :/ can you make pleeeaaase a video :)

[@ShimanskiBeats]

if you're interested in making music with hardware, I can recommend this video for getting started kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3OugphjhsuMeMk and the facebook group "dawless jammin'" which often discusses starter issues

[@mrgratis561]

Are you running them into a pc or to an amp? Excuse my ignorance. I want to get this kind of setup.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

I ran them into a PC and normalized the .wav to 0 db. No other post processing, if I remember correctly (several years ago :) )

[@michaelf9kchromethousand549]

Sounds more like EBM / new beat than goa trance but I love it

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks!

[@deroden724]

Is the bass at the beginning (:20) the Volca Bass being sampled by the Microbrute?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment! No, the Microbrute can't sample / play samples. The Volca Bass, with its three oscillators, however, allows to play up to three different sequences and sounds at a time. Or, as in my case: the high pitch sound in the beginning is one of the Volca Bass oscillators played by one of its sequencer tracks, the fatter bass sound starting at about 20 sec is two layered oscillators played by another sequencer track.

[@deroden724]

Sorry I meant sequenced not "sampled." So the Microbrute isn't sequencing the Volca? If not, I'm impressed because I have the Volca Bass but have not created anything as musical as that. I need to practice with it more :)

[@ShimanskiBeats]

The Microbrute sequencer plays only the Microbrute lead synth line. It's indeed the Volca's sequencer, however I can confess that I composed the sequence on the computer first (there's a DAW-version of that track) and then reproduced it with the Volca's step edit mode.

[@brambo4776]

nice! How did u record it with video?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks! I recorded the video with a ten year old sony cam that can handle 1080p. The audio was recorded with cubase, and later audio and video synched in the (discontinued) Windows Movie Maker :)

[@waynesilverman3048]

Is that square or pulse doing the lead tune

[@ShimanskiBeats]

it's actually an everchanging mix of all the waveforms the Microbrute offers, particularly the metalizer effect on the triangle

[@philipphuelight9826]

der is fett ...geht nach vorne!!

[@philipphuelight9826]

müsste eigentlich auf Vinyl.......

[@ShimanskiBeats]

danke! Das wäre was!

[@justmyopinion3881]

Druffis, die neben einem stehen und lauthals *"Geiles Ding!"* oder *"Mach ma lauter den Shit"* rufen, sind die Besten :D

[@123456789schreihals]

:D

[@krawallo9255]

Da juckt das tanzbein... really nice job here

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks!

[@neonpop80]

Are the volcas controlling the Brute?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

no, one Volca and the Microbrute get their midi clock signal from an old Korg Electribe; the other Volca gets the sync in from the first Volca. For some weird reason you cannot make the Microbrute play 16th notes if it's synced from the Volca

[@duketranslucent3rd]

Microbrute or Microfreak, though? Tough call...

[@ShimanskiBeats]

despite the size, they aren't really comparable. The highlights of the Microbrute IMO are the filter and the flexible, fat sounding analog oscillator. The Microfreak is very good at glitchy, harsh digital sounds and modulating soundscapes

[@duketranslucent3rd]

@@ShimanskiBeats Ah fair play. MF digital? Thought it was analogue. Shows what I know! Nice vid by the way.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

@@duketranslucent3rd thanks! The Microfreak has an analog filter (although not as beefy as the Microbrute's filter) but the rest, and most importantly, the oscillator section, is digital.

[@HrafnNordhri]

This sounds good! Sucks that you dropped the Volca Bass in your sound cloud version.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment. It was actually the other way round: I made the studio version first and the downsized version with the Volcas afterwards.

[@HrafnNordhri]

Shimanski Beats I like both. getting my first volca next month.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

Nice! The Volcas are great little machines

[@djiatro]

Shimanski Beats where to these kinda gears in India?

[@ShimanskiBeats]

unfortunately I have no idea what stores sell these.

[@gamersparadise3203]

Schnell beim Elevator die Korg Drumsampler gekauft und gleich ein live act hingelegt...lach ! Nein kleiner Scherz ! Mann merkt dennoch das es ihm gefällt an den Drehreglern zu spielen und zu hören wie aus Strom,Töne werden :) Viel Spaß weiter hin...

[@petarmilicevic7614]

do jaja

[@ShimanskiBeats]

+Petar Milicevic Hvala!

[@mikes6305]

Love what you're doing, only thing that frustrates me about drum machines and such is they just don't have any human feel to them. They may be sampled sounds of real drums but they still sound mechanical. Real drummers put a little Fills in that make it sound different. Be glad when they can get a drum machine that can mimic a real drummer

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your compliments! Well if one considers drum machines a replacement to live drummers (as they did in the 80s) the results will be disappointing - even "humanize effects" of contemporary DAWs don't deliver very realistic results. Howver, for electronic music the mechanical, machine-like effect is what's sought after, in particular if the sounds/samples have a strong unnatural and synthetic character.

[@CarlvinHarper]

Hahaha

[@andreasrichter5191]

... klasse Track mit viel Gefühl und super tanzbar. facebook.com/andreas.richter.1069

[@littleman9215]

It's just techno, not goa ... not trance.... Have you ever listening a trance set ??? But it is so cool. peace.

[@ShimanskiBeats]

thanks for your comment! Well of course this is not a trance set with thick pads and fat gated lead sequences, that's not possible with so little gear. However for (pure) techno it's sequences are too melodic and goa: the second sequence (microbrute) has this psychedelic/oriental touch... Peace

[@siboneyyy]

I'd rather call it acid techno/house than Goa trance... it's not even 140bpm+ ;-)

[@electromilch793]

Das ist nicht wichtig 🔥🕺

[@joewensley9910]

wtf man no bass drop you serious?

[@MikkeMan]

I found this boring. Very little variation.