I am really puzzled why they haven't done this. Out of all my Volca's, the beats is the one I rarely use. (i'm taking analog, so the newer digital drum Volca's aren't really a progression the way I see it)

A new flavour one, perhaps with some of their analog heritage in the sounds (Minipops 7, KR55) could be interesting.

Also think its time for them to ditch the membrane keyboard for something a little more tactile. (Roland binned the touch strips on the Boutiques without much fuss). Even cheap low travel rubber buttons would be more welcome (imo).

Totally agree ..I don’t know what Korg was thinking taking away a full size midi port which was on the original.
They’ve added two mini jack midi ports instead but the cheap bastards haven’t included the mini jack midi adapters !!
It’s bad enough you don’t get power packs with the volcas but in this case it’s a double ****** bag move.
When you add the cost of power pack and midi adapters your looking at around £200 .

What they should have done is add a usb connection so you could do midi /power/preset transfer/vst control.

It seems a plus concerning more voices/fx but backwards in midi implementation.

The new behringer volcas will be massive due too there connections..I’m just hoping there’s no usb noise issues with them .

Yeah can’t watch his vids there too long and he seems stoned all the time.
It’s as if cheech and chong bought a synth and there trying too figure out how too plug it in lol

And the problem with adapters is sometimes they don't work or sometimes the midi just isn't compatible and you'd spend a lot to never find out which. I have so much trouble getting today's midi to sync or turn on and off the attached sequenced machines. Sometimes it works which just teases you for next time it doesn't. That's probably why, when I get things working I produce as many songs as possible....first it was 3 in a day then 5 then a whopping 8 songs determined to finish while I could get stuff syncing properly.
I can't tell you how many times I had to splice off the end of my songs as they started falling out of tempo, turns out I was using the push the buttons at the same time same tempo method, it never was syncing.
My Korg Keyboard has only a midi out and usb midi, but only one general useless setting in function. My Yamaha has no midi in out just usb midi, And PC midi controller software most times fails to sync, and the Yamaha with many more midi settings then the Korg absolutely syncs with nothing. The only thing that syncs is my Alesis drum machine and Behringers td-3 bassline, and the volca2, because they all have classic midi ports. Even the .35mm syncs don't work from the bass to the Volca.

would be useful if the mods could merge the two threads into one to keep the conversation in one place.

PM @ synthguru or any other mod, they don't see everything and they have the @s in threads tuned off so they don't see every mention like this either.

Same reason to not buy this one perhaps - is not designed to be a keeper?

I was just thinking this would be a nice companion to my dx7 but no pitch/mod over midi is poor

Threads merged.

True FM synthesis...

Does that make this sharper...

2nd hand FM v1 with pajen firmware is still worth a pop even with 3 voices. really like mine. there's no mention so far in loopop's vid of sysex reception, which the v1 now does properly with last (pajen) firmware version.

the parameters omitted were the modulation and aftertouch assign, and pitchwheel options. pajen added modwheel assign to any of the midiCCs.
also fixed Korg's errors, and some differences in patch format.

will @ pajen will be back round to look at new volcas. ..?

Daniel Fisher / Sweetwater demo is on YouTube.

I am lucky to got one of the Volca FM2 , they delivered 2 pieces to the dealer . Sounds very nice , only bad detail is that the sound patches not numbered and could not switched by MIDI in . I use it only with external sequencer as sound module , have to figure out what can be switched by cc control .

MIDI implementation chart for Volca FM says:

The "Bn" entries are the Control Change messages it recognises.

Program Change in MIDI is 0xC0 so it looks like it does not support this.

Everyone seems to love them…me, it’s like final scenes of, “A Clockwork Orange “, trying to view them. Much prefer Beethoven.

finally got mine ..lovin the sound and easy editing but i wish theyd bundled in some micro midi adaptors instead of the batteries.

i now have a basic volca set up in my studio i just need to get my head around trying to create propr songs on it.
i have a volca modular/volca drum/volca mix/volca fm2 so that should be enough to get started.

any recomendations on who i should watch to get tutorial on how to do your first track with a volca set up?

FM2 extensive tutorial is so far, Cuckoo’s, and it’s informative, it’s just like coconut, you either like it or don’t….I always feel like I need to place espresso under my eyelids because he has such a sedate vocal style, never make it through.
Automaticgainstay has also an excellent 5 pt tutorial on V1, recommend both.

Don’t want to be without choices….

with the FM, get it set up ASAP with Dexed, and familiarise yourself with getting some patches into it. don't start from scratch on the Volca, it will takes ages. it's a shame if Korg have dropped sysex support (which was added to the FM v1 by pajen).

Question (Since I dont know jack)

Is the Volca FM 2 Eurorack friendly?

TIA

This is for the volca2, don't know if transposing different notes on a samples step pattern works the same way, but it should be the same steps.
He starts discussing it around 2 minutes in :
https://youtu.be/MwEW-2CyFC8
Now not only can you sequence different notes on a sample, but my trick to get chords and poly is to use the same sample on another pattern and transpose 2,3, or 5 up or down to create a chord and you can create ping pong, accent, and velocity affects in panning this way as well.

volca FM doesn't have much in common with volca Sample.

it's a major oversight not to have included remote pattern change with the volcas - but they are intended (i think?) as realtime jam units.

volcaFM is great for having FM without having to cart around a rack unit or a keyboard. it has a sequencer and some extras midiCCs that the OG doesn't have. i'd still have it even if pajen hadn't stepped in to sort it out. (in fact i have two of them, cheap as chips 2nd hand as new in box)
(sold my tx802, which might have been a mistake...)

i've been editing it via sysex with a Novation RemoteSL, and since the fixes, it loads patches from Dexed flawlessly, and i can fly around the RemoteSL doing fine tuning (need to get back to that; got it working and then moved onto doing the same for a TG33).

i've spent a fair bit of time digging for sounds, in order to have some decent starting presets onboard, and having 2 means 2 banks - you don't really want to interrupt everything to start a patch from scratch, and some sounds will always be on there, such as derivatives of Solid and Wood bass etc. - there are some nice sounds in the megapack from Blackwinny, 'vintage analog'-a-like.

but the vFM v1 couldn't receive short sysex parameter messages originally, just full patches, and those were buggy until the fixes. it can now be edited directly from Dexed. it now has 2 patch transfer modes: original, which had an extra parameter for remembering which operators were on or off, which original DX7 does not have, meaning there was an error - but it allows you to send data to another volcaFM via the Sync jacks; you can clone an entire bank into another unit - and the proper sysex mode, dealing with the original patch format.

anything like this on the v2? can it receive short sysex messages?

They said they had a regular volca modular too that they were having trouble figuring how to use, I assumed they meant volca sampler.

Yikes, I never knew such a hideous thing existed.

yeah..
actually quite nice colours in the flesh. basically it does a nice triangle wave and i can't see much point in lowpass gates, of which there are two.
you fiddle around with it and end up with something, and it's a bit like the something you ended up with last time. (my experience, anyway)

Hope they do a Volca Drum 2

Back to FM2 please .

Connected mine with a Yamaha QY100 , so i get out of the problem with interrupted layer sounds because of to less voices in the Yamaha. And i can go back from volca audio out into the Guitar Input of the QY ( they got a guitar audio input with digital fx ) and give‘m nice distortion . But missing a regular cutoff/ resonance adjust in the volca , need to get something for it like the monotron or something … maybe a equalizer ?

Different form factor
No mounting
Different power
Does not receive or send CV

So, no, I'd say it's not particularly "Eurorack friendly" in that about the only commonality they both make noises.