Like somebody else mentioned before "Korg is on fire"

nice one

Nice! I wonder if they will be easy to mod like the monotribe?

Expect Volchestras popping up everywhere this summer.

Best VA on the market is Virus or Solaris

Best workstation is Motif XF

ms20mini is cool

These little things are cheap kids toys

These are not toys. In that case the 303 and the 606 would be toys.

Volcan mind meld just ahead

says people with limited imaginations

Definitely! I was thinking the same thing (but without the catchy name) when I first saw that video.

i didnt mean compared to todays drums, but compared to old machines the way i know them. anyways, it does sound better in the future music video.



anyways, i don't understand all the babble about sounding fresh. this is a clear nod to KP but more than anything to TR series especially, and they sound very much like those. nothing new as far as sound. but much needed never the less.

as many others i actually need something like this.. instead of old roland. and packed with some modern features. but would prefer a more professional machine, not a toy with headphone out. also, even a 30yr old 606 has more patterns and songs than this thing. memory capacity is kinda a let down too.


i definitely do not dig the volca keys sound. thinny stylophone.



one thing i noticed: someone here mentioned that Volca Bass also uses the 700 filter (i.e. diode ring)...but strangely enough they mention the 700 filter on the korgs Volca Keys page, but there is absolutely no mention of it on the Volca Bass Korg's page. could it be they went diode ladder, and need to keep it hush bcs of Roland..?

all they say is, i quote:

"Newly designed analog filter for crisp, bright response"

so its not a 700.. otherwise they would clearly say so..

Pretty sure the Korg rep in the Future Music video said the Volca Bass has an MS-20 filter.

He could be confused though.

us trolls don't agree with that!

Sounds pretty good for toys. The drum machine sounds awesome.

The rep says otherwise. He says it twice. The Bass Volca has the Mini700 filter. Obviously, it may be just incorrect info - early prototypes, lots of info to remember, etc. But there it is nonetheless.

The different reps said different things about several aspects of the boxes in the videos posted so far, disagreeing with both each other and themselves. The specs posted at the official site (http://www.korg.com) is what we should discuss.

Korg is King, and they really killed it at NAMM and now at the Messe. Which begs the question, why is Korg making the products that Roland suppose to do? At least we got a re-issue of the TB-303 of some sorts, that pretty much has the same look, LOL. Although I don't have much interest for those Volcas, but kudos to Korg!

What's next for them? Re-issue of the PolySix, MonoPoly, Trident. One only can dream!

Very clear statement from Korg:

''Volca Keys - Starting with a filter section that uses the circuitry of the legendary miniKORG700S (1974)''

For the Bass, it could be close to anything out there including Korgs filters but they do say Newly designed:

''Volca Bass - Newly designed analog filter for crisp, bright response''

I agree. I'm guessing it's a new design because, well, that's what the site says! And maybe when the Korg reps got trained they got confused thinking that it was the same filter for both the Keys and Bass.

The MIDI specs so far appear to be just MIDI IN for tempo sync and note data. I seem to remember one of the reps saying in a video that the parameters are not CC controllable, but maybe that can be modded like the Montribe. A few people keep bringing up this idea of a MIDI splitter fixing the problem but are not realizing that a MIDI splitter needs to read a MIDI OUT signal, which these don't appear to have. Plus if they are all locked on the same channel, a splitter again won't solve anything because they would all end up receiving the same incoming note data from the same channel at once. Hopefully that won't be the case though. I remember reading that the MS-20 Mini's MIDI IN port will be locked to Channel 1, which can already create a problem for some people.

I think having a limited imagination would be proclaiming that all korg stuff is the best...

Kronos is very nice, but yamaha is king of workstations, and the Motif XF dominates the Kronos when it comes to sound and versatillity.

I havent played the king korg but I havent heard anything exciting come out of it from the demos I have watched... on the other hand the Virus is the most powerful and versatille va synth used on thousands of records. There is no debating that the Virus has been the king of VA's for a very long time now.

These little korg toys are just that...cute little toys. Can they be used to make some awesome tunes? Sure, but so can anything that makes sound.

Oh my imagination must be so limited because I agree with the majority opinion... well shocking news, the majority opinion is usually right!

cool, so i can tell my wife "but baby, its for the kids, think about the kids!"

The majority being right? Holocaust, apartheid, slavery? Rule of the majority is insanity

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all hail ..


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Korg has outdone themselves. People wanted new Electribes and they got 3 of them in an analog form. Couldn't ask for more. Happy to hear the 700s filter is in the Volca Bass. I actually like the thinner character of the Volca Keys. It has a nice character and I think it will fit really well with all the in your face bass synths out there.

They are on the toy side just slightly though.

I wish they were more on the pro side, kind of like mini Elektron boxes

But damn for the money and features this is amazing

WTF the new Korgs have nothing to do with Reason 7.

I think Bern and I are just gonna have to keep reposting this till people get it right, haha.

The Volca Keys has the 700s filter.

The Volca Bass has the "newly designed analog filter."

Before anyone comments again about which has what filter, please READ THE SPECS ON KORGS WEBSITE first. Not trying to sound rude, but it's really adding a lot of confusion and misinformation to this thread. You can blame the reps for that.