I highly doubt there will be any available before the end of June.

Would be pleasantly surprised if there were though.

It's in my signature. PM me to get the coupon code for that price.

That sounds interesting!
How many simultaneous inputs can you record?

BR-864 plus Volcas is the alterna OP-1.

I see BR-864 prices rising slightly in the future. Nah, j/k, I don't.

Still though. Kind of interested in getting completely OTB. Still hanging onto the Maschine because it covers a lot of ground ease-of-use wise. But being sans computer sure does feel great, even if it's tweaking an outdated plastic box. For a hundo, I'm mildly intrigued.

EXXXTREME GROOVEZ.

I used to have the Boss BR-532 and thought it was a pretty cool recorder. That also had MIDI out for slaving tempos. Can't say I got too deep into cutting and pasting with or using the effects though. I just used it for straight forward dry recordings like I would on a tape machine, then would dump the tracks into my PC for additional mixing. I ended up replacing it with a four track Tascam DR-40, which I'm pretty sure I could probably set up a Sync click track on like the first track to slave everything, then use the three remaining tracks for all three Volcas.

Just caught this on palm sounds:
Palm Sounds: Volcas in SOS

Gah, still no new info! They must know final build and MIDI and such by now? Why not just get it out there?

They probably think that the lack of info won't hurt initial sales.

And they're probably right.

These things have no midi out right?

Correct, no midi out.

It could HELP their inital sales though, Im undecided on some of them until I know a bit more on the bundle, but could have been convinced easily with a little info.

I have to imagine that preorders are through the roof, probably even moreso than the mini-MS20.

Hi,
Just wondering, if i buy a full size midi controller, will the keys be able to play the full range of 4 octaves? Haven't read anywhere yet if it can.

thanks.

Think I'm gonna explode if I don't get a release date or demo video or something NEW and meaty to chew on very soon! From what m local store it telling me I'm pretty much first in line for the volcas so I should get it in june! Probably th same time as the MS 20 mini. Gonna be so broke!

I really wish Takahashi-San would put out a couple of videos! Maybe look at some of the function button features in depth for each machine?

Yes -- this is a simple standard that wouldn't be explicitly stated as a spec.

Just noticing that this thread has been viewed over 118,000 times -- as these boxes are in the category of "cool shit for chump change" Korg is surely about to make a killing on these little gems.

Brilliant. Thanks.

Now would it be possible to split said midi keyboard into two if i purchase the bass aswell? with the lower two octaves for the bass and the higher two for the keys?
-Just starting out so my knowledge is very limited at the minute -

It depends on

Whether you can set the MIDI receive channels on the Volcas to different channels -- is this a known spec for these yet??

Whether you can set up your controller keyboard into two different zones, each with its own MIDI channel that corresponds to the MIDI channel settings on the Volcas

Whether you need a MIDI splitter (thru) box or if you can daisy chain the MIDI signal somehow on the Volcas

Another possibility would be if you can set the note ranges on the Volcas, you could have them both on MIDI channel 1 for example.

I don't know whether that is possible with these boxes or not.

We don't know yet. But if you use the internal seq i'm pretty sure you can do what you are describing. There are lots of demos where there are two osc with the same seq and the third doing a bass. 3 separate midi channels would be awesome.

Thanks for that.

Im just starting out and think the keys would be a great introduction to analog synths.
Just thinking up possibilities for future set ups, and with not a lot of knowledge at the minute its good reading around here. So many 'doors' have opened and the ideas come flooding in :-)

I was actually thinking about getting a second keyboard like the nanokey for the volcabass. I'm hoping that something simple like the um- one Roland USB to analog midi cable would be able to connect the smaller USB keyboards available at the moment.

I got one of those 1 spot PSUs from Guitar Center with a pedal I bought recently, they make a splitter for the output plug, you guys think I could power a beats with that? It outputs 1700mA.

Make sure that the PSU outputs 9VDC. And even more importantly, make sure that the polarity of the barrel plug matches the spec for the Korg power supply. You could fry the Volca if the polarity is reversed. You'll also need to ensure that the diameter of the barrel plug matches what the Volca requires.

Unfortunately it doesn't quite work as simply as I think you are expecting - you need to have a USB host (ie PC) somewhere in the chain... the nanokey needs to be powered from somewhere too... so you go:
nanokey=>USB cable=>PC=>UM one=>volca

If you're wanting to do without PC, you have to go slightly higher in the small keyboard range - look for something with actual MIDI out.
(I fell into the same trap; while I wouldn't really call it small, ended up getting an old Novation Remote 25 which has the unusual feature of having 2 midi outs... Alesis Q25 was one of the smallest other options I could find with a real midi port )

Not out of the box. But like their other cheapy analog offerings, they are designed to be hackable. Midi out is on the board, so to speak..

Hands On with Korg's

MIDI out will be hackable. Tatsuya didn’t let us unscrew the cases – these things are rare – but he did confirm for us that “MIDI out” is spelled in large letters on the board. So, hackers, just as you added MIDI capabilities to past Korg boxes, you’ll be able to supplement the included MIDI input with output.

It would be cool if the slide feature was midified.
I think we will see os updates to these once they are released. Korg seems to support hardware pretty good compared to other co.

Thanks I have been wondering about this, I was thinking about getting the Alesis q25 I think it's called. And use my micro korg for the other, not really small enough though, which is why I was hoping I could just spot a powered USB hub for the pc to get th power, but I'm not sure that'd work either.

It's be great to have a relly small portable option to add to these things bt the alesis is the smallest thing on the market with midi out,

nanokey=>USB cable=>POWERED USB HUB=>UM one=>volca

Looks like insteadid have to get something like a kenton USB midi host as replacement for my pc, still, that and a couple of nano keys is much more portable than an alesis and a micro korg!

http://www.kentonuk.com/products/ite...usb-host.shtml

Soooo, anyone else thinking about hooking these up together on a mutant pedalboard along with some pedals?

I actually started buying a few pedals just for my beats, then I found out I'll need some combination of a reamper and a DI to use them with my gear... still trying to figure out the cheapest way to go about it.

I'm pretty excited about the bass box. That'll be a fun device for my daily bus rides.