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StupidDisco
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Ignore the volca fm imo, fm without velocity sensitivity.. the expressiveness of fm via velocity is one of fm’s strongpoints and they left that out to a large extent. Weird!!
Treating the Volca as a typical FM synth will lead to disappointment.
The Volca FM is a performance sequencer with an FM sound engine attached. That's why velocity is designed to be played with a slider instead of from a keyboard.
With the Volca FM's sequencer, the velocity slider acts like a filter knob on a subtractive synth on patches that have velocity-enabled modulators.
Volca FM is actually an ingenious design but people don't see it for what it is. They think of it as a pint-size DX7. The Volca FM was not made for those people.[/QUOTE]