Volca Sample - How to Chop up Breaks in Realtime - Advanced Tips & Tricks

How to Chop up Breaks in Realtime on Korg Volca Sample

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NOTE: Volca 'Sample 2' owners MIGHT be able to skip the section about adding silence to the samples. In the manual the sample start range is stated as 0-100% but I'm getting conflicting feedback from other users about that and I don't own a Sample 2, so try it both ways.

ALSO NOTE: There’s a slight maths error in this video, table of values should be: 0,8,16,24 / 32,40,48,56 / 64,72,80,88 / 96,104,112,120. Thanks to Goat-X for pointing this out!

ALSO ALSO NOTE: Make sure you update your firmware before trying this or you may not be able to use motion sequencing to control the sample start position for each step. Thanks to Kyle Garner for pointing this out!

Here's a video for those of you who wanted to know how I made my recent Drum and Bass video on the Volca Sample by using it to chop up breaks in realtime. Here's the original DnB video:

   • Live Volca Break Slicing DnB - Volca ...  

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Remember, times the length of the sample by 0.1111 and add that value to the end.

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The drum breaks came from Computer Music Magazine issue 156's cover disc so they're not online to download. This download has a set of jungle breaks that very good though, plus it's free and easy to download:

https://web.archive.org/web/201708010...

To clarify the process:

In order to slice a loop into 16 sections the start point for the last slice needs to be 93.75% of the way through the loop, but the sample start knob on the Sample only goes up to 90% max (not the case on Sample 2, this goes up to 100%). So we need to add an extra chunk on so 90% is then all the way through the audible part of our sample. The calculation is the same no matter how long it is or what time signature it's in (length in samples * 0.1111 gives the length of the extra section) but you'll need to recalculate it each time for different length samples

I assume most people will be working in 4/4 but you'll need a new table of values when programming the volca for say a rhythm in 3/4. That depends on how many steps it uses. So that would be 128/number of steps=x. The first step is zero, step two is x, step three is x*2, step four is x*3 etc... If the result is not a whole number, round it off to the nearest whole number. Note this is slightly wrong in the video as I made an error in calculations!



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