I opted for the Sample instead of the Beats as well as I could get them on eBay for about the same price, and I've been using it almost exclusively as a drum machine.

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2015/04 … -drum-kit/

^^that's a sample pack of sounds made with LSDJ. I just chucked those in the volca sample. So much fun. I've personally never used the beats but this was one of the first ideas I had with the sample.

You have to record shutter moves for whole pattern. No way to record it for each step individually.

Dogtag just give me all your Volca gear and shut up, man.

Thank you. Can you automate stutter for each step?

Kick, Snare, Toms and Hats are analog, Other sounds are samples. There is no way to store your analog sounds settings. You can change pitch of sampled sounds, you can record pitch changes of sampled sounds for each sampled instrument individually and you can save these changes (or pitch settings) in each of 8 memories. So you actually could create some kind of musical, melodical patterns in sampled sounds channels.

personally id go for the old mk1 electribes over a volca any day, greater memory in all aspects, midi in out and thru, more pattern options....
i think they beat the volca on all levels.....

OK
I uploaded some polyrhythm patterns from Volca (both around 35 BPM) with individual shutter settings for individual instruments.

http://chipmusic.org/ryba/music/rybakor … olyrhythm1

http://chipmusic.org/ryba/music/rybakor … olyrhythm2

nooOOoo!

I don't think analog was a selling point back then though. They were competing with LinnDrum which was all PCM. These days it's like a badge of honor.

i see it as more of a drum machine sketch pad.... the moleskin of sequencers

they do, i meant the sounds, not the patterns, sorry :)

Seriously? I thought it had memory for 8 patterns or so.
That's a deal breaker.
[edit] Korg says "Up to eight sequence patterns you create can be stored in internal memory". Do these not keep after power is off?

quick no one tell him about the 909.

Interesting. The absence of swing held me off buying one so far, but I always wondered if stutter could be used as a workaround. I don't need actual swing, just something to vary the rhythm outside the 1/16 grid. Looks like automated stutter may work even better for that.
Thank you.

You can make some swing patterns using shutter. It is actually a great drummachine for polyrythms, because you can use shutter for retriggering / delaying individual instruments. Each one could have different timestructure with shutter. Also Shutter used in this way could add some kind of accent. I'll upload some of my patterns for imagination later. If You run it at about 35 BPM and you program it with shutter in 2x, 3x, 4x faster time, it's great. But if you use it this way, you can't sync it to other gear without some clock divider or something (as a slave)...
And yes, it has only 8 pattern memory, individual instruments volume sucks, muting sucks, you have to use both hands sometimes etc. Snare mod is actually extremly easy to do.