Bad Gear - Korg Volca Kick - A One Trick Pony???
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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Korg Volca Kick. Is this very specialized member of the Volca family nothing but a one trick pony?
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:16 Overview
04:45 Hate
05:11 Jam 1
06:09 Jam 2
07:06 Finale
07:36 Verdict - Hudba
"Draw random notes in piano roll til it sounds good".
My entire production philosophy.
Is there another one?
@@AudioPilz replace mouse by a quantizer. Generative music!
I lost my volca kick back in 2018, turned out it had been rolling around unsecured and unprotected in the trunk of a friend's car for over 6 months. It's covered in little scratches but still works perfectly fine.
Yeah, these Volcas are quite robust!
Is this a euphemism? Your friends trunk must have been sore for a while
@@davewebster689 hjahbahahaha awesome
”Trunk” as in ”ass”?!
You're friends with an Elephant??
On a club sound system this thing sounds absolutely beastly. It may be limited but it’s so good at what it does.
Damn, the bass on this thing is HUGE!!!
After the Volca Kick I was expecting the Volca Snare, the Volca Toms, the Volca Hi-Hat and of course, the Volca Cowbell.
. Lol
The future!!!
The cowbell could have paired nicely with the Arturia Drumbrute with the totally worthless Space Drum
You can make hi hat with a synth that have Noise ... but a snare.. that really hits.. is kinda hard to make
Volca Cowbell 1, 2 and 3 😂
I still can’t tell if this channel is supposed to highlight actually bad gear or the never satisfied synth community.
It’s all good gear
I'm asking myself the exact same thing;)
@Aaron Foltz yeah the Drumbrute is worth getting just for the sequencer.
If it were actual bad gear it would feature the OP-1 for lack of sound design, the op-z for bad build quality, and the Volca Bass for being overrated...
@Aaron Foltz I just sold mine but it is a fine drum machine indeed. Except for the scandalous lack of automation it's the coolest drum sequencer possible, with the dedicated swing and random dials and global/per track, that's how swing and random should be on all machines. You put in a super straight beat and start adding the random slowly until it taps you on the shoulder every once in a while.. Of course all of these machines reviewed here are awesome in their own way. One day I'd like a Roland DR202, that looks too good to be true with the hip hop and drum & bass presets, sampled drums, and a bass synth.
@@dickwang7429 By those metrics you'd be saying a piano or bass are "bad gear".
The music I'm most proud of has all come from the worst gear I own. My favourite keyboard is an early '80s Roland analogue electric piano that doesn't even come close to sounding "real".
There's no such thing as bad gear.
Sir, I nominate you for the most hardworking, inspired, and underrated CZcamsr of 2021 award.
❤️❤️❤️Thank you❤️❤️❤️
"Smile of a hobo" I laughed so hard at that I woke up my entire family!!! Brilliant!!!! 😂
❤️❤️❤️
I have to admit that the kick sounds fantastic in that first jam. Very impressed by what you are able to get out of this one trick pony
Thanks!
For modern music this thing kicks ass. Pick any almost any trap or Hyperpop beat and you can recreate the kick and the bassline with this little box. Producers kill for a choice of kicks like this. No other synth (unless you want to dedicate a whole patchable synth to your kick) rounds the sound like this.
I couldn't agree more!!!
This is the best version of the intro tune so far. Really quite shocked it all came from the Volca Kick.
Kick, Drum and FM are legitimately good. When parameter locked they really come into life.
Big Volca fan here
@@AudioPilz I didn't start out as one! I was like ARE THESE SYNTHS FOR ANTS?!?!? Then I was exposed to a few and was really surprised.
thats my setup ;) plus the nts-1
Current setup is:
- Sequential PRO-3 SE,
- Octatrack,
- Digitone,
- Circuit Mono Station.
I'll probably be selling the Model Samples, , and getting the 404mkii, M8 or the Polyend Tracker. @@alexanderrau6356. Octatrack is insane, but I've never really used it as much as the Digitone. Need to dedicate like a month to it.
CMS isn't the best synth in history, but damn is it fast to lay down tracks on it.
Right..!✌🏻
I have this triplet..and I don't use anymore the classic sounds of 707..808..909.
They changed my musical style.⭐
I never understood the hate for this particular volca. Back in 2015 I was trying to put together a live techno kit and the kick was exactly what I was missing in my gear. The fact you use the Jomox MBase 01 in all of your jams is a testament to how crucial a good solo kick machine can be. I ended up going modular for my set up, but if the kick had come out a few years earlier, it would be a staple in my set up!
So true! A nice analog kick is essential!
My prior analog kick was a 2U rack with two Tama Techstar kick PCBs in it. They are a one-envelope kick but I modded them based upon a tip on hyperreal (back in the day!) to combine them into one two-envelope super-kick. Sounds great when it's set up properly, but it's finicky. The Volca Kick was a definite upgrade! Now that I don't need the Tama I might take the time to refine its mods.
Have you ever reviewed a synth and felt it was not ticking all the boxes at first glance? Because if there was ever such a synth that was not ticking enough boxes, a synth that only ticked one box and was quite happy with itself for doing so, this was the synth that would be it. For to tick too many boxes is the antithesis of this one box ticking synth.
The Mopho was tickling foxes, does that count?
Your post is ticking all my boxes
Your video production style is so awesome. It' s obvious that you put in alot of work to make these. Well done man.
Thank you so much!!!
This is the P E R F E C T bass synth for minimal house! Period.
👍👍👍
Wishing everyone a Happy Bad Gear in 2022
Happy New Gear!!!
Bleeps and bloops intensify. Best. Bad. Gear. Intro. Song. Ever.
Thanks! Bleeps and bloops for days!!!
Not only is this one I had seen lots of complaints on, but it is one I let myself overlook completely because of the internet's opinion. Thank you for again proving that is a really dumb way of looking at musical instruments.
Thanks!
Your videos are brilliantly put together.
Great presentation.
Thank you!!!
I must admit I fully expected the 50k subscriber special live act branded as a Vienna New Year's Concert, but damn, instead you made me rethink buying this one.
Yeah, that one is actually recommended!
God bless Takahashi, he is the one that made this whole hardware synth revival happened ❤
Freaking legend!!!
Exactly Louis Serieusement. 😉
You picked a perfect instrument for the start of the new year ! The volca kick has its strengths and it's weaknesses and you covered it perfectly 👌! Well done 👍
Thanks! I thought it would be a good start too
Absolute shout out for how well this, and all of your other videos are. Keep up the great work! 😁
Thank you so much!
Happy new year! Thanks for all the bad (and not so bad) gear!
Happy 2022!!!
I laughed so hard at the self portrait when you said "accent"
Love your channel so much. thanks for the great videos
Thank you so much!!!
Once again, you have covered a piece of gear I've largely ignored, and once again I've decided to pick one up. This kick sounds nasty, and with the small form-factor I can't see why it shouldn't be a part of my live setup. Happy New Year!
Happy 2022! Thanks!
Happy New Year and new bad gear!
I’m Looking forward to more bad gear being put through its paces - [still waiting for the Roland EG-101 episode]
Happy 2022!!! It's about time I got an EG-101!!!
Happy New Years, stoked for episode one of the year, cheers
Cheers!!!
I’ve bought the Kick twice and sold it twice but this video made me really miss the thing. I think I just wasn’t ready for it. Thanks for doing this one. That 2022 track is dope too!
Happy 2022! Get another one;)
Adoro os seu vídeos, seguindo aqui de Portugal. Abraço.
"There is accent" + photo of you = best beginning of the year :) :) :)
Happy new year and all the best bad gear for you!
Thanks! Happy 2022!
Bar none the best intro demo yet. Had me dying, keep up the great work and happy new year!
Thanks!
heeeehhhaa.... .'kicking all the boxes'. Classic! Merry New Year, you bad, bad gearhead.
Happy New Gear!!!
Have to say that this may be my favourite version of the intro tune. Such purity to the sound. This has to be the sleeper Volca, love the neglected Nubass too.
Yeah, it seems like people just didn't really understand it
The NuBass is awesome and totally underrated
I was laughing 5 minutes in a row with the volca cowbell..., thanks for all the fun and Happy 2022!
Happy to hear that. Thanks and happy 2022!
Happy New Year! This brought extra fun to the new years celebration, and by superstition if I laugh a lot today, I'll laugh a lot the whole year, so thanks!
2022 is gonna be awesome!!! Happy New Year!!!
Analogue kick at this price is rare!
MIDI cc control really opened the possibility of making a huge range of sounds live!
Yeah, I would totally get a pro version of this too!
Love the Kick. Ive jammed with it loads - yet to use it on anything, but am sure I will. I paid £79 for an ex demo one (including delivery) and its worth that if you just absorb that bass regularly as part of a course of treatment for depression! I would recommend the kick to someone with either plenty of gear or someone who specifically wants to create a minimalist portable techno rig. It is what it is and does a cool thing well, and for less than a eurorack kick module that would be way less flexible.
I think the moral of the 'Bad Gear' channel has to be that someone with your talent can make music out of anything, and gear lust is nothing to do with music making. That isn't something I think we should feel bad about, some people have train sets. People hate on all manner of things, JX8P being a prime example, because it doesn't look 👀analogue, meaning there are unlimited shows left for you to make: 'At first glance the CS80 is ticking all the boxes' while forum quotes pop up on the screen about it being too heavy, not running on batteries and the behringer version being much cheaper and has midi. Happy new year Florian - thanks for keeping us smiling :)
Thanks, HNY!!! Great price!!!
I got my roland tb3 bass line as it was on demo -for show at Dawson's UK £50 knocked off ,glad I didn't buy a 2nd hand one
Volca drum machine (one of them have u made a vid as I didn't think much to it compared to kicks on the electribe, maybe when the guy in the shop showing me didn't have it plugged in a loud speaker,
👌🏼🎯
@@waynesilverman3048 Sounds horrible through its internal speaker tbh
Happy new year! Awesome work as always, one day you should make an episode on your production pipeline.
Happy New Gear!!! Great idea, let's see if I can fit it in!
Happy New Year Florian!!!
I cannot make my mind on the new intro theme. Feels like an after (heavy) party beat 😂. Nice video.
Thanks! Happy 2022!!!
I saw this in a pawn shop and grabbed one as I’ve become addicted to the cut scenes and memes and I just wanna belong I don’t usually jam with stuff like this.
I thought “this guy will show what to do with it” sure enough 😂
Nice! Thank you so much!!!
I bought this and a couple other volcas years ago, sold the others but I kept this one. Absolutely slaps for dedicated tonal 808 under my tr8s. I don't think I could ever part with it.
Nice one!
Dear Flow-rian.
1st of all: Happy new gear - uhm - year! Hope u guys are doing fine in my quirky little neighbour country! Thx alot for all you showed, lectiored and saved me moneywise! Still in my top3 CZcams series!
Thank you so much! HNY!!!
Happy New Year. I don’t get every reference but I never miss a show and my favorite part is always the featured song. Always top notch.
Thanks! Happy new Gear!!!
I had it for a few days after buying it at a synth fest when it first came out. I struggled to make the sounds I wanted and couldn’t get it to consistently play the same notes when using it as a bass synth, so I sold it after a few days, but I can see the point in it. Who doesn’t love an MS20 filter in a small box?
I've heard about these issues but to my surprise the unit on the episode was quite consistent
@ghost mall yeah, I was going to edit my post to mention the monotron, I have two of them.
@ghost mall I have 6 Monotribes, much more room for modding, albeit bigger, and it comes with Note Pitch CV/Gate capabilities via TRRS 1/8" jack.
I have been waiting for this one!! My favorite volca by far.
This and the Sample are fun for days!
Pew pew! Happy 2022, Florian.
May you get that Wolca Cowbell!
Happy New Year!!! Thanks!
these videos are so entertaining, the editing is just so silly and fun to watch
Thank you so much!
I’ve wanted one of these for that VROOM VROOM!
I’ll probably just get an MS-20 mini though. MS-20 has been a favorite/goal of mine since high school!
Great stuff as usual!
Thanks! VROOM VROOM for days!!!
I think we're ready for the Volca woodblock next. For all your rimshot needs :)
10 part drum only Volca setup FTW!!!
Wow, you always surprise me what you get out of anything... Love your content
Thanks!!!
Respect for putting together these shows :) The box sounds just like mine, so familiar and quite recognisable sound.
Thanks for watching!!!
@@AudioPilz Truly good shows and so funny memes and all! Big up :)
Your loyal pilzaddict here, I love the kick, so underrated. Excellent gear to share with one's children's. BUT, I think it sound phat and it's real jam worth. Straight away I can hear it in your intro mix. I used to buy them, hate them, now I love them. I am lusting after a Nubass btw:) I guess they can be considered semi-professional but that's the snob in me urgh...
Hey!!! NuBass sounds super Bad Gear-worthy too!!!
@@AudioPilz you're a really good presenter, I know you have done the mopho. My gig studio comprises of a mopho, two tetra's, LXR-02, Blackbox 1010, and effects. If you are ever in London, you are welcome to present the tetra, it has paraphonic sequencing (like the mopho, you can swivel on the osc mix and have TWO acid lines on one program). Or... I will come to your fair country and do a gig someday
Happy new cowbell! I mean year. Year of the cowbell …
…and I would totally back that Kickstarter if Korg would dare to create it. :-D
Thanks for making at least the start of the new year something to enjoy and smile at!
Year of the cowbell…
I like that!
Happy new cowbell to you too!
More Cowbell!
@@AudioPilz and the volca cowbell wouldn't be pink, it would have be blue öyster colored :)
How amazing would it be if they did, and as a result of this video?!
I’d have no use for it, but I would definitely buy it.
Happy New Year my parasocial bad gearhear friend! I really like the idea of getting more of volcas in the show :D Have a great 2020two full of chill an great musicmaking along with sharing some of the nicest and memeest gear review content :)
Thank you! HNY!!!
Haha, i read about the Volca cowbell in the comments screen and it made me laugh. Aaand… you finish on that one. Perfect ^^ happy new year !
Thanks! Happy 2022!
I've got one. Found a setting where it produces great clean sub-woofer bass tones, perfect for some g-funk or, bassy techno/house. Hooked up to a midi controller and a bass amp... Ooooh yeah.
Certainly fun with a bass amp!!!♥♥♥
Hits the g-spot! XD
Never stopped using this beast since I got it, Has a kick voice of it's own that always sounds huge. Definitely a lil secret weapon :)
I couldn't agree more!
A Good start of 2022 it will be interesting to see if you will pick volca sample( as I got one myself)
Anyway your videos are loaded with
humour and musical/tecnical information all I need to get inspired.
Iam impressed that you are able make a video all weeks and still make them so good. Gott Nytt År från TAO.
Thank you so much!!!
Second jam was fire dude omg that was tight beat
Thank you!!!
How funny, I literally ordered the kick on Thursday lol. I fit your exact description of who this machine was made for, I’m gonna have a good time sequencing this with my beatstep pro.
Nice! Great combination with the BSP!!!
William what music do u play?
I am once again asking for you to record and release an album! You're so good at this stuff, dude!
Thanks! Will eventually happen!
Seems like a fun little box! A lot more versatile than i thought beforehand. It actually sounds usable, and the basslines it does are a neat bonus. Loving the jams as always!
Happy new year, may every weekend start as glorious with a “Bad Gear” as it did last year. Which unintentionally rhymes.
Thanks! Happy 2022!
Mate, these are some of the best tunes youve done.Really nice
Thank you so much!!!
That last jam sounded like something aphex twin would make. I want full versions of these tunes ;D
Thanks! Full tracks, as usual, on my Patreon (end of plug;)
@@AudioPilz yo cool, I'll check it out!
Had all of the volcas at one point simply because they were so cheap. This is the one I kept and still use. Brilliant little box.
Yeah, my favorite (together with the sample)
I have 2(Volca Beats and OG Sample).....I want'em all, but which to get next? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
drum?@@erikavery1105
Uh, the jams video depicts the ingredients of my fridge. A Korg seems like a good solution. Happy new year!
Absolut(ely)
YAY, happy new year dude
Happy 2022!!!
@@AudioPilz u too man ;)
One time I took 2 tabs and plugged my volca kick into a black coffee distortion pedal followed with a KP-3 and I literally just sat there and twiddled knobs for like 4 hours.
10/10
11/10 ;)
When you think about it, the Kick really is the Hobo With A Shotgun.
RIP Rutger Hauer!!! Best!!!
@@AudioPilz I miss the guy!
Absolutely loved this episode • Never got around to buying any volca but have been contemplating it • The aisle B, Bach meme and the ONE BAR meme moment are both phenomenally edited in and then you top it off with ‘The roll functionality can be cranked up to Scarface finale…”
You, my friend, remain EPIC…. Thanks for starting the year off right!
Happy & blessed 2022, bro
NB: Even a Hobo With A Shotgun reference…. RIP King Rutger Hauer ❤️💫
NB NB: Bruhhhhhh - That : On the fly ‘The Fly’ meme moment 🔥🔥🔥😂 🪰
Thanks! HNY!!!
The best thing is always good music made by Bad Gear. Happy New Year!
Happy New Gear!!!
Wishing you all the best for the new year! May it be a fruitfull year, full of crappy gear!
Happy New Gear!!!
@@AudioPilz this volca is one of the best!!
@@AudioPilz Crappy New Gear!
@@AudioPilz ...or more accurately old gear? (*looking at the GR-50 I'm too lazy to mount in the rack*)
I love my volca kick. Especially within volca ecosystem (Takahashi is a genius). But even past that it’s fun. I’ve got a jomox and vermona too, never mind an elektron Rytm, other drum machines and analogs and samplers, I’ll still break out the volca kick. Unique sound and the sequencer influences creativity on it. Way too many people, even dedicated volca users, missed out on this one.
You can't have enough kicks;)
I've watched a bunch your videos . This one is amazing. Love yoir second jam.with the jomox. So good !
Thank you so much!!!
My favourite Volca, so phatttt!!
Happy new year to one of the best channels on CZcams, who new there was so much bad gear?
Thank you so much!!! Happy 2022!!!
i think this one - is my favorite volca. at least the most usable one in real situations
True that! It punches above its weight
Most of my Volca’s are collecting dust except this one. It sounds great to crank the decay and layer it with a dry punchy Linn/707 kick. Also using it with MIDI/MPC is a great option as you can program the kicks chromatically(ish) on the MPC pads and use the CC’s to add slides and accents on D’Spot. DAWLEZZZ JAMZZZ 4 EVR.
Great addition to every setup!!!
Hey, so if they are collecting dust… mind if i clean them for a couple months?
@@mumblur421 well….my volca sample does need an intense deep clean.
@@Bpabrown148 that 31.25 kHz always leaves Lofi residue and drunk rappers everywhere. If the sampler stays for a bit, he will have plenty of of sync overs.!
@@mumblur421 lol! I’m a sampler sinner, s1000 clean and 44kHz on the outside…but 22kHz in my soul.
Kicking off the new year with a bang! Looking forward to still more excellence in things that are not excellent! :D
Thanks! Happy 2022!
Happy new year Florian! Cowbell is my favorite thing.
Happy 2022! More!!!
It's a good little volca if used as hardware controlled via your DAW midi. Which sort of defeats the point of it...but oooo the bass is bassssey. One of the best volcas in my view. It and the modular. 🧡
It really unfolds its unholy power when combined with a DAW;)
You can actually play 2 sequences (saved in memory) together back and forth. I still have mine and it works pretty well! I midi it with my MPC Live 2 and bypass this sequencer all together most of the time. Great for trap style bass drums.
Trap kickbasses for days!!!
Whith a midi out mod of course....
@@marcosrotllan if you hold memory and slide your finger between 2 keys next to each other, you can play 2 sequences together and have play in a 32 step format.. but yea I'm sure the midi mod would do some dope shit to this thing lol
@@ruffiankickloops its probably the best volca to put a midi out.
@@ruffiankickloops also... Subbass drones
czcams.com/video/9efHbPBskso/video.html
love your mini jams!
❤️
Some of these kicks immediately remind me of "On my way to hell" from the Cyberpunk Edgerunners soundtrack. Phenomenal soundtrack by the way, especially for an anime
Nice!!!
Happy New Year! Great work as always.
One of your last comments, Korg is obviously a Japanese company, and Japan is very hierarchical. While customers are very important and to be treated like god, it’s not really their place to suggest things. Heck, people in the company itself tend not to suggest things….unless they’re told to.
Thanks! HNY!!! I know, there's quite a cultural divide
@@AudioPilz not meaning to lecture or anything. I did live there for a while, wonderful place.
It's a perfect companion to the Electribe ER-1 which can be hard to get a meaty kick from. Runa clean kick signal into one of the ER inputs and then run a reverbed kick signal into the second Input and let the Techno rumble commence. Get the midi out mod done too , worth the money
My set up exactly. Better than a dfam
Match made in heaven (or hell, you choose;)
@@AudioPilz If there was a fire I'd rescue these two instead of my Circuit
"the smile of a hobo" man you pack so much in between the script and video editing. savage
Thank you!!!
Happy new year mate!
You may have done another episode of "Gear you didn't think you wanted but actually now kind of do because it was on here!" though!
BTW there has to be so much kudos to the video editing part... I need a two hour extended cut of that last track to recover to.
Thank you so much! HNY!!!
Shouldn't the title be One "Kick" Pony?
The algo has no sense of humor;)
@@AudioPilz Those damned robots!
The kick is pretty fruity in the kick & sub-bass department but unfortunately it has been totally overshadowed by the dfam in my setup
DFAM is in an entirely different league! Nice one!
Totally! The DFAM is my kick. I can't imagine a better one
nice putting in the clicks & cuts album cover in the video. thats a great album!
Thanks! Love it!
Happy New Year Florian!
Same to you, thanks!
Happy new year!
Happy 2022!!!
Happy new year! It's limited, but what it does, it does well.😁
Same to you, thanks!!!
Happy 2022. Thanks for the laugh's. ❤️
Happy New Gear!!!
Happy New Year!
Happy 2022!!!
Excellent start to 2022 for me. 1. A new bad gear video and it's great. 2. It's not about something I own.
Thanks!
Happy New year!
Happy New Gear!!!
I love the comedy and humor in this video 🤣 nicely done.
Thank you so much!!!
Always entertaining my dude! Volcas are all fun, hoping the series is still alive as I have a complete volca collection(minus the new Sample). Sure they're collecting dust, they are my 'Pop figures' to display in my studio. I bust out the electribe every now and then for a midi medley
Thank you!!!