Volca expert Tony Horgan presents this stunning multimedia guide to the Korg Volca Bass. Across 96 pages, this interactive guide explains everything about the Volca Bass, with easy-to-follow text, illustrations, photography, audio examples and sounds for you to recreate on your own Volca Bass. Make rapid progress with the quick-start guides, then look deeper into the workings of the Volca Bass. Every control is covered in detail, and all the controls are fully discussed and illustrated. Jump between sections using hyperlinks and take it at your own pace. From the author of the 5-star rated Korg Volca Expert Guide series, this is the perfect companion for all Volca Bass users.
The full chapter list:
1. About this book
- Hello
- Get in touch
2. Quick-start guides
- Keyboard notes
- Select and play a pattern
- Create a pattern
- Save a pattern
- Synchronise with other Volca units
- Connect via MIDI
- Record the sound
- Effects and EQ (equalisation)
3. How the Volca Bass sound is created
4. Tempo
5. EG Section
- Understanding the EG section
- Attack
- Decay/Release
- Cutoff EG Int
- Sustain On
- Amp EG On
6. Octave
7. Filter Peak and Cutoff
- Understanding the filter
- Peak
- Cutoff
8. LFO Rate and Int
- Understanding the LFO
- LFO Rate
- Sync the LFO to the tempo
- LFO Int
9. VCO Section
- What is a VCO?
- VCO Pitch
- VCO Buttons
- VCO Wave
- VCO Group
10. Soft buttons
- Memory/Write button
- Step Mode
- Slide Edit
- Play
- Active Step
- Record
- Step Record
- Transpose note
- Motion sequence keys
- Clear Active Step
- Clear All
11. Keyboard functions
- Understanding the keyboard
- VCO Group
- LFO Target
- LFO Wave
- VCO Wave
- Sustain On
- Amp EG On
- Clear keys
12. Power
- Mains and battery power
- Auto Power Off
13. MIDI In
- MIDI: an overview
- MIDI cables
- Selecting the MIDI channel
- MIDI Control Change messages
- Slide Time, Expression, Gate Time
- MIDI Control Change numbers
- MIDI RX Short Message
14. Sync In / Sync Out
- What is Sync?
- Changing Sync steps
- Changing Sync polarity
14. Headphone socket and speaker
- Audio connection and speaker
15. Automatic tuning
