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Found this little drummer boy to be deeper than face-value. The presets do not do it justice. Each of the 6 parts contain 2 layers with 3 sound shaping parameters each. You can also as wave-folding, distortion, and bit crushing on each part. The wave guide function I found to be only a little useful. The sounds I can conjure from this can go from blippy analog to a total noisy mess with lots of great points in between. For the price, this was a great value for making percussion sounds that a different than the usual.

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The Korg Volca Drum is a super fun & creative percussion synthesizer. This Volca definitely is unique. It offers six parts each with layers of two individual sounds per part that can be edited separately or together. Programming is very immediate and the controls invite tweaking without having read the manual. However there are a few settings that aren’t immediately intuitive which are accessed with the edit/step button and then scrolled through by the select/parameter knob. These potentially overlooked settings really do add to the sound giving bit reduction, wave folding, overdrive, panning, and gain adjustment. The three distortions here add a bit of grit to the sound and in my experience don’t degrade the sound too much either, being mostly consistently useable at maximum settings. The motion record opens up the sound design potential quite a bit even if it is a shame that motion recording isn’t available for the resonator parameters. I especially enjoy motion recording the rate of the LFO modifier. So many types of synthetic percussion can be made with this synth and, with choke groups, you can treat multiple sounds as a single instrument set. Programming on the Volca Drum is a joy. I plan on holding onto mine probably forever.

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This was a waste of $150 Every sound is basically just echo and delay with reverb.So annoying! Korg really gets you with releasing these little affordable drum machines. that are useless and made to be played with by amatuers.

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