Planning on grabbing a Volca Bass

[Kwal]

Ok, I think I'm about to bite and get a Volca Bass. I want to run the thing into Ableton and play out melodies, etc. Anyone have one of these and route it into Live? Is it easy to do? Looking for some feedback before I spend the cash and find out I need to buy more crap.

Also, I run a 2i4 interface I assume I would run the midi out from the Volca to the midi in on the 2i4?

[ZxZDeViLZxZ]

It's easy to do I have a volca keys and volca beats and volca bass it's fairly straight forward routing I spend most my time trying to figure out how I want to dump the audio... It's a bit different then running them in flp which is more accustomed to... I did see some mappings/plugins that can be added to modify parameters and send the automation data to the volcas so that way your not manually doing it everytime you bounce the audio to wav.... I haven't picked one up since in fruity loops there's a dashboard plugin and a fair amount of templates for the volcas to do this...

[Kwal]

How do they sound?

[ZxZDeViLZxZ]

Honestly I've been fairly impressed the volca keys is very particle
Can get some nice sounds out of it I think have some vids here let me try attaching

[ZxZDeViLZxZ]

I route trough my monotrons sometimes I don't have any clips of the bass just the keys and beats

[Kwal]

I'll have a look through the videos when I get home. Thanks for posting them buddy. If the bass model is legit I will look into the beats/keys.

Is this something I'd be able to run with my 2i4?

[ZxZDeViLZxZ]

Yes you will be able to... I can run directly through my internal sound card and it sounds fine... I have midi being ran just by a usb to midi roland dongle... The midi implementation is fairly straight forward... One thing I wish is that it's have midi out to record automation from the unit itself... There is a already midi out kits on the shelf for the unit so depending on how plan on using it that's an option

[Kwal]

I would love to just turn a know and have it automate on its own lol. I mean, I can work around that of course. What are you talking about when you say there is a midi out kit?

[ImNotDedYet]

the lack of MIDI out seems like a pain in the arse if you don't know how to solder. So you'd essentially have to use a controller to record your MIDI notes and any automations, (or mouse clicks) then record the audio straight into your DAW?

I think if I were you, I'd wait and save up for something with better MIDI in/out - maybe look at the Microbrute?

[Kwal]

Yeah I see what you're saying. At this point, I'm looking to get familiar with the designing of sounds on hardware, not so much be able to play them into Ableton and have midi sync on point. But that may get old fast, I have been eyeing the mini/micro brute for the past few days as well. That probably will be the best bet.