Korg Volca NuBass - The Expert Guide

Tony Horgan

Dec 2021 · Korg Volca Expert Guides Book 10 · Tony Horgan

About this ebook

Tony Horgan presents his most fun Korg Volca Guide so far! Beginners and experts alike will love the latest in this incredibly popular, officially licenced series, popping with concept visuals, sounds for you to try and even basslines and riffs to program into your own Volca NuBass. Every feature is explained and described in simple, easy to follow text. Try the free preview edition, and see below for the full contents.

1. Quick-start guides

- Keyboard notes and controls

- About the Volca NuBass

- Select and play a pattern

- Select and play a pattern chain

- Record or edit a pattern (Live mode)

- Record or edit a pattern (Step Record mode)

- Save a pattern

- Record a motion sequence

- Synchronise timing with other Volcas and instruments

- Connect to headphones or a mixer

- Connect to an audio interface or sound card

2. Patches

- Introduction to patches

- A1 Bass

- Hollow Oscillation

- Raw Acid

- Two-note Arpeggio

- Pill-popper

- Soft Sweep

- Easy Bass

- You Got The Bass

- Glove Puppet

- Dramatic Arpeggio

- Elephant Drone

- Ray Gun

- Multi-sweep

- Jellyfish

- Sine Bass

- Long Acid Sweep

- LFO Attack Decay

- Brain Freeze

- Seminal Acid

- Soft Bass

- Lightning Bass

- Siren

- Trance Bass

- Sample and Hold

3. Patterns and loops

- About the patterns

- How to program the patterns in Step Record mode

- Curious Worm

- Octave Jumper

- Driving Trance

- Rhetorical Saunter

- Block Rocker

- Waggle Dance

- Easy Dancer

- 80s Acid

- Six Pack

- Funky Monkey

- Space Hopper

4. Vacuum Tube Oscillator section

- About the oscillator section

- Pitch

- VTO Wave

- Sub-oscillator saturation and level

- Oscillator section tips

5. Voltage Controlled Filter section

- About the filter

- Cutoff

- Peak

- Attack

- Decay

- EG Int

- Accent knob

- Filter tips

6. LFO, Drive and Tone

- About the LFO

- LFO Wave

- LFO Target

- LFO Rate

- LFO Int

- LFO Sync

- Drive

- Tone

7. Buttons

- Step Jump

- Play

- Step mode

- Act. Step

- Transpose

- Accent

- Slides

- Memory

- Write

- Rand

- Func

8. Keyboard

- Keys 1-7

- Shift keys

- Motion Sequence and Clear keys

9. MIDI

- MIDI: an overview

- About MIDI Control Change messages

- MIDI CC messages

10. Sync, Swing Tempo, Audio Out

- Sync

- Swing

- Tempo

- Volume and Audio Out

11. Global Parameters, Firmware, Patch Sheets

- Global Parameters

- Power options

- Further reading

- Index

- Patch sheets

- Pattern sheets

Ratings and reviews

Impeccable documentation, absolutely essential to make the most out of your Volca NuBass unit. Beautifully illustrated. Purchased the ebook for now, but will buy printed copies once my Volca collection is complete - for me these books are of equal value to the hardware. Thank you Tony!

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About the author

Tony Horgan is a writer and musician from London, England. Tony has been having fun making electronic music and writing about technology professionally since the late 80s. He has the rare ability to explain and demonstrate complex technical subjects in simple, entertaining ways. With Tony, every day is a school day, but still feels like a day off.