Volca Beats

Available solder points

MIDI Out

Audio Out:

  • Tom

  • Tom + Snare

  • Tom + Snare + Kick

  • Hat

  • White Noise

  • Pink Noise

  • Ring Noise

  • PCM (sampled sounds)

  • Kick (right one of the three top-left of the white connector)

  • Snare (lower-left of the 'white noise' solder point)

Above image is from http://www.auxren.com/2013/12/inside-volca-beats.html

This will help with detemining which solder points to use:

https://www.instructables.com/id/Improve-Korg-Volca-Beats-with-Individual-Out-Mod/

Obviously our cases will give you a better looking result :)

Although it does look like the kick and snare points may be quite challenging.

USA_volcabeats_MIDI_Chart_E.pdf

KORG volca beats MIDI Implementation Revision 0.01 (2013.06.23)



1.TRANSMITTED DATA


No message is transmitted.

(The volca beats is not equipped with a MIDI Out jack.)



2.RECOGNIZED RECEIVE DATA


2-1 CHANNEL MESSAGES [H]:Hex, [D]:Decimal

+--------+---------+-------------+-----------------------------------------+

| Status | Second | Third | Description |

| [Hex] | [H] [D] | [H] [D] | |

+--------+---------+-------------+-----------------------------------------+

| 8n | kk (kk) | vv (vv) | Note Off vv=0~127 *1|

| 9n | kk (kk) | 00 (00) | Note Off *1|

| 9n | kk (kk) | vv (vv) | Note On vv=1~127 *1|

| Bn | 28 (40) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (KICK) *1|

| Bn | 29 (41) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (SNARE) *1|

| Bn | 2A (42) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (LO TOM) *1|

| Bn | 2B (43) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (HI TOM) *1|

| Bn | 2C (44) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (CL HAT) *1|

| Bn | 2D (45) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (OP HAT) *1|

| Bn | 2E (46) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (CLAP) *1|

| Bn | 2F (47) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (CLAVES) *1|

| Bn | 30 (48) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (AGOGO) *1|

| Bn | 31 (49) | vv (vv) | PART LEVEL (CRASH) *1|

| Bn | 32 (50) | vv (vv) | PCM SPEED (CLAP) *1|

| Bn | 33 (51) | vv (vv) | PCM SPEED (CLAVES) *1|

| Bn | 34 (52) | vv (vv) | PCM SPEED (AGOGO) *1|

| Bn | 35 (53) | vv (vv) | PCM SPEED (CRASH) *1|

| Bn | 36 (54) | vv (vv) | STUTTER TIME *1|

| Bn | 37 (55) | vv (vv) | STUTTER DEPTH *1|

| Bn | 38 (56) | vv (vv) | DECAY (TOM) *1|

| Bn | 39 (57) | vv (vv) | DECAY (CLOSED HAT) *1|

| Bn | 3A (58) | vv (vv) | DECAY (OPEN HAT) *1|

| Bn | 3B (59) | vv (vv) | HAT GRAIN *1|

+--------+---------+-------------+-----------------------------------------+


n : MIDI Channel = 0 ~ F

vv : Value

kk : Note Number

[H] [D]

24 (36) : KICK

26 (38) : SNARE

2B (43) : LO TOM

32 (50) : HI TOM

2A (42) : CL HAT

2E (46) : OP HAT

27 (39) : CLAP

4B (75) : CLAVES

43 (67) : AGOGO

31 (49) : CRASH


*1 : This message is recognized when the "MIDI RX Short Message" is set to "On".



2-2.SYSTEM COMMON MESSAGES

+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------------------------+

| Status[H] | Second[B] | Third[B] | Description |

|-----------+-----------+-----------+------------------------------+

| F2 | 0xxx xxxx | 0xxx pppp | Song Position Pointer |

+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------------------------+


pppp : 0~15 = STEP 1 ~ STEP 16

x : ignored



2-3 SYSTEM REALTIME MESSAGES

+-----------+----------------------------------------------+

| Status[H] | Description |

+-----------+----------------------------------------------+

| F8 | Timing Clock *2|

| FA | Start *2|

| FB | Contiune *2|

| FC | Stop *2|

| FE | Active Sensing |

+-----------+----------------------------------------------+


*2 : This message is recognized when the "MIDI Clock Src" is set to "Auto".