This is the 4th video in my series about the Volca Drum (I'm now planning on a 5th video as well). In this one I cover some useful details about this Volca's "Waveguide Resonator Effect". I also talk some about resonancein general and also how to intuitively think about a sound's frequency spectrum.
TIMELINE
00:00 Starter. You can use the resonator effect to really get a drum ensemble going.
00:26 Intro. Discussion of this video and the next one.
02:21 Talking some about resonance in general.
07:00 Talking some about how sound features relate to a frequency spectrum.
12:10 The Arturia BeatStep midi controller makes a really fine sound design tool for the Volca Drum. I used the Arturia MIDI Control Center software to set up the following behavior for the 16 knobs:
Layer 1: Level, Pitch, Attack, Release, Mod Amount, Mod Rate || Bit, Gain
Layer 2: Level, Pitch, Attack, Release, Mod Amount, Mod Rate || Drive, Pan
The CC values are: 17,26,20,23,29,46||49,52
18,27,21,24,30,47||51,10
And then I made pads 1-6 send on midi channels 1-6 (the note values don't matter in the default mode).
15:00 Part 1: Setting the full tempo range, using the dry gain setting, the tuning transition at 23/24
22:30 Part 2: It was hard to show, but 300 bpm is a sort of magic number on the Drum. It basically smooths out the tuning discontinuity as you go from delay tuning values (23 and below) to resonator tuning values (24 and above). Then I tried a few times to get the behavior I expected out of the delay sample buffers (one for string model and one for tube model). Could not get sound trapping to work the way I wanted. Hopefully by next week.
26:07 Part 3: Chaining and Motion Sequencing. The more discontinuity in your kits, the bigger chance that you have a pretty loud "click" as you move between programs (either manually or when using chains). Being able to motion-sequence the resonator parameters is a really powerful feature.
32:47 Outro. I talk some about the "hypertempo" method that I intend to discuss in video 5.
34:36 Short hypertempo trailer
35:09 Stinger.