Korg shared this video featuring an overview and demo of the new Volca Kick, by Chief Engineer Tatsuya ‘Tats’ Takahashi.
The Volca Kick is a new member of their compact electronic music instrument series, designed for analog percussive and chromatic kick, bass and sub bass sounds.
Pricing and Availability
The Korg Volca Kick will be Available in October of 2016 for $159.99. See the Korg site for details.
would love to see korg come out with a mini keyboard that has all the volcas combined
yes, or maybe a feature to chain them all from one master keyboard. Or put the things into a more fully-functioning keyboard box! the mini ones work clearly, so why not slightly bigger versions with more voices, better keys (or no keys), bigger array of voice diversity? It would be like a matrixbrute philosophy (multiple oscillator and filter styles within one beast) but at a great price.
I think an iPad running Korg Gadget with NanoKontrol Studio is more versatile and less expensive choice than a bunch of volcas.
Personally i’d prefer tactile and fun over ‘versatile’ .
for all the modules gadget has, it sounds entirely sterile to me and i tried hard to like it . 0 sweetspot.
volcas on the other hand are extremely limiting but manage to surprise and delight constantly.
its different markets and really not to be compared in terms of value. and of course you do not factor the ipad into the comparision because “everyone has one” right?
volca kick sounds fantastic for what it does actually. reckon it will be a staple in couple of genres.
Is it too late to enter Tats into the US presidential race?
I’m really interested in this, especially given what I would pay for a kick drum module in eurorack format that does way less than this.