Guilty as charged.
I REGRET NOTHING! 
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Thank you! Between confirming my stupidity and getting 30 minutes with the Bitwig demo it was a damn good night!
Yeah about those Volca manuals :shakesfist:
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Yes you can
Sorry didnāt read all the responses
It also has trigless locks. Ie. You can have just parameter settings on a step
Another reason itās overlooked is that it was released without this functionality. I saw āSTEP PRIGRAMMABLE PARAMETERSā printed under the knobs and took it up with Korg 
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I like the sounds in this demo. A bit beefier than others Iāve heard.
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Iām so curious about the MIDI implementation chartā¦ I think that most the power of this little machine, especially for someone who has an Elektron gear, depends on on that little pdf.
when the duck they will upload it?
Are you referring to the 1.30 update that had to add/fix Step Editing? Because that would have been incredibly frustrating to have experienced, especially given how long Korg can take sometimes.
Iām kind of lukewarm about this at the moment. It makes me realize that what I really want is an updated Machinedrum. 
Iām think that instead of getting this I should probably just sample Microtonic into my DT and then resample to free up tracks as necessary.
All the NAMM videos I heard had very flabby weak kicks but the SoundCloud demos perked my ears up, it actually has supringly great bass
Having looked at Korgs excuse for a manual it seems there is quite a bit of scope for interesting sounds on the Volca Drum, most of the demos seem to have lots of wavefolding, bit crush, distortion and of course the modelled delay in copious amonuts (the Korg UK rep seemed to gloss completely over the synthesis in awe of the delay) so I think that once actual users get hold of it without having everything dialled up to the max, it should be capable of some nice smoother sounds as well as the obvious harsh digital stuff. In that sense I tend to view it like a baby MD from a different Mother 
When mine arrives Iāll wipe out all the factory stuff before doing anything then probably try to make some drones and acid with it 
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I canāt remember the update number. It was late 2014/early 2015. I got an acknowledgment that it was missing and they were working on it almost straight away and the fix followed soon after.
Yep. Thatās the issue I was reading about. Glad they fixed it quickly. Hereās hoping the Bolca Drum wonāt have issues like that.
Sorry for the digression, everyone.
Is my Volca Drum here yet?
Yeah, I agree. I was dragging it for not having much punch in the kick department, and while I still havenāt heard a really great kick from it, it definitely has more low end than it seemed from the early YouTube demos. The āMachineā demo thumps especially.
My thoughts exactly. Until there is DigiMD or MicroTonic in a box, Iām not even going to bother. Sampling MT into the DT is as close as we can get right now.
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I agree wholeheartedly with these sentimentsā¦ plus, I also found that when I was watching Cuckooās megatutorial that he would often scan right past some really nice sounds that I would want to explore further. Especially with all the parameter locking along with itās performability. I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that if the sub-menu parameters like wavefolding, bitcrushing etc can also be plocked for more subtle or targeted use that I think itāll be one of the best value drum machines around and a future classicā¦ at least in my house.
I really enjoyed the Perfect Circuit video that @Bwax linked earlier in the thread tooā¦ not mad about the kick in that one but the rest of pattern and tweaking were like classic early Soul Oddity/Phoenecia stuff. Which makes me smile.
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Can someone please buy my PO-12 so I can order this box-o-trix?
Was told mine might be shipping in about a month, according to what Korg told retailer.
Edit: maybe Korg is finishing the MIDI implementation. Ha!
That would be ironic, considering that delay lines are the building blocks of digital waveguide synthesis.
It doesnāt sound bad here. It might pair nice with a Digitakt. This guy in Japan plans to upload a video a day to show it off. He basically said in another video that he is hoping it will be like Microtonic-in-a-box.
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