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KORG Volca Bass CV+Mods+More Progress! Pics and details

A project log for Korg Volca Bass MIDI + Patchbay + USB-C + SNÖkoder

What the heck is a SNÖkoder?

darswedeDarSwede 02/10/2020 at 03:111 Comment

Added all the ports including Many extra, extra ports! by adding 2 wires to SAW3, SQR3

Added 3 VCA Ports and 3 Patch points, 4 VCO ports, and 4 VCO patch points

Running the Patch points to the surface of the front plate, thats where the micro-styling will be hard. Going to use breakout boards for a matrix board patch panel. OR I am going to destroy this VOlca Bass. I got a 50/50 chance so thank goodness these can be had for a song on Reverb. (In comparison to say a MiniMoog lol) 



Some more info from the schematics for those who need it




3.3V is the C4 note CV out. Also these boards are mostly divided in to 3.3, 6.5, 5v . The 5V seems very stable all over so adding an UNO or GrandCentral is so tempting at this stage but I must wait :) but not long....one thing at a time...right?

Remember vendors list CV outs as VCO as well... Lest not forget. In Korgs case it was intentional. If you want you can manually wire each VCO separately as well. I will be doing that on the Volca Kick when it arrives this week.  That’s where the dreams come true. 


Discussions

FunkEater wrote 05/23/2020 at 19:13 point

Do you mind sharing a bit of how you worked with the patch points? I'm looking at modding my Volca too. Looks like SQR outs just need a little amplification to be usable in Eurorack, but the SAW outs are not yet clear to me. How do you process them?

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