https://github.com/luomu/volcako
An editor for the Volca FM synthesizer
https://github.com/luomu/volcako
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An editor for the Volca FM synthesizer
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/luomu/volcako
- Owner: Luomu
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-11-10T22:14:33.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-05-02T20:58:34.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-12T15:58:52.008Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: korg, synthesizers, volca
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.82 MB
- Stars: 39
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# Volcako
## Note: this project has not been tested with Volca FM 2 (released 2022)! Get in touch if you have one!
This is a realtime editor for the Korg Volca FM. It exposes all of Volca's parameters in one ~~ugly~~ functional screen. In addition it can load and save entire 32 voice banks in .SYX format. If you have a midi input device connected, the keypresses will be routed to Volca, optionally with note velocity!
How to use:
- Select your midi out device from Settings. The Volca listens to the sysex messages regardless of the channel it's set to.
- Selecting a patch or editing the patch parameters sends it to the currently selected slot on the Volca. You still have to Save the patch manually on the device (Edit->Write, hardware limitation)
- File->Load .SYX can be used to load an entire DX7 patch bank.
- File->Send All Patches will send and save all of the 32 patches to the device.
Some nice to know things:
- Right click on an envelope to copy/paste the values
- Control-click on an input field to type in the value
- The last edited present is auto-saved/loaded into lastpreset.txt
Windows release can be found at: https://github.com/Luomu/volcako/releases/download/r1/volcako-r1.zip
## Release notes
```
R2 (May 2022)
[New] Allow copying and pasting patches (right-click patch browser)
[New] Save the entire patch bank on shutdown as lastbank.syx, load on startup
[New] Add Init Patch to the browser right-click menu
[New] EXPERIMENTAL: Add "DX7 compatibility mode" to settings: Sends sysex messages according to the original DX7 spec. Will sound wrong on Volca FM. May work with Volca FM2.
[New] Add "reset envelope" context menu action
R1 (November 2019)
Initial release
```
## Building
Only a Windows build has been made so far. However, all the libraries used are cross platform so a Mac/Linux port should be a breeze. You have two choices: [CMake](https://cmake.org/) and [Genie](https://github.com/bkaradzic/genie).
Using CMake is simple with Visual Studio 2022 (Community): Just open the folder and it shoudl run the CMake configuration. Then select Build->Build all.
With genie you need to generate the makefile/solution for the IDE of your choice. To create .sln for VS 2019, run this in the root directory:
```genie vs2019```
Precompiled Genie Windows executable: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/windows/genie.exe
## Libraries used
dear imgui - https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
glfw - www.glfw.org/
inipp - https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp
rtmidi - www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/
tinyfiledialogs - https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyfiledialogs/
font awesome + headers - https://github.com/juliettef/IconFontCppHeaders/
## References
Korg Volca FM Midi implementation - www.korg.com/us/support/download/manual/0/558/2963/
## Thanks to
Dexed - https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/ - DX7 VST and editor, used to verify Sysex compatibility