Volca Sample 2 and Arduino
Turning a Volca Sample 2 into a keyboard playable polyphonic sampler using an Arduino Uno.
I wanted to use my Volca Sample 2 as a keyboard playable polyphonic sampler. I started thinking about how to do it, and thought that it may be possible using an Arduino Uno (or derivative). I was going to do it myself, but inevitably looked on the internet first to see if anything was available. It seemed that there was a firmware modification for the Volca Sample 1, but not for the Sample 2 (as yet). After looking for a bit I did find someone on Github who had written some Arduino code to allow the Volca to be played. To accomplish the poly sampling you also required an Arduino Uno board and a midi interface. The Github link is after the video link.
Anyway, I had a spare Arduino board and purchased a midi interface shield. Then put it all together and uploaded the code to the Arduino. The volca requires samples to be set up in a certain way and this is explained in the video below. The results seemed promising. Hope it is of some use.
