Yes, better now than tomorrow !
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One can be tuned to produce drones and noise, and the second one focusing on drum/percussion.
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Just nabbed a used VD on sale at Perfect Circuit! Excited to dive in!
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Ah. Seller got blocked. It probably was a scam. Too good to be true for âŹ60.
It got me thinking for a second KVD tho 
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Do you have a good sequencer for the VD? Something that can plock the distortion, wave fold and each layer envelopes is like steroids for it:
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ahoi, i just got one of these. very fun little box. however i canât manage to clear the motion / automation data of just the waveguide. is that possible somehow? up until now i always have to clear the motion for everything in order to achieve thisâŚ
I think itâs either âclear partâ or âclear allâ so you cannot clear just one parameter from the motion recording afaik. The most precise you can get is to clear all the motion recording on one part of the 6 available.
i think you got my qustion wrong. i want to clear the motion of the 3 waveguide parameters, not of the 6 tracks. the only way i can fint to clear the waveguide motion, is clearing the motion for everything, including the motion of the 6 tracks/parts.
but i want to keep the motion of the 6 tracks when clearing the waveguide motionâŚ
u got to overwrite the motion with âemptyâ motion, might help to slow tempo way down to get in the little cracks. there is a global tempo setting âfullâ range that letâs it go from 10-600 bpm.
btw 20bpm + slice + swing is $$$$$$$
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Anyone ever found the Drum occsionally choking on MIDI? Like it will pause for a second and then catch up with a burst of notes. Running it in multi channel mode, not sure if it makes a difference. It doesnât seem necessarily to do with too much data.
How are you sending midi to it?
With a MIDI cable 
Typically connected via an RK-006 which filters out other channels and it seems to be transmitting OK (thereâs an LED on the output). Tried different cables, but it seems most like the VD is getting occasionally hung up somehow and âbuffering.â Weird thing, itâs intermittent.
Yeah that sounds odd. I donât have a Volca Drum at present, or an RK-006, so not much I can really say to help unfortunately.
Have you tried running it in single channel mode from a simpler single midi sequencer track on something? Just purely for trouble shooting purposes to see if the most simple setup without any added filtering or midi processing causes the same issues to crop up.
Howâs it powered? Battery problem?
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Yes - if I send sine LFO mod from my force to Volca Drum it glitched straight away - have to use sample & hold or some less continuous waveform LFO. So yes, it definitely has some kind of limit to the midi data bandwidth.
I also run mine in multi channel mode and usually sequence from the force but sometimes do run the internal sequencer too for notes and/or motion recording. Same behaviour happens when I overload it with midi cc and note data - a pause / hesitation then burst of notes as it catches up.
Yes, thatâs it. Thanks.
The funny thing is that some days it seems to be perfectly happy with a lot of data while other times it will choke on much less. I wonder if there is a certain function(s) that can particularly load the CPU.
I wonder if it could be power related, I think digital devices are especially sensitive to ground loop
Well, currently mine is powered from a VMIX-10 R2 which provides âisolatedâ DC. I donât know exactly what that means but it is designed for Volcas. Before that it was on a PSU from MyVolts. So admittedly these are not official Korg PSUs but I donât think thereâs any paticular reason to think the power is not good enough. There is no appreciable ground noise.
This sort of thing isnât actually unusual in say 80s MIDI devices with underpowered CPUs so itâs not totally out of the blue sky that it could be a processor cycles issue.
A DC barrel jack doesnât have a ground connection so it cannot cause a ground loop.
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What I meant was common-impedence coupling, this is more commonly the issue behind the hum that often gets called ground loop.
Itâs something I barely understand and someone can probably explain better than I but it seems like a potentially reasonable explanation for why the volca drum is reliable sometimes and other times not as from what I understand, the above issue could vary depending on what connections you make between equipment and whether theyâre powered up or not.