Volcasample package documentation

Contents:

• Quickstart Guide
  • Create a project for your samples
  • Populate the project with your sound files
  • Check how big those files are
  • Check how those files sound
  • Define which files to send
  • Create a patch for the Volca device
• Commands
  • Command Line Interface
• Implementation details
  • Data structures
  • SamplePacker class

Volcasample

This is a Python wrapping of the Korg Volca Sample library.

Caution

You risk data loss.

This software will delete the factory defaults from your Volca Sample.

Please make sure you know how to restore the Volca Factory Sample set before you run the program.

Features

• Wraps the public interface of the Korg Volca Library so you can call it from your Python code.
• Creates and maintains project spaces so you can store and rate your samples.
• Provides a neat command line interface (CLI) for writing a set of samples to your Volca.

Installation

The installation process builds the Korg source code which is included in this package. Therefore the gcc build tools must be present.

Installation has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and MacOSX 10.11.

1. Create a virtual environment for volcasample:

   $ python3 -m venv ~/py3-vs
   

2. Install the latest version in full with pip:

   $ ~/py3-vs/bin/pip install volcasample[audio]
   

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