Grandson loves this thing

This is a neat little analog rhythm machine that is very simple to use, lots of fun to play with, and actually sounds amazingly good when recorded or integrated into a proper system (and by that I mean, send the audio out into a nice compressor, slap a bit of reverb or delay on it, and this thing is fat!!).I played with it in a store and wasn't too impressed, even with headphones

Yes, the velocity implementation and lack of portamento are also bummers, but I can't really fault this thing

Of course the thing is tiny, cheap, so easy to use, battery-powered, etc

This thing is simply a masterpiece of engineering

Those negatives out of the way, here are some of the amazing things the Keys can do, and why I'm using it as a module to enhance the sound of my microbrute:-Three note/voice analog polyphony.

The one thing I don't like is how the midi channels are set up

Without the hassle of buying old buggy hardware, you get some new portable things with a lot of potential

the crazy thing even came with batteries & a built-in speaker!

The best thing about this is you can get freaky man

While it's certainly got a tinny/metallic sound to it and is by no means your classic acid machine, the thing really screams and can make some great sounds

Love this little thing.

I love this thing

One of the really fun things to do on both the FM and the Volca Keys is to record a lumbering sequence over 4 measures (1/4 tempo), and then play it back as a quantized pattern compressed into a single measure (1/1 tempo).

While I'd like to say that makes it worth the money, the thing is you can get Garageband on your ipad for $10, and forget the DAW aspect of it, you can just use it as a drum machine, that can hold hundreds of bars of drum beats.

I do have some nice things to say about the Volca Beats.

I wanna love this thing so