About: I'm a Dutch guy doing things with music and technology. At the moment I'm finishing my MSc in Industrial Design. Not limiting myself to any genre or discipline, I like to work on anything related to music, des…

WARNING, PERFORMING THIS MOD WILL VOID THE WARRANTY OF YOUR VOLCA BEATS AND MIGHT POTENTIALLY DAMAGE IT, SO PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!





The Korg Volca Beats is a really cool affordable analog drum machine, but having all the instruments summed into one output is a serious limitation. Luckily, Korg made it relatively easy for us to tap all the instruments off the circuit-board and feed them to individual outputs:

Kick

Snare

Toms (it is actually possible to get both toms separate, but I didn't think that was necessary)

Hats

PCM sounds

The tools you need are:

5x 3.5mm audio jack

Nice thin wires will make your life a lot easier. Some thing like this would work perfectly.

A soldering iron with a thin tip.

A thin strand of solder.

The video below demonstrates how it looks like, what it sounds like and how I've done it.