/volcako

An editor for the Volca FM synthesizer

Primary LanguageC++MIT LicenseMIT

Volcako

This is a realtime editor for the Korg Volca FM. It exposes all of Volca's parameters in one ugly functional screen. In addition it can load and save entire 32 voice banks in .SYX format. If you have a midi input device connected, the keypresses will be routed to Volca, optionally with note velocity!

Screenshot

Some nice to know things:

  • Right click on an envelope to copy/paste the values
  • Control-click on an input field to type in the value
  • The last edited present is auto-saved/loaded into lastpreset.txt

Windows release can be found at: https://github.com/Luomu/volcako/releases/download/r1/volcako-r1.zip

Building

Only a Windows build has been made so far. However, all the libraries used are cross platform so a Mac/Linux port should be a breeze.

First you need to generate the makefile/solution for the IDE of your choice. For that we use Genie. To create .sln for VS 2019, run this in the root directory:

genie vs2019

Precompiled Windows executable: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx/raw/master/tools/bin/windows/genie.exe

Libraries used

dear imgui - https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

glfw - www.glfw.org/

gl3w - https://github.com/skaslev/gl3w

inipp - https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp

rtmidi - www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/

tinyfiledialogs - https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyfiledialogs/

References

Korg Volca FM Midi implementation - www.korg.com/us/support/download/manual/0/558/2963/

Thanks to

Dexed - https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/ - DX7 VST and editor, used to verify Sysex compatibility