Connecting a Volca to my computer

I got these two Volca devices, as I've mentioned in these past couple posts, and one of the things that I had trouble with was how to record the music (I'm being generous here, maybe "sounds" might be more like it) I make with them.

The first thing I tried was to record the snippets via my computers microphone but that felt really lame. The quality was iffy and it was a pain to coordinate.

So, after some Googling, it turns out that these Volca audio is either from the little speaker in the device or from a 3.5mm headphone jack. I found the Griffin iMic on Amazon which takes that 3.5mm and converts it to USB. Huzzah! That's what I need.

It arrived in a couple days and so far so good. I used Audacity with the input set to the iMic. I hit record and play on the beat and sure enough it started to record.



I'm only have slight troubles with getting the iMic to play the audio through it's output port (into my headphones, that is) while the audio is recording. But, the computer's output is perfectly sufficient for hearing the music as it is being recorded.

So, I'd say a success for a first snippet of recording.

I uploaded it to SoundCloud which is a website for uploading and sharing music. I think I'll make a separate post about it. But, in the mean time, click here to check it out the track

Thanks for reading and listening!

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