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Make sure you reduce the bitrate to 31.5 kHz.
I'd say Bilbao in gadget.
^ The very reason I returned the Volca Sample. I wanted it primarily to host drum machine samples with an easy interface for sound manipulation. But each voice is on it's own MIDI channel, fixed at channels 1-10. So if you want to use an external drum sequencer to sequence the sounds on it, you have to find something that will do a channel-per-pad. Not sure that even exists on iOS without the use of something like midiFlow or a full fledged sequencer like BM2 where you're no longer seeing the kick notes next to the snare notes. The maddening bit: you can't pitch the samples via MIDI notes either. If this were possible, then the midi-channel-per-part scheme would at least have a reason for existing! The per channel thing means the CC #s for parameter control can be the same across all 10 channels but with 110 total addressable parameters (11 params * 10 parts), that could be made to work on a single channel as well.
The Retrokits cable can address all of the above, and they charge a very fair price IMO but it's stops being a cheapo sample box pretty quickly when you add that and a PSU and an app and....
Love the FM though.
Yeah. This hiss and weird release noises and etc are a part of them to me.
pretty sure modstep can do channel per pad. remember talking to one of their devs about it. will have to test and see myself. Yup. found a video showing it too:-
The factory volca sample template already sends the required midi channels per pad. will test it with my actual volca when i can.
Nice find @gonekrazy3000! Now can you find me $150?
I'm glad to be wrong about the possibilities when connected to iOS but for me it's more about hardware sequencers and turning off screens when it comes to using the Volca Sample. I want to be able to run it from the BeatStepPro or RM1X or... Otherwise, might as well use Elastic Drums! I'd be happy to just use its on-board sequencer synced to my other hardware bits (like any other drum machine) if only it had more pattern slots.
i actually use my launchpad pro with my ipad. so i record beats etc by actually playing them.
besides. there is an alternative if you really want to use the volca sample with 1 single channel:- 
the drum mode works really well with both gadget and modstep. will see if it works with my sample when i get the chance.
the cable lets you control using the beatstep etc. it also lets you play the sample layers chromatically.
here's an example of a Zaquencer driving it:-
myself i intend on reprogramming my launchpad with an alternate firmware to use it as a hardware step sequencer:-
@gonekrazy3000 Yeah, you're tempting me. Dammit. Like I mentioned early, the Retrokits cable is brilliant but it starts to make cheap boxes not-quite-cheap boxes. Though if I keep the FM and get the Sample again, the cost somehow feels a little more spread out (works with both). There's some GASsy logic for you right there folks.
personally i dont need the retrokits cable since both modstep and ableton can drive it just fine without it for me
also subsequencely already has support for 10 separate channel outs for the volca sample natively.
Subsequencely looks rad. Hurray clever/sharing people!
The Session mode in particular is really interesting to me (around 14:00 in the video below). Where you can tap a step and have the sequence play from there. Fun for sequence mangling I'm sure but It's got me wondering about setting up 8 slow sequences and then 'playing' the surface in that mode while it's moving. Not to rearrange a sequence per se but as a sort of musical instrument where the notes triggered are followed automatically by other notes. The initial notes entered, sequence speeds, sequence directions and starting steps—and how the player reacts and interacts with them—will all affect the music being created.
Baltimore, Craig's list.
Not asking where they are from.
He also has Microbrute for $140.
That is very tempting.
hes added a ton of great features in updates after that video.
actually.... on 2nd thought i might just have to revert to the normal firmware. not being able to use the pro with my laptop without having to carry an external midi interface is an actual dealbreaker 
my only problem is there seems to be a bug with the launchpad pro open firmware and windows. for some reason windows doesn't see the device over usb. while not really a dealbreaker since i have a midi input port on my iconnectaudio4+ its still a bit jarring
Both Different Drummer and Patterning can send on a different channel per sound.
Oh yea. Forgot about good ole patterning. Works brilliantly with the sample.
Elastic Drums?
DYSLEXIC just read the top of page..................................sorry
I have all the Volcas aport from the kick. I think the Sample would be the one that I'd let go of last but they all have their different charms. The FM is cool but I really wish they allowed the arp to be modded as a midi out, hope someone manages to find a way to do that.
And stored with the sequence! Gah.
yes exactly, I guess that means that it's just not possible...
I've decided in my heart that it was Tats' intention all along that you'd, obviously, be able to store the arpeggiator state within the sequence because the combo is so insanely powerful. Other engineers said they couldn't do it on time and on budget and the bosses said to scrap it. So he quit!
Is a Volca Sample a good choice for making rock/pop/indie jams as well as the usual electronic genres? Obviously there are no portable machines with multi sampled acoustic drums out there so I figure this is the best compromise?
I think you nailed it, Volca FmGate
The bummer bit is sometimes you load a sequence on the FM and think "Why in the FM did I save this crap?" Then you remember the arp, oct and vel sliders don't save with the sequence. Sometimes I can find "it" again, sometimes, not so much.
I have the Volca FM but with lack of FX and only 3 note polyphonic I would say the refaceDX is a better purchase even though the Volca FM has the full DX7 parameters of 6 operators and 32 algorithms compared with the refaceDX 4 operator and 12 algorithms but at least the refaceDX has bigger polyphony. I prefer my refaceDX. Concerning the Volca sampler I don't own one yet.
So why would one buy a Volca sample and then get Patterning on an iPad to trigger samples on a separate piece of hardware when you can just load those exact same samples into Patterning itself?
The only reasons I can think of are:
A - you then save a pattern you're happy with on the Volca Sample itself and can later play it just on the Volca as part of a non-screen set up
B - you want to set a Volca pattern going driven from Patterning, but then use the iPad screen for something else and use the Volca's physical knobs to mod the sound coming out of the Volca sample
Or am I missing something else?
The OP question could be answered by asking if you'd rather have a sampler or an FM machine.
I don't have the FM but will say about the Volca Sample that you just can't wrong with it: load it up with samples and the magic just ....happens.
Not sure I've ever had a bad session with it whereas almost Every other bit of hardware / software / app is some degree of hit-and-miss. The Vocal Sample is a small but powerful gem.
If you don't have much else right now I'd say Sample. It's possible to lake complete grooves including basic bass lines and stuff with just the sample, whereas FM is a little more limited on its own. I have all 6 and together they're super flexible! Can get them for a reasonable price second hand now
the sample due to its 31.5 khz limitation actually adds some fuzzyness to the audio that only vintage drum machines add. its analog isolater filters sound devine too. you can try getting it using a bit reducer plugin and blamsofts filter but it never quite replicates it. Also... molding the sound on the sample is much MUCH faster as well. Patterning and ED's sampler is just too perfect sometimes.