The perfourmer cuts through the mix like no other synth. And the sound is so fat and organic ! After having seen some videos on RU-vid, I decided to buy one. This is a very unique synth with unique features and a sound of its own. It's a keeper for sure.
Calle Wachtmeister, I’m using both modes depending on the mission - monophonic for bases, arpeggios and melodies and polyphonic for structures and chords and more random basses and arpeggios where all four voices have different settings!
Mike, super nice melody and chord progression. Picked up a Perfourmer mkll last year and really love it.... really beautiful tone to it. Fellow J60 owner and your CR8000's older brother, the CR78. ;)
Thanks! The DRM feels a bit more old school in its sound, its great for more experimenting stuff and the user interface are one knob per function so its really hands on. The Tanzbär has a bit more punch, and I love the sound, but the interface is the worst I ever seen on an instrument. I have it hocked up by MIDI, so I don't have to touch it to make adjustments, haha!
Beautiful track Mika. Can i ask on the arpeggiated sequence there are three ascending notes but the Perfourmer has four mono's. So are you assigning one mono to a drum track. Just wondering.
Thank you DeStress! I couldn’t remember so I had to watch it again.. I’m using all four voices for the arpeggio. One voice as bass, one in the middle and two on the top panned left and right! Was that an answer to your question?
Hey Mika, Just got a perfourmer and getting acquainted with it, so for even just playing around for a few hours sounds amazing! I wanted to ask, are you programing all notes your self or do you let performer modes spit out random notes? I am planning on sequencing with octatrack and trying to figure out if I should program all 4 modi’s channels separate for each synth/voice or go with all 4 synth on 1 midi channel. Your music is put of this world by the way!
I mostly use the perfourmer in poly mode with the same midi channel for all voices - that way most unexpected things occurs. For example if you have a three note melody it will still cycle through all four voices, if you then have the voices set to different waves and octaves, nice things start to happens. Lately(for a live set) I’ve been used the first voice(for bass duties) on its own midi channel which gave me more control over the bass. I don’t know if following makes sense but one thing I use a lot are to “reset” the voices by pushing one of the left buttons until it cycles through all voices. You’ll see how the LEDs are moving in the pattern of the mode you’re in. Do it a couple of times and stop just before it returns to voice one again. This way you know that your pattern always will start on voice one and it makes it easier to predict what’s happening.
@@MikaForsling I appreciate the tips! This thing is something else of awesome! For the melodies, do you tend to enter basic chords and let it do its thing or do you find some type of midi note structure works better as far as note length and chord structure? Thanks Roman
For straight melodies I would use it in mono-mode, but just play around with the different modes, octaves and waveforms and hear what happens. But... if you’re already having a melody - why not add a bass line on the same midi channel? I think the fun with the perfourmer starts when you’re giving it two or three different tasks at once. For example I could pick two of following tasks: playing melodies, bass lines, drones, counterpoint stems, arpeggios, ostinato figures, polyrhythmic notes or whatever you like! Does it make sense?
