The Perkons is such fun to play with and as much as I love the immediacy and design of this machine its tone is just not for everyone. I´ve tried a lot but it will never give up its industrial character. So IMHO if you are in the market for industrial, techno and the likes, go for it - its gonna be a ton of fun. If you want a machine with a wider sonic spectrum there is probably better options out there.
I feel that! I thought it did pretty well on my second demo, the chill synthwave one, but I definitely agree that pairing it with traditional drums like I have been in logic is the perfect combo
@@MilesAwayOfficial Erica Synths has brilliant user interface and sound design! I love their eurorack modules and hope to eventually pick up a Syntrx II, DB01 bassline, Perkons, L:XR01, Zen Delay, Nightverb and their Techno system. One of my favorite synth companies nowadays.
Thank you so much! I can honestly say after getting to demo tons of gear this has to be up there with the 3rd Wave and OB-6 as one of my all time faves. Enjoy if you get one :)
I've been owning for about a year so I def know my way around it and I'm impressed man. Great job on the jams, and I can see some serious work went into this video. Respect! I as well use it in many jams...MANY jams. My production style is centered around live takes and Perkons is so perfect for that.
Best Sequencer and Workflow ever, what i always wished, so at first glance it ticked all the boxes, looked like 4 "eurorack drum modules" but in fact the sounds have few sweet spots, not nearly as versatile as it looks. And mine had a few bugs, hanging up after muting tracks, losing motion paramter recordings - fortunately could return it.
Sorry to hear you had bugs! Was this recent? I totally get I've only had mine for a short time but I haven't really found many bugs. The sound definitely has a specific character which I love, but I get that it might not be for everyone :)
@@MilesAwayOfficial I am not into noisy "industrial" but want vintage style modular style drums/bleeps/blops" and trashy early drum machine sounds and stuff like that, looked like it could do that with all those settings but did not sound like i expected.
No micro timing is a pain, and inability to see what a kits settings are makes it tough to understand what’s going on. Jamming from scratch is great until you need to recall and remember what the old settings were.
😮 I did not know it had motion control 🤔 had been steering towards the Modor dr 2 but it’s a tough call. Think the Modor has a bit more variety but the sheer playability of the perkons is hard to beat. Think it’s strength & weakness it’s its tendency to pull towards dark industrial techno.
I haven't heard of the Modor! Need to check it out! And yea the mod on the PERKONS is so sick. I genuinely love this thing lol, easily my favourite thing I've demo'd in 2024
I really enjoyed the first track . Blending electric metal ish bass with this machine is great. How do you sync the Perkons with your daw for recording and jamming (for instance do you use something like a midi clock) ans how's the latency for jamming synced with a DAW?
Played with it a bit at Superbooth It was impressive but very much has A sound.. If you want to sound Proper Techno or industrial its awesome ! If you want to STILL sound Techno and industrial but also everything else you want go with an Elektron Analog Rytm.
Thanks so much! And I am glad you like the Doom track, I now have 3-4 of them from previous demos, maybe I should start a heavy industrial side project 🤣
Yes! This and Pulsar -23 are the best industrial machines out there. This one will do Nine inch nails perfectly, just use less of the master compressor. The master compressor maxed out like I have it makes it sound more aggressive, like DOOM/Mick Gordon. Nine Inch Nails have a less compressed sound.
@@MilesAwayOfficialHe is a cosmic hero! Cool analogue tones ,so close to guitar sounds, feels really like the gordons stuff. I love everything from Erica except the nazi's name "Erica" ,cool keept it up
Nope, I will always check the paid promotion box if companies pay me. I mention in the video they sent me the unit, but no money changed hands/no say in the video etc.
@@MilesAwayOfficial Pretty sure if you get to keep the unit you are supposed to click paid promotion as you are still receiving something in exchange for making the video. Thanks for clarifying.
I own this drum machine and am struggling to grasp it. I don’t think I am a low IQ individual but feel stupid that I am having trouble. I want to make well constructed songs! Any advice?
Yes! You need to let go of thinking about it like a traditional drum machine, where you launch sequences. Treat it the same way you would a Moog or Prophet synth, it really is more an instrument meant to be played. I like to set up 4-5 different kits and patterns that all work together (same rough tuning/sound good at the same tempo), then I mix and match switching between them, all the while twisting the knobs to morph the sound. If you watch carefully during the DOOM jam in this video this is exactly how I am performing with it. I pre-tuned everything to the same note, and then just went crazy mixing and matching sequences, doing live automation, messing with the BBD. Hope that helps! P.S. I will almost certainly do another video on the Perkons in the fall so stay tuned.
Too aggro for me. While I'm sure you can roll it back, every video out there is absolutely destruction beats overdriven to heck. I prefer beautiful music/beats that draw the animals into my studio, not scares them off. Keep up the good work on your channel, Dev!
also would love to know more about how recording the perkons into daw goes about, is it just multiple audio outs or one master out to interface or does it have usb audio? thanks man!
Every voice has its own mono output, but I actually like recording out of the single master output so I can use that amazing sounding built in compressor. But you could record both ways to have max flexibility in the daw later. No USB audio.
@@MilesAwayOfficial thanks for the info !! yea i think i would prefer a master out wit the compressor cuz it sounds great, but its also so nice to have the single mono outs if u ever wanna jus do single drums for better post processing
Good question, it really is a percussion synthesizer! If you listen to Jam #2 I do traditional drum machine sounds, but yes, Perkons wants to be heavy and weird:)
Too expensive…. No velocity and no motion sequences… For the same price and 8 instruments you have the Analog Rytm which is a real analog drum machine with import samples
Are you recording just di? Are you going into a mixer or audio interface? Also, do you have any plugins going like compression and eq in daw for the jam?
DI into an Apollo 16 (no pre-amps used). In logic I don’t really touch the Perkons track, it doesn’t need anything when you record with the compressor! Then I mix the backing tracks around the Perkons, then brick wall limit/compress the master together to get it loud!
@@MilesAwayOfficial awesome stuff man. Sounded so good. Not my taste of music or gear but very well mixed. May i ask what plugins you are using? Fab/uad/izo?
I have never tried a pulsar but I would love to! It seems better for experimental stuff, whereas (to me) the Perkons sounds better and is more flexible in modern production settings
