Why I Love The Erica Synths PERKONS HD-01
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
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Review, sound demo and tutorial/walkthrough of the brand new Black Edition of the Erica Synths Perkons, a modern hybrid drum machine synthesizer. Learn how it works and listen to how versatile PERKONS is, from heavy noise techno to beautiful drone jams!
0:00 - intro / what is Perkons?
1:11 - demo song #1 DOOM Industrial
3:46 - why I love Perkons so much vs other drum machines
5:32 - demo song #2 - Melodic Synthwave
7:08 - creating a basic beat, setting tempo
7:54 - the power of a parameter locking sequencer
9:25 - master compressor and creating a more complex pattern
10:19 - voice 1 overview
12:22 - voice 2 overview
12:56 - voice 3 overview and bucket BBD delay
15:42 - voice 4 overview
16:55 - ratchet, odds and probability parameters
18:42 - divide, multiply, groove and play modes
21:34 - modulation LFO section
23:12 - send and return features, using Perkons with external gear
25:04 - bonus feature: Perkons as a drone synth!
26:47 - closing thoughts / final verdict
27:36 - demo song #3 - live chill techno with LUMI Keys and Polyend Play+
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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
Fantastic Demo 👌 So creative and fun 😀 Brilliant Demo Tracks and the final live jam was amazing 🤩 🙌
Thanks so much Jason! I definitely had a ton of fun with this one
@@MilesAwayOfficial Absolute pleasure 😊 have a fantastic weekend 🤩 🙌
sick video man! u just made me want one even more now ahha insane track u made at the end
Thank you so much! Easily one of my fave demos I’ve done, glad you enjoyed
This is fantastic man, crazy complex and sonically rich jams. I may need to snag one of these things now 😆
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 :)
Amazing intro track! 🎉
Thanks! Hyped you enjoyed!!
sounds great! i just got one to add to the studio too, so much fun
Amazing! Enjoy it and have fun :)
great demo - thanks Miles
Thanks so much!
Really well done! Super Inspiring! 👏👏
Super glad it inspired you!!
Awesome tracks. The Perkons is magical.
Agreed and thanks for listening!!
I demoed it recently and its just pure love. Such a wonderful direct sound. And the black version is the way to go 🌟🌟🌟
agreed 100% there! I hope you get one ! Such a good machine
Seems like the Perkons is a ton of fun to mess around with, and sounds dope to boot!
Absolutely! Thanks for watching man!
that's an enviable collection of synths!
Thank you! Studio tour video coming soon :)
super dope video
Thank you!
I would love to perform with it while at the same time playing my synthesizer!
I wish I had four hands.
Thanks too for your video.
Thanks for watching! It’s a perfect machine for performing while you jam on a synth, did you see me do that on the very last jam?
Awesome music!
Thank you!!
Nice one!
Thanks!
That first jam was so good!
Thanks so much!
bro ur first beat totally got me man, exact sounds im looking for xD
So happy to hear that, yea I had a blast making that first track :D
I gotta get one.
It really is something I absolutely recommend if you like the sound. Limited pallet but incredible, nothing else does this this well!
I like how Erica Synths always influences the darker side of Miles Away
100% 🤣 its why I gravitate to their stuff so much, I listen to and am influenced by so much heavy stuff
@@MilesAwayOfficial Heya, what keyboard stand are you using for the Matriarch, sequential synth and OBX?
I’ve watched so many gear videos…..you’re fuckin awesome at jamming dude
Thank you so much for the kind words man!
Thanks man, prolly the best review on the Internets! Also Doom track should be a separate release, too good.
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 🤣
@@MilesAwayOfficial haha why not? sounds very good!
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 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?
Have a Perskons and love it - who do you think the Poly End Play + compares to the Digitakt 2?
That last jam was hard
Thank you!!
Can’t wait for the night bass game changer collab or the lxr3
Oh I've never heard of the night bass, is that newly announced?
Your music is so good. ❤🎉
The chords in the second song, were they played on the oberheim? Sounded so good.
thank you so much! yea! Chords from the OB-X8. Check out my recent Synth Chord tutorial, I go over how to make chord progressions like that one
Thanks, I will check it out
How did you get rid of the compressor noise at that max of its settings?
I didn’t touch it! Maybe the cable I was using worked better or the fact I run my gear through a furman power bank?
@@MilesAwayOfficial Interesting. My inbuilt HD-01 compressor is very noisy at such amplification as in your video
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
@@erkydifyi, if you record using outs for individual voices, you lose the BBD, master compressor, and level knobs
@@Chucklehead617 thanks for the info!
@@erkydi np. Still an awesome machine, and I record multi out all the time, just gotta get used to a different workflow
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.
I definitely need to give the Elektron Stuff another chance, I wasn't huge on the Digitakt/Tone, but have never owned a Rytm!
What about midi ?
I sync it with midi in the last Jam ! Works great!
Send each channel into its own Ampeg SVT head with an 8x10 cabinet.
The world would explode from the heaviness 😂
Is this a paid promotion video?
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.
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!
Fair enough! Thanks for watching and supporting my channel either way :)
TRT is calling
why are these called drum machines instead of electric
noise generators
they generate sound patterns
but very little actual drum sounds
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:)
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?
@@joeymc5272 thanks! Yea mainly Soothe2, UAD Stuff, Ozone for Mastering.