Perfourmer | LFO sync

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A little test witch synced LFO in different subdivisions.
Vermona Perfourmer mkII
Vermona DRM1 mkIII
RE-201
Korg Stage echo
OTO BAM
Drums and chords sequenced by Ableton.

[@theway3058]

What’s wrong with the world. This should have million hits.

[@dionyates2482]

The Perfourmer will be regarded as a classic in years to come. It has a unique, melancholic sound and is plain great fun to use.

[@CrusaderGeneral]

I think this is one of the best synths ever made, and this is one of the best works I ever heard from it

[@thomas.moerman]

Vermona per4mer has such a gorgeous sound, underrated machine.

[@alanegedy5649]

its def not underrated

[@dailydoseofbeauty-coaching113]

machine for the connoisseur... 👍🌞❤✌

[@eldontyrellcorp]

@@alanegedy5649 It is underrated. It has a HUGE organic sound, and a sound of its own. Like no other synths.

[@kiickinballistics]

I rate it pretty highly. In fact I have one on order and can’t wait to make beautiful music like this just to relax to.

[@mamakuproject]

Underrated by who?

[@TristanBaldi]

I keep coming back to this, absolute genius. I love this song so much!

[@MikaForsling]

Thanks a lot Sacha's Mood! Those words warms a lot!

[@hexwavemusic]

I know this is a few years old, but glad it showed up in my feed, gorgeous jam!

[@freelanderride]

I listen this song several times and WHAT A GREAT FAT SONG is this man... WoW ! The perfourmer + DRM and you are the perfect team

[@MikaForsling]

freelanderride, Thanks a lot!

[@station2station544]

5:30 the portamento glides make this perFOURmance. Love those. So old school

[@threerecurring]

What a beautiful piece. And such rich sounds.

[@Taka_Takata]

Wow, am I glad I found your channel! Extremely good, moving, original music.

[@MikaForsling]

Taka Takata, Thanks!

[@jonasiv3587]

I listen to this every day. Cant get enough. 🥰

[@AlbertoCuellar]

Love the way you compose. thanks for sharing your music.

[@MikaForsling]

Alberto Cuellar, thanks, that’s really nice to read!

[@tachelesreden]

I really love your minimalistic work!

[@timatkinson6423]

Superb progression and build up! Nice work

[@iglasgo]

Really amazing results here: great sounds and also great performance!

[@Zenkman]

Old but gold ! Fantastic vibes

[@BuddhaChrisMacom]

Absolutely great sounding. Very wide stereo field and full, while still sounding clean.

[@Nebulum_Music]

Just WONDERFULL EMOTION thank U !!!

[@floood87]

stellar

[@RaveAngstTV]

Love this one so much, so great! Thank you!

[@nikarga]

wonderful composition...really a sublime instrument and lovely choice of effects

[@spacedrifter1961]

A great session. Love the slow build up to the middle sequencing. Have been thinking about making the Perfourmer my next purchase.

[@AlPlatino]

Man this is a masterpiece! Congratulations.

[@christopherhenry3194]

That was good, nice use of the toys!

[@Abjure_0_]

Loved it

[@LFOVCF]

Cool performance! Such creamy patches, and great use of the stereo field. Very nice poly-rhythms

[@jrodohio]

Beautiful sounds. My Perfourmer is getting delivered on Tuesday. Can't wait!

[@MikaForsling]

Thanks and exciting with the new machine!

[@MuslimShortanov]

Cool ! PerFoumer really rich sounding maschine

[@DTime]

Now I want one too... :-) Great! The sounds of that synth do really appeal to me and you make great use of it.

[@DTime]

I took a while, but now I have one :-) What a nice instrument!

[@twentytreesaudio5935]

Hot damn, that is just lovely! Inspirational stuff.

[@eduardszilagyi1926]

really fantastic

[@FabriceMillion]

Beautiful

[@vsspmusic]

awesome sounds and composition, quite rare to hear some pads from the Perfourmer, I'm still dreaming of it :)

[@MikaForsling]

Thanks!

[@asynchronicity]

This is brilliantly, darkly deep. Great work!

[@JaschaJaja]

This is gooood!!!

[@gernot-reininger]

Great tune! Thank you for sharing.

[@crazygamingswede]

Just lovely!!

[@alaskaonpause]

dude this is unreal!!!!! incredible.

[@lovedeathdisco]

this is by far one of my favourite things my ears have ever heard. such amazing and emotionally deep use of a machine so magnificent calibrated to expressively capture such depths. is this track avail to download anywhere?

[@MikaForsling]

damian daviid, thank you so much for those words! Unfortunately I t’s not available for download but it might pop up on a future release.

[@tachelesreden]

Soooo beautiful!

[@traffic2391]

Very nice!

[@faridessack]

Outstanding!

[@dortola]

Another gem. Congrats!

[@gomez1ism]

Im a fan - absolutely great ! ! !

[@resonantanvil7186]

Truly lovely.

[@mamakuproject]

Gorgeous

[@kenb7540]

Beautiful 👏🏻🙏

[@Chris81VB]

Wow!

[@badhombre2484]

incredible

[@SimonChauvin]

Excellent

[@danmcgirr4210]

This rules

[@johnbeckett8367]

Great Sounds !!!

[@dmomcilovic9185]

Wicked jam

[@theway3058]

Wow amazing. Just strait up DOPE.

[@algots]

Very nice!!

[@whitebuffalo4904]

this is fucking incredible- you're a magician.

[@AlPlatino]

This chord progression is awesome. Someone with good ears can extract the chords used? Thanks!

[@0601989m]

Roughly Cmaj7 | Am7 | Em7 | Bm7 | Bb | Gm6 | G | G/B

[@frakaelectrosonparis7819]

just bought a Perfournee for your sound and the one of @OORamusique . control with deluge . now god give me this incredible sound, this is even. record it on a revox B77 and I will keep it for the rest of my life.

[@tendingtropic7778]

this is so awesome!

[@post_historic]

Yooooo the buid to the hi-hats!

[@os3223]

Magnifique !

[@markparker4362]

Fabulous set up and talent. I'm getting a perfourmer and DRM Mk3 and cant wait to add those incredible instruments to my set up. Question - have you tried any compressor/ gates post the Vermona's on the way into Ableton and do you add plug in FX in Live? Thanks

[@MikaForsling]

Mark Parker, thanks and nice with the perfourmer! Here comes the long explanation for my studio setup.. All my synths and drum machines goes to to a patchbay hooked up to my mixer. From there selected channels goes to my audio interface through the four mix groups (8tracks) of the mixer. I use the AUX sends of the mixer to feed hardware FXs(mainly reverbs and delays), that are recorded directly on separate tracks in Ableton (so none of the effects are going back to the mixer). Since all I/O in the studio are connected to patchbays I can easily chose if I want an hardware compressor after a sound source, as an FX insert on the mix busses, or as an external audio effect in Ableton. Normally I record all my sound sources dry and adding delay and reverbs (recorded on their own tracks in Ableton) and I do all further processing from the box (plugins, EQing, inserting hardware FXs and compressors etc). I don’t actually use that much compression on synths(if it’s not needed) but rather like to use a bus comp on drums and one on the complete mix. Hopes it all makes sense!

[@MrJemabaris]

@@MikaForsling Sounds very much like I am doing it, except that right now i don't have a proper mixer, but instead 16 channels of AD that I am going in directly. Next thing I'd like to get will be either the Perfourmer, I really dig it's sound, or bespoke mixer. I am looking for a rack mixer cause my space is pretty limited. I saw that your mixer goes for a pretty penny used. Would you say it's worth its money and what makes it so expensive?

[@nightchemist]

@@MikaForsling nice one mate, well explained

[@_bitclick_]

Wonderful.

[@chinmeysway]

way good

[@amiantohumedo8589]

INCREIBLE..

[@sonicretard4537]

sweet

[@jonridley]

so good

[@X4n1c]

i like it a lot!

[@vladrileynavilys]

Hey tat sounds great ! What's the rest of the recording chain? Compressors, eq, hardware or soft? Mix console, interface etc ? Thx!

[@0601989m]

Fantastic stuff! Someone with better ears than mine: did I get the progression right? Cmaj7 | Am7 | Em7 | Bm7 | Bb | Gm6 | G | G/B

[@CREWorxMedia]

Great work Mika! Question, is every note programmed in ableton or some of the notes are generated by perfourmer? If you ever have time would love to see you do a video on your workflow and how everything is mexhing together with ableton! :) Thanks, Roman

[@MikaForsling]

Thanks Roman! I would love to share my workflow but I’ll need to figure out a way how to practically do this. This piece have a progression of eight chords that are looped and sequenced by ableton. Every chord have four long notes that lasts until next chord are triggered(just like a pad). The fun starts when the perfourmer’s four LFOs modulates the different filter cutoffs with different subdivisions. Also changing the octaves for the four voices can make a development in the music. Hope this makes sense!

[@CREWorxMedia]

@@MikaForsling Thanks for the detailed description! I should be getting my perfourmer in mail in a few days so trying to get a head start :) By the way your music is beautiful with much soul! Glad I came a cross your channel while researching Perfourmer :)

[@CREWorxMedia]

PS i will be sequencing with octatrack but above info is great!

[@MikaForsling]

Doing a sequence like this with an octatrack are working as good as in ableton. For me it just takes more time to program chords and complex stuff with the octatrack(if I’m not using an midi keyboard/controller) but I would still be able to do the same stuff. Exiting, it’s a nice combo!

[@Bin909able]

I'm no big fan of synced lfo's, but this is huge! Well done...

[@goodnoyz]

Would be awesome to see you do a Perfourmer 'walk through' video or tutorial.

[@n0ncha1ance]

indeed

[@stewarthenson7558]

Nice. What are you using to sequence/trigger?

[@toffchunks]

Amazing!!!! thksU !!!

[@benbassu9938]

dude amazing! thinking of selling my sub 37 for this and i think i won't miss it.

[@MikaForsling]

Ben Bassu the sub37 is beefier, so for heavy basses I prefer the sub, but for textures, chords, melodies and basses (as well) the perfourmer is just a great synth.

[@TheCALMInstitute]

These are pretty opposite synths. There's not a lot of overlap between the two - the sub37 can do these big complicated modulation-heavy things, and the perfourmer kind of...well it makes complexity and movement in an incredibly simple, novel way. Both sound great though, you can't go wrong here IMO.

[@drthorpe8602]

this is so good! i'm very tempted to get a perfourmer since i i like the idea of being able to individual modulation for each note. also i have question for you: is it possible to use just the spring reverb independently from the delay on a re-201 space echo? i have just bought one (i was going to get a vermona retroverb lancet) but found re-201 in my city!

[@MikaForsling]

D R Thorpe, Thanks a lot! Yes, you can set the volume for echo and reverb separately on the space echo. I really like that spring reverb on drums..

[@drthorpe8602]

@@MikaForsling cheers for getting back to me. listening to this jam again! love it

[@oondza7545]

Hey Mika. You make beautiful music with Perfourmer. I’m curious what you use to sequence it? I’m about to purchase one and I’m trying to decide if I should get the CV option. All the best.

[@mikesmith42069]

says in this vid he sequenced it with Ableton

[@jparppimenta1020]

nice tune

[@dubcotics]

Polyrhythm at its best..

[@kiickinballistics]

So this is what Dexter Morgan got up to in those 8 years!

[@spielor0815]

So wonderful!!! How can you play chords on the vermona per4mer?

[@kai-vd5485]

What a wonderful piece of music! Thank you! What do the different subdivisions synced LFO's modulate? It sounds like the VCA/gate. I suppose it's LFO's on VCF's.

[@MikaForsling]

Kai-vD, yes its saw LFOs modulating the VCFs!

[@Molluszk]

do u use only its internal sequencer? thx

[@destress7730]

Superb Mika. I have an Octatrack could that do the same sequencing as Ableton with the Perfourmer?

[@MikaForsling]

Thank you! Yes, the Octatrack is a great sequencer for the perfourmer, but the reason I'm using Ableton are that I find it easier to work with longer sequences and chord progressions in the computer.

[@scoobysienna]

sounds great..i cant find the drum anywhere in uk

[@MrStupidHead]

Great great. just great. do you change channels for midi sync or does it appear on all channels?

[@MikaForsling]

MrStupidHead, on the perfourmer you choose which of the four LFOs to sync. In this case all LFOs are synced to incoming midi clock!

[@mylarmelodies]

ace

[@Shadow__Banned]

how can you get vermona BD to sound like that, there's at least a compressor ?

[@MikaForsling]

The vermona kick can be really punchy itself but there’s sure an compressor on the master (I can’t really remember what I did, haha..) Normally I try not to compress the kick to hard before the master comp!

[@Shadow__Banned]

@@MikaForsling what do you compress with ? i can't get the kick like that with a 166a on bus or master or channel.

[@MikaForsling]

Are you using any DAW, or are you mainly using hardware? With Abletons compressor and glue compressor you can get descent results. If I’m mixing in the box I’m using some different Waves plugins. My experience is that you get better results with plugins (in my case -emulating classic compressors) then with lo budget hardware compressors. If you only wanna run hardware, try out some different hardware compressors and listen what works for you!

[@Shadow__Banned]

@@MikaForsling 100% h/w OTB

[@tendingtropic7778]

what is giving the beautiful lush sound here, obviously the perfourmer, but is it more the BAM? or the echo?

[@MikaForsling]

Hey Oscar! BAM are the only effect used on the Perfourmer, so I think thats what you're referring to..

[@tendingtropic7778]

@@MikaForsling great! indeed thats what I'm referring to. although I also here a delay / echo on the perfourmer right? is that the space echo? or also bam? (thought bam was only reverb)

[@MikaForsling]

@@tendingtropic7778 That is probably the Perfourmers LFOs triggering the filters in different time divisions. It makes the notes "repeat"!

[@tendingtropic7778]

@@MikaForsling AWESOME! learned something again. already have OTO BAM, and ordered the Vermona Perfourmer a few weeks ago. looking forward to hearing them shine together!

[@dubcotics]

I call this song, vermona.

[@song-mode]

random question, does this composition modulate in terms of key signature? seems there's 1 or 2 chords that are not in C major, so this chord progression is NOT diatonic, is that correct?

[@song-mode]

seems like there is a switch to c minor, at least? idk. i'm still learning theory, and actually asking cuz i'm setting up a non ableton/daw based sequencing setup using a crazy eurorack quantizer and trying to go for a similar vibe.

[@VincentFirebird]

Sublime Mika ! How you sequence it ? Is it the CV/GATE version ? Really beautiful

[@MikaForsling]

Nope, no CV/gate.. Its getting MIDI from Ableton. Its a long sequence with a lot of staccato notes..

[@VincentFirebird]

Mika Forsling is it difficult to tune it ? I heard that is a bit tricky

[@MikaForsling]

Nope, not if you’re used to tune analog synths or instruments. It’s like tuning a mono synth x4 times.. And it stays in tune nicely during times when I’m only using it in the studio..

[@destress7730]

@@MikaForsling Do you break the sequence down into smaller patterns and chain them together? I love this.

[@MikaForsling]

DeStress, in this song it’s actually just a long chord progression that loops. The reason I’m mostly using Ableton as sequencer are that it’s easier to make longer sequences without any chaining..

[@wackenthaljef]

Mika is a genius...mika is a genius..mika is a genius...What sequnecer is used Mika pleaz?

[@MikaForsling]

jeff wackenthal, that’s flattering to read! I’m using Ableton for sequencing but the attack of notes are controlled by the Perfourmer’s LFOs..

[@wackenthaljef]

Cool!thks!

[@wackenthaljef]

Ahahah,that's true!!.....and the fx is the Eventide box?

[@MikaForsling]

OTO BAM is doing the reverb on the Perfourmer. On the drums it’s the spring reverb in a Roland re201 and a Korg se300 panned in stereo!

[@wackenthaljef]

Thks ..you know? it make me think as an organ with all his harmonics!!Thats why Perfourmer is sooo coooool! Thks again Mika!

[@alaskaonpause]

what reverb are you using? is there anything else, any other effects?

[@MikaForsling]

Akashamitra thanks for the words! On the perfourmer I’m using a OTO BAM and on the drums it’s the spring reverb from a Roland re-201 and a Korg se-300 panned in stereo. There’s also some light bus compression going on..

[@alaskaonpause]

@@MikaForsling Really nice sounds. Now you've got me looking at the bam as well as the perfourmer! :-) I have a big sky at the mo but it may be time for an upgrade. Keep up the good work sir.

[@BlackToof]

sequencers, arg

[@jonridley]

hi Mike, grear short track, really nice. Can you explain how you sequenced this? It sounds like you have 2x voices in unison and two others doing single notes

[@MikaForsling]

Nuclear Whale, thanks for your post! The sequence are just long chords playing from Ableton - one voice per tone (as you can hear in the start). Then the rhythmic stuff are created by letting the LFO’s control the individual filters for the four voices. The LFO’s are synced in different subdivisions from Abletons tempo. Hope it makes sense!

[@JuanAMatos-zx4ub]

You can sync the LFO's at different subdivisions? I've always synced the 1st one to my DAW, then the rest are synced to the 1st LFO.

[@MikaForsling]

Juan A. Matos, if you turn on “LFO midi clock sync” you can sync them all separately to incoming midi tempo! Really nice to sync the LFOs in different subdivisions by setting the phase/speed differently on all four voices..

[@jonridley]

@@MikaForsling Mine is arriving tommorrow. :-)

[@oyoyoyo7624]

Beautiful

[@LittleAmbientMachine]

Beautiful