Perfourmer meets Matriarch

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Instruments:
Vermona Perfourmer played trough Roland RE-201 and Korg Stage Echo
Moog Matrarch with BX20 reverb
8Raw8 - Hats, cymbals, snare and rims
Instrument not seen in video since they're in another rack:
MFB Tanzbär - Kick
Vermona DRM 1 mk3 - short percussion sounds played through OTO Biscuit
Sequenced by/recorded in Ableton.

[@eldontyrellcorp]

Perfourmer is underrated. It has a sound of its own... Huge, organic, otherworldly.

[@77buckbeak77]

Rad! Love both of those synths but someone needs to give a shout out to the Tanzbar kick! Long live Manfred Fricke . Superb jam brah.

[@denispolic2404]

Beautiful!!! There is nothing what sounds so gorgeous like tastefully delayed analog synthesizer

[@MikaForsling]

I totally agree!

[@Dolle_Man]

This is such a gem! Really tempted to get myself a perfourmer, no menu's no saving, a real live instrument

[@simon_jakobsson]

Lol it's crazy how good this is

[@genepozniak]

Genius idea to put the world's two best synths together. Just beautifully done! Gorgeous!!

[@richardjames111]

Nearly fell off my chair when it kicked in at 2mins 16!!! 😳😳

[@dorfmarke]

Beautiful performance!

[@axelhimself9755]

I seriously love this!

[@yannbzh100]

NIce ! Vermona Perfourmer will be next synth ....

[@dillonhodgesmusic]

Bought a Perfourmer immediately after watching this vid.

[@paulbrocklehurst7253]

I think it's the most underrated synth around. The sounds it gets are to die for! I wish I could afford one!

[@dublplus3332]

Money bags over here

[@rorykhanmohon]

Absolutely incredible.

[@johnbeckett8367]

Fantastic !!!!

[@mattpaxton6579]

lovely stuff!

[@xxxxLasKo]

love it, nice perfourmance!

[@bartdecrem4092]

So awesome

[@elektrovog]

What a nice groovy performance

[@patrizio7]

Excellent track.

[@boybianchi]

Awesome.

[@marcel_h_]

great stuff

[@Fedor_Tkachev_Music]

fantastic!

[@Hyperslob]

Nice jam! The MK2 is a great instrument. Thank you for sharing.

[@synthsamuraiproductions]

Awesome track brother. Great stuff! Keep rockin 🚀

[@kylemorin4040]

Didn’t realize you had a Matriarch. I just ordered mine this past weekend. Can’t wait for it to arrive. You were one of my inspirations for getting my Perfourmer. I absolutely love it. Wonderful music as always 😊

[@MikaForsling]

Kyle Morin thank you. Exciting with the matriarch! I’ve just got mine some week ago and it’s great fun!

[@cedriclp]

👏👏👏 Bravo, c'est beau !

[@ArcAudios77]

Excellent :) Thanks Mika

[@lorenzomorra9539]

Amazing❤️

[@AnnesYarak]

I can feel the analog power!!!

[@MikaForsling]

Haha, yes indeed true analog power!

[@annikanatascha4927]

Thank you, this sounds really good!

[@MikaForsling]

Thank you Annika!

[@MrRexBaron]

sweet sweet lord so lush

[@MikaForsling]

Thanks!

[@psmaulehlien]

Brother, that is good music.

[@Dr.CoCoL1na]

yessss.....Maytiarch influences Boards of Canada jus did a phatty Toot!

[@Gilles_Dombrecht]

sick!

[@freshney]

Serious Radiohead vibes, this is great.

[@dudfaz]

Wow. Just WOW!

[@dharmapieces3305]

~ greetings from germany ~

[@matthewy393]

studio's a dream

[@MikaForsling]

Yes, indeed!

[@loganshirah3804]

Would love to see more of the arrangement side in Ableton. There's some interesting stuff going on here. Sounds like there may be some honed in randomness or generative tools being used in the progression.

[@MikaForsling]

Hey Logan, good point! Its actually pretty arranged but when all parts are playing together its occurring some interesting and unexpected things. The Performer are playing a simple pattern of five notes(5/4) that turns into some kind of canon when its cycles through the four voices of the perfourmer. When this meets the first bass(playing dotted eight notes in 4/4) some polyrhythmic things start to happening. When the song escalates the chords and drums are playing in 9/8 and the fast drum sounds heard(generated from the vermona DRM1) are getting trigged from a random arpeggiator in Ableton. So that beat are pretty random. I think its really nice to work with different layers in different measures and its a great way of getting a more complex sound!

[@Rafaelfo.]

@@MikaForsling excellent. love this.

[@bratri3212]

top!!!

[@Bin909able]

Great stuff. I think thom yorke wouldn't mind to sing a few lines... ;)

[@MikaForsling]

Thank you! I wouldn't mind either..

[@nebula0697]

I had somehow missed this one. Great change at 2:16.

[@mishadoumnov]

original :) thankz

[@wyattneuss2659]

great - thank u for the inspiration - perhaps I'll try to make something like that with my own equipment: Deluge, REV2, Dominion1... I often started to copy something of your tracks, but usually it runs into another direction - but it's worse the attempt;-)

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

MOFO ! Serious good stuff , Man ! I hear loads of Radiohead there - and thats a GOOD thing ,- : -O

[@charles-etiennecyr3766]

Again, I love the color in your art. I saw you use the Vermona on some of your tunes, but surely not this one? Curious to know how you created those epic drum sounds!

[@MikaForsling]

Charles-Étienne Cyr thank you! I’m actually using three drum machines in this(only one fitted in the frame): the MFB Tanzbär are doing the kick, an 8raw8(seen in picture)are doing regular drum sounds(hats, cymbals, snare, rim) and the vermona drm1 are doing the more glitchy sounds. I use it with shortest decay on all drums and run it through an OTO biscuit, for som dirt and noise. The Vermona are trigged by an random arpeggiator in ableton (so it’s just playing random 32-notes)!

[@charles-etiennecyr3766]

@@MikaForsling thank you so much for sharing. In any case, it sounds great!

[@charles-etiennecyr3766]

@@MikaForsling never heard of the 8raw8 before. Just looked it up. It seems amazing. A bit on the expensive side, but it looks like a great addition to the drm1! Thanks again for sharing.

[@dmitrysuprin4028]

!!!

[@ischaheijnen5946]

He Mika, i'm a young composer and i'm starting to realise what my kind of sound is for my performances and listening to your sound it completes my feeling. Really thank you! I'm born (22 now) in a expensive period for synthesizers, don't have steady job now, but the things you make, make my dream and experiment more. Mercii. I have a Matriarch, i want a Perfourmer but that doesn't make the sound, it's all in the effects. What effect pedal would you recommend buying, having these two synthesizers? If only i could get a hand on a space echo, WHAT A SOUND!!! Thanks again. Ischa P.S. I love the Perfoumer | LFO sync with the Vermona DRM1 video, that's just heaven!

[@MikaForsling]

Thanks for your post Ischa, and it really means a lot to me if I can generate some inspiration! If you're on a budget and anyway are using a computer in your workflow, I would go for plugins with and a cheap MIDI-controller for hands on control(the reverbs and delays in Ableton are sounding great). This will probably give you the best sound for less money.. As a start for hardware effects I would recommend the Eventide H9 since they're packed with good sounding effects. I think they're out of production soon, but there must be plenty on the second hand market. Be aware of that the "H9-MAX" version contains all effect algorithms while "H9-CORE" and "H9" contains less, so it might be a good idea to investigate what algorithms you want(maybe Tape echo and blackhole?). Strymon also makes a lot of nice sounding effects(Volante and Nightsky seams really nice) and I've been using a lot of Line6 multi effects which you can find really cheap. There's also all kinds of boutique pedals out there that might be interesting for a more lofi or dirty sound.. Hope this can be any help!

[@SpaceDisco1]

I literally got Goosebumps from the bassline... from my fucking Iphone speakers. Can we get a proper release of this?

[@MikaForsling]

Thank you Darius! I'm working on doing some proper recordings of my songs so hopefully there will be a release in a near future!

[@bobafat1830]

this is soo good man! What are you using as a stand for the performer here?

[@MikaForsling]

Thank you! It’s a cheap sheet music stand! A bit wobbly but works just fine..

[@TheArtistisIrrelevant]

Absolutely in love with your performances! Are these songs available elsewhere (bandcamp or spotify)?

[@MikaForsling]

Thanks a lot! I’ve plans on releasing the songs so hopefully they’ll be out in a near future!

[@PauloARod]

@@MikaForsling Please.... I've only came across with your channel a week or so ago but so far, I'm loving every video/track!

[@Dr.CoCoL1na]

Real BX20 ?wowzers

[@joshuahu1721]

Great track! I am considering about the same combination too, thanks for showing out the result. How did you do Perfourmer's panning? They sound really nice! Did you split the four voice to different channels?

[@TwinCitiesOxygen]

If u had to choose would u keep the perfourmer or matriarch?

[@Lucas-nh2qs]

Also bought the Perfourmer because of you videos. I just got it and it sounds magnificent. But I'm struggling the whole day with the poly mode to work properly. It's just switching the voices all the time and I dont have a clue at all. I read all the vermona manual 3 times and I don't know why it's always switching the voices. poly mode 1: 1,2,4,3 and polymode 2 1,2,3,4. Do you have any solution for this? Is my midi cable broken?

[@kylemorin4040]

Hi Lucas. This is normal behaviour. The difference between the two modes is that in Poly 2 the held notes aren’t stored. The Perfourmer’s strength is really not in it’s polyphonic modes and is quite finicky in that respect.

[@MikaForsling]

Yes, as Kyle said, it’s the charm with the perfourmer! Actually most poly-synths cycles trough all their voices but since they (often)share the same filter you can only hear a slight difference. You could set every voice to different midi-channels and program separate chord-notes to each voice. That way you’ll have full control over the voices but it’s not so intuitive. Another way is to program 4-note chords/pads that uses all the voices all the time - it mostly works but there’s always some passages where it doesn’t work. A good tip for this is to always start with the same voice - press one of the four buttons on the left and cycle through all voices and stop right before it comes to voice 1 again(or whatever voice you wanna start with). I found it a great tool to be able to “repeat” some patterns and this is great for that!

[@petersambrini6693]

I have an Octatrack. Do i need a keyboard with the Perfourmer. Lovely sound btw

[@MikaForsling]

Nope, Octatrack are a great sequencer for the Perfourmer!

[@drake1011]

ill