The PERKONS: Is it the Dream Drum Machine?

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@toskabyss Жыл бұрын

This video was an absolute pleasure to watch. The presentation reminded me of an op-doc on frontline or A&E. I have sold ALL of my drum machines within months of getting them as I always end up finding myself back in the DAW. Circuit Rhythm on the way in the mail today lol we will see how that goes. Can’t wait to watch more of your work!

@mattkaz9604 Ай бұрын

The production values on this review are superb. Proper cinematography moments. NIcely done.

@radioblogtirana 5 ай бұрын

This is one of the best videos iv seen, i feel completly the same with my drum machines, anf i have alot haha....also really courious to try the Perkons! Please make more vidos like this! :D

@GuitarsAndSynths 7 ай бұрын

Loved this video journey of your trip to Perkons and drum synths. For me, the Access Virus TI2 and Elektron Rytm MK2 are perfect balance for live hands on beat making and sounds plus tons of on board effects, amazing sequencer with song mode that lets me save and recall lots of sessions. I can still finger drum too on the Rytm MK2.

@daniws1972 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!!!

@C1c4da Жыл бұрын

you edited this so well man. Felt like I was watching an episode of a TV show, not a KZbin video.

@lesynthlofi Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the compliment!

@totalSLACK 4 ай бұрын

literally, it's like an episode of Forensic Files ☺️

@doichekonnecktion 8 ай бұрын

I think this is my dream drum machine.

@damienwoods5744 22 күн бұрын

Takes me back to 90's "Hard Copy" production.

@bobule 11 ай бұрын

I have had a Perkons since Feb 23 and I swear it is the most fun thing I have bought in many years. Sounds fantastic, fits into my music and workflow and 100% hands on! My tip is use voice 2 for kicks!

@bobule 11 ай бұрын

also the chromatic mode in the new os is INSANE. BEST BASS EVER

@lesynthlofi 11 ай бұрын

Totally agree about voice 2! Yeah, the new update kicks ass!

@brendakeesal4694 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video, LeSynth!! Gives me G.A.S. ❤

@e.b.1279 4 ай бұрын

Immediately like your style (or the style of this video)! It's like a news editorial feature - entertaining, informative, punchy, short Subbed!

@lesynthlofi 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your very kind words!!

@boedye 4 ай бұрын

You and I have said and done the exact... same... thing. Every Drum Machine that I have played with is "yes, but... no". My mainstay recently has been a Syntakt, and even that is a bit mostly more, but still... not quite (And for clarity thus far I have owned: RYTM, Drumbrute, DB Impact, TR8S, Electribe II, Electribe EMX-1, DSI Tempest...) And they are all great! But... I've often thought that the solution would simply be making a Eurorack Drum Machine, but that is a very costly venture. The Sequencer alone would be upwards to 4-700 dollars depending on what I could find (a Stillson-Hammer or Maleko Varigate 8+ would be most likely). I just acquired 2 DFAMS which upon first few plays are pretty promising thus far. Maybe pair them with a Perkons?

@lesynthlofi 4 ай бұрын

@@boedye looks like we’ve both had drum machine GAS over the years! I liked DFAM, but I found the sequencer way too limited, didn’t like the little knobs, etc. The Perkons is great, but it’s big, and it doesn’t do any of the classic Roland sounds, which I often want. If I was rich, I’d get the originals, some early Sequential boxes, the Perkons, a Cirklon and… be done with it? 😜

@Lordxfx 3 ай бұрын

Very good angle on the Perkons. You did confirm my fears too. This machine is going to need it's own deck of effects. I'm still scratching my head on the main outs thing. I need to check the manual on the matter. Subbed!

@rudetee Жыл бұрын

Wow! Superbe vidéo!!

@boothbuster Ай бұрын

Ha, you had me fooled, really thought you were gonna say you weren't keeping it at the end. ;) Nice plot twist! Still wondering (for myself) years later if this will be the one that makes a big difference or will go unused and then sold like so many before. :) Really want to the new AlphaBase as well.

@SomebodyPickaName Жыл бұрын

My man! First of all, amazing video. For a smaller channel, producing content this high quality is impressive! Second, to answer your question at 9:38: Don't sell any gear! Instead, create a sample library of the Perkons and sell that to pay for the actual Perkons. 😎 Record a ton of kick samples with slightly differ parameters, since we won't be able to configure them ourselves (not having the knobs). But if you tweaked several of your go-to kicks, snares, etc, you would be accomplishing two things: You help pay for the unit this way, and second, you give yourself your own samples to use for when you need tigher production or integration (since you could then tune the sample when needed, or have alternate control over it since its now a wave file). It'd also make it easy for you to put together grooves that might not be so easy on the physical unit itself. Just subbed! Keep up the good work!

@SomebodyPickaName Жыл бұрын

Update: I see that there is one person who has made a sample library of this unit, but he appears to be the only one that I could quickly find. Even so, you still might get sales anyway.

@lesynthlofi Жыл бұрын

Hey SPN, thanks for the compliment, and for the tip! I don’t think it’s for me, however, as I feel that the Perkons is at its best when knobs are turned in real-time. Now, if I inherited an 808 or 909… sample away, baby!

@riotghandi 18 күн бұрын

i sold a lot of gear to finance two of them. i use the send to save the volume in the kits and route them all single into ableton. its my favourite drum machine ever. and i sold a pulsar, which i hated because of the alligator cables.

@riotghandi 18 күн бұрын

and my biggest con is that the kits and the pattern page have no different colours. i overwrote so many kits as failure. damned.

@steveaustin2586 Жыл бұрын

Excellent work! Thank you!!

@Gainn 10 ай бұрын

I've been using an LXR-02 for a while now and I can't fault it. I'd love one of these, but I can't justify it with that sitting there.

@Scolecite 9 ай бұрын

I could never change patches on it without it skipping a beat.

@NikoNoxious 9 ай бұрын

I had issues with it missing timing but it's a swell piece of kit. sold mine for a perkons

@siccavicca Жыл бұрын

Lol I 100% agree with everything you said .. it's so expensive but so much fun to use and explore with .l bu5 it's also got a solid heavy sound . The type of hihat sequences I can make on this thing is outrageously wide and again limitless fun . I love it and I will definitely keep mine.. it will be a stable drum classic in my working lab , (not in my every growing museum of drum machines in the collectors corner of my room ) . The only thing say /advise is that I use the banks on the Sd card as different beds of experimental ideas .. and once a bank is full of kits and patterns i simple move on to make a new 1 . But on the SD card directory we can name banks ..and back them up in named folders .

@lesynthlofi Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear you have one and are enjoying it! I also love the hats, especially with some randomness on the band-pass filter. Good tip about saving the banks on a computer. I’m curious about your other drum machines!

@trigasurge 11 ай бұрын

One solution to get you past the single Mono issue is to just buy the Elektron Octatrack and use each of the voice outputs in OT’s A-D. You can pan, use effects, etc. These two are a match made in heaven!

@flite25 8 ай бұрын

it's MONO? ughghg. This is the main thing keeping me from the DFAM and it's other two units. Totally agree. I usually like panning my hats and other percussive elements. Why does this keep happening. I'm literally begging a company to take my money with a solid drum machine. I don't mind limitations, but stereo is a basic essential in my opinion.

@mthomas1091 10 ай бұрын

God my first thought when I heard ‘pedal’ was “could that possibly have 1 output?” Good review 👍 I appreciate knowing stuff like LFO-clicks (ugh)

@harveytherobot 2 ай бұрын

I think the LFO click and the quantized pitch issues have been fixed in firmware updates, right?

@synthesis117 4 ай бұрын

awesome video

@minimal3734 Жыл бұрын

At the moment, I'm in the pre-purchase obsession phase. By now I've understood that I have to have it. Any money I spend on a cheaper device would be wasted. I think I can live with the limitations you mentioned, the biggest being mono. But with a ping pong delay on one voice, even that should be manageable.

@barrykingston523 9 ай бұрын

In the same boat as yourself.....I'm gonna have to fund by selling my xoxbox and waldorf blofeld!

@Bata9999 Жыл бұрын

Another great video! Been considering a Perkons myself but the high pricetag combined with odd limitations and reports of serious bugs is putting me off. It's possible I'll do like I did with the Syntrx and wait for the 2.

@dirklinden2128 Жыл бұрын

Great video! I have a Perkons myself and can relate :-) Not being able to name kits and patterns is indeed a limitation. If I heard right you say you can only save 64 kits and patterns. Kits and patterns are stored in Banks, so you can store 64*64 patterns and kits. Finding kits or patterns won't be getting easier though...

@lesynthlofi Жыл бұрын

Bravo on having this sweet drum machine! Yes, too bad we can’t name anything…

@philipTOMPSETT 2 ай бұрын

The quality of these vids is fantastic and must take ages. Are you in the media business?

@lesynthlofi 2 ай бұрын

@@philipTOMPSETT thanks for appreciating! Yes, they take a while, but I’m semi-retired… also, I used to be a film/tv composer for decades, have been mixing my music forever. I also taught myself editing over the past 10-12 years, making artistic videos of my synths once in a while on a different channel. And I’ve also watched a ton of KZbinrs on how to make videos!

@krisamadhi 6 ай бұрын

thank you stopping my GAS !

@totalSLACK 4 ай бұрын

i just recently saw the Perkons with black finish... uhoh

@guyclegg 4 ай бұрын

I heard the kick in the store and fell in love but it is so expensive hahahaha. But its awesome.

@lesynthlofi 4 ай бұрын

@@guyclegg it’s still cheaper than a car!

@guyclegg 4 ай бұрын

@@lesynthlofi THATS TRUE. I got my bike so its probably fine hahaha

@winchwhip Жыл бұрын

Fabulous video! The presentation and stylistic elements make it so easy to watch.

@JayKaufman 4 ай бұрын

"I barely noticed the Perkons when it came out. I was busy..." [said in front of an EMS Synthi].

@lesynthlofi 4 ай бұрын

@@JayKaufman hahaha! Nah. It’s cause I was too busy watching videos of a whack of other new goodies!

@JayKaufman 4 ай бұрын

@@lesynthlofi did I spy with my little eye a Maxi-Korg in the background as well? If so, all you need is a MiniMoog and you've got the 1970s Synth Holy Trinity. Just add a cape!

@lesynthlofi 4 ай бұрын

@JayKaufman good eye!!

@JayKaufman 4 ай бұрын

@@lesynthlofi thanks. I also have one in my studio but it's rather beat up. It's missing the faceplate, the wooden end cheeks are hanging by a thread and several of the keys are loose. It will eventually be restored to its former glory.

@MoOkOoO 9 ай бұрын

Sorry for me it's the SOMA pulsar-23 but this one is so perfect too 😀

@Sithus 8 ай бұрын

amazing video!

@lesynthlofi 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

@GuitarsAndSynths 7 ай бұрын

@@lesynthlofi same here subbed to your channel so refreshing to see your thoughts in action. I am a tinkerer as well so Perkons on list and now just need to sell few things in my studio to fund it!

@lesynthlofi 7 ай бұрын

I think you won’t regret making the move!

@GirlfightClub Жыл бұрын

We have one. What’s that noise gate pedal you use please?

@lesynthlofi Жыл бұрын

It’s this one, really nothing special: www.amazon.com/AZOR-Noise-Guitar-Effect-Bypass/dp/B07BF8DC35/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Azor%2Bnoise%2Bkiller&qid=1698663328&sr=8-1&th=1

@artsolomon202 Жыл бұрын

This thing seems more like the emperor's new clothes.

@MarkoDeLaVoota Жыл бұрын

I know exactly what your problem is , yes I know , disposable income , you simply can afford whatever instrument you want or almost...not a bad thing but if you couldn't afford it you would get stuck with whatever drum machine and squeeze everything out of it , no ?

@philipTOMPSETT 2 ай бұрын

Totally sums me up pre and now post retirement. I now have more time and hobbies than money, a complete reversal.😢😂

@davidkristian6606 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! This is a great sounding drum machine and the experience of playing it is probably quite pleasant, but that part about GAS was so true! Also, I mean, look at it!

@jjjohny_a5965 Жыл бұрын

arturia drum machine i think is best out there...its got 1/8 din so can hook it up to that cool eurorack behind you..pads are great for finger tapping and great work flow

@d.u.o.2digitalunitoperated818 5 ай бұрын

I have the same obsession as you on synth gear (I have endless playlists for any machine on KZbin), but probably I do not have the same money of you, so my obsession focuses either on cheap synthesizers or even worse on used synthesizers that cost very little and that fascinate me, and so the obsession also becomes searching the Web for the lowest possible price for that machine. Then when I buy the gear after a lot of research, I use it a little and would like to sell it to buy another one that I almost always saw on KZbin. Of course, I end up with a lot of small synthesizers that I use very little. Lately I have been focusing on the Stylophone CMP DS-2 Analog Drone Synthesizer, which will cost rather little, but fortunately for me it will only be available for purchase in the late September of this year. 😏 I think I suffer from severe acquisition syndrome as you or worst. 🙄😏

@lesynthlofi 4 ай бұрын

I think a lot of people can relate to your experience. As long as you’re having fun, is what I say!

@AndrewFMRG 11 ай бұрын

I run each channel into my computer. From there I can pan, add fx, etc. that addresses at least some of your limitations.

@johnrichardson3297 9 ай бұрын

LeSynth Can I not use my DSI Tempest to gate each drum?

@lesynthlofi 9 ай бұрын

Yes, with MIDI Out from the Tempest

@andresimar Жыл бұрын

Funnn ! Love the Perkons 😊

@lesynthlofi Жыл бұрын

Me 2, even after 4 months making this video, I still lust after it every day!

@cobenaut 7 ай бұрын

thanks for a great video, im keen to try out the Perkon and its good to understand its limitations from your experience :) just wondering have you explored the analog rytm? (with update 1.7)

@lesynthlofi 7 ай бұрын

Sorry, no. My only experience with Elektron was the original Machinedrum, which I think is awesome, but I’m not so interested in menus, preferring hands-on control.

@Hart8 Жыл бұрын

Wow this video is superb! I see this channel blowing up!

@lesynthlofi Жыл бұрын

I hope your vision about my channel comes true! Thanks for your support.

@manuelarguello3013 5 ай бұрын

each voice has an output, why you say about 1 mono output?

@lesynthlofi 5 ай бұрын

There is one Main Mix Mono output. And, yes, also 4 individual mono outputs.

@Chucklehead617 11 ай бұрын

The production on this video… *chefs kiss*!!!!!!

@TheDarkLandsMusic 10 ай бұрын

great video... now I want a Perkons

@auralplex 11 ай бұрын

I mean, it's cool to fiddle around with but the sounds are kinda samey, clangy. I also had a Vermona kick and it sounded kinda the same. Not good if you make hip hop, like I do.. but maybe cooler for experimental stuff. It's about what inspires you, though, and it does look cool.