I pulled the trigger…Perkons from Patchwerks! Let the games begin!
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nice I like it! …I feel like the drums are maybe not punching in the way I might expect from dnb but its still really nice, almost like super high quality chip tune drums or something. Probably mostly the snare not having that sort of surprising snap to it that most dnb seems to have.
Welp I pulled the patchwerks trigger too. Did not see buying a perkons spontaneously in my night tonight, but availability and affirm with no interest was too hard to resist! Thanks for the heads up!!
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That makes a lot of sense. The Rytm does indeed take some time to master. Cool to hear the Perkons is so immediate.
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Awesome sounds like a fun early present. Pair the Perkons up with a DIgitone or Syntakt, clock together and you have endless options.
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the 14 min mark is nice… space!
Way to make a debut.
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Happy to be here! Long time reader, first time poster. Can’t wait to be swept away by the Perkons!
In stock @ juno UK, i was really thinking about getting one from this batch, but decided on pulsar.
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Nice! If anyone wants to order from there be sure to ping them a message on the chat and ask for a better price, they’ll always knock something off it.
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Discount they gave me was £106 ! Which made it £1,628.00 !!!
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It’s 1700 US dollars delivered…woo hoo.
Random Perkons info:
I watched an interview a while back with Grits. He said the Perkons color came from the cockpit of an old soviet era fighter jet.
Somehow knowing that makes the color a little bit badass and hence… much more tolerable… in fact, now I like it.
I mean who would send their fighter jet back because they didnt like the color of the cockpit? 
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The Pērkons is a very, very good drum machine.
I’ve been using it since the weekend and it’s one helluva trip. Having such a hands-on sequencer with the ability to p-lock, different play modes, sequencer divisions, sequencer multiplication, independent groove settings and shuffle settings, probability and trigger logic per-step and parameter automation recording, on paper it has a lot of features.
But the sound. Oh man, the sound. It has the beefiest, most ‘complete’ sonic character I’ve heard. You may know I adore the Tempest, but it does require a bit of ‘glue’ which the compressor doesn’t really help with. The Pērkons compressor is lurvely. I have it maxed out on the threshold and mix, and it sounds so so good.
The bad though? Firstly, it’s VERY easy to delete kits and patterns accidentally, and there’s no ‘undo’. There’s no way to clock the delay. And there are a lot of ‘dead spots’ in the voices where no sound happens, which can be a pain as there’s no way to preview a step like on an Elektron. My biggest gripe though is that there’s no way to pan the voices in the box, it’s a single mono out from the machine. There are extensive output options including a send/return option per voice, but especially for a digital drum machine, I would have liked panning and a stereo out.
That said, I’m loathe to sell this thing. I got it to sample and to make a pack, which is going well, however I don’t know if I can lose this sound from my arsenal once the sampling process is complete. It has quickly become intrinsic to my sonic identity. Sounds a bit hyperbolic but it’s the only way I can put this into words.
The Pērkons has a raw, aggressive personality if you want it to, and it’s easy to get this out of it as it’s so satisfying. But it can be subdued and polite as well.
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Sounds fun! I’d love to try a Perkons out once shops have them around. For now I’m good with modular drums, DFAM, OT and A4 so no real need. If Perkons had 8 tracks and a screen along with CV control then it would be a game changer.
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Yeah I wonder, it almost starts to become a different thing if you bump it up to 8 dedicated tracks… like at a certain point your eyes might start mixing up the tracks in the middle when it is just a sea of trig buttons. I guess I image 6 tracks would be kind of pushing the limit… but something about the 4 tracks you are basically certain to never get all mixed up with the big beefy controls.
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IMO, adding a screen would completely ruin the Perkons experience. From my time with it so far, everything is super accessible, quick, and easy to remember without having a screen. A screen would probably just distract you from playing the thing like an instrument, which seems to be the whole point of it, rather than super clinical sound design that a screen is usually more useful for.
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My buddy brought it over for our Halloween song on Monday. It definitely is a great drum machine in terms of programming and sound. Only had one issue using pattern chains where the chain would “freeze” at the beginning of each loop.
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Hello Not sure if anyone can help I just received the Perkons HD but I am getting no sound , when I press the voice trigger button the led above the voice doesn’t light up either, what am I doing wrong Please. Thank you.
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I’ve had that too. Reported to Erica, hopefully will be fixed soon. 
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