Ah, but is there a “no gabber kicks” runthrough?
I do love me some fuzzy kick-o-doom but would be nice to see breadth of the sweet spots.
Yet you (and Dave) made some really nice sounding demos, which made me jump on it quickly after. Luv it! 
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Well I guess I’ll just have to try it out for myself, I am just too curious. I usually don’t have gas, but this thing got me good, now I know what people are talking about.
I put in an order yesterday and it is already here, the fastest I have ever received a piece of gear lol:
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Now that the drama is behind us…the new kits are pretty sweet:)
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I really enjoy routing the individual (send) outs to the bluebox and use Pyramids (stereo flanger) and Zen delay as send efx to add width and texture mostly on channel two and three.
With some eq and paning its quite easy to tweak the sound big and wide. So much fun jaming with efx and searching for sweetspots.
It has taken a while for me to get used to the sequenser but when you start to ”jam it” rather than program it, it starts to give.
Only four channels but sure they can sound plenty enough!
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update! the dudes at my local shop where i buy as much of my synth gear as i can, replaced my perkons. erica figures my old units sd card slot was faulty. carry on!
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Rock on!
Not many in stock in the US, anyone know if the EU adapter is dual-voltage?
Yeah the adapter that comes with it is universal for any plug (the selectable prong kind, just slip in the US ones and you’re good to go).
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Whoa I didn’t even realize new firmware and kits came out today! Just went to the website randomly and it’s there!
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I can’t seem to find what the firmware upgrades actually are…anyone know? Maybe I’m not looking in the right place…
Doesn’t appear to be published yet.
Got a chance to play around with mine tonight and I love it. Build quality is awesome, the workflow is great, and the sounds are a lot more diverse than I expected. And those analog filters with the drive add a lot to the sound which I miss in other digital drum machines.
My only complaint I would say is that the compressor is really noisy, especially from about 3-7. Up to 2 it is probably useable and high settings like 9-10 the noise goes back down a bit and it is probably useable again. But in the middle I think it will be too noisy for me unless there is a lot going on in the sequence. And it is not very nice noise either with occasional crackles etc. Is everyone else’s compressor noisy as well? Otherwise the noise floor seems decent.
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This machine sounds ace with a super playable interface. Too bad it doesnt do micro timing…
How is the MIDI sync in slave and master mode?
Can you fine tune the tempo by tenths of a BPM with tge bottom row?
And, very specifically, can the clock out drive an SH-101? Also, can you use the second engine as a sync - pulse output to advance sequencer steps in something like the SH-101 or DFAM?
Micro timing and 4 added MIDI tracks would make this thing quite nice!
Excellent, confirmed by Erica Synths tech support, even if Juno did get back to tell me the opposite 
I expect that they’re trained to be a bit more conservative in those assumptions.
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Congratulations, pal! Hahahaha seems we are cut from the same cloth!
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These are mine, there are only 10 black Perkons at the moment 
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Congrats! It looks super cool, all my gear is in black if I can help it haha.
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OK, my initial impressions:
The build and size are awesome, it is so nice to have a nice big metal drum machine with good connectivity. I hate when my studio gear feels like a toy, and I also think it should be illegal to have a drum machine with just a mix out lol.
The sequencer is also great and once you get used to a few button combos it is super fast and pretty versatile. Changing the lengths, speeds, directions, odds/probability, ratcheting, and being able to pattern change basically gets me wherever I want to go. Microtiming would be nice, but I’ll give it a pass since it has separate swing for each track and not just global swing.
Parameter locks and modulation recording are exactly what I was missing with my current drum machines. I have been using a vermona drm1 a lot and my god what a pain to modulate everything by hand and multitrack/sample etc. A whole new world has opened up to me with the perkons and it is so much fun. Modulation with the lfo is a little limited since there is only 1 and it is global, but it is quick and easy to use.
The voices are also really versatile and the demos I watched don’t do them justice, there really is a huge range. I don’t do noisy techno stuff but taming the perkons is no trouble at all. The analog filters with overdrive also add a lot to the character of the perkons and it can sound nice and organic if you want it to. I think it sounds really really good. I haven’t spent enough time with the delay to form an opinion of it yet, but I can’t help but think I would have liked the original analog bbd more. I like the delay and reverb on my pulsar 23 quite a bit better.
My biggest gripe is with the gain staging and amount of noise. Some algorithms are a lot quieter than others and it can be hard to balance everything. It also seems like they saved a lot of the headroom for those people who want to crank the drive and compressor up to 11. If you don’t use drive or compression the output is pretty weak, even with the voices and master volume maxed out. So you pretty much have to use at least a bit of drive and/or compression to get decent signal levels with everything balanced. And this is where it gets noisy. Especially when the compressor is up there is a lot of noise (white noise with some crackles and pops every once in a while kind of like vinyl noise). And depending on the modulation lfo settings you can hear the lfo sometimes too, especially at higher speeds on square wave or random. So if I don’t have a busy drum pattern going on I really have to think carefully about how much noise I am ok with in the final production. But I guess if I wanted perfectly clean silence between drum hits I would just use a drum vst…
Other niggles would be I wish the leds above the voices and the leds on the 4 trigger keys were brighter.
All in all I think a few more firmware updates would be nice, but it is already one of my favorite drum synths. Up there with the pulsar 23. Definitely a keeper!
Now when I start routing the perkons into the pulsar 
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Does the nasty 140 bpm stuff nicely.
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